Mork & Mindy (TV Series) Gotta Run: Part 3 (1982) User Reviews

Terrible ending

[gmoore44 · 2/10 · 17 February 2019]

Mork and Mindy was a big hit when it clocked in at number 3 in its debut season of 78-79. But then pinhead network executives and others got in the way, and torpedoed it. Replacing three major cast members, moving it to a new night, replacing Mork's sense of wonder in his first season's reports to Orsen with all the topical social comments in his later season's reports to Orsen, floundering around in season 2 and 3 as ratings just kept sinking. From 3 to 27, to 49, and the horrible season four, number 60. Jonathon Winters was great, but this stupid 3 parter is very telling about how low they had gone. A sad ending, although since this would have been the lead in fro a Season 5, when they got the axe, they were able to end the series by taking the original Episode 9, "The Mork Report" and running it after this farce, giving us a closer episode. Sad that the changes these idiots made sink so quickly.

The final ignominious episode to be filmed

[kevinolzak · 1/10 · 9 October 2016]

"Gotta Run" concludes in fittingly dumbstruck fashion, opening with a Tom Snyder-type interview conducted by Tom (Mark Fenske), Mork and Mindy hoping to explain their circumstances to a nationwide viewing audience. Screaming girls and unceasing press greet Mork everywhere he goes, Billy Vincent (Stephen Stucker) wanting to talk television as Maury (Dan Barrows) promotes merchandising. Alone together in what remains of their home, Kalnik targets Mork and Mindy with a new ray gun, only for Mork to foil him by utilizing the same time shoes introduced in "Long Before They Met." The couple now find themselves in prehistoric times where cavemen chase after potential wives like Belk (Chea Collette), who worships Mork as a god for saving her from her pursuers. Here Kalnik finds them one last time, his errant ray gun bringing an avalanche down on his head as Mork and Mindy escape him yet again, stuck in limbo as the now cancelled series left its few remaining viewers apoplectic. Had there been a fifth season it would have been more of the usual radical changes, this odd couple stuck in time week after week, supposedly meeting different figures in earth history, Jonathan Winters apparently left behind. The final broadcast was chosen to close out the series with something more traditional, the only one directed by Robin Williams.

So ridiculous in so many ways

[lbowdls · 2/10 · 3 May 2024]

I probably shouldn't bother to do a review. But having watched the whole series (bar a few missed episodes here and there) from season 1-4 I feel I need or want to share something.

It wasn't bad when it started, I'm taking first time around, it was funny but not the funniest of sitcoms, and Robin Williams was fun even though I felt way over the top. But I remember then and now re living the series just how it suffered from bad casting and stupid casting changes. Which is really strange for a Garry Marshal production. But except for Richard Donner as Exidor, the show must have had the worst casting director in tv history. None of the changing cast ever worked. And would suddenly appear and disappear without any explanation!

So to the final 'Gotta Run' run of episodes which was beyond ridiculous with no appearance by Mindy's dad or Exidor who could probably help their plight in some way. Why wouldn't they just go back to Ork to escape Kalnik. But why should any of this plot or writing make any sense when most of the series hardly did anyway. You could see that Robin and Pam Dawber were just going through the motions and doing what they could in the middle of the embarrassment which was these episodes. (No idea what the final aired episode tomorrow will give me but I doubt it will help heal). I think Dawber and Williams were probably glad to see the end of this sinking ship!