Characters
- Mork (Robin Williams) - An alien from the planet Ork sent to observe human behavior. It was mentioned many times by Mork that he was grown from a test tube by the Orkan scientists.
- Mindy McConnell (Pam Dawber) - A female human who finds Mork and teaches him about human behavior. Eventually falls in love, gets married to Mork and raise an Orkan "child".
- Fred McConnell (Conrad Janis) - Mindy's father with conservative values. In the first season, Fred owned a music shop with Cora. In the third season, Fred became the conductor of the Boulder Symphony Orchestra.
- Grandma Cora Hudson (Elizabeth Kerr) - Mindy's less-conservative, progressive grandmother.
- Franklin Bickley (Tom Poston) - Mindy's downstairs neighbor. He has a job of writing out greeting cards.
- Mearth (Jonathan Winters) - "Child" of Mork and Mindy. Due to Orkan Physiology, Orkans age backwards starting with elderly adult bodies but with the mind of a child and regressing to feeble "old" young kids.
- Remo Davinci (Jay Thomas) - He is the co-owner of The New York Delicatessen.
- Jean Davinci (Gina Hecht) - Sister of Remo Davinci and the co-owner of The New York Delicatessen.
- Nelson Flavor (Jim Staahl) - He is the straight-laced cousin of Mindy with dreams of political power.
- Orson (voiced by Ralph James) - Mork's mostly-unseen and long-suffering superior who has sent Mork to Earth to get him off Ork due to the fact humor is not permitted on Ork.
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