3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human family in order to observe the behavior of human beings.
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Episode 1 - Brains and Eggs
Release Date: 1996-01-09The leader of an alien recon party on Earth discovers he has "feelings" for a professor.
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Episode 2 - Post-Nasal Dick
Release Date: 1996-01-16When Tommy catches a bug, the crew gets its first taste of human illness.
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Episode 3 - Dick's First Birthday
Release Date: 1996-01-23Dick is introduced to the concept of birthdays--and it dawns on him that he's getting old.
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Episode 4 - Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus
Release Date: 1996-01-30Dick assigns Sally to go on a date and, not surprisingly, the guy turns out to be a jerk.
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Episode 5 - Dick, Smoker
Release Date: 1996-02-06While Sally does a slow burn at being the often-overruled second in command, Dick lights up his life by taking up smoking.
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Episode 6 - Green-Eyed Dick
Release Date: 1996-02-13Dick 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.
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Episode 7 - Lonely Dick
Release Date: 1996-02-20Dick's one lonely guy when Dr. Albright goes on vacation. Sally and Harry are lured by skin-care products that promise eternal youth.
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Episode 8 - Body & Soul & Dick
Release Date: 1996-02-27When 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. Tommy neglects his female pal August to hit it off with an “easy” cheerleader.
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Episode 9 - Ab-Dick-ted
Release Date: 1996-03-05Dick receives a roundabout lesson in family values from Dr. Albright's loopy brother, who claims to have been abducted by aliens.
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Episode 10 - Truth or Dick
Release Date: 1996-03-12Dick discovers the consequences of unvarnished truth when he repeats some of Dr. Albright's unflattering comments at an academic committee meeting. Sally and Harry apply for driver's licenses.
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Episode 11 - The Art of Dick
Release Date: 1996-03-19While Dick and Harry take up painting (Harry's good; Dick isn't), Sally takes over the school bake sale with the gusto of Gen. Patton.
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Episode 12 - Frozen Dick
Release Date: 1996-03-26A snowstorm -- the Solomons' first -- spoils Dr. Albright's trip to Chicago, leaving her stranded in a truck stop with Dick.
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Episode 13 - Angry Dick
Release Date: 1996-04-02The Solomons learn about the give and take necessary to human friendships when they turn their anthropological gaze to the next-door neighbors.
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Episode 14 - The Dicks They Are A-Changin'
Release Date: 1996-04-09When Dick's evasive about his past, Dr. Albright suspects he's a '60s radical fugitive. Harry joins a CD-of-the-month club, and is swamped with CDs.
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Episode 15 - I Enjoy Being a Dick
Release Date: 1996-04-21Flummoxed by feminism, Dick dons a dress to infiltrate Dr. Albright's women-only study group. Harry and Sally get jobs at a pancake restaurant.
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Episode 16 - Dick Like Me
Release Date: 1996-04-23Dick decides that the Solomons don't ôfit in” on Earth, so he shops for an ethnic group to join. Meanwhile, Sally wants to fit in with Tommy's handsome teacher.
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Episode 17 - Assault with a Deadly Dick
Release Date: 1996-04-30The Solomons' faith in human nature is shaken when they fall victim to crime (""This planet is in a bad neighborhood,"" sighs Sally). Meanwhile, Dick makes Tommy join the school basketball team.
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Episode 18 - Father Knows Dick
Release Date: 1996-05-07Dick decides the reason Harry is “odd” is because he lacks a father, and sets out nurture the suddenly rebellious Harry. Meanwhile, sparks fly when Sally meets the hostile mother of her boyfriend.
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Episode 19 - Selfish Dick
Release Date: 1996-05-14Albright gets a new office, much to Dick's chagrin. Sally lands in the hospital---where she, Harry and Tommy pretend to be “ER” doctors.
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Episode 20 - See Dick Run (1)
Release Date: 1996-05-21Dr. Albright finally agrees to date Dick and Harry receives an ominous message from the home planet.