Mork & Mindy

Mork & Mindy is an American comedy series, broadcast on ABC between 1978 and 1982. The series was also broadcast in Netherlands. Mork and Mindy was a spin off of the comedy Happy Days in which Robin Williams in an episode the alien Mork played that Richie Cunningham wanted to kidnap. That episode was so popular that there rushed around a complete television series Mork was created.

The series is about Mork, an alien from the planet Ork that with a gigantic egg lands on Earth to study the use of the earthlings. He is taken by a young woman, Mindy, who from that moment helps in understanding the use of the earthlings. Mork takes in each episode report to his boss Orson with a brief assessment of what he has endured.

In the main roles were Robin Williams (Mork) and Pam Dawber (Mindy) to see. Actors who have played in the series are: Robert Donner (Exidor), Tom Poston (neighbor Bickley), Conrad Janis (Mindy's father Fred), Elizabeth Kerr (Mindy's grandma Cora), Gina Hecht (Jean Da Vinci), Jay Thomas (Remi Da Vinci), Jim Sakaguchi (Mindy's cousin Nelson) and Jonathan Winters (son Mirth). Ralph James played (offscreen) Orson, the boss of Mork to whom he had to report back at the end of each episode.

Magnus greeting consists of the words nanu-nanu, accompanied by a raised hand with the fingers in V-shape (as also in the Star Trek Vulcans greetings).

The series has run for four seasons. The series was gradually getting weirder, especially when Jonathan Winters in Mork and Mindy's son popped up as the series Mirth (with the figure of an adult). After disappointing ratings, the series was eventually drawn tube. There was then a cartoon series made for which the actors from the television series the voices inspraken. ==Trivia[ Edit] ==
 * Williams improvised during the recording of the series so often that there by the writers of the series at some point in the scripts the following line was added: ' Mork can go off here '. From then on, the dialogue had actually no longer crashes for Mork and Williams a free hand to add jokes at its own discretion. This is in the series as well as Pam Dawber in some scenes is struggling to keep her smile in.
 * The ' Orkiaanse ' words ' shazbot ' and ' nanu nanu ' who settled in the series Mork used swooped in 1979 on in the song ' Night Prowler ' by the band AC/DC.
 * Mork used, if he wanted to make contact with the home planet Ork, invariably the words: "Mork calling Orson; come in Orson. "
 * The well-known film actor David Letterman is to see in one of the episodes.
 * Although the series set in Boulder, Colorado was this included in the Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. There are pictures of Boulder and the surrounding area in the series used. Outdoor images from the House that Mork and Mindy inhabit were filmed at 1619 Pine Street.
 * Pam Dawber is by Gina Hecht linked to actor Mark Harmon. They are married in 1987 and have two sons.