Mork & Mindy: Dueling Skates

Mork & Mindy: Dueling Skates
ABC
November 27, 1980
Sitcom
DVD
C+

I recorded this episode at the time, but on audiocassette, which is funny considering it's such a visual episode.  In fact, I would've gone with a C but I like the scenery, even if it's probably mostly California pretending to be Colorado.  Mork challenges a skater named Wheels to keep the daycare center from being torn down.  The writing by McRaven & Johnson could be stronger, like how Mork says he might do some kind of time freeze but then he doesn't or even come close to it.  Also, Glenda Faye shows up for just a few lines and then disappears from the rest of the episode.  Note that Mork passes a place in downtown that has a sign "Keep Boulder Pure," ominously suggesting that the white power group from last season is still around.

Bill Morey, who's Mr. Simpson, previously was Mr. Prendergast.  Tom Kindle plays his third unpleasant Mork character, Bozz the sidekick.  The manager of the daycare is now Mrs. Fowler, played by Priscilla Morrill, who was Miss Kalinowski last season.  Oddly enough, Garry Marshall himself directed this one, which he generally didn't do on the shows he created.