Season 1
25 episodes · premiered Sep 14, 1978
This is a list of episodes from the first season of Mork & Mindy.
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E1 Pilot (1)
Mork's boss, Orson, assigns Mork to study the planet Earth and, shortly after landing in the woods near Boulder, Colorado, he meets Mindy McConnell. 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 Fonzie arranged a date for him with Laverne.
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E2 Pilot (2)
Mork continues his story about his date with Laverne. When Mindy's father, Fred, discovers that Mork had moved in with Mindy, Deputy Tilwick offers to scare Mork off. Tilwick believes Mork is insane and tries to have him committed.
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E3 Mork Moves In
After constant hounding from Fred, Mork agrees to move out of Mindy's apartment. But Mork's plans are complicated when he becomes drunk on ginger ale.
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E4 Mork Runs Away
Realizing that his living with Mindy is making it difficult for her to date, Mork 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'.
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E5 Mork in Love
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 heels for the lovely Dolly, oblivious to the fact that she's a mannequin.
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E6 Mork's Seduction
A new customer at the music store turns out to be Mindy's old rival, Susan, who promptly sets her sights on Mork, as revenge for Mindy stealing her boyfriend back in high school.
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E7 Mork Goes Public
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.
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E8 To Tell the Truth
When Mork tricks Mindy into believing that he can predict the weather, Mindy tells him that he should never lie. 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 that Wanker is their friend, and brings him back from the dead.
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E9 Mork the Gullible
Mork is jailed for freeing an escaped convict who's captured at the music store. Exidor begins worshiping O.J. Simpson.
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E10 A Mommy for Morky
When Mindy is reunited with her ex-fiance, 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 5 years old.
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E11 Mork's Greatest Hits
Mork meets a bully who wants to dance with Mindy but Mork is opposed to violence. Humility is Mork's weapon.
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E12 Old Fears
Happiness and loneliness haunts us all. Mork activates his time machine to age himself to be a companion to Mindy's grandmother after she feels all her friends have passed.
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E13 Mork's First Christmas
Mork learns about Christmas, and his thoughtful gifts are unforgettable.
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E14 Mork and the Immigrant
Mork meets an Immigrant from Russia and Mindy teaches Mork about democracy. An illegal alien has a new meaning for Mork.
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E15 Mork the Tolerant
Mork and Mindy get a new neighbor and invite him to dinner, where Mork cooks.
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E16 Young Love
Mork performs a wedding ceremony to marry his friend Eugene and his girlfriend.
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E17 Sky Flakes Keep Falling on My Head
Mork and Mindy vacation in a cabin in the woods.
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E18 Mork Goes Erk
Mork tells Mindy that he's been transferred to another planet and will be leaving in a few days.
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E19 Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Mork wants to know more about where babies come from. A man offers to sell him one.
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E20 Mork's Mixed Emotions
A kiss from Mindy brings out Mork's suppressed emotions.
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E21 Mork's Night Out
When Mindy goes away for the weekend, Mork and Mr. Bickley go for a night out at a singles bar.
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E22 In Mork We Trust
When Mr. Bickley steals Mork's age machine, he unknowingly causes Mork's age to change from that of a baby to middle aged.
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E23 Mork Runs Down
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'.
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E24 It's a Wonderful Mork
When Mork inadvertantly costs Mindy a potential job, he decides to return to Ork. Orson then shows him what would have happened to Mindy over the last year had Mork not been there.
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E25 Mork's Best Friend
Mork gets a pet caterpillar which he names Bob.