Mork & Mindy (season 1)

Mork's boss, Orson, assigns the misfit Mork to study the planet Earth. After landing in the woods near Boulder, Colorado, he meets Mindy McConnell who was stranded there by her lecherous boyfriend. 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 Arthur Fonzarelli arranged a date for him with Laverne De Fazio. When Mindy's father, Fred, discovers that Mork has moved in with Mindy, Deputy Tilwick offers to scare Mork off. Tilwick believes Mork is insane and tries to have him committed.

NOTE: one-hour episode

Orson contacts Mork stating that the elders have lost Mork's last report causing Mork to replay his report to Orson. After constant hounding from Fred, Mork agrees to move out of Mindy's apartment. But Mork's plans are complicated when he becomes drunk ("bezurb") on ginger ale.

After unintentionally losing Mindy a date, Mork realizes the havoc he is wreaking with her romance life and 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".

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 heel for the lovely Dolly, oblivious to the fact that she's a mannequin.

A new customer at the music store turns out to be Mindy's old rival Susan Taylor (played by Morgan Fairchild). Susan sets her sights on Mork, as revenge for Mindy "stealing" her boyfriend back in high school.

At the music store, 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.

After Mork rescues Mindy from the unwanted advances of a man named George (Brion James), the masher starts looking for the alien who he feels humiliated him. Although Mork has an aversion to violence, he must find a way to deal with George.

When a friend of Cora's passes away, she goes into a funk. When Mork hears she needs more friends her age, he decides to become one by using his Orkan Age Machine.

Mork learns about the meaning of Christmas, and helps remind everyone else about it when he invites the obnoxious Susan Taylor to spend Christmas with the McConnell's because she's got no one to celebrate with.

Mindy is irritated by her grouchy new neighbor Franklin Bickley, but Mork is determined to be friends with him.

After Mork receives the depressing news that he may be transferred, Susan Taylor gets him, Mindy, and Mr. Bickley to attend a seminar of ERK (short for Ellsworth Revitalization Konditioning), and the tyrannical Ellsworth meets his match in his alien patient.

Mork, becoming disturbed after having a nightmare, shuts his emotions off. When Mindy kisses him, his emotions are released, but now the Orkan cannot control them, resulting in embarrassing shifts from moment to moment.

When Mindy goes away for the weekend, Mork and Mr. Bickley goes to a singles bar for a night out. The women they pick up and bring back to Mr. Bickley's place are thieves and steal his things.

When Mr. Bickley steals Mork's age machine, he unknowingly causes Mork's age to change from that of a baby to middle age.

Guest Star: Tom Poston as Franklin Bickley

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".

When Mork inadvertently costs Mindy a potential job, he wishes he had never come to Earth when he informs Orson of this. Orson then shows him what would have happened to Mindy over the last year had he not been there. Mork sees that Mindy is married to Cliff who has a gambling problem, Fred has traveled the world and had a short relationship with a woman, Cora lives with Mindy, and the McConnell's music store has been sold.

Guest Stars: Linda Henning as Margaret, Sam Freed as Cliff

Mork brings up a pet caterpillar which he names Bob. Exidor shows up and has found the true Religion which is reincarnation as he claims that he is the reincarnation of Julius Caesar. Mork soon becomes depressed when Bob becomes still and apparently lifeless.