Mork & Mindy — Season 1

Aired 14 September 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 14 September 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 21 September 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 28 September 1978 • 30 min

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'.

Aired 5 October 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 12 October 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 19 October 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 2 November 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 9 November 1978 • 30 min

Mork is jailed for freeing an escaped convict who's captured at the music store. Exidor begins worshiping O.J. Simpson.

Aired 16 November 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 23 November 1978 • 30 min

Mork meets a bully who wants to dance with Mindy but Mork is opposed to violence. Humility is Mork's weapon.

Aired 30 November 1978 • 30 min

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.

Aired 14 December 1978 • 30 min

Mork learns about Christmas, and his thoughtful gifts are unforgettable.

Aired 11 January 1979 • 30 min

Mork meets an Immigrant from Russia and Mindy teaches Mork about democracy. An illegal alien has a new meaning for Mork.

Aired 18 January 1979 • 30 min

Mork and Mindy get a new neighbor and invite him to dinner, where Mork cooks.

Aired 25 January 1979 • 30 min

Mork performs a wedding ceremony to marry his friend Eugene and his girlfriend.

Aired 1 February 1979 • 30 min

Mork and Mindy vacation in a cabin in the woods.

Aired 8 February 1979 • 30 min

Mork tells Mindy that he's been transferred to another planet and will be leaving in a few days.

Aired 15 February 1979 • 30 min

Mork wants to know more about where babies come from. A man offers to sell him one.

Aired 22 February 1979 • 30 min

A kiss from Mindy brings out Mork's suppressed emotions.

Aired 8 March 1979 • 30 min

When Mindy goes away for the weekend, Mork and Mr. Bickley go for a night out at a singles bar.

Aired 15 March 1979 • 30 min

When Mr. Bickley steals Mork's age machine, he unknowingly causes Mork's age to change from that of a baby to middle aged.

Aired 12 April 1979 • 30 min

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'.

Aired 3 May 1979 • 30 min

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.

Aired 10 May 1979 • 30 min

Mork gets a pet caterpillar which he names Bob.