Episode guide
3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 1
20 episodes · premiered Jan 9, 1996
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- Episode 1: Brains and Eggs Jan 9, 1996 · 22m The leader of an alien recon party on Earth discovers he has "feelings" for a professor.
- Episode 2: Post-Nasal Dick Jan 16, 1996 · 22m When Tommy catches a bug, the crew gets its first taste of human illness.
- Episode 3: Dick's First Birthday Jan 23, 1996 · 22m Dick is introduced to the concept of birthdays--and it dawns on him that he's getting old.
- Episode 4: Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus Jan 30, 1996 · 22m Dick assigns Sally to go on a date and, not surprisingly, the guy turns out to be a jerk.
- Episode 5: Dick, Smoker Feb 6, 1996 · 22m While Sally does a slow burn at being the often-overruled second in command, Dick lights up his life by taking up smoking.
- Episode 6: Green-Eyed Dick Feb 13, 1996 · 18m 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.
- Episode 7: Lonely Dick Feb 20, 1996 · 22m Dick's one lonely guy when Dr. Albright goes on vacation. Sally and Harry are lured by skin-care products that promise eternal youth.
- Episode 8: Body & Soul & Dick Feb 27, 1996 · 22m 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…
- Episode 9: Ab-Dick-ted Mar 5, 1996 · 22m Dick receives a roundabout lesson in family values from Dr. Albright's loopy brother, who claims to have been abducted by aliens.
- Episode 10: Truth or Dick Mar 12, 1996 · 22m Dick 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…
- Episode 11: The Art of Dick Mar 19, 1996 · 22m While 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.
- Episode 12: Frozen Dick Mar 26, 1996 · 22m A snowstorm -- the Solomons' first -- spoils Dr. Albright's trip to Chicago, leaving her stranded in a truck stop with Dick.
- Episode 13: Angry Dick Apr 2, 1996 · 22m The Solomons learn about the give and take necessary to human friendships when they turn their anthropological gaze to the next-door neighbors.
- Episode 14: The Dicks They Are A-Changin' Apr 9, 1996 · 22m When 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.
- Episode 15: I Enjoy Being a Dick Apr 21, 1996 · 22m Flummoxed by feminism, Dick dons a dress to infiltrate Dr. Albright's women-only study group. Harry and Sally get jobs at a pancake restaurant.
- Episode 16: Dick Like Me Apr 23, 1996 · 22m Dick decides that the Solomons don't “fit in” on Earth, so he shops for an ethnic group to join. Meanwhile, Sally wants to fit in with Tommy's handsome teacher.
- Episode 17: Assault with a Deadly Dick Apr 30, 1996 · 22m The 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…
- Episode 18: Father Knows Dick May 7, 1996 · 22m Dick 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…
- Episode 19: Selfish Dick May 14, 1996 · 22m Albright gets a new office, much to Dick's chagrin. Sally lands in the hospital---where she, Harry and Tommy pretend to be “ER” doctors.
- Episode 20: See Dick Run (1) May 21, 1996 · 22m Dr. Albright finally agrees to date Dick and Harry receives an ominous message from the home planet.