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Mork & Mindy - The Third Season (1978)

Series: Mork & Mindy Rating: Unrated Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Robin Williams, Pam Dawber
  • Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 4
  • Rating: Unrated
  • Studio: Paramount
  • DVD Release Date: November 27, 2007
  • Run Time: 549 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000UX6TLG
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,784 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Mork & Mindy: The Third Season finds the titular pair still working on their offbeat relationship but growing closer all the time in love and regard for one another. The season begins with the threat of Mork (Robin Williams) being recalled to his home planet Ork after he undergoes a personality change from too much Earth exposure. The wildman from another planet is suddenly acting like a bland suburbanite, upsetting Mindy (Pam Dawber) and requiring a visit from a revered Orkan elder (actually a boy, played by Vidal Peterson) who will either restore the real Mork’s character or take him back. "Mork the Prankster" finds the ever-curious extraterrestrial learning about the concept of practical jokes, then so offending Mindy with a prank gone bad that she moves out and must be convinced to take him back again. In "Mindy Gets a Job," Mindy applies for and receives an entry-level job at a Boulder television station, then finds herself having to go on-camera to do the news broadcast alone during a blizzard. When she runs out of steam during her report, Mork leaps to the rescue, giving Williams a prime opportunity to improvise his way through a stream of feverish free-association. In the season finale, "Reflections and Regrets," Mindy tells Mork about her greatest sorrow, and he sets about trying to ease her pain while also letting her know how he truly feels.

Of course, there are a number of episodes that concern Mork’s heightened sense of justice and fairness, including "Dueling Skates," in which Mork challenges a champion skater to a race in order to save the day care center where he works. "Mork, the Monkey’s Uncle" begins with Mork kidnapping a chimp from a zoo after concluding the primate was being mistreated. "Gunfight at the Mork-ay Corral" focuses on Mork’s effort to teach a young boy (Corey Feldman) about the virtue of non-violence. Finally, there are plenty of comic storylines that simply encourage Williams to display his genius, such as "Mork Meets Robin Williams," in which character and actor have a hilarious, face-to-face interview encounter. "Alas, Poor Mork, We Knew Him Well," is a very fun show about Mork’s neurotic reaction to an insurance salesman’s pitch about death from natural disasters. Mork & Mindy: The Third Season has a number of episodes from among the best of the old Garry Marshall-created sitcom. --Tom Keogh



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Mork & Mindy was a spin-off from an episode of Happy Days seen in February 1978, in which an alien from the planet Ork landed on Earth and attempted to kidnap Richie. So popular was the nutty character created by Robin Williams that Williams was given his own series in the fall of 1978, and it became an instant hit. Mork was a misfit on his own planet because his sense of humor (he was heard to call the Orkan leader, Orson, "cosmic breath"). So the humorless Orkans sent him off to study Earthlings, whose "crazy" customs they had never been able to understand. Mork landed, in a giant eggshell near Boulder, Colorado. There he was befriended by pretty Mindy McConnell, a clerk at the music store run by her father, Frederick. Mork looked human, but his strange mixture of Orkan and Earthling customs--such as wearing a suit, but putting it on backwards, or sitting in a chair, but upside down--led most people to think of him as just as some kind of nut. Mindy knew where he came from, and helped him adjust to Earth's strange ways. She also let him stay in the attic of her apartment house, which scandalized her conservative father, but not her swinging grandmother, Cora.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mork meets season three, December 25, 2007
Because the initial allusions to `interracial' co-habitation were loosing some `shock value', the series production team refocused storylines on Mork and Mindy as a romantic couple ("Mindy, Mindy, Mindy", "Mork, the Swinging Single") this season. They are moving from friends to `friends'----and quite smoothly!

However, Mork wasn't supposed to ever become too acclimated to earth (Putting the Ork back in Mork I, II). So, in order to successfully complete his mission, he is required to remember his extraterrestrial heritage. It's also the studio's way of acknowlleging that deleting Fred and Cora from the cast had been a mistake, and gennuine attempts were being made to repair things--such as the series Nielsen ratings.

