List of Mork & Mindy Episodes - Episodes - Season 1 (1978/79)

Season 1 (1978/79)

Episode Number Title Airdate Summary 01 "Pilot (1)" September 14, 1978 Mork's boss, Orson, assigns the misfit Mork to study the planet Earth. After landing in the woods near Boulder, Colorado, he meets Mindy McConnell who was stranded there by her lecherous boyfriend. Back at Mindy's apartment, she discovers that Mork is an alien, and offers to help him study Earth. In a flashback sequence, Mork tells Mindy about a previous visit to Earth when Arthur Fonzarelli arranged a date for him with Laverne De Fazio.

Special Guest Stars: Henry Winkler as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio.

02 "Pilot (2)" September 14, 1978 Mork continues his story about his date with Laverne. When Mindy's father, Fred, discovers that Mork has moved in with Mindy, Deputy Tilwick offers to scare Mork off. Tilwick believes Mork is insane and tries to have him committed.

Special Guest Stars: Henry Winkler as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, Penny Marshall as Laverne.

03 "Mork Moves In" September 21, 1978 Orson contacts Mork stating that the elders have lost Mork's last report causing Mork to replay his report to Orson. After constant hounding from Fred, Mork agrees to move out of Mindy's apartment. But Mork's plans are complicated when he becomes drunk ("bezurb") on ginger ale.

Note: Mork reveals that he is an alien to Mindy's father but he doesn't believe him at first.

04 "Mork Runs Away" September 28, 1978 After unintentionally losing Mindy a date, Mork realizes the havoc he is wreaking with her romance life and decides to move out. While looking for a flop house, he stumbles upon Exidor, the delusional leader (and only tangible member) of "The Friends of Venus".

Special Guest Star: Robert Donner as Exidor

05 "Mork In Love" October 5, 1978 When Mindy tells Mork that he has to experience love in order to understand the human experience, he takes her advice and falls head over heel for the lovely Dolly, oblivious to the fact that she's a mannequin.

Note: Mork and Mindy kiss.

06 "Mork's Seduction" October 12, 1978 A new customer at the music store turns out to be Mindy's old rival Susan Taylor (played by Morgan Fairchild). Susan sets her sights on Mork, as revenge for Mindy "stealing" her boyfriend back in high school.

Note: Mork and Mindy kiss again in this episode.

07 "Mork Goes Public" October 19, 1978 At the music store, Mork has a run-in with Clint Mullet, a reporter for a tabloid that is offering $25,000 for proof of alien life. After Fred saves Mork's life, Mork decides to turn himself in to pay for Fred's plumbing bills, and Mindy's college tuition.

Guest Star: Jeff Altman as Clint Mullet

08 "To Tell the Truth" November 2, 1978 When Mork tricks Mindy into believing that he can predict the weather, Mindy tells him that he should never lie ("splinking"). The music store's despicable landlord Arnold Wanker dies while trying to evict Fred from the music store. Mork, hearing the family try to comfort his widow, assumes that Wanker is their friend, and brings him back from the dead. 09 "Mork the Gullible" November 9, 1978 Mork learns something about gullibility when he ends up arrested for falling for a criminal's sob story enough to set him free. Mork soon ends up getting Exidor as a cellmate where Exidor is now worshiping O.J. Simpson. 10 "A Mommy for Morky" November 16, 1978 When Mindy is reunited with her ex-fiance, Dan (Barry Van Dyke), she wonders what it would be like to raise a family, while Mork wonders what it would have been like to have had a mother. Mork kills two birds with one stone by using his Orkan Age Machine to regress himself to 3 years old, which results in hilarious complications. 11 "Mork's Greatest Hits" November 23, 1978 After Mork rescues Mindy from the unwanted advances of a man named George (Brion James), the masher starts looking for the alien who he feels humiliated him. Although Mork has an aversion to violence, he must find a way to deal with George. 12 "Old Fears" November 30, 1978 When a friend of Cora's passes away, she goes into a funk. When Mork hears she needs more friends her age, he decides to become one by using his Orkan Age Machine.

