then we got him on his own show, and "mork & mindy" was the hip show of the '70s. [ thunk! ] shazbot! ah! hah! rosenthal: the audience -- talk about a willing suspension of disbelief -- is willing to buy the premise... mind if i do? ...just so they can watch robin williams. [ burps ] na-nu! na-nu! well, excuse me! burton: that was an interesting part of the balance, i think, of the television diet. that there was an attempt to explore deeper into the psyche of what makes us tick. but there was also, you know, a need to escape. i'm going to a beach barbecue. uh-huh. i can see what's gonna heat up the coals. wallace: if there's any single phenomenon that has tilted the rating book in abc's direction, it's "t" and "a." herb jacobs, at the cbs affiliates meeting, he explained to us how these "t"-and-"a" shows are concocted. and they take their clothes off three times, they get ideas, and then they want to have to run two or three times, so they jiggle, and all are well-endowed, of course,