Mork & Mindy (season 4)

Mork & Mindy (season 4)
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 22
Release
Original network ABC
Original release October 8, 1981 (1981-10-08) – May 27, 1982 (1982-05-27)
Season chronology

This is a list of episodes from the fourth and final season of Mork & Mindy.

Broadcast history

The season originally aired Thursday at 8:00-8:30 pm (EST).

Episodes

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Title Directed by Written by Original air date
741"Limited Engagement"Bob ClaverBrian LevantOctober 8, 1981 (1981-10-08)

After decorating the apartment with flowers, Mork gets down on bended knee and proposes to Mindy. Choosing between logic and her emotions, Mindy tells him that she cannot marry him. Mork asks for 24 hours to get her to change her mind.

Orkan Fact: Marriage is outlawed on Ork ever since Ork's Dark Ages.
752"The Wedding"Bob ClaverAlan Eisenstock & Larry MintzOctober 15, 1981 (1981-10-15)

When Orson forbids Mork to marry Mindy because marriage is outlawed on Ork, Mork goes ahead with the wedding anyway. Orson retaliates by turning him into a sheepdog. After a chat with Orson, Mork and Mindy finally get married.

Guest Star: Shelley Fabares as Cathy
763"The Honeymoon"Bob ClaverDale McRaven & Bruce JohnsonOctober 22, 1981 (1981-10-22)

Mork and Mindy take their honeymoon on Ork, but Mindy becomes a tourist attraction and is even entered in a pet show. Things keep going wrong and Mork does not understand Earth honeymoon customs. He confesses to Mindy that he is scared of being married. Orkan Fact: Several aliens, very different in appearance from the human-looking Orkans, are present when Mork and Mindy arrive on Ork. Whether the aliens are themselves visitors from other planets or are representative of other races native to Ork is unclear.

NOTE: Mork has been sending roses to Ork for three years in order to show the Orkans some of Earth's beauties.
774"Three the Hard Way"Bob ClaverRichard Rosenstock & Roy TeicherOctober 29, 1981 (1981-10-29)

Exidor (who is working as a doctor) determines that Mork is pregnant. Mork gives birth to an egg via his navel. Mindy has trouble accepting that in the egg is their child. The egg grows and hatches a full grown, elderly man as Mork and Mindy's baby (since Orkans age backwards).

Guest Stars: Tom Poston as Mr. Bickley, Jonathan Winters as Mearth.
785"Mama Mork, Papa Mindy"Frank BuxtonWendy Kout & George ZatesloNovember 5, 1981 (1981-11-05)

Mearth learns to walk and talk, but calls Mork 'Mommy' and Mindy 'shoe'. Mindy starts avoiding Mearth until Mork gives her an opportunity to bond with her son.

NOTE: Jonathan Winters's first episode as a regular.
796"My Dad Can't Beat Up Anyone"Frank BuxtonDale McRaven & Bruce JohnsonNovember 12, 1981 (1981-11-12)
Mork becomes insecure when he thinks he doesn't have Mearth's respect. Mearth finds Mork's spacesuit and Mork wears it as a superhero costume. Mork and Mearth go to a bar, looking for some bad guys and they find more than they bargained for.
807"Long Before We Met..."Frank BuxtonDeborah Raznick & John B. CollinsNovember 19, 1981 (1981-11-19)

Mork accompanies Mindy to her high school reunion and gets upset when Mindy associates with an old boyfriend named Steve Sanders. Mork then attempts to go back in time to the prom and do away with the boyfriend and he succeeds. When Mork comes back to reality, Mindy then assures him that he is the only one she loves.

Guest Star: Paul Reubens as Dickie Nimitz. Reubens wears a blue bowtie and suit similar to what his Pee Wee Herman costume would become.
818"Rich Mork, Poor Mork"Frank BuxtonRichard Rosenstock & Roy TeicherNovember 26, 1981 (1981-11-26)
After having to send back presents he bought for Mearth, Mork turns to Exidor for money advice and invests all the family's money in Exidor's boutique.
829"Alienation"Don BarnhartWendy Kout & George ZatesloDecember 3, 1981 (1981-12-03)

Mork and Mindy tell Mearth he's an alien. Mearth gets upset that he is different from other children and runs away. He's captured by a cult of Utopians and Mork and Mindy pretend to be part of the cult to rescue him.

