Here's a first-run, second-season Halloween-themed episode of Mork & Mindy, "A Morkville Horror" (S02E08), as broadcast over the ABC Network via Chicago's WLS Channel 7.

In this episode (with guest Robert Donner as Exidor), Mindy finds her childhood home is haunted by her dead relatives as she tries to prepare it for sale.

Includes:

Station ID / PSA for Chicago Boy Scouts (voiceover by Wayne Atkinson)

Show opening titles (way different from first season; Jim Staahl who is shown in the opening credits does not appear in this episode)

Commercials for:

New Meow Mix - in blue box, with beef, liver and kidney

Sears - Pre-Holiday Home Appliance Sale

Episode Act I

Commercials for:

Olympus OM10 camera - with Cheryl Tiegs (taking pictures of bicycle race)

Green Giant Niblets Corn - in Butter Sauce

Promo for The Associates, followed by "Disaster on the Coastliner" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)

Animated 1979-80 ABC ID, with lower-third station ID coming in a bit later

Episode Act II

[sadly, this break was edited out of the recording]

Episode epilogue, with Mork reporting to Orson, followed by ending credits (with voiceover promo for 240-Robert, followed by Seattle Seahawks vs. Atlanta Falcons on NFL Monday Night Football, and The Associates coming up next followed by "Disaster on the Coastliner," by Allan Jefferys)

(recording ends before Paramount Television logo bumper)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 28th 1979 during the 7:00pm to 7:30pm timeframe.

This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The George Jen Collection.

About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:

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