Note: Mork reveals his alien nature to Cora in this episode.

13 "Mork's First Christmas" December 14, 1978 Mork learns about the meaning of Christmas, and helps remind everyone else about it when he invites the obnoxious Susan Taylor to spend Christmas with the McConnell's because she's got no one to celebrate with.

Special Note: No report to Orson is made this episode and a different end sequence is played.

14 "Mork and the Immigrant" January 11, 1979 Mork thinks Russian immigrant Sergei Krushnev is an alien like him, and tries to help welcome him. Trouble ensues when Sergei tells Mork that 'aliens' need to be registered. 15 "Mork the Tolerant" January 18, 1979 Mindy is irritated by her grouchy new neighbor Franklin Bickley, but Mork is determined to be friends with him.

Guest Star: Tom Poston as Franklin Bickley

16 "Young Love" January 25, 1979 Mork performs a wedding ceremony to marry his friend Eugene and his girlfriend, Holly, thinking that this will enable them to escape 'parental oppression'. 17 "Snowflakes Keep Dancing on my Head" (a.k.a. "Sky Flakes Keep Falling on my Head") February 1, 1979 Exidor returns with a plan to become Emperor of Earth. In return for Mork's help, Exidor lets him use his summer home so Mindy can get some R&R, but the 'vacation' doesn't go as planned. 18 "Mork Goes Erk" February 8, 1979 After Mork receives the depressing news that he may be transferred, Susan Taylor gets him, Mindy, and Mr. Bickley to attend a seminar of ERK (short for Ellsworth Revitalization Konditioning), and the tyrannical Ellsworth meets his match in his alien patient.

Guest Stars: David Letterman as Ellsworth, Tom Poston as Franklin Bickley

19 "Yes Sir, That's my Baby" February 15, 1979 Sally returns with her newborn son, and Mork loves him so much he wants a baby of his own. He ends up buying a baby from a shady character named Chuck Wilson for $10,000, unaware that Chuck Wilson is wanted by the FBI for various baby abductions. 20 "Mork's Mixed Emotions" February 22, 1979. Mork, becoming disturbed after having a nightmare, shuts his emotions off. When Mindy kisses him, his emotions are released, but now the Orkan cannot control them, resulting in embarrassing shifts from moment to moment. 21 "Mork's Night Out" March 8, 1979 When Mindy goes away for the weekend, Mork and Mr. Bickley goes to a singles bar for a night out. The women they pick up and bring back to Mr. Bickley's place are thieves and steal his things.

Guest Star: Tom Poston as Franklin Bickley

22 "In Mork We Trust" March 15, 1979 When Franklin Bickley steals Mork's age machine, he unknowingly causes Mork's age to change from that of a baby to middle age.

Guest Star: Tom Poston as Franklin Bickley

Orkan Fact: We learn that Orkans evolve from chickens.

23 "Mork Runs Down" April 12, 1979 Mork's attempt to find a new job is complicated by his "birthday", a potentially fatal condition that causes him to behave stranger than usual unless he recharges himself with his egg-like "gleek".

Guest Star: Susan Elliot as Rainbow

24 "It's a Wonderful Mork" May 3, 1979 When Mork inadvertently costs Mindy a potential job, he wishes he had never come to Earth when he informs Orson of this. Orson then shows him what would have happened to Mindy over the last year had he not been there. Mork sees that Mindy is married to Cliff who has a gambling problem, Fred has traveled the world and had a short relationship with a woman, Cora lives with Mindy, and the McConnell's music store has been sold.

NOTE: Parody of It's a Wonderful Life.

25 "Mork's Best Friend" May 10, 1979 Mork brings up a pet caterpillar which he names Bob. Exidor shows up and has found the true Religion which is Reincarnation as he claims that he is the reincarnation of Julius Caesar. Mork soon becomes depressed when Bob becomes still and apparently lifeless.

Special Guest Star: Robert Donner as Exidor