USA, 9 January 1996-22 May 2001
6 seasons, 139 episodes, 22m average
videotape, colour, 4:3
stereo, Dolby Digital, English
An American science fiction sitcom created by Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner.
Plot Summary
A quartet of aliens is sent to Earth to study humans while disguised as an eccentric family in the fictional city of Rutherford, Ohio.
Episodes
Season 1 (1996)
Brains and Eggs (9 January 1996)
Post-Nasal Dick (16 January 1996)
Dick’s First Birthday (23 January 1996)
Dick Is from Mars, Sally Is from Venus (30 January 1996)
Dick, Smoker (6 February 1996)
Green-Eyed Dick (13 February 1996)
Lonely Dick (20 February 1996)
Body & Soul & Dick (27 February 1996)
Ab-dick-ted (4 March 1996)
Truth or Dick (12 March 1996)
The Art of Dick (19 March 1996)
Frozen Dick (26 March 1996)
Angry Dick (2 April 1996)
The Dicks They Are a Changin’ (9 April 1996)
I Enjoy Being a Dick (21 April 1996)
Dick Like Me (23 April 1996)
Assault with a Deadly Dick (30 April 1996)
Father Knows Dick (7 May 1996)
Selfish Dick (14 May 1996)
See Dick Run (21 May 1996)
Season 2 (1996-97)
See Dick Continue to Run (22 September 1996)
Hotel Dick (29 September 1996)
Big Angry Virgin from Outer Space (6 October 1996)
Much Ado About Dick (13 October 1996)
Dick the Vote (27 October 1996)
Fourth and Dick (3 November 1996)
World’s Greatest Dick (10 November 1996)
My Mother the Alien (17 November 1996)
Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick (24 November 1996)
Dick Jokes (8 December 1996)
Jolly Old St. Dick (15 December 1996)
Proud Dick (5 January 1997)
Romeo & Juliet & Dick (12 January 1997)
Guilty as Dick (2 February 1997)
A Dick on One Knee (16 February 1997)
Same Old Song and Dick (9 March 1997)
I Brake for Dick (16 March 1997)
Dick Behaving Badly (23 March 1997)
Dickmalion (13 April 1997)
Sensitive Dick (27 April 1997)
Will Work for Dick (4 May 1997)
Fifteen Minutes of Dick (11 May 1997)
Dick and the Single Girl (11 May 1997)
A Nightmare on Dick Street (18 May 1997)
Season 3 (1997-1998)
Fun with Dick and Janet Part 1 (24 September 1997)
Fun with Dick and Janet Part 2 (24 September 1997)
Tricky Dick (8 October 1997)
Dick-in-Law (15 October 1997)
Scaredy Dick (29 October 1997)
Moby Dick (5 November 1997)
Eleven Angry Men and One Dick (12 November 1997)
A Friend in Dick (19 November 1997)
Seven Deadly Clips (3 December 1997)
Tom, Dick and Mary (3 December 1997)
Jailhouse Dick (17 December 1997)
Dick on a Roll (7 January 1998)
The Great Dickdater (21 January 1998)
36! 24! 36! Dick Part 1 (25 January 1998)
36! 24! 36! Dick Part 2 (25 January 1998)
Pickles and Ice Cream (28 January 1998)
Auto Erodicka (4 February 1998)
Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man (25 February 1998)
Stuck With Dick (18 March 1998)
My Daddy’s Little Girl (1 April 1998)
The Physics of Being Dick (15 April 1998)
Just Your Average Dick (29 April 1998)
Dick and the Other Guy (29 April 1998)
Sally and Don’s First Kiss (6 May 1998)
When Aliens Camp (13 May 1998)
The Tooth Harry (20 May 1998)
Eat, Drink, Dick, Mary (20 May 1998)
Season 4 (1998-1999)
Dr. Solomon’s Traveling Alien Show (23 September 1998)
Power Mad Dick (6 October 1998)
Feelin’ Albright (14 October 1998)
Collect Call for Dick (21 October 1998)
What’s Love Got to Do, Got to Do with Dick? (28 October 1998)
I Am Dick Pentameter! (4 November 1998)
D3: Judgement Day (11 November 1998)
Indecent Dick (9 December 1998)
Happy New Dick! (16 December 1998)
Two-Faced Dick (5 January 1999)
Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons (12 January 1999)
Dick and Taxes (2 February 1999)
Sally Forth (9 February 1999)
Paranoid Dick (16 February 1999)
The House That Dick Built (23 February 1999)
Superstitious Dick (2 March 1999)
Y2dicK (16 March 1999)
Dick the Mouth Solomon (6 April 1999)
Citizen Solomon (27 April 1999)
Alien Hunter (4 May 1999)
Dick vs. Strudwick (11 May 1999)
Near Dick Experience (18 May 1999)
Dick’s Big Giant Headache Part 1 (25 May 1999)
Dick’s Big Giant Headache Part 2 (25 May 1999)
Season 5 (1999-2000)
Episode I: The Baby Menace (21 September 1999)
Dick for Tat (28 September 1999)
The Fifth Solomon (2 November 1999)
Dial M for Dick (9 November 1999)
Dick and Tuck (16 November 1999)
Dick, Who’s Coming to Dinner? (23 November 1999)
Sex and the Sally (30 November 1999)
Charitable Dick (14 December 1999)
The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary (11 January 2000)
Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary (25 January 2000)
Dick Puts the ‘ID’ in Cupid (8 February 2000)
The Big Giant Head Returns (22 February 2000)
Rutherford Beauty (22 February 2000)
This Little Dick Went to Market (14 March 2000)
Youth is Wasted on the Dick (21 March 2000)
Dick Strikes Out (28 March 2000)
Shall We Dick? (18 April 2000)
Dick and Harry Fall Down a Hole (2 May 2000)
Frankie Goes to Rutherford (9 May 2000)
Dick Solomon’s Day Off (16 May 2000)
The Big Giant Head Returns Again Part 1 (23 May 2000)
The Big Giant Head Returns Again Part 2 (23 May 2000)
Season 6 (2000-2001)
Les Liaisons Dickgereuses (24 October 2000)
Fear and Loathing in Rutherford (31 October 2000)
InDickscretion (14 November 2000)
Dick’ll Take Manhattan Part 1 (21 November 2000)
Dick’ll Take Manhattan Part 2