In 1978 the ABC comedy Mork & Mindy hit the air. The show—about a naive, human-looking alien from the planet Ork—and its star Robin Williams quickly became hits. Expressions from the show, like "Nanu Nanu" and...

SPECIAL FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-15-2006 Robert Donner, 'Mork & Mindy' actor SPECIAL FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Date: 06-15-2006, Thursday Section: LOCAL Edtion: All Editions Biographical: Robert Donner LOS ANGELES — Robert Donner, a...

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[Mork and Mindy] is one of the few shows intelligent people are not ashamed to admit they watch. I have seen it myself maybe 11 or 12 times already—such is my pursuit of duty and love of scholarship…. Born on the planet Ork, [Mork] came to the United States in an egg. Mindy—supposedly the normal one—is a typical American girl. Funny things can happen when their cultures clash.

Mork and Mindy is the classiest of the lot [of new television shows]—the very best garbage in the trough…. Mork provides an unlikely showcase for the outsize talent of Robin Williams, who is to the typical junk television performer what Horowitz is to Liberace…. What Williams can't overcome is the trash formula, which imprisons a basic situation in permafrost. In a line stretching from Mister Ed and My Favorite Martian to Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley (the latter two produ...