Tonight at 9:30p on CBS, it is reunion that is almost 32 years in the making, Mork & Mindy aka Robin Williams and Pam Dawber are reunited on his show The Crazy Ones.
I was on a conference call with my childhood idols earlier this week, and Pam said to us, “If people want to see Mork and Mindy back together, then they’re going to see Mork & Mindy back together.” To which Robin responded with a sexy smile by saying, “Big time!” Robin’s response to that could be because he spoiled us about the first scene he has with his former-TV wife. He said, it is something they couldn’t do on Mork & Mindy, so he was like “Welcome back!”
And welcoming her back is something he lovingly did because he told us, “It’s kind of wonderful just to see Pam after so long. She looks the same which is so so wonderful. I was like ‘Wow!'” Wow, is right because she looks just like she did when their sitcom ended back in 1982. And he has aged just as beautifully.
And it was also like welcoming back an old friend when they worked together, or as Pam put it “It was like an old shoe.” To which Robin added, “Some of them more loosely, it’s nice that way.”
In fact, it was seeing her old friend that convinced to her do the show and she said she didn’t do it to be back on TV. She told us, “I was so excited to be with Robin, to see Robin, then to potentially work with Robin. That’s why I did it, not to get back in to Show Business.” Even though she isn’t jumping back into the acting saddle, she let us know she wouldn’t mind returning to the sitcom if they asked her to be on it again. So when CBS makes the smart decision to pick it up for a second season, they better find a few episodes for her to guest star on.
So what did they talk about when they got together on the set? Pam said they were talking about their recently deceased TV son, Jonathan Winters, and she told Robin that they are actually older now then he was when they worked with him on the show. Back in 1981, she thought he was an old dude. Robin then added that they now have children that are as old as they were when they started on Mork & Mindy, to which Pam responded by saying, “You do…” Her oldest son is about 2 years younger than she was when she started on the show.
She told us, that that son asked her a few years ago when he was going to meet her former-TV husband. So when she went to the set she brought him along to meet him. It was a life memory for him, so it obviously went well.
As I mentioned, when I was kid I worshiped Mork & Mindy. So I was beyond excited when I asked them a question and Pam shared a very memorable experience from the show. She told us a story about when they went to Boulder, Co, before the first episode aired, to shoot the opening for Mork & Mindy no one cared that they were there. Then when they went back for season 2, “It was like the freaking Beatles were in town.” They’re lives were forever changed because of their alien/human love story.
I have to tell you when I was kid, all I wanted to do was be friends with them. After talking to them both on that conference call on Monday, I want to be friends with them even more. Robin as we know is the funniest man in the world, and Pam was so down to Earth (no pun) that you couldn’t help but love her.
And you are going to love love love seeing them together again on The Crazy Ones tonight at 9:30p on CBS!
Earlier this week CBS announced that Pam Dawber is going to guest star on Robin William’s show The Crazy Ones. Well yesterday Sarah Michelle Gellar Tweeted a picture of Mork & Mindy together again on the set and it is pure happiness. I haven’t been able to stop smiling since I’ve seen the photo. Just like the huge smile I have on my face after I watch their show from the ’70s and The Crazy Ones.
No word when the episode will air, but I am sure when it airs it will be the first of many times we will be watching it. At least I know I will be watching it over and over, just like I’ve seen every episode of Mork & Mindy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer more times than I count.
Finally, can you believe that Pam Dawber is 62 years old because she looks just as beautiful now as she did when we got to know her as Mindy back in 1978. Seriously, can you believe that show debuted over 35 years ago?
Pam Dawber is going to guest star on her former-co star, Robin Williams’ new show The Crazy Ones and I am crazy excited about seeing Mork & Mindy together again.
According to Keck’s Exclusives, Dawber will play “Lily, an author of travel memoirs who catches the eye of Williams’ ad agency exec, Simon. The two meet at a signing for her latest book, Ninety Countries, 90 Dances! Instantly smitten, Simon falls for this adventurous free spirit who seems up for anything.” Hopefully Mrs Mark Harmon is up for staying on the show for more than one episode. That’s because TV Guide also points out this is her first TV appearance since 1999. And you know what she looks exactly the same because she never ever ages.
Jonathan Winters passed away today at the age of 87 according to AP and the world is a lot less funny because of it. Winters was a comedian who was way ahead of his time. In fact I still don’t think we have caught up to his brilliant sense of humor that inspired a lot of today’s comedians. His biggest fan is Robin Williams and the two of them got to work together on the final season of Mork & Mindy. Winters played Mork’s son Mearth and it was pure comedic genius. I remember hearing rumors that Pam Dawber had no idea what was going on on the show because the two of them were improvising all the time. Yet when you watched the show, you would never know it. Because of that I respected her so much as an actress because I loved watching all three of them together.
So today honor him by watching some of his hilarious videos on YouTube, they will put a huge smile on your face as you keep his beautiful spirit alive.
