3rd Rock from the Sun
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1. Brains and Eggs
First aired: 1/9/1996 Production Code: 101Solomon discovers that human bodies can produce feelings, and he's feeling attracted to a college professor with whom he shares an office.
Director: James Burrows
Guest star: Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek), Ian Lithgow (Leon), David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn) , Jennifer Rhodes (Mrs. Sumner), Marnette Patterson (Volleyball Girl), Susan Leslie (Kissing Woman), Dan Gilvezan (Radio DJ)
2. Post Nasal Dick
First aired: 1/16/1996 Production Code: 105Tommy's "make-out session" has an unintended consequence: he catches a bug and the crew gets its first taste of human illness. Martha Stewart has a cameo curing Harry with her apple cobbler. An ill Dick goes to a wedding with Mary and hijinx ensues.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Marla Sokoloff (Dina), Rachel Davies (Flora), Wayne Thomas Yorke (Best Man), Pat Lach (Mother), Marijane Cole (Sshh Lady), Martha Stewart (Herself)
3. Dick's First Birthday
Community Score
| 9.1 Superb |
Dick confronts the harsh realities of middle age when he's introduced to the earthly concept of birthdays - and it dawns on him that he's getting old.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Ian Lithgow (Leon), David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn), Michael Milhoan (Coach) , Lauren Graham (Laurie), Dee Freeman (Waitress), Benjamin King (Man in Bar), Robert Lynch (Doug)
4. Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
Sally's exploration of the life style of a young adult woman proceeds: Dick assigns her to go out on a date and, not surprisingly, the guy turns out to be a jerk.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Michael Milhoan (Coach) , Whitney Rydbeck (Mr. Kersey), Elayn Taylor (Teacher #1), Artie Lee Anderson (Brad), Merrick Deamon (Guy)
5. Dick, Smoker
First aired: 2/6/1996 Production Code: 107While Sally does a slow burn at being the often-overruled second in command, Dick lights up his life by taking up smoking.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek), Ian Lithgow (Leon), David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn) , John Platt (Patient), Jonathan Everett Lewis (Jack), Kathryn Joosten (Cafeteria Lady), Jane Lynch (Ms. Koppel), David Dunard (Mechanic), Eddie Allen (Dr. Bankson), Dee Freeman (Waitress), Laurel Ann Green (Moviegoer)
6. Green-Eyed Dick
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
Dick discovers the emotion of jealousy when Dr. Albright's old boyfriend returns to visit on a promotional tour of the novel he dedicated to her; Harry adopts a stray dog.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek) , Ed Begley Jr. (Jeff Willis), Katherine La Nasa (Kate), Richard Gilbert-Hill (Jeff's Brother), Katie Layman (Muriel), Nancy LeSuk (Female Necker), Darlene Kardon (Old Woman), Mark Bedard (Naked Guy), Lindsey Haun (Lisa), Eric Saiet (Pleasant Man), Steve Yiali (Male Necker)
7. Lonely Dick
Community Score
| 8.9 Great |
Dick's one lonely guy when Dr. Albright goes on vacation; Sally and Harry are lured by skin-care products that promise eternal youth.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Simbi Khali (Nina Campbell), Shay Astar (August) , Karen Constantine (Woman), Phil Hartman (Philip), Carole Davis (Aviana), Maria Cina (Onya)
8. Body & Soul & Dick
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
When an obnoxious professor dies during a party in his honor, Dick finds the will specifies that he must deliver a "forthright and honest" eulogy about the universally despised academic. Meanwhile, Tommy neglects his female pal August to hit it off with an "easy" cheerleader.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Simbi Khali (Nina Campbell), Ian Lithgow (Leon), David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn), Shay Astar (August) , John Mahoney (Dr. Leonard Hanlin), Anna Slotky (Cheryl), William Bogert (Dean Sumner), Jennifer Rhodes (Mrs. Sumner), Harry Murphy (Professor), Steven Barnett (Cable Man), Bruce Morrow (Father Rice)
9. Ab-Dick-ted
Community Score
| 8.8 Great |
Dick receives a roundabout lesson in family values from Dr. Albright's loopy brother, who claims to have been abducted by aliens.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Simbi Khali (Nina Campbell), Shay Astar (August) , Bronson Pinchot (Roy Albright)
10. Truth or Dick
Community Score
| 8.7 Great |
Dick discovers the consequences of unvarnished truth when he repeats some of Dr. Albright's unflattering comments at an academic committee meeting.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek), Ian Lithgow (Leon), David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn) , Richard Roat (Dr. Byron), Andrew Hill Newman (DMV Agent), Mailon Rivera (Campus Cop), Dee Freeman (DMV Clerk), Kristin Morley (Waitress)
11. The Art of Dick
Community Score
| 8.9 Great |
While Dick and Harry take up painting (Harry takes to it; Dick doesn't), Sally takes over the school bake sale with the gusto of Gen. Patton.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Ian Lithgow (Leon), David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn) , Lorna Scott (Mrs. Walters), Peggy Billo (Mrs. Hartzinger), Jane Gordon (Mrs. Greenstein), Heather McPhaul (Mrs. Duvall)
12. Frozen Dick
Community Score
| 8.9 Great |
A snowstorm -- the Solomons' first -- spoils Dr. Albright's trip to Chicago, leaving her stranded in a truck stop with Dick.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Ian Lithgow (Leon) , John Raitt (Trucker), Teresa Tudury (Connie), Robert Knott (Ellis), Rex Lynn (Chuck), Tami Tappan Damiano (Barbara), Patrick Thomas (Customer #1), Carolyn Pemberton (Customer #2), Skye McKenzie (Last Customer), Gigi Bermingham (Singing Trucker), Martin Hilton (Singing Trucker), Karl Hamann (Singing Trucker), Linda Dangcil (Singing Trucker)
