7. Upon graduating from the performing arts school, Robin went to Hollywood, taking odd jobs, and performing stand up comedy, his big break came in 1978. On which television show did he make his acting debut?
From Quiz The Life of Robin Williams
Answer:
Happy Days
After graduating from Juilliard, Williams went to Hollywood in search of his dreams. He performed stand up comedy, worked as a busboy, and as a parking attendant. While performing one night, an aspiring agent named Michael Ovitz was in the audience, he loved the way Williams fed off of the crowd, and it was very obvious how the audience hung on his every word. After the performance, Ovitz went backstage to talk with Williams. Ovitz told Williams who he was and that he wanted to sign him, Robin was flabbergasted, and accepted the card with Ovitiz's name on it. It took three days for Williams to contact Ovitz, and when he did Ovitz was so ecstatic, that he told Williams he had been looking at scripts for him. Ovitz told Williams that he knew that he would contact him, and wanted to have some work lined up for when he called. Ovitz told Williams he had an audition set up for the next day, it was for a guest spot on the show "Happy Days." The character that he would be auditioning for was an alien named Mork, who comes to Earth from the planet Ork. Robin went to pick up the script from Ovitz, and immediately fell in love with the character of Mork. When he showed up for the audition the next day, he walked in and sat on the sofa head first! With that outstanding audition, the producer and director of "Happy Days" decided that they had indeed found their alien.
In the episode "My Favorite Orkan," which aired on February 28, 1978, Williams plays the zany alien known as Mork. In the episode Richie first sees what he believes to be an alien spaceship, and rushes into Arnold's to tell everyone what he saw. Potsie and Ralph laugh at him and tell him his life is hum drum. Richie tells them he knows what he saw, and storms out of Arnold's. At home he tries to tell his parents, Howard and Marion, what he saw and they don't believe him either. They hate to leave Richie, but they have an important dinner at the Leopard's Lodge, so they leave Richie watching television. Richie falls asleep, and in his dream he hears the door bell, he gets up from the sofa and answers it, and what does he see, but the alien from the spaceship. Mork walks passed Richie and blows up the television set with his finger! Richie flees the house and heads back for Arnold's. When he arrives at Arnold's no one is there and the lights are out, so he heads back home, and the alien is still there. Mork sees how upset Richie is and tells him to calm down, Richie tries, but is not all that successful at doing so. Finally, Richie finds his voice and asks if he can do an interview on him. The alien says yes, and tells Richie that his name is Mork and he comes from the planet Ork. He also tells him that his planet is doing research of life on Earth, and they are looking for someone average and hum drum. As Richie is talking to the zany alien, his parents and Joanie come home, he introduces them to Mork, and heads upstairs to pack. When Richie comes downstairs, Mork freezes Howard, Marion, and Joanie with his finger, and tells Richie that he will be gone at least a bleem, which is two thousand years in Earth time. Getting really freaked, Richie again flees and heads back towards Arnold's, but this time the lights are on and Richie heads inside. Mork is trailing him, and comes inside Arnold's like gangbusters and freezes Potsie and Ralph. Richie finds Fonzie in his 'office,' and tells the Fonz what is happening, and at that moment Mork rips off the door to the Fonz's 'office.' Fonzie tells Mork that he is not taking Richie anywhere. Mork then issues a challenge to Fonzie, he tells Fonzie, if he wins Richie goes to Ork with him, but if Fonzie wins then Richie can stay, Fonzie agrees and the battle starts. Mork starts zapping things with his finger, and then Fonzie starts snapping his fingers...this goes on for sometime, until Mork gets fed up and freezes Fonzie. Mork thinks he has won, and is ready to leave with Richie, but then we see Fonzie's thumb move and he comes out of the freeze that was imposed on him by Mork. Mork tells the Fonz that he had a change of heart, and will not be taking Richie but instead will be taking the Fonz, because he was such a worthy opponent...in that instant Richie wakes up from his dream as the Fonz is being taken away by Mork. As Richie awakens from his dream his parents are coming home, which is followed by a man that looks like Mork asking for directions...Richie screams and slams the door.Williams' performance as Mork was such a hit, that he was brought back in episode 139 entitled "Mork Returns," which aired on March 6, 1979.
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