Would You Really Consider 'Mork & Mindy' A Spin-off of 'Happy Days?' - Page 2 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TVFactFan · 02-22-2011, 09:55 PM

Another thing that is interesting is Mork only was in his space suit in tage scene when reporting to Orkan

jks32 · 11-10-2011, 07:07 PM

At the time I thought of it as a spin-off.

McGillicuddy · 11-10-2011, 07:32 PM

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Yes. Fonzie (Henry Winkler) and Laverne (Penny Marshall) appear in the first Mork And Mindy episode.

How was the appearance of Fonzie and Laverne, (characters set in the '50's), explained on Mork & Mindy, set in the present day '70's?

TVFactFan · 11-11-2011, 06:43 PM

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How was the appearance of Fonzie and Laverne, (characters set in the '50's), explained on Mork & Mindy, set in the present day '70's?

Mork was telling Mindy about a guy who set him up on a date with laverne in the PAST and they did a flashback to the 50's era and that's when you saw Fonzie, and Laverne.

WHat was strange was you didn't see any of the cunningham's which leads to the question..........why was Laverne and Fonzie in the cunningham's house with Mork if the cunningham's wasn't there?

ThomasE · 01-21-2012, 02:27 AM

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Mork was telling Mindy about a guy who set him up on a date with laverne in the PAST and they did a flashback to the 50's era and that's when you saw Fonzie, and Laverne.

WHat was strange was you didn't see any of the cunningham's which leads to the question..........why was Laverne and Fonzie in the cunningham's house with Mork if the cunningham's wasn't there?

Richie was in the house. Joanie was at Girl Scouts with Jenny Piccalo. Marion was at her mother Kelp's playing bridge and Howard was at the hardware store. Mork and Mindy was a spinoff of Happy Days.

TVFactFan · 01-21-2012, 02:36 AM

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Richie was in the house. Joanie was at Girl Scouts with Jenny Piccalo. Marion was at her mother Kelp's playing bridge and Howard was at the hardware store. Mork and Mindy was a spinoff of Happy Days.

You are talking about the Crossover with happy days which was a Happy days episode. I'm talking about the Pilot of Mork and Mindy, and the only people in the cunningham house was fonzie, mork and Laverne

ThomasE · 01-21-2012, 02:54 AM

Actually, you are correct about that. I think Laverne assaulted Mork. Well, everybody had things they had to do that day. They have lives and were too busy too notice that they had an ALF in the house. LOL.

TVFactFan · 01-29-2012, 06:12 PM

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Actually, you are correct about that. I think Laverne assaulted Mork. Well, everybody had things they had to do that day. They have lives and were too busy too notice that they had an ALF in the house. LOL.

Tom it appeared that the Cunnigham's house was Fonzie's house in that pilot.

OneWayFilms · 01-26-2015, 11:09 AM

In season 5 of Happy Days, Mork returns to Happy Days in the final episode and even makes mention of Mindy to Fonzie and discusses how he time travels.

Whenever a character is taken from one show and another show is developed around that same character, it is a spin-off. So yes, Mork and Mindy is a spin off of Happy Days in the same tradition that Laverne & Shirley was.

bmasters9 · 01-26-2015, 11:53 AM

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Whenever a character is taken from one show and another show is developed around that same character, it is a spin-off. So yes, Mork and Mindy is a spin off of Happy Days in the same tradition that Laverne & Shirley was.

Per what you said, IIRC, Knots Landing was a spinoff of Dallas, in the sense that Gary Ewing was moved from Southfork to Southern California.

TVFactFan · 01-27-2015, 01:04 AM

I still think it's debatable

Dr. Thong · 01-27-2015, 10:51 AM

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Per what you said, IIRC, Knots Landing was a spinoff of Dallas, in the sense that Gary Ewing was moved from Southfork to Southern California.

The funny thing about this is Knots Landing was originally written by David Jacobs and offered to the network before Dallas. But they declined.

When Dallas became a big hit, CBS asked Jacobs for another show. He added Gary and Val Ewing to the cast of characters and once again offered them his Knots Landing script. They eagerly accepted this time.

But yes, because Gary and Val originated on Dallas and migrated to KL, that makes it a spinoff.

02-22-2011, 09:55 PM	#16
TVFactFan Member Forum Junkie Join Date: Aug 17, 2002 Posts: 98,949	Another thing that is interesting is Mork only was in his space suit in tage scene when reporting to Orkan

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jks32 JK Occasional Poster Join Date: Nov 10, 2011 Location: TN Posts: 6	At the time I thought of it as a spin-off.

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ThomasE Member Moderator Forum Fanatic Join Date: Apr 04, 2000 Location: New York, New York, U.S.A. Posts: 10,857	Actually, you are correct about that. I think Laverne assaulted Mork. Well, everybody had things they had to do that day. They have lives and were too busy too notice that they had an ALF in the house. LOL.

01-26-2015, 11:09 AM	#24
OneWayFilms Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Nov 02, 2005 Posts: 110	In season 5 of Happy Days, Mork returns to Happy Days in the final episode and even makes mention of Mindy to Fonzie and discusses how he time travels. Whenever a character is taken from one show and another show is developed around that same character, it is a spin-off. So yes, Mork and Mindy is a spin off of Happy Days in the same tradition that Laverne & Shirley was.

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TVFactFan Member Forum Junkie Join Date: Aug 17, 2002 Posts: 98,949	I still think it's debatable