Powerful

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

In one of the weirdest spin off from Happy Days, Mork (Robin Williams) is from the planet Ork. He is sent to Earth by Orson who is frustrated with his irreverent humor. At the end of each episode, Mork reports to Orson about the lesson he learned. Orkans drink with their fingers, sit on their heads, and age backwards. Mork lands outside of Boulder, Colorado and finds Mindy McConnell (Pam Dawber) abandoned by her date. He tells her about his extraterrestrial origins and becomes her flatmate. Her father Fred owns a music store in the first season which he ran with his sharp-tongued mother-in-law. Mr. Bickley (Tom Poston) is Mindy's grumpy downstairs neighbor. The second season has New York siblings Remo (Jay Thomas) and Jean DaVinci (Gina Hecht) as their restaurateur friends. Nelson Flavor (Jim Staahl) is Mindy's pompous cousin. Exidor is Mork's crazy friend with imaginary followers. The most insane and inspired choice is Mearth (Jonathan Winters), Mork's newborn in season 4, after his wacky performance in season 3 as uncle Dave.This is simply a Robin Williams original. He makes this show. The show really only works with him on the screen. Pam Dawber is cute but she is overmatched. Of course, almost anybody would be overmatched. She has a tendency to laugh at Robin's jokes and do a lot of aww-schucks. The constant changes to the cast are not helpful. The DaVinci siblings didn't do the work that the show had hoped. Nelson Flavor and Exidor are my favorite characters. There is nobody like Jonathan Winters but by the fourth season, the show had no viewers and Robin Williams had better opportunities on the big screen.

Watching robin williams in this show throw epileptic fits and spout incomprehensible gibberish was the equivalent of being entertained by the village fool. The series was utterly unwatchable by anyone with a semblance of intelligence. One could annoint this series as the beginning of robin williams so called "comedy" routines (which mainly consisted of - throwing epileptic fits and spouting incomprehensible gibberish).However, in his serious dramatic roles, the man was credible. "Jacob The Liar" comes to mind, and "Jumanji".The show was (and always will be) a hideous abomination in the annals of television.

Mork and Mindy 1978(only) is a warm-hearted and often poignant show. Although Robin Williams was the star, Pam Dawber created perhaps the most positive portrayal of a young woman in TV history. She is nurturing, always supportive, understanding, tolerant, and dresses with impeccable style. The season contains two episodes that reach the level of art: the famous"Window Scene" from "A Mommy for Morky", and "Mork's Mixed Emotions", its' most explosive sexual episode. There is a depth to Mork and Mindy's relationship that plays with the viewer's heart. The couple refers to each other as best friends, but the show is rife with sexual innuendos. Their chemistry is apparent from the first episode, and the show plays with terms such as "living together", "spent the night", and so on. But there is clearly a wonderful bond between them, and both of them grow as individuals, because of their special relationship.

For good or ill, this show pushed Robin Williams and his smirk into the mainstream forever. This show was Robin Williams, any other actor couldn't have pulled it off. He's one of those people that you can't look away from, like Michael Jackson or Cameron Diaz. That's not to say that after five minutes he doesn't set your teeth on edge, so they paired him with apple-pie Pam Dawber, who hasn't had a gig since then, and set the show in Denver, in a state with the most bored housewives in the country and their agenda to set America on the straight and conservative path with their loony fundamentalist drivel. Talk about an odd couple: wacky show in a narrow-minded state. Now that's fantasy.Anyway, as others have pointed out, the show started out pretty good but by the time Jonathan Winters rolled around it was like trying to accept the second Darren Stevens. As funny as Winters is, the premise didn't work. Then they brought in some unfunny pizza guy whose desperation to be funny was just pathetic. By 1981, you wondered which fourteen people in the U.S. were still watching the show and why it was still on.In short, this show was relevant to its time; at best it was an oddity, much like the astonishingly bad Green Acres. I can't imagine anyone willingly watching this program unless he happened to be studying Robin Williams's early work for some strange reason. Hey, if you want this show on DVD, then you must also want Supertrain on DVD, and Supertrain was a steaming pile.