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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMork meets the Fonz and Laverne. Tears in my eyes from laughter. Video.
Read how Robin Williams saved his debut on 'Happy Days'
Before Robin Williams took the world by storm in Mork & Mindy, he dipped a toe in the fame pool during what should have been a one-time stint on Happy Days.
Even as a newbie, Williams made an indelible impression on the entertainment community. So much so that Williams was able to turn what was supposed to be the biggest piece of st in the history of the show into a brilliant episode, filmmaker Brian Levant, who joined Happy Days as a writer-producer in its fifth season, told E! News.
It was Robin Williams literal birth as an entertainer, Levant says of the episode. He was an unqualified genius in that rehearsal and the cast of Happy Days was tremendously generous ceding the stage to him and everybody walked out of that show saying spin-off, spin-off, spin-off. And we walked upstairs and wrote a bunch of great stuff.
Henry Winkler remembers it like this:
Midway through shooting the episode, the Fonz told Matt Lauer, a young, very quiet, very delicate man arrived on set. All of a sudden, all you see are sparks. And, unless you were in the ground, you knew that you were in the presence of greatness. Thats not talking because now were making a tribute; that is the honest truth. This man was from another plane. His imagination flew out of him, out of every pore like a torrent.
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Mork meets the Fonz and Laverne. Tears in my eyes from laughter. Video. (Original Post)
madfloridian
Aug 2014
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(63,086 posts)1. The lobes!
Did not realize this was before the Mork and Mindy show. It was a spin off of Happy Days apparently.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)3. Wonder if this show is too much of an oldie for many here.
Doesn't seem that long ago to me, though.