The BEST episodes of Mork & Mindy season 1

Every episode of Mork & Mindy season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mork & Mindy season 1!

A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same.

Last Updated: 9/27/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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Mork's Greatest Hits
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7.91
54 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
Writer: David Misch
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Mork in Love
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7.87
71 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Harvey Medlinsky
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Mork's Mixed Emotions
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7.83
36 votes

#3 - Mork's Mixed Emotions

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1979

A kiss from Mindy brings out Mork's suppressed emotions.

Directors: Jeff Chambers
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Mork and the Immigrant
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7.82
44 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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Mork's Best Friend
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7.77
22 votes

#5 - Mork's Best Friend

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/10/1979

Mork gets a pet caterpillar which he names Bob.

Directors: Howard Storm
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Mork the Tolerant
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7.77
39 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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Mork Goes ERK
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7.73
41 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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Old Fears
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7.68
44 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
Writer: April Kelly
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Mork the Gullible
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7.59
56 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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Mork's Night Out
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7.58
38 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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To Tell the Truth
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7.56
50 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Joel Zwick
Writer: April Kelly
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A Mommy for Morky
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7.55
44 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
Writer: Tom Tenowich
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Pilot (2)
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7.52
73 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
Writer: Dale McRaven
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Mork's First Christmas
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7.52
50 votes

#14 - Mork's First Christmas

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1978

Mork learns about Christmas, and his thoughtful gifts are unforgettable.

Directors: Jeff Chambers
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Yes Sir, That's My Baby
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7.51
35 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Jeff Chambers
Writer: April Kelly
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Mork Goes Public
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7.50
64 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: Joel Zwick
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Sky Flakes Keep Falling on My Head
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7.50
42 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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Mork Moves In
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7.43
161 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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It's a Wonderful Mork
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7.42
31 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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Mork Runs Down
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7.39
31 votes

#20 - 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'.

Directors: Howard Storm
Writer: Ben Starr
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Mork Runs Away
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7.38
120 votes

#21 - 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'

Directors: Joel Zwick
Writer: April Kelly
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In Mork We Trust
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7.30
33 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
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Mork's Seduction
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7.30
101 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: Harvey Medlinsky
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Pilot (1)
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7.29
302 votes

#24 - 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.

Directors: Howard Storm
Writer: Dale McRaven
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Young Love
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6.92
40 votes

#25 - Young Love

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1979

Mork performs a wedding ceremony to marry his friend Eugene and his girlfriend.

Directors: Howard Storm
Writer: Tom Tenowich
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