ABC Network - Mork & Mindy - "Mama Mork, Papa Mindy" - WTVW-TV (Complete Broadcast, 11/5/1981) 📺
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- Not from Chicago, but from a galaxy not too far away - Evansville, IN, via that city's ABC affiliate WTVW Channel 7 - here's the complete broadcast of a first-run airing of the Mork & Mindy episode "Mama Mork, Papa Mindy" (S04E05).
By this time, Jonathan Winters - whom series star (and Chicago native son) Robin Williams openly acknowledged as a major influence on his own improvisational style - had joined the cast as the title characters' son Mearth, who in this episode takes more a liking to Mork than Mindy. Robert Donner guest stars as Exidor.
Includes:
Commercials for:
Mountain Dew - "Pepsi Payoff Caps" prize offer - look for the caps with a star
Jif peanut butter (with Mrs. Nona Hasselbring)
Station ID with promo for Weathercast phone number
Show opening titles [music has been replaced with an earlier season's version of the theme to avoid RUclips blocking]
Commercials for:
Campbell's Old-Fashioned Vegetable Soup
Kodak Colorburst instant cameras
Episode Act I
Commercials for:
Time Bandits (theatrical trailer)
7up (with Magic Johnson)
Promo for Best of the West and Barney Miller - for later tonight (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)
Animated ABC ID with lower-third station ID in Vidifont 28 and 18
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
Children's Tylenol
New Buc Wheats cereal - from General Mills
Episode epilogue where Mork reports to Orson, followed by incomplete end credits (with voiceover promo for Code Red and Today's FBi for Sunday by Gilbert Hodges; he is about to promote coming ABC Sunday Night Movie airing of "Grease" when recording ends)
This aired on local Evansville TV on Thursday, November 5th 1981 during the 6:59pm to 7:28pm timeframe.
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Man, I remember watching this when it was new. Seems like yesterday!
Wow, all I can say is wow, watching these two legends working together knowing the reverence that Robin had for Mr. Winters - gave me chills.
Finally a possibility to be able to watch US TV as it aired. It's kinda impossible when you're from The Netherlands. The 'don't go away, we'll be right back'-message by Pam/Mindy is already making this worthwhile. :)
Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters two comedy legends.
Absolutely!
Love your channel. Seeing the commercials with the tv shows really complete the retro feeling.
I wish I was back in the 80's I sure do miss those days. I know we had problems back then. Nothing like it is now. It's really bad now😢. Take me back to the 80's please
The perfect match...
Robin Williams and Johnathan Winters
Robin was very vocal in his declarations that his style of improv comedy was modelled on Winters', who was apparently something of a childhood hero for him.
I loooved Mork & Mindy🥰 we still say “nanoo, nanoo” in our family😁
That's Augusta Dabney in the Kodak ad, Chris Robinson in the Buckwheat ad.
I had almost forgotten that sitcoms used to have the studio audience burst into applause when someone walks through the front door.
Mork and Mindy were wonderful parents to their son Mearth.
There is more to learn about everything and everyone from this episode than almost anywhere else--the TV equivalent of Dr. Spock.
LOL I havent seen this show in years ! I had a crush on Pam Dawber when I was a teen.
I saw on a game show where there was an answered about who people voted who one of the good-looking actresses were and it was Pam Dawber. I saw an interview or article about her on a magazine and had her picture.
I never get tired of this show, onw of my all time favs!
I just loved Mearth.
I love some of these thumbnails you do! A perfect Johnathan Winters screen capture and the "Mork And Mindy" logo as a bonus!
I was about eight when I had a Mork & Mindy t-shirt. My older cousin took me to the mall (she loved shopping) and I got a picture in that shirt. I didn't realize back then that Winters was Robin's hero but I do now. Two legends with Pam like the rest od us just trying to keep up with their brand of crazy funny.
That Campbell's ad kinda cracked me up.. "SOUP IS GOOD FOOD"
@JS 🍜😋👩🍳🍽
I remember the Campbell's "Manhandlers" Vegetable Beef commercials. It had arterial-plaque floating on top.
