Mork & Mindy 1980s (as opposed to the "Happy Days" setting of Milwaukee in the late-1950s). Mork explains to Richie that he is from the "future": the 1970s. Mork arrives on Earth in an egg-shaped spacecraft. He has been assigned to observe human behavior by Orson, his mostly unseen and long-suffering superior (voiced by Ralph James). Orson has sent Mork to get him off Ork, where humor is not permitted. Attempting to fit in, Mork dresses in an Earth suit, but wears it backward. Landing in Boulder, Colorado, he encounters 21-year-old Mindy (Pam Dawber), who is upset after an argument with her boyfriend,
Mindy Lewis shocked to learn that Billy had started drinking again, a fact Nick had known already. Mindy was also shock to learn that Beth knew too, and Mindy was now at a cross-roads with her best friend. Later, the Lewis family was shocked when Billy confessed to shooting Roger to prevent him of taking away his adoptive-son Peter. Mindy tearfully said good-bye to her daddy and she and Nick finally became husband and wife. While dealing with living at the Spaulding mansion with Alexandra, Mindy also had to deal with the custody trial between Vanessa and Bridget for Peter Lewis. Upset