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!
