The TV show Mork & Mindy continues to be beloved today, and it’s clear why. It was the vehicle that really launched Robin Williams to the popularity he would soon reach, and has been a popular show ...

Robin Williams’ rise to fame came when he auditioned to play the dorky alien Mork in the hit tv show Mork & Mindy in 1976. The show gave Williams and the equally lesser-known Pam Dawber a platform to ...

I’m not saying Paramount is cheap. But when producer Garry Marshall hired Robin Williams to guest on Happy Days in anticipation of a potential spin-off series, the studio said, “Well, let’s see what ...

Conrad Janis was best known for playing Mindy's father, Fred McConnell, on the ABC sitcom and for his talents as a jazz trombonist Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE ...

Mork & Mindy Season 1 is a comedy sitcom that centers around an alien named Mork, who resides on Ork and comes to Earth to gather information on human behavior. During his time on the planet, he ...

When I was a wee Whit, one of the very first TV shows I loved was Mork & Mindy. Though the sitcom wasn't aimed at 4- and 5-year-olds, it contained several characteristics I could appreciate at that ...

NBC's "Behind the Camera" series -- a compendium of movies mostly raiding ABC hits of the 1970s -- goes biopic with this dissection of "Mork & Mindy," which is really the Robin Williams version of "A ...

Colorado fans of Robin Williams, the iconic actor and comedian, flocked to the "Mork & Mindy" house in Boulder on Monday to pay their respects after news of his death spread. Williams played the alien ...

Conrad Janis, a prolific character actor of TV, film and stage who had already become immediately recognizable even before landing his signature role opposite Robin Williams and Pam Dawber in the hit ...

As sitcoms of its era went, “Mork & Mindy” was neither the best nor the worst. It may, however, have been among the sneakiest in its social commentary. A “Happy Days” spinoff that ran from 1978 to ...

Williams was famed for his improvisational comedy in almost every role he portrayed. In 1989, Happy Days creator Garry Marshall wrote an essay for PEOPLE in which he remembered Williams’ first ...