Steineded How sad is this?

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

OllieSuave-007 I've caught quite a few episodes of this sit-com as a kid, and was pretty amused by the decent humor, comedy and wackiness of the story.It was nice seeing Robin Williams in one of his earlier works, playing an alien named Ork as he investigates planet Earth for his superiors back in his home planet.Williams definitely has that goofiness, and sometimes nonsensical, comedic side to him and it works fine in this show. He has good chemistry with co-star Pam Dawber (Mindy), who welcomes the alien into her home.It's one of the fun shows to catch on Nick-at-Nite.Grade B

jwikstro I recently caught a few episodes from the last season of the series. I either forgot, took for granted, or let some of the downright obtuse references in Robin Williams' lines and/or improvisations go over my head when I originally viewed some of this in the early 80s. My brief impression upon revisit has been that this was acutely humorous, and frequently hilarious, without sinking to tastelessness, as is the wont nowadays when shows or performers run low on comic material.I think maybe I was going through my early teens' "I'm too cool for this" stage when these originally aired. As others have stated, Pam Dawber was perky with never seeming to be saccharin, and she even had a certain "je ne sais quoi" that is quite wholesome. Jonathan Winters' turn on the show was inspired, and they had numerous great guest stars as the show went on, a la everyone wanting to be on an episode of "Batman" 15 years earlier, another show which is also funnier upon adult revisit. Inspired writing, some of which may have been Williams' improv, as I have been watching a lot of the last season and he would have been given some leeway by then. I too recall that at the time, I thought the last season was a dip in form. Perhaps having been starved of any truly inspired comedy of late, I am appreciating that this is a relative feast in the comedy sense. (I just read the Trivia section, which notes that Winters and Williams were given explicit license to improvise in parts of the scripts for the last season. Also, Conrad Janis' comments about Robin Williams are enlightening, as he was well liked by the cast. All this comes through in the positive overtone of the episodes that I recently viewed).I am downloading episodes from all the seasons to further explore. As another reviewer stated, some of the early episodes made more use of Mork's alien nature as the butt of jokes, so that is the juvenile, silly part I was remembering. By the 4th season, Robin Williams' character had become more earth-friendly, so he could reasonably make all these great jibes about Turlock, Marshall McLuhan, chewing lanolin, Eddie Fisher's bad marital luck, etc.. By then, Williams had carte blanche to improvise, and he ran with it, but many of us had turned off to the show by then.Hurray for Antenna TV for preserving these tasteful, uplifting gems of comedy! It is a few leagues above those American sitcoms which all seem generic starting at about ~2000, which are dire in comparison.

studioAT If ever Robin Williams shone it was in this sitcom from the 70's/early 80's where he played an alien sent to Earth to learn about us.The 1st season is where all the best moments are. Slapstick, verbal humour, and some decent storytelling too.However, for some odd reason (and even odder when you consider that sitcom legend Garry Marshall was involved) the show got tinkered with in Season 2 onwards, with the plots becoming more about issues. And the less said about the 'Mork meets Robin Williams' episode the better.Of course Williams is fantastic, but credit also to Pam Dawber, who manages to keep a straight face throughout, which can't have been easy.It's a shame the show changed. I agree with other reviewers who say buy the 1st season DVD and forget the rest.

hillary1 The only good thing about this show was Robin Williams, the rest of the cast were simply props standing around as foils for whatever he happened to be doing. While this may work well for an NBA team-see Micheal Jordan and the Chicago Bulls-it is not a good premise for a TV sitcom. The best sitcoms have had strong supporting characters-ie, "All in the Family", "Frasier", "Seinfeld", "M*A*S*H"-and there was just nothing here. Pam Dawber never displayed any comedic ability-granted she wasn't given much opportunity-and the rest of the cast may as well have been trucked in from the wax museum. The show WAS all about Robin Williams, until Jonathan Winters came along, and by then it was far too late and that whole storyline was ridiculous anyway. The only good thing that came of it was, of course, it was a springboard for a brilliant career.