As it turns out, Mork's reports have been so popular (regardless of whom he interacts with on Earth) that other Orkians want his job ("There's a new Mork in Town"). And can we really blame them! Aside from being an observer, Mork is a compassionate being who sincerely tries to help anything he thinks is hurting, even a chimp ("Mork, The Monkey's Uncle")

Pam Dawber gives another awesome lead performance in "Mindy Gets a Job". Fate requires her--with some assistance from Mork--to unexpectedly perform the local newscast as a solo gig. A blizzard conveniently prevents all of the old pros from getting to the station. So, there is nothing like the present to demonstrate that she has the competence necessary to successfully make it as a professional journalist. Episodes like these easily remind me why I had looked up to Mindy as a young girl--and now continue doing so; she remained both pretty and professional---even in a crisis.

Gender is again brought up in "Mork and Mindy Meet Rick and Ruby". Remo has decided that he does not want a pregnant singer who is part of a performing duo. Although the Pregnancy Non-discrimination Act had just been passed, years earlier in 1978, this was still a very topical issue for the viewing audience. The usually sophisticated Remo genuinely had convinced himself that pregnant women should not be working, lest they get `hurt'! Undaunted, Mindy convinces Remo to hire her back--and Mork enthusiastically fills in when she DOES go into labor on stage. Williams has a charming singing voice.

Mork himself continues not to get offended by the 70's ever-shifting gender mores. To bring extra money into their apartment, he is happily working at a local daycare center. This suits such a `different guy' perfectly because childcare worker historically has been something which gets performed by women. And Mork is devoted to the point where he participates in a fundraising race for the kids ("Dueling Skates") in addition to helping them learn about the importance of non-violence ("Gunfight at the Mork-ay Corral").

But because Mindy's increased work schedule does make him lonely, he suggests they switch places ("Mindy and Mork") ultimately discovering they both have very busy lives. There is no such thing as `unimportant work'. But there is unpleasant work in "I Heard it Through the Morkvine" when Mindy successfully convinces Mr. Sternhagen that TV gossip's initially high ratings become outweighed by long-term traumatic effects it visits on the community. Having weathered the onslaught of tabloid TV and now `reality television' I can't emphasize how accurately prophetic this one episode was. Wow!

This usually lighthearted sitcom made both a very noticeable mood and scripting departure with "Mork Meets Robin Williams". You-know-who does double duty as himself. For `some reason', people think that Mork looks like Robin Williams who for the sake of this episode is just in town doing stand-up routines!

However, the real memorable scene during this episode--and season comes during his weekly report to Orson. Talking about the burdens inadvertently created by celebrity hood, Mork rattles off a list of celebrities who died too early--cracking when he mentions John Lennon and then suddenly fading out as opposed to giving the usual witty closing.

Given the episode's airing two months after Lennon's assassination, I am assuming that this individual improvisation was not intentional. And the emotion which Williams publically did exhibit must have required a great deal of internal self-control rather than breaking down all together on screen. This one ending still gives me the chills and I am not even old enough to have remembered the Beatles together and performing. This one episode alone is why the season warranted five stars hands down.

The only thing which really bugged me was the lack of extras--and the flimsy cases. I realize this show was not an enormous phenomenon; but technology does exist for better DVD cases--and other companies have proven their ability to put out non-classic shows lasting one season in better and still low-budget cases.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The title says it all!, September 14, 2007
By andy8047 (Nokomis,Florida) - See all my reviews
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ABC's MORK & MINDY's third season in 1980-81 began unusually late due to an actors' strike that began around July 1980 and ended about two months later. Robin Williams had just wrapped up filming his first starring film POPEYE,the breakthrough of his film career. I incorrectly mentioned in the review for the season 2 set that Mindy's(Pam Dawber) father Fred(Conrad Janis),a music store proprietor,had gone on the road to conduct for a symphony tour this season. Actually,Fred is back this season and still running the store. His mother or mother-in-law Cora(Elizabeth Kerr) returns to Boulder,Colorado also. Mork(Williams) and Mindy are still living together and are such great friends. New York Deli owner/operator Remo DaVinci(Jay Thomas) and his sister Jean(Gina Hecht) are still here also.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mork & Mindy Final Season, Please, June 8, 2008
CBS/Paramount, please don't stall on Mork and Mindy again when there is one season left to release! I wish you release Mork and Mindy The 4th and Final Season (1981-1982) on DVD for the Holidays of 2008. It would be great if Mork and Mindy The Final Season is released on DVD before 2008 ends. You should have the color Blue with Mearth for the cover art of the Final Season. Please release the Final Season before 2009!
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