13. Angry Dick
Community Score
| 9.0 Superb |
The Solomons learn about the give and take necessary to human friendships when they turn their anthropological gaze to the next-door neighbors.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn), Ian Lithgow (Leon), Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek) , Mike Starr (Frank Muller), Lois Foraker (Patty Muller)
14. The Dicks They Are A-Changin'
Community Score
| 8.4 Great |
Harry joins a CD club and finds the responsibilities of membership overwhelming. When Nina tells Dick that Stanford has no graduate records on him and Dick reacts defensively, Dr. Albright observes that it's virtually impossible to get a straight answer from Dick about his past. As Dr. Albright reminisces about her wild, rebellious times at Berkeley and Mrs. Dubcek contributes some colorful recollections, Dick chides Tommy that, as information officer, he failed to brief the crew on the crucial sixties decade. Dr. Albright becomes convinced that Dick is actually Manny Rosenberg, a sixties activist whom she knew briefly and who has been in hiding from the FBI for decades. Dick denies this but soon realizes that his presumed identity has somehow made him more attractive to Dr. Albright. Later, at Dr. Albright's apartment, Dick thinks that they'll at last be having sex, but Dr. Albright angrily reveals that she and Manny had an upsetting encounter that she still hasn't gotten over, and she asks Dick to leave. But they share a warm moment afterward with confessions that they both used Dick's "Manny" identity to serve their own ends.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek)
15. I Enjoy Being A Dick
First aired: 4/21/1996 Production Code: 116Dick dons a dress to infiltrate Dr. Albright's women-only study group, Sally and Harry get jobs at a pancake restaurant and Tommy ponders telling August the truth about where he comes from.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek), Ileen Getz (Judith Draper), Shay Astar (August) , Jane Galloway (Dr. Blumfeld), Teresa Tudury (Woman #2), Scotter Stephan (Man), Bart McCarthy (Grouch)
16. Dick Like Me
Community Score
| 9.2 Superb |
The Solomons discover that everyone on Earth has roots but them. During a chat with Tommy's teacher Mr. Randell, Dick learns that the teenager isn't "fitting in" at school. "Of course I'm not fitting in," snaps Tommy, "to fit in, you have to be something." The question is, what to be? Dick grabs an anthropology book for the answer. "It's loaded with every possible genre of human," he marvels. "It's like a catalogue. We can take our pick." Dick picks the Italians because, according to a swooning Dr. Albright, they're the sexist people on the planet. Meanwhile, Sally's swooning, too -- for Mr. Randell.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek), David DeLuise (Bug), Chris Hogan (Pitman), Danielle Nicolet (Caryn) , John D'Aquino (Mr. Randall)
17. Assault With A Deadly Dick
Community Score
| 9.2 Superb |
After visiting the mall, the Solomons' car radio is stolen. Reporting the crime to the police doesn't get the radio back, but Sally does find some common ground with a police officer. Dick enjoys his new ATM card until he's mugged at the ATM machine and Sally starts to implement security measures. Dick orders Tommy to join the Basketball team, but he just isn't cut out for it.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Wayne Knight (Officer Don), Michael Milhoan (Coach), Shay Astar (August) , Ray Proscia (Mugger), Lance E. Nichols (Salesman), Robert Arce (Nutty Guy)
18. Father Knows Dick
First aired: 5/7/1996 Production Code: 119Dick decides the reason Harry's"odd" is because he lacks a father, and sets out nurture the suddenly rebellious Harry -- who then learns that he has a"thing" in his head, a communications device the others knew about all along. Meanwhile, sparks fly when Sally meets the hostile mother of her boyfriend.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Naomi Judd (Mrs. Randall), J. Jay Cohen (Frank), Lisa Kamimir (Marguerite), Kenneth Magee (Policeman Joe), John D'Aquino (Mr. Randall)
19. Selfish Dick
Community Score
| 9.1 Superb |
The ever-present influence of television turns the Solomons' first trip to a hospital into a madcap exercise in fantasy versus reality. After Mrs. Dubcek cuts her finger, and the sight of blood leave Sally unconscious, Harry and Tommy rush them to the hospital, where the smell of sterile corridors and the gleam of surgical scrubs remind the aliens of the exciting work of their favorite TV doctors -- work that they practice on several unsuspecting patients. Meanwhile, Dick has work issues of his own when Dr. Albright finally gets her long-coveted private office.
Director: Robert Berlinger
Guest star: Richard McGonagle (Head Doctor), Elmarie Wendell (Mrs. Dubcek), Ileen Getz (Judith Draper) , Steven M. Porter (Roger), Tom Jourdew (Doctor), Elliot Woods (Doctor Ladyport), Jan Clarke (Nurse Woods), Lily Knight (Nurse Turner), Tom Simmons (Peter), Bruce Morrow (Father Rice), Harry Morgan (Professor Suter)
20. See Dick Run (1)
First aired: 5/21/1996 Production Code: 118Dick cuts up at a Japanese restaurant, but the big news is that he's there with Dr. Albright, who has finally agreed to date him. But just as they finally consummate their attraction, Harry receives bad news from the home planet: Dick has been replaced by a less benign duplicate, who traps him in the basement and takes charge of Dr. Albright.
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