How did Mork and Mindy become a television series?
It all began at the home of the shows producer Garry Marshall. His son asked him to put a man from outer space on Happy Days. Garry thought this was a good idea and created the character of Mork, an alien from the planet Ork. Mork appeared in two episodes of Happy Days. During this time Pam Dawber was under a one year contract with ABC for a series. She had done a pilot about a street-wise nun called Sister Terri which didn’t sell. The company wanted to use both Pam and Robin so took film excerpts of Pam from Sister Terri and clips of Robin on Happy Days and electronically matched them on screen so it looked like they were talking to each other. This is how the company sold the series to the network. Both Pam and Robin did not know they had been signed for the show. Pam found out from an article in Variety magazine. The above information is from Sai Wong’s great Pam Dawber page (found on the links section). Question: Where can I buy Mork & Mindy memorabilia? There are two good places t
