TQOTD: Sitcoms

[pat]

Robin Williams rocketed to fame as the star of the sitcom Mork and Mindy. What sitcom spawned Mork and Mindy?



Although they were set in different eras, and shared no cast members other than Williams, Mork and Mindy was a spin-off of the fifties nostalgia series Happy Days. Williams played Mork from Ork in an episode of the latter and audience reaction was so favorable the network decided to give him his own series.

Hey, it beats Joanie Loves Chachi.

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Hah. One I fanily got right.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Er. Finally. Oh, shazbut!

[cheshyre]

Actually, the trickier challenge is to name all the Happy Days spinoffs. And then there's the old question of which show spawned the most spinoffs. Although I just found a site which provides a pretty decent accounting for the shows which spawned the most.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Let's see, there was Mork and Mindy, Joanie Loves Chachi, and Laverne and Shirley from Happy Days. Mary Tyler Moore Show spawned at least three: Rhoda, Phyllis, and Lou Grant (one of my favorite shows of the late seventies -- it had the coolest theme song, and the photographer, Animal, featured in a lot of my adolescent daydreams). Different Strokes begat the Facts of Life, All in the Family begat the Jeffersons and Maude and Archie's Family (which was really a name change for the original series). I seem to remember that there was a spin-off from the Jeffersons... and Good Times was a spin-off from Maude.

The fact that I know all this crap is a sign of a seriously misspent youth. ;D