7.6/10265 votes#1 - Pilot (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1978
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.
Director: Howard Storm
Writer: Dale McRaven
7.3/10205 votes#2 - Pilot (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10164 votes#3 - Mork Moves In
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10164 votes#4 - Mork Runs Away
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1978
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'.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: April Kelly
7.4/10162 votes#5 - Mork in Love
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10166 votes#6 - Mork's Seduction
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1978
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.
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Writer: Neil Lebowitz
7.4/10142 votes#7 - Mork Goes Public
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1978
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: April Kelly
7.7/10154 votes#8 - To Tell the Truth
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1978
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.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: April Kelly
7.2/10154 votes#9 - Mork the Gullible
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1978
Mork is jailed for freeing an escaped convict who's captured at the music store. Exidor begins worshiping O.J. Simpson.
Director: Howard Storm
Writer: Neil Lebowitz
7.5/10149 votes#10 - A Mommy for Morky
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1978
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.
Director: Howard Storm
Writer: Tom Tenowich
7.7/10142 votes#11 - Mork's Greatest Hits
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1978
Mork meets a bully who wants to dance with Mindy but Mork is opposed to violence. Humility is Mork's weapon.
Director: Howard Storm
Writer: David Misch
7.5/10176 votes#12 - Old Fears
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1978
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: April Kelly
7.3/10147 votes#13 - Mork's First Christmas
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1978
Mork learns about Christmas, and his thoughtful gifts are unforgettable.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10138 votes#14 - Mork and the Immigrant
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1979
Mork meets an Immigrant from Russia and Mindy teaches Mork about democracy. An illegal alien has a new meaning for Mork.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10149 votes#15 - Mork the Tolerant
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1979
Mork and Mindy get a new neighbor and invite him to dinner, where Mork cooks.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10133 votes#16 - Young Love
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1979
Mork performs a wedding ceremony to marry his friend Eugene and his girlfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10158 votes#17 - Sky Flakes Keep Falling on My Head
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1979
Mork and Mindy vacation in a cabin in the woods.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10132 votes#18 - Mork Goes Erk
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1979
Mork tells Mindy that he's been transferred to another planet and will be leaving in a few days.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10164 votes#19 - Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1979
Mork wants to know more about where babies come from. A man offers to sell him one.
Director: Meredith M. Nicholson
Writer: April Kelly
7.2/10134 votes#20 - Mork's Mixed Emotions
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1979
A kiss from Mindy brings out Mork's suppressed emotions.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10128 votes#21 - Mork's Night Out
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/1979
When Mindy goes away for the weekend, Mork and Mr. Bickley go for a night out at a singles bar.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10131 votes#22 - In Mork We Trust
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1979
When Mr. Bickley steals Mork's age machine, he unknowingly causes Mork's age to change from that of a baby to middle aged.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10144 votes#23 - Mork Runs Down
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/12/1979
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'.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10135 votes#24 - It's a Wonderful Mork
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/3/1979
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#25 - Mork's Best Friend
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/10/1979
Mork gets a pet caterpillar which he names Bob.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same.
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot (1)" is the best rated episode of "Mork & Mindy" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 265 votes. Directed by Howard Storm and written by Dale McRaven, it aired on 9/14/1978. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Pilot (2)".