🎶Howdya handle a hungry man??....... THE MANHANDLERS!!🎶 😂
I remember watching this when it first aired. I was in the second grade. I am not sure what day it was on, but I know it wasn't Weds. because The Greatest American Hero and The Fall Guy were on ABC in '81. I know by the forth season the show had a horrible time slot, I just forget what it was.
Thursday nights at about 7pm, at least in Chicago. But it was Thursday nights. I believe it moved to a different night near the last season it was on the air.
Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!! Jonathan!!! Thank you. I saw this when first aired!!!!
Mork: it's a boy
Mindy: it's a MAN!
1981, my last year in that city before our family moved. Damn I loved that city!
Nice to see this as it originally aired, except it was cut off at the end with noclosing logo which also has fans.
I wish i had all those cereal boxes today
Born 2001 but I grew up on VHS recordings of this
It's been ages since I saw any of these episodes and the opening theme music was really throwing me as I was sure it was wrong. I forgot they de-discoed it from the seasons two and three versions.
And Winters slipped right into the part of a 50 year old bee-eating half-alien baby. What a genius!
No offense to the late Great Robin Williams and Johnathan Winters but this was when this show "jumped the shark". Seemed all of Garry Marshall's shows hit a nose dive when they changed the basic premise. Happy Days in Season Five with the 3 Part Hollywood Season Opening, Laverne and Shirley in Season 6 when they moved to California and Mork and Mindy with the birth of Mearth. Though to be honest Happy Days really wasn't the same show when they went to the three camera sitcom format and start giving Fonzie all these magical powers and made Ralph and Potsie less worldly and more buffoonish.
Uh, how is it possible to "jump the shark" on a series that is based on an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork?
Interestingly, the phrase 'jump the shark' came about when Happy Days had Fonzie attempting to jump over sharks on his motorcycle. From then on it meant a show hitting its decline usually due to strange plots that shifted from the show's original characters and premise.
@@GFI888 - I believe it has more to do with unrealistic & odd plots. Daredevil actions fits Fonzie's character and show's premise. But having that particular daredevil action is odd and unrealistic.
I think the show was a lot of fun but I got the feeling the constant cast changes and timeslot changes were the biggest problem.
@@kengeorgejones6855 You think this was jumping the shark LOL! Believe it or not a season 5 was originally planned which would have seen Mork & Mindy traveling through time to escape from Kalnik. Mork & Mindy meets Sliders aka meets Quantum Leap! There were even promotional photo's taken of Robin Williams and Pam Dawber with actors dressed a like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington to further prove this premise LOL! But it never reached fruition hence the cliff hanger finale as when it was original filmed and wrapped the cast didn't yet know the fate of the series until months later when ABC finally pulled the plug. 📺🤔🤷♂🙆
While the show did change quite a bit for the last season, I still enjoy Jonathan Winters as Mearth, he brought a new dynamic to the show, and it's fun to watch him learn and grow as the season progresses. I also like how Mindy's father proves to still be one of the cooler TV dads as, after dealing with his daughter having an alien move in with her and then marry him, now he adjusts quickly to having a grandson that looks his age, LOL. And Bob Donnner's always a riot! It's just too bad that they dropped Tom Poston after the last episode, I guess they couldn't figure a way to explain Mearth to him.
@Beth Di Bartolomeo and Mr. Bickley's final last words in his last appearance before Mearth was hatched was and I quote: Why do I bother coming over here?🥚📺🤔🤷♂
My goodness what a surprise...Murf....baby Jonathan☺️☺️😆😆
Doesn’t that sound like Cher singing in the Cambell’s soup commercial??
You should do this with the greatest American hero
Mom Dad I won 25 cents! Sweeet!!
Genesis 6 the sons Of GOD came down and took wives
What was the public reaction about having egg-laying male pregnancy back then?
Jonathan winters
Jonathan should've played his father or a funny neighbor, but playing a child was kinda weird.
This storyline put an end to the show!
Definitely the Episode where Mork & Mindy Jumped The Shark.
People thought this was funny
1st
I'll be 35 next week and discovered this show around 6 years ago on a random antenna channel. Binge watched the series.
Mork and Mindy were wonderful parents to their son Mearth.
I just loved Mearth.