Mork meets the Fonz and Laverne. Tears in my eyes from laughter. Video.

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Read how Robin Williams saved his debut on 'Happy Days'

Before Robin Williams took the world by storm in Mork & Mindy, he dipped a toe in the fame pool during what should have been a one-time stint on Happy Days.

Even as a newbie, Williams made an indelible impression on the entertainment community. So much so that Williams was able to turn what was supposed “to be the biggest piece of s–t in the history of the show” into a “brilliant” episode, filmmaker Brian Levant, who joined Happy Days as a writer-producer in its fifth season, told E! News.

“It was Robin Williams’ literal birth as an entertainer,” Levant says of the episode. “He was an unqualified genius in that rehearsal and the cast of Happy Days was tremendously generous ceding the stage to him and everybody walked out of that show saying ‘spin-off, spin-off, spin-off.’ And we walked upstairs and wrote a bunch of great stuff.”

Henry Winkler remembers it like this:

Midway through shooting the episode, the Fonz told Matt Lauer, “a young, very quiet, very delicate man” arrived on set. “All of a sudden, all you see are sparks.” And, “unless you were in the ground, you knew that you were in the presence of greatness. That’s not talking because now we’re making a tribute; that is the honest truth. This man was from another plane. His imagination flew out of him, out of every pore like a torrent.”

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1. The lobes!

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2. lol

Did not realize this was before the Mork and Mindy show. It was a spin off of Happy Days apparently.

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3. Wonder if this show is too much of an oldie for many here.

Doesn't seem that long ago to me, though.