Eventually ABC realized that the lovable Mork had gained some sharp edges. But by now the network was too intimidated by Robin to tell him to do anything differently, and so they asked Dawber to deliver the note. “They were all, ‘Talk to Robin, he’s not playing the character naïve anymore,’” she said. “They just double-whammied it. They destroyed it themselves and then were mad that Robin was playing it a little differently.”
