ABC Network - Mork & Mindy - "Mama Mork, Papa Mindy" - WTVW-TV (Complete Broadcast, 11/5/1981) 📺

Not from Chicago, but from a galaxy not too far away - Evansville, IN, via that city's ABC affiliate WTVW Channel 7 - here's the complete broadcast of a first-run airing of the Mork & Mindy episode "Mama Mork, Papa Mindy" (S04E05).

By this time, Jonathan Winters - whom series star (and Chicago native son) Robin Williams openly acknowledged as a major influence on his own improvisational style - had joined the cast as the title characters' son Mearth, who in this episode takes more a liking to Mork than Mindy. Robert Donner guest stars as Exidor.

Includes:

Commercials for:

Mountain Dew - "Pepsi Payoff Caps" prize offer - look for the caps with a star

Jif peanut butter (with Mrs. Nona Hasselbring)

Station ID with promo for Weathercast phone number

Show opening titles [music has been replaced with an earlier season's version of the theme to avoid YouTube blocking]

Commercials for:

Campbell's Old-Fashioned Vegetable Soup

Kodak Colorburst instant cameras

Episode Act I

Commercials for:

Time Bandits (theatrical trailer)

7up (with Magic Johnson)

Promo for Best of the West and Barney Miller - for later tonight (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Gilbert Hodges)

Animated ABC ID with lower-third station ID in Vidifont 28 and 18

Episode Act II

Commercials for:

Children's Tylenol

New Buc Wheats cereal - from General Mills

Episode epilogue where Mork reports to Orson, followed by incomplete end credits (with voiceover promo for Code Red and Today's FBi for Sunday by Gilbert Hodges; he is about to promote coming ABC Sunday Night Movie airing of "Grease" when recording ends)

This aired on local Evansville TV on Thursday, November 5th 1981 during the 6:59pm to 7:28pm timeframe.

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