Why was this show cancelled?
Maybe after 5 seasons but 4 is not enough!
Your chains are still mine, you belong to me! - The Phantom Of The Opera
I'm pretty sure Robin had enough of Mork at that point and wanted to move on and do movies.
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Robin Williams did not even know the show was being cancelled until he had read about it in a newspaper. I think it got cancelled because the ratings were too low for it to continue.
shareThe ratings dropped for three years straight, so that's what did it. The amazing thing is that it managed to make it to four years with that being the case, but we're talking a different time. These days once the ratings showed no sign of improvement it'd be pulled from the schedule and scrapped almost immediately.
The show was wildly popular and successful during the first season, so naturally some brainiacs at the network decided to make big changes on the show for season two. The public didn't like the changes and started to abandon the show in droves. In season three they changed some things back closer to how they had been in season one, but then made yet more wholesale changes on top of that. Ratings did not improve, and continued to decline. In season four they decided to go for broke with yet more big changes, the audience didn't care by this time, and ratings were the worst they had ever been. No fifth season was going to happen, and everyone other than Robin Williams (struggling with his own dependancy issues at the time) saw the writing on the wall that the show was done.
That's pretty much the story in a man sized eggshell right there.
Yep,ABC really blew a good thing. Mork (Robin) was a true comic maniac in that first season and the nextthing you know,it got weird.
Here's all the basic reasons it left after 4 seasons :
1. Like Adec said,making changes that were not necessary. "Topical"storylines,writing out Mindy's Dad & Grandmother,replacing them with the brother & sister who ran a deli.
2. Moving the show to Sunday night opposite 60 minutes. Which as anyone who wathed TV then knew,was CBS's ratings powerhouse,as the lead in for All In The Family.
3. Backpeddling by bringing back Dad & Grandma & firing the above mentioned two actors.
4. Adding more characters that people could care less about,except Tom Poston as Mr. Bickley,he was always funny.
5. Marrying off Mork & Mindy. So,Mindy will have a "Benjamin Button" situation later on,since Mork is aging backwards. Mork looked 29 by the end. so by now he'd be what 1?
Mork also laying an egg out of his navel whcih grows big and gives us Jonathan Winters as their son.
6. The final straw,the couple and "Mirth" are chased by government agents and also an enemy alien in a 3 part show. In the first part,the enemy alien explodes a bomb in their apartment,whcih they survive but now have to take it on the run. They time travel with Mork's funk looking boots.
7. The last show,kind of,wraps it up but on kind of a dull note. Thye have somehow returned to 1982 and at the end of the showthye're in bed,say some niceties to each-other and kiss good-night.
I watched all 4 seasons (age 10 to almost 14) and at that time I still liked it but lookijng back now,I realize they wrecked a great show that should have at least lasted to 1984/1985.
HaPpIpUPpI 13 *Arf Man,Arf!*
Backpeddling by bringing back Dad & Grandma & firing the above mentioned two actors.
The brother and sister who ran the deli were still on the show during the third season, but they were then running a restaurant instead. Mindy's father had actually returned, but her grandma was just making guest appearances. share
I think the novelty of the series wore off too, the weird changes by ABC never helped. This was very much a in the moment show, like ALF...which had a very similar concept.
shareAs much as I liked Johnathon Winters I found the Mirth character to be a drag.
share"4. Adding more characters that people could care less about,except Tom Poston as Mr. Bickley,he was always funny."
I wonder if you have been wrong for 11 years, or whether you have learned the difference between caring some amount (so you CAN care less), or caring SO little, that you COULDN'T care less..
..or if you still think your post is valid.
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