Here is the explanation to clear up the confusion about "Out of the Blue"

[robyrob]

Originally Posted by TheLifeAdjuster

That's the ep I always wanted to see. The Out of the blue ep I have is not watchable

none of the episodes of Out of the Blue were very watchable - they were certainly worse than Chachi Sells His Soul

...maybe ABC just wanted people to THINK that Out Of The Blue was a spinoff of Happy Days just to make them watch it...

[tvfan0101]

Well, it looks like dlemond solved this mystery.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by robyrob

none of the episodes of Out of the Blue were very watchable - they were certainly worse than Chachi Sells His Soul

...maybe ABC just wanted people to THINK that Out Of The Blue was a spinoff of Happy Days just to make them watch it...

Happy Days had 3 crossovers eps in the first month of that 79-80 season. Out of the Blue and Laverne and Shirley

[70s show watcher]

Originally Posted by TheLifeAdjuster

That's the ep I always wanted to see. The Out of the blue ep I have is not watchable

i can tell you 2 things that i remember about the ep from having watched it 1 when mork first appaers onscreen he looks at random and says wow so this is heaven it looks more like jc penny to me 2 hanna dean as the housekeeper is in the kitchen singing no bad news and stops for some reason but i really dont remember why except that the laughtrack indcated that something must have been funny thats all i really remember about the ep

[Torgo]

I never liked that episode of Happy Days, Random was such an annoying character- I couldn't picture watching a series featuring him, just the thought of it makes me shudder.

[treky]

I remember watching 1 episode of "OUT OF THE BLUE" and it was pretty bad.

[Vinni_Rattolle]

I have never understood this debate. In order for "Out of the Blue" to have truly been a spin-off, the initial episode with Random would've had to have aired the previous season and gotten big ratings. I don't recall a single instance when a spin-off was spawned from a previous week's episode. True, most of the production team was the same and there were some crossovers, but that does not a spin-off make.

And the show is pretty terrible, but that damned theme song (which is almost as terrible as the show itself) frequently plays on a loop in my head.

[opus]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Out of the Blue was never a spinoff of Happy Days or Mork and Mindy. The reason why is this

Out of the Blue premeired a week before the new season of Happy Days for 1979-80. What happened was the character, RANDOM, appeared on Happy Days a week after the show premeired on ABC which made it a crossover episode between Happy Days and Out of the Blue.


During the premeire episode of Out of the Blue, Mork from Mork and Mindy made a guest appearance and that made it a crossover episode between Mork and Mindy and Happy Days not a spinoff


ABC wanted to promote the show Out of the Blue through it's Top two shows at the time, Happy Days, and Mork and Mindy, so that Out Of the Blue could gain a fan base. Sadly it never worked


So there you have it, we now know that Out of the Blue was not a spinoff of Happy Days or Mork and Mindy.

Says the same thing here. Not a spinoff, just a failed attempt to use 2 successful series to try to help launch a new one.

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by opus

Says the same thing here. Not a spinoff, just a failed attempt to use 2 successful series to try to help launch a new one.

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And that false statement about HD being pre-empted was a bunch of BS. Especially since he had nothing to post to back it up lol



BTW: 16 years later and the Out of the Blue ep with Mork still has no surfaced