European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pam Dawber and Robin Williams in Mork and Mindy the Abc hit  Days of a Morks and other answer by the los Angeles times can you please explain Why Quot Mork and Mindy is referred to As a spinoff from Quot Happy Days a i could never see the connection they seem like completely different shows. A the definition of spinoff is certainly stretched in this Case. Aside from the fact that both programs Are from the same producers the main connection is the Early 1978 appearance of Robin Williams on an episode of Happy Days. He portrayed Mork from the planet Ork on a Mission to Kidnap Richie Ron Howard. The performance got such a positive response that in the following season the producers created Mork and Mindy based on the same character but with no continuing Story line or setting from the original episode. As most viewers know the More traditional spinoffs from Happy Days were Laverne and Shirley and Joanie loves Chachi. Q was Bruce Willis a Rock music Star in the 1960s? a although he was always interested in music and even recorded an album and appeared in a music video during the height of moonlighting s popularity Willis does not have a professional music background. As he has often divulged Willis was a bartender before turning actor. His acting background before the Abc series included supporting roles on prime time shows and off Broadway work in new York in the 1970s and Early �?T80s. Q has a Young riders been cancelled a yes it has. But Abc still has five new episodes of the Western the network began airing them two weeks ago. The series premiered in the fall of 1989 and was last shown on Jan. 25 of this year. After the five new episodes Are shown the series will no longer be aired on Abc. Fans will have to Hope that the reruns show up in syndication. Q did Quincy Ever have a first name a Jack Jug Many a characters name was never mentioned according to most sources. However More than one viewer recalls seeing an episode of Quincy . In which a business card was shown. It read or. R.  Cosby show left them laughing but also misled by Deborah Hastings a television writer the Media Avalanche commemorating the Cosby shows final episode on stateside television a few weeks ago was effusively glowing. In newspapers across the country Cosby a eight year run As head of the Huxtable household was praised As a Milestone in both race and familial relations. Next month however comes the publication of a University of Massachusetts at Amherst study a funded by Cosby himself a that states the Cosby show has left a mixed legacy at Best. At the very least the study asserts the series enforced an Era of a enlightened racism in America and left the dangerous impression that racial Equality is a won Battle. The findings culminated a two year analysis of 54 groups of Black and White viewers in Springfield mass., in a study conducted by communications professors Sut whally and Justin Lewis. Titled enlightened racism the Cosby show audiences and the myth of the american dream the Survey is scheduled for publication in june As a 166-Page Book from Colorado based Westview press. A when we first looked at the data it looked very Good a Lewis said in a phone interview from his Massachusetts Home. A it looked As if the show was having a very positive Impact. But when he and whally began to look below the seemingly positive veneer of their Survey responses a we found a lot of very disturbing data a Lewis said. A White people often said they thought that affirmative action Wasny to necessary a he said. A one of the bits of evidence they used was  the Huxtable who did no to seem to need any  no matter that the Huxtable Are not real people. Or that their social and economic status a the Mother is a lawyer the father a doctor their children attend private colleges a is not the status quo for an average american family Black or White. The University professors do not blame Cosby for the misconceptions they say Are perpetrated by the cosy show. A if anyone is to be held accountable it has to be the Way network television is structured a Lewis said. A to be Normal on television you be got to be Well above average in terms of Money and  that has created a twisted logic Lewis said. A if Cosby wanted to make his family appear Normal they had to be upscale Quot he said. A it creates this impression that somehow Black people have found it easy to assimilate into this upper status. If you look at the social demographics that really Isnit happening in this country. Most Black people Are working class or  Lewis and whally divided their 250 study participants into six categories distinguished by race and social class. Whites were divided into upper Middle class lower Middle class and working class groups. Blacks were grouped according to their inclusion in the same three social sets. Questions were Broad ranged. A we did no to want to put words in Peoples Mouths a Lewis said. All research was conducted in the participants Homes. Sample questions included what Cosby viewers did and did no to like about the series and what they thought they would feel if the Huxtable were White instead of Black. Lewis said he noted a wide disparity Between the responses of Black and White viewers. A a lot of Black people were very grateful about what Bill Cosby had done a he said. Lewis explained that any criticism of the series from Black group members always carried this caveat a we have All Felt badly depicted in the  More disturbing were the White responses. The upper Middle class group saw the Huxtable As a very much upper Middle class. Their kids were in College they had Art on their  working class Whites Lewis said did no to mention class distinctions. A they spoke about them As being regular kind of people a he said. Those impressions led to an underlying belief among Many of the White participants that a if Blacks Arentt making it that a their fault. Look at All those other Black families that arc making it a Lewis said. When he and whally approached Cosby two years ago to fund the study the comedian gave them $16,500, which covered most of their costs. Cosby distanced himself from their work and never questioned them Lewis said. He has not yet responded to the results which were sent to him a week before the a cries final show on april 30, Lewis said. A a it a really to his credit that he has funded a piece of research and put no restrictions on us a Lewis said. A in a sense he wrote us a Blank  Bill Cosby was father to Malcolm Jamal Warner for the last time on this final Cosby show episode april 30. 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