Mork & Mindy Synopsis

Mork & Mindy was a spin-off from an episode of Happy Days

seen in February 1978, in which an alien from the planet

Ork landed on Earth and attempted to kidnap Richie.

So popular was the nutty character that Robin Williams

was given his own series the following fall.

Mork was a misfit on his own planet because of his

sense of humor. So the humorless Orkans sent him off

to study Earthlings, whose "crazy" customs they had

never been able to understand. Mork landed, in a giant

eggshell, near Boulder, Colorado. There he was

befriended by pretty Mindy McConnell, a clerk at a

music store run by her father, Frederick. Mork looked

human, but his strange mixture of Orkan and Earthling

customs such as wearing a suit, but putting it on

backwards, or sitting in a chair, but upside down,

led most people to think of him as just some kind

of a nut. Mindy knew where he came from, and helped

him adjust to Earth's strange ways. She also let him

stay in the attic of her apartment house, which

scandalized her conservative father, but

not her swinging grandmother, Cora.

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