Special Guest Stars: Richard Moll, John Larroquette
8310"P.S. 2001"Bob ClaverCindy Begel & Lisa KiteDecember 17, 1981 (1981-12-17)
Mearth wants to go to school and gets sent to school on Ork. Mearth comes home crying because the other kids made fun of him and he hates the teacher. Mork and Mindy take Mearth back to class and Mearth uses his parents as a show-and-tell item which gains the respect of his classmates.
8411"Pajama Game II"Bob ClaverCindy Begel & Lisa KiteJanuary 7, 1982 (1982-01-07)
Mearth is allowed to have some of his Orkan friends over and Zelka ends up spending the night. Mork and Mindy explain the facts of life to Mearth when they assume something happened between him and Zelka.
8512"Present Tense"Bob ClaverWinifred HerveyJanuary 14, 1982 (1982-01-14)
Mearth goes on a trip with Fred so Mork and Mindy have a week to spend alone together. They find that without Mearth at home, they have nothing to talk about. After they have a fight, Mork takes Mindy to the place they first met to make up.
8613"Metamorphosis - the TV Show"Bob ClaverBob Perlow & Gene BraunsteinJanuary 21, 1982 (1982-01-21)
Mr. Sternhagen, the station manager where Mindy works, gets fired by KTNS's new boss who is very young and ready to fire others. He holds a party to meet all the employees' families. Meanwhile, while playing with an old train set, a short circuit switches Mork's mind with Mearth's.
8714"Drive, She Said"Bob ClaverLesa Kite & Cindy BegelFebruary 4, 1982 (1982-02-04)
Mindy is tired of coming from work and then having to go out on errands in the evening. Mork goes to a driving school where TNT is his instructor. When Mork takes his driving test, he thinks his examiner is the devil.
8815"I Don't Remember Mama"Bob ClaverJohn B. Collins & Deborah RaznickFebruary 11, 1982 (1982-02-11)
Mork has been making boring reports to Orson, so Orson erases all of Mork's memories of his family. Mindy and Mearth do everything they can to get Mork to remember them. Mindy finally breaks the memory block by kissing him.
8916"Mork, Mindy and Mearth Meet MILT"Bob ClaverWendy Kout & George ZatesloFebruary 18, 1982 (1982-02-18)

Mork uses Orkan components to assemble a home computer named M.I.L.T for Mearth's science project. MILT is so sophisticated and tyrannical that it decides to hold its creator, Mindy, and Mearth, as hostages.

Guest Stars: John Houseman as the voice of MILT, cameo appearance by William Shatner
9017"Midas Mork"Bob ClaverWendy Kout & George ZatesloApril 15, 1982 (1982-04-15)
After hearing about how Rumplestilskin spun straw into gold, Mork and Mearth try to make polyester into gold. Mindy dreams that they become millionaires and live in a mansion with servants.
9118"Cheerleaders in Chains"Bob ClaverTeleplay by: Winifred Hervey
Story by: Cindy Begel & Lisa Kite
April 22, 1982 (1982-04-22)

Mindy gets jailed when she won't reveal a source for one of her stories. Mork tries to go through political channels to get her out. Then he tries to spring her out, but gets arrested himself.

Guest Star: Barbara Billingsley as Louise
9219"Gotta Run: Part 1"Don BarnhartCindy Begel & Lisa KiteMay 6, 1982 (1982-05-06)

Mork and Mindy are overjoyed when they meet Kalnik, an alien from Neptune who has also married an Earthling named Tracy. Things go awry when they become suspicious of Kalnik's true intentions. Tracy reveals that she is a bomb, demolishing Mork and Mindy's apartment and sending them on the run.

Guest Stars: Joe Regalbuto and Ilene Graff
9320"Gotta Run: Part 2"Bob ClaverRichard GurmanMay 13, 1982 (1982-05-13)

After the evil Kalnik has bombed their apartment, leaving them on the run, Mork, Mindy and Mearth decide their only chance of surviving is to go public about Mork's real roots.

Guest Star: Joe Regalbuto
9421"Gotta Run: Part 3"Bob ClaverAlan Eisenstock & Larry MintzMay 20, 1982 (1982-05-20)

Kalnik discovers Mork and Mindy in their demolished apartment. Mork clicks the heels of his magic shoes in an effort to escape with Mindy to Rome, but the shoes have been damaged, and Mork and Mindy wind up with prehistoric tribesmen in an Okus cave.

Guest Star: Joe Regalbuto
9522"The Mork Report"Robin WilliamsWinifred HerveyMay 27, 1982 (1982-05-27)

Mork bucks hard for a promotion from leader Orson on planet Ork, and unintentionally comes up with a report on how to stay happily married on Earth.

NOTE: This episode was filmed before "Gotta Run", but was aired last because of the show's cancellation and to give the series appropriate closure. Thus, Mork apparently defeats Kalnik for good and the demolished apartment is successfully repaired.
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