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Started: 22nd Mar 1980 - No.12
Replacing:
Mind Your
Language
Ended: 7th March 1981 - No.11
Replaced by:
Meet The Smurfs
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"Holding The Baby"
22/3/80
No.12 to 3/5/80 No.19
When Mork
sees some ‘lifelike’ walking/talking dolls demonstrated, he thinks they
are real of course, but Mindy puts him right as usual. Mork wants
one of the dolls but inadvertently picks up a real child, when he realises
what he has done, he sets out to find the child’s mother, but the child
has other ideas, and thinks that Mork is fun to be with, she decides to
get Mork to take her to the fair. Little does Mork realise she is a
millionaires daughter and two crooks have spotted her and plan to relieve
Mork of her.
"Close
Encounters Of The Nerd Kind"
10/5/80
No.20 to 7/6/80 No.24
Mindy takes
Mork to the woods, but Mork wanders off on his own, and comes upon a group
of hikers, who turn out to be UFO spotters. Mork tells them who he
is and where he is from, the group panic and in the ensuing chaos Mork is
hit on the head by a rock, the group abduct Mork, and to make matters
worse the blow on the head has made Mork lose his memory.
"Ride
Em' Alien"
14/7/80
No.25 to 26/7/80 No.31
Mork finds
he has a knack for Bronco riding, and is so good that ‘A.P. Allan’s
Travelling Rodeo’ signs him up for a month, he becomes such a star that he
gets top billing, which doesn’t please the shows main star, Iron Billy
Shannon, who sets about taking revenge on Mork by setting up a dangerous
stunt certain to see Mork off.
"Bad
Money"
2/8/80 No.32
to 30/8/80 No.36
Mindy takes
Mork along when she goes to visit a friend in New York. The pair
take the train. After dinner that evening, they go back to their
sleepers, where Mork finds that someone has dumped a box containing
$10,000. The box is meant for crime boss Abe Conroy, who is in the
next sleeper to Mork, and he’ll do anything to get the money back.
"The
Invisible Mork"
11/10/80 No.37 to
18/10/80 No.43
Mork
arrives in New York with Mindy, but gets accidentally exposed to a nutty
scientist’s new invention, which makes him invisible. Mork finds out
where the scientist lives, but he has been kidnapped by Napoleon Nero, a
crook who plans to use the invention to rob banks.
(n.b. this is a continuation of the previous story)
"Happy
Hour"
25/10/80
No.44 to 22/11/80 No.48
When Mork
smashes a neighbour’s greenhouse window, he uses magic to repair it, much
to the pleasure of Mr Conway (the neighbour). Mork is pleased to see
his neighbour happy, so goes on a mission, to repair broken things in his
neighbourhood. He sees a crook breaking a jeweller’s window, and
repairs it, the crook is angry at first, but soon realises that Mork could
be useful to him.
"Tis' The Season To Be Orkan"
29/11/80
No.49 to 27/12/80 No.1
It’s
Christmas and Mork is told that it is the season of ‘Goodwill to all men’,
so he goes off to spread his ‘Orkan’ type goodwill! He helps a lady with
a flat tyre, she turns out to be a Mrs. Charity Rogers-Smythe who,
grateful to Mork for his help invites him to her Christmas party, not the
best idea.
"Chilly
Reception"
3/1/81 No.2
to 31/1/81 No.6
Mork spots
a snowman and he tells the kids who made it that they should beware of it.
(He thinks it is a ‘Freezon’, a member of a race of aliens, who aren’t as
nice as Mork. When two thugs knock the snowman down, Mork believes
they are fighting the Freezons at first, and tries to befriend them.
Mindy finds him in time and puts him right, as usual. Mindy takes
Mork skiing to forget about it, but the two thugs get wind of it and
follow them, to try and have some fun at Mork’s expense.
"The
Signs Are Bad Today"
7/2/81 No.7
to 7/3/81 No.11
Mindy
implants a thought into Mork’s head that signs are there to be followed…to
the letter. So Mork does exactly that, he sees a sign on
building site that says ‘Kiki Boutique open soon’, and thinks it is
a command, so thinking the building site is ‘Kiki’s’ he decides to
try to open it, by crashing a shopping trolley through the fence! He
is arrested by a policeman, but unbeknown to both of them building site is
a cover for two robbers, who are trying to break into the bank next door.
(n.b. Story titles are made up)
(Thanks to Shaqui Le Vesconte for help with this chronology) |
