3rd Rock from the Sun - Episode Guide

Aliens have landed…in suburbia! To investigate Earth, four inter-planetary explorers are posing as a "normal" American family. But what's normal to us, things like emotions, politics, and zoos, are shockingly alien to them. Through their innocence, irreverence and disarming honesty, we realize they've landed on the most bizarre planet of all - ours!

Tommy catches a bug from a fellow student and the Solomons have their first experience with flu; meanwhile Dick wrangles his wangles his way into escorting Dr. Albright to a wedding.

Dick discovers that normal Earthlings have birthdays, then he realizes he is getting old and tries to act younger.

Sally goes on a date and does not understand the signals her date is sending.

Dick takes up smoking because he thinks it is cool and then goes missing for three days. Sally thinks Dick being missing is all a test of her commanding capability, meanwhile Tommy reanimates a dead frog in science class.

Dick becomes jealous when a old professor friend comes to town and tries his best to get Mary's attention. Meanwhile, Harry befriends a stray dog then finds out they are not allowed to have dogs because of the landlord's allergies. Sally is given a mission to discover what attracts women to different men.

When Dr. Albright goes on vacation, Dick misses her and becomes obsessive over her.

When a obnoxious professor passes away and Dick finds out he has been chosen to the the eulogy, Dick has problems finding anything good to say about the man. Tommy sees a cheerleader on the side.

The Solomons are impressed with Dr. Albright's brother until he says he has been abducted by aliens, then they worry that they may have been involved somehow.

Dick discovers the dangers of being absolutely honest when making comments to people that turn out to be unflattering.

Sally takes over the school bake sale even though she can't cook; Dick and Harry take a painting class with Dr. Albright.

Dick goes on a trip to Chicago with Dr. Albright and has issues with the airplane, the Soloman family has their first experience with snowfall on Earth.

The Solomons decide to make friends in order to experience what humans do and Dick ends up with problems with his next door neighbor because of it.

Dr. Albright mistakes Dick for a radical activist who started a riot in the 60's and is wanted by the FBI.

When Dr. Albright tells Dick that he is not welcome at the all-women's study group she is going to attend, he dresses up as a woman and sneaks in.

Dick discovers ethnicity and decides the Solomon's need a ethnic background but he does not really understand what being ethnic is.

Dick signs Tommy up for school basketball after the Solomons attend a basketball game; Dick is mugged at an ATM.

Harry feels like he is a useless member of the team; Sally meets Randall's mother over dinner.

After Sally ends up in the hospital, Harry, Tommy and Sally pretend to be ER doctors. Dick gets upset when Dr. Albright moves to a new office and goes on a campaign to get her back.

After Dr. Albright finally agrees to date Dick, a message comes in from the Big Giant Head telling the Solomons that they are being recalled due to incompetence.

Evil Dick puts suave moves on Dr. Albright and her assistant while changing everything at the Solomon home. A new message comes in from the Big Giant Head which Evil Dick keeps secret. Later Harry makes a discovery in the basement.

Evil Dick plans to take over the world and the Solomons try to stop him. Meanwhile, Evil Dick picks up where Dick left off with Dr. Albright.

After seeing a scifi horror film that scares him, Dick decides to tell Mary that he is an alien while they are at a sci-fi convention. Harry, Sally and Tommy discover hotel amenities.

The Solomon's tell Sally she needs to get intimate with her boyfriend Mr. Randall.

Mary has problems with the relationship with Dick being out in the open; Sally decides that she wants to be a cop.

Harry runs for the city council while Mary and Dick have conflicts about how and why to vote for a candidate.

Dick can't understand the big deal about Homecoming then he discovers the meaning of school spirit; Sally decides that she needs a best girlfriend.

Sally meet a guy at a gay bar and falls for him; Tommy is accepted into a school for geniuses.

Mrs. Dubcek wants the Solomon's to babysit her grandson for a bit and things get out of Hand when Sally becomes obsessed. Meanwhile, Mary makes the mistake of asking Dick to babysit her fish.

The Solomon's experience their first Thanksgiving on Earth which leads to problems with misunderstandings about various aspects of the Holiday. Harry end up in a romantic situation while Tommy gets upset.

Dick gets upset after he discovers that Mary has asked another professor to emcee the fund-raiser she is organizing and decides that he is funny enough to be the Master of Ceremonies.

The Solomon's experience their first Christmas on Earth, both Dick and Sally get case of the humbugs during the experience.

