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Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy is a 2005 docudrama chronicling the creation, rise and fall of the show, and how it catapulted an unknown comic named Robin Williams to fame. The film was written by David Misch, who was a writer and story editor on Mork & Mindy.

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Several prominent people involved in the show were portrayed as alternate versions of themselves, notably Series 1-3 House Director Howard Storm who directed the vast majority of the episodes, became "Harvey Severson" and writer April Kelly who became "Lila Milford"

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Howard Storm on being asked if he had seen the production confirmed that he had, and was not a fan. Considering it "Dreadful" and felt it was "ugly" of the writer in question to have done it. While he appreciated the performance of Chris Diamantopoulos as Robin Williams, he felt that the depiction of Gary Marshall was "Was embarrassing, it was ludicrous, it was a cartoon" [1]

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They could not precisely duplicate footage without getting clearances, but numerous scenes are clearly inspired by real episodes, including:

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The show takes place in the late-'70s and early-'80s, but "Robin" throws a 1996 $100 bill in the hat of the panhandler doing an imitation of him.

In a scene at the music store of Mindy McConnell's dad, there is a record rack near the front door. In the front right hand corner of the rack is Lionel Richie's 1982 solo debut LP. This album did not come out until late summer/early fall of 1982, the series' last episode aired in May of '82.

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Upon being temporarily written out of the series after the 1978 - 1979 season, it was established Fred sold the music store and went on the road as a classical conductor with Cora tagging along. There are several post-1979 scenes where the music store set is visible in the background and scenes filmed on it.

In a scene depicting the first table read for the second season two part premiere episode "Mork in Wonderland," Gina Hecht and Jay Thomas are seen sitting down to read the script with the rest of the cast, but their characters of Jean and Remo DaVinci weren't introduced until the third episode of season two, "Stark Raving Mork."

In a scene set in 1982, Pam Dawber is apparently shown to already be in a relationship with Mark Harmon. Dawber and Harmon, didn't meet until three years after the end of the show, in 1985 when Gina Hecht introduced them to each other.

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