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MORK AND MINDY - THE SECOND SEASON

Paramount Home Entertainment / Region 4 / 4 disc set / Released March 2008

  Featuring Robin Williams, Pam Dawber

  Incredibly funny but highly insane, Mork and Mindy is the sitcom spin off from Happy Days that turned the manic Robin Williams into a global superstar. The show's second season has just been released on DVD by Paramount.

  Williams plays Mork, an alien from the planet Ork who first came to Earth and met both Fonzie and Laverne and Shirley, his appearance in Happy Days being so promising that on the strength of them he won his own show. The setting was updated to present day Boulder, Colorado and Mork found himself taken under the wing of local girl Mindy Beth McConnell and tries to learn about human ways so that he could regularly report back to his superior, Orson, back on Ork.

  Season two is actually quite different to the other seasons of the show, the ABC Network, pleased with the massive hit they had on their hands strangely decided to tamper with the format and all of the supporting cast were written out and the writers amped up the surrealism factor, most notably in the highly bizarre two part opener Mork in Wonderland, which sees Mork shrunk down to tiny size and languishing on a planet called Mirth where humour is banned and in another two part story Mork Vs The Necrotons he is kidnapped by an agent, Captain Nirvana. (played to the hilt by a very sexy looking, in her prime Racquel Welch) from the Necrotons who are the arch enemies of all Orkians.

  Other key episodes see Mork vying to become a cheerleader for the Denver broncos, Mork becoming allergic to Mndy and Mork befriending a robot after getting a job at a science exhibtition. But really the plots are more often than not secondary to the action as the show is really about enjoying watching Mork/Robin go off on his incredible riffs and flights of fancy. This alone means the show is worth spending some very quality time with.

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