When Mary gets a better parking space, Dick gets upset then demands he get one. Dick then ends up quitting his job over it and flips burgers; Meanwhile Harry is blown away by a tornado and looses his memory and no one notices.

Dick directs Romeo & Juliet at Tommy's school and drives everyone crazy; Dick talks Sally into having Officer Don try to fix Mary's traffic tickets.

While helping Mary, Dick falls and sprains his ankle. Mary feels responsible and Dick takes advantage of Mary and the rest of the family. Tommy has to sell candy bars for his physical education class and Harry builds a tree house.

When Sally meets a charming Frenchman, she receives a proposal from him, Dick then decides that he needs to get more close to Mary.

Dick becomes afraid that his romance with Dr. Albright is growing stale; Tommy gets tired of his girlfriend August being perfect at everything she does; Sally and Harry switch jobs at home.

After accidentally hitting a chipmunk, Dick becomes an animal rights activist; Tommy gets in trouble with August again; Harry joins the Boy Scouts.

Dick decides he is not manly enough so he starts taking lessons from Harry and they both head out to a strip club to meet some of Dick's students.

Mary wants to join a high society club and drags Dick along for the ride; Tommy starts hanging out with some high school toughs.

After Dick insults his students, he has to go through sensitivity training; Harry goes to Mrs. Dubcek's daughters high-school reunion. Officer Don helps Tommy with his driving.

Nina refuses to work as Dick's assistant anymore so he brings in Harry; Sally experiences her first tea party with a little girl then takes up ballet.

After a restaurant forces Sally and the other Solomon's to move to another table in order to give it to Mark Hamill and his friends, Sally ends up raising a ruckus and punching Mark Hamill. Dick then has problems with all the attention Sally is getting for standing up for the average person.

Dr. Albright becomes jealous when a librarian falls for Dick when he is able to converse with her on a intellectual level; Sally figures out what she sees in Officer Don.

The Solomon's have their first dreams and Dick thinks he is loosing his mind.

Shaken up by the strange dreams they are all having, the Solomon's set it up to go back home for repairs.

Sally, Harry and Tommy return with the BIg Giant Head's niece, Janet, who Dick is expected to marry. 

Dick tries to explain the appearance of his 'wife' to a disgusted Mary, who dumps him. Meanwhile, Officer Don arrests Tommy when he confesses to being responsible for the crop circles in the nearby field.

Dr. Albright and Dick wage a prank war with each other; Sally forgets all about Officer Don when she meets a Yoga instructor.

Dick meets Dr. Albright's parents and end up getting close with them; Sally decides to move in with Nina when she goes over with Harry and Tommy to help Nina move.

Dick is terrified when it comes to getting the required physical exam for the college; Sally and Tommy babysit Dr. Albright's house on Halloween night in order to protect it from getting tricked.

Dick starts gaining weight; Tommy has Harry spy on August when he suspects her of cheating on him.

Dick finally gets called for jury duty; Sally falls for an artist which upsets officer Don; Harry and Tommy help Dr. Albright in her class with a preverbal project.

After Dick discovers that Dr. Albright made other plans after their breakup, having someone else go to a event with her, Dick becomes friends with Officer Don and goes overboard.

The sins of the Solomon's are demonstrated in clips from past shows as they discuss the 7 deadly sins at the dinner table.

Mary becomes interested in Tommy when he is able to talk with her about anthropology on an equal level; Sally gets a job; Harry has to go a week without tv.

Dick decides to rehabilitate one of the prisoners in Officer Don's jail when Don takes him to see the 'Tank'; Mary decides to get rid of the dog that Dick gave her when they were dating each other.

Dick becomes a wheel chair activist; Mrs. Dubcek's daughter Vicki decides that she is going to be celibate much to Harry's distress.

Dick decides to date again and on one of his attempts, gets a surprise; Tommy and Harry find a wallet with $200 in it.

Strange women show up in town and all the guys start falling for them and buying expensive gifts.

The Solomon's head to the Super Bowl to save Earth from an alien plot once they discover that the strange women are all Venusian's.

Harry's pet from the home planet shows up and takes on human form; Sally pretends to be pregnant when running into several pregnant women at the gynecologist.

Dick has a fling with woman he meets in line for a movie at the theatre; Sally wants to buy a car.

Dick and Mary are accidentally locked in the college library after every one goes home.

Tommy retires and Dick, deciding that Mary wants to be a singer, sets her up to sing at a night club.

Sally ends up having a fling with Dr. Albright's father; With Tommy's help, Harry becomes a radio Shock Jock.

Dick decides to change careers while Sally and Harry go to work.

Dr. Albright says that Dick is 'weird' and a strange English professor shows up at the college.

Dick discovers the new professor is not what he seems.

After Sally spends some time reading romance novels, she finally kisses officer Don.

Dick decides that the Solomon's are going camping, so with Mary in tow, things go from bad to worse as Dick discovers the law of the jungle.

When Dr. Albright is asked to make a promotional video for the college, Dick becomes involved; After a trip to the dentist, Nina discovers that she has a thing for Harry.

Vicki's ex-boyfriend kidnaps Harry.

The Solomons search for Harry and finally discover him as a Carnival Alien in a traveling show.

Doctor Albright is promoted to dean of the college; Sally and Don take their relationship to a new level.

When Sally discovers that Officer Don has had other girlfriends before her, she starts to track them down. Dick has problems adjusting to being the dean's boyfriend.

Dick becomes obsessed with collecting a series of stuffed animals; Tommy's principal has a talk with him about school spirit and Tommy then goes overboard.

Dean Albright puts another professor in the office with Dick and problems arise; Sally tries to play matchmaker with Nina.

Dick becomes obsessed with Jennifer after Dean Albright can't find time for him anymore. Harry, Tommy and Sally become obsessed with rearranging furniture and giving rooms uses they were not meant for.

Dick finds Jennifer extremely irritating and tries to get back together with Mary; Sally discovers bowling and drives Officer Don up a wall with her unique bowling style.

Sally wants to pose in the nude but it is Harry who ends up that way instead; Tommy tries to impress his new female lab partner.

Dick gets down in the dumps as the New Year approaches; Sally manipulates Officer Don once again.

The Big Giant Head finally grants a request that Sally made when she first arrived on Earth and forces her to swap bodies with Dick.; Harry takes over Happy Doug's bar while Doug is on vacation.

The Solomons attend a Solomon family reunion in Indiana.

After living on Earth for three years, the Solomons finally find out they have to file and pay taxes and Dick causes the family to get audited by the IRS.

Dick and the family fight with Mrs. Dubcek over their apartment's plumbing problems; Don proposes to Sally then Sally seeks advice from Mary and Nina.

Dr. Albright becomes concerned that Judith is after her job; Vicki, Sally, Harry and Tommy hit a riverboat.

Sally wants to get a place of her own and move out; Vicki wants Harry to father a child with her.

Dick discovers superstition when both Mary and Dick ignore chain letters and things keep happening to them.

Dick catches the computer bug; Sally and Tommy become obsessed with a better television experience as technology takes over with the Solomons.

Dick and Sally go on a relationship retreat; Sally falls in love with a Italian man known as 'Sam The Butcher'.

Dick hires a maid away from Mary, then Sally feels like she has been replaced. Tommy becomes a crusading editor for the school newspaper and alienates his ex girlfriend.

Dick meets a strange woman who says he is at the top of her list and claims to have several different occupations, only to get a unexpected and unwanted surprise.

Dick becomes jealous of professor Strudwick; Sally and Don go to the movies 'as friends' and things escalate.

When Sally, Tommy and Harry have a near death experience at a restaurant, Dick feels left out and starts searching for the experience.

The Solomon's leader 'The Big Giant Head' visits them and seems to enjoy some of Earths pleasures.

After 'The Big Giant Head' makes Sally the new high commander, Dick has problems adjusting to his different rank.

Vicki delivers her alien baby and the rest of the Solomons try to figure out how to keep the world from discovering they are aliens.

When Dick discovers Mary has slept with Strudwick in the past, he decides the best revenge is to sleep with Strudwick's wife. Meanwhile, Officer Don becomes a motorcycle cop.

Dick wrecks the family car while driving with Mary and trying to use his cell phone.

Mary invites the Solomon's to attend a interactive murder mystery, she then gets sick before the show starts and Dick and the rest of the family believe that there really has been a murder.

Dick decides to have plastic surgery when he talks himself into believing he needs to be more good looking. Sally feels bad that she is so plain and feels that Officer Don is dating her out of pity.

Dick and the rest of the Solomons learn about racism.

Sally learns that women can get pregnant during intimacy and then discovers birth control when she sees a doctor.

Dick discovers being charitable in his own style. Sally's snoring is driving Don crazy.

Mary makes a documentary about Dick and the rest of the Solomon family.

Mary talks Dick into socializing with another couple and the other couple ends up having problems with part of the relationship.

When Dick finds out Mary has been seeing a therapist, he starts seeing the same one in a effort to find out what Mary has been saying about him. Sally is concerned she has a stalker. Meanwhile Tommy makes a big mistake whilst preparing for his first night with Alissa. 

The Big Giant Head returns for the son that he had with Vicki and Harry makes a discovery about his past relationship with Vicki.

Mary starts getting upset when Dick has fantasies about Nina. Sally discovers cooking tools and fancy cooking.

Dick and Tommy discover stock investing and then go on a roller coaster ride. Harry falls for a new female police officer; Sally wants to fight her.

Dick and Mary try to recapture their youths and of course Dick goes to extremes. Don conducts a stakeout from the Solomons' place when the man across the street is suspected of video piracy.

The university gets a new chancellor who announces huge budget cuts. Dick organises his colleagues to take industrial action in response, but weasels out. Meanwhile Tommy gets a job at the pretzel place with Alissa.

Dick gets Mary to enter a dance contest despite the fact that Mary can't dance; Harry invites Nina to dance in the contest with him and they hit it off; Sally and Tommy's girlfriend hit it off at the mall then Tommy gets jealous when Sally sees his girlfriend naked.

Dick and Harry fall in a hole while out in the woods.

Dick becomes jealous over one of Mary's former students, then when he makes a discovery about the student, he thinks the student and some of his friends are from another world just like him. Meanwhile Sally, Harry and Tommy plan a heist.

Dick discovers playing hooky from his job by taking sick days then becomes jealous. Sally, Harry and Tommy listen in on a lady's cell phone conversation.

The Big Giant Head returns along with his queen and he has a surprise for Dick. Meanwhile Queen Vicki tries to break up Harry's relationship with Janice. A misunderstanding between Tommy and Alissa leads to interference from Sally.

Dick spends a little bit too much of quality time with the Big Giant Head.

Mary's sister comes back into her life and Dick comes up with a sneaky plan to help Mary get even with her. Meanwhile Sally and Harry open a youth centre in the living room.

Dick and Alissa's father think that Tommy and Alissa have eloped.

Dick and Mary double date with Don and Sally leaving everyone feeling a little insecure.

The Solomon's experiment with leading a different life in a parallel dimension.

The Solomons find that people they know from Rutherford are a little bit too different in New York. 

Tommy considers college then calls Dick a bad teacher.

Tommy goes off to college and Dick has to adjust to his absence. The Solomons start interviewing Tommy's replacement but Sally gets the hots for the new guy and makes him feel uncomfortable.

The Solomon family discover patriotism.

Dick accompanies Mary on an archaeological dig. Meanwhile, Sally, Harry and Tommy start up a bed and breakfast at home.

Dick and Sally perform in a magic show.

Dick and Mary visit a fortune teller who tells Dick he will be leaving soon Dick tries to find Mary a replacement for himself to step in once he's gone.

Dr. Albright and Dick spend some time apart.

Dick tries to get to know Mary better, meanwhile Sally wants to go farther in the tv business and her mentor tries to give her some unexpected help. Harry gets a new job as a gopher and takes it literally.

Mary reveals to Dick that she has issues with her mother and Dick tells Mary's mother that she is a bad mother; Sally and Harry leave the portal open after using it and a alien life form gets caught in it and they have to take care of the new visitor.

Dick and Don go in halves on a timeshare; Harry has issues with his height when he finds out Tommy is taller than he is now.

Dick becomes obsessed with a book about happiness. Harry decides to paint the ceiling and Sally comes to Tommy's rescue when he is faced with hazing at college.

When the Solomons receive no recognition for their mission at the Alien Awards Show, Sally and Harry head out to try and discover who the winning team are. Dick is confused when he finds love letters that Mary has been keeping, which he didn't write. 

Dr Liam Neesam returns and declares himself to be Scoochie, the author of the love letters Mary has received. He reveals nefarious plans for Earth. Meanwhile Sally, Harry and Tommy discover there is a prequel to their favourite movie.

Having witnessed Dick's encounter with Liam Neesam, Mary is in shock. The Big Giant Head makes a decision about the Solomons' futures.

The Solomons struggle with the news the mission is cancelled and they must return to their home planet. They hold a party to farewell all their friends on Earth.