What television program did Pam Dawber and Robin Williams star in?”
Though she has performed in dozens of television shows, Pam Dawber will always be remembered for her starring role in the 1970’s sitcom, Mork and Mindy, which also starred comedian Robin Williams. Dawber was born on October 18, 1951, in Detroit, MI, where she did some modelling while she was in college. Moving to New York, Dawber was signed to do more modelling, and was seen in magazine advertisements and TV commercials, but decided she would like to act. She won a leading role in a stock production of Sweet Adeline in Connecticut, and from there went on to a role in Robert Altman’s film, A Wedding. She signed an exclusive contract with ABC-TV, which led to the part of Mindy, in Mork and Mindy, and she has been a familiar face on the small screen ever since. She played in the titular role of My Sister Sam, 1986-88. Dawber is married to actor Mark Harmon, and they have two children.
Mork & Mindy is an American sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a large egg-shaped space ship, and Pam Dawber as Mindy McConnell, his human friend, roommate, and later, wife after they married in the final season. The series was a spinoff from the sitcom Happy Days. The character of Mork (Robin Williams) first appeared in the season 5 episode, “My Favorite Orkan”, where he attempts to take Richie Cunningham back to Ork as a human specimen, but his plan is foiled by Fonzie. The character proved to be popular enough with the audience to rate a series of his own, though in “Mork & Mindy”, Mork resides in Boulder, Colorado and in the (then) current day of 1978 as opposed to Happy Days’ late 1950s/early ’60s Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
