Mork & Mindy: Mork's Mixed Emotions

Mork & Mindy: Mork's Mixed Emotions
ABC
February 22, 1979
Sitcom
DVD
B

I considered going with a B+ on this Tom Tenowich & Ed Sharlach story (the first of fourteen for Sharlach), since Williams gives another tour de force performance, this time as Mork's various no longer repressed emotions.  But it bothers me that Mindy takes Mork out in public during this vulnerable time, even if it is her birthday.  (Note that she's on the phone to Sally talking about her plans, presumably the Sally we've seen.)  The penultimate scene where some of Mork's emotions kiss Mindy is funny and sweet, and Orson in the final scene decides not to report Mork for breaking Orkan law.  The episode contains, among other things, an Idi Amin reference and a Steve Martin imitation.

Stan Rodarte, who was a Reporter at the Homecoming Parade in Rescue from Gilligan's Island, is the Waiter.  Maitre D' George Pentecost would play two other characters on this show.  And twenty-five-year-old but already balding Bill Kirchenbauer makes his first of four Mork & Mindy appearances, here as a disco-loving customer, years before he became known as Coach Lubbock on Growing Pains and Just the Ten of Us.