one of my absolute favorites!

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

If ever Robin Williams shone it was in this sitcom from the 70's/early 80's where he played an alien sent to Earth to learn about us.The 1st season is where all the best moments are. Slapstick, verbal humour, and some decent storytelling too.However, for some odd reason (and even odder when you consider that sitcom legend Garry Marshall was involved) the show got tinkered with in Season 2 onwards, with the plots becoming more about issues. And the less said about the 'Mork meets Robin Williams' episode the better.Of course Williams is fantastic, but credit also to Pam Dawber, who manages to keep a straight face throughout, which can't have been easy.It's a shame the show changed. I agree with other reviewers who say buy the 1st season DVD and forget the rest.

I think the first season was awesome but i was surprised at how quickly mork "humanized." That was why i was glad that they had the episode where he "orkanized" him again, but he was never again his naturally clueless self. I also hated when they abandoned the music store and went for a diner instead. I think Mearth was a great addition to the cast and I loved when Mindy's father and grandmother came back. I didn't really like how Mindy changed, though. I think that she became more and more mature and not fun as the show progressed. All in all, season one was great, season two sucked, and season three was great when they got married and had Mearth.

For good or ill, this show pushed Robin Williams and his smirk into the mainstream forever. This show was Robin Williams, any other actor couldn't have pulled it off. He's one of those people that you can't look away from, like Michael Jackson or Cameron Diaz. That's not to say that after five minutes he doesn't set your teeth on edge, so they paired him with apple-pie Pam Dawber, who hasn't had a gig since then, and set the show in Denver, in a state with the most bored housewives in the country and their agenda to set America on the straight and conservative path with their loony fundamentalist drivel. Talk about an odd couple: wacky show in a narrow-minded state. Now that's fantasy.Anyway, as others have pointed out, the show started out pretty good but by the time Jonathan Winters rolled around it was like trying to accept the second Darren Stevens. As funny as Winters is, the premise didn't work. Then they brought in some unfunny pizza guy whose desperation to be funny was just pathetic. By 1981, you wondered which fourteen people in the U.S. were still watching the show and why it was still on.In short, this show was relevant to its time; at best it was an oddity, much like the astonishingly bad Green Acres. I can't imagine anyone willingly watching this program unless he happened to be studying Robin Williams's early work for some strange reason. Hey, if you want this show on DVD, then you must also want Supertrain on DVD, and Supertrain was a steaming pile.

I first saw Mork and Mindy when I was about five and thought it was the funniest thing on earth. I would even sit on my head like Mork did and I had some of the Mork toys too.So it's obvious I would grab this DVD box set as soon as it came out. And is Mork and Mindy as good today as it was back then? Of course! In fact it might be even better coz when you compare it to modern sitcoms M&M has more integrity as Robin Williams and Pam Dawber seem to be performing to a much rawer audience with more theatrical performances.Robin Williams is just completely crazy as Mork (from Ork), an alien sent to Earth to investigate our strange customs and report back telepathically to Orson, his boss. Mindy is the girl he meets who gives him a home in her attic, much to the annoyance of her cynical dad. And, trust me, you can clearly see that Robin Williams often gives up the script to manically ad-lib his own madness while Pam Dawber runs after him, desperately trying to keep the show under control. It's so cool in certain moments when they're close together during a manic moment and she's looking into his eyes in amazement, petrified at what he's about to do next. He would also go crazy off-stage in an effort to distract Dawber when she had a scene on her own.Supporting characters are also cool. Mr Bickley, Mindy's dad and grandma, Eugene and the outrageous Exidor all grab as much attention as they can whenever Williams isn't going mental. David Letterman, Dana Hill, Tammy Lauren, Morgan Fairchild, Penny Marshall and Geoffrey Lewis show up in cameos too. Plus Fonzie is the first episode (a flashback to Mork's first ever appearance in Happy Days).There are NO FEATURES AT ALL on the DVDs. Which is annoying seeing as how this time I would have liked to have seen stuff. But I'm just glad to have it. Hey, Paramount, give us Season 2 NOW!!! The show is presented in 1.33:1 full frame, as originally shot. And for a 27 year old show it looks great with very little in the way of print damage or grain. The sound is plain old mono but it's fine for what it is.You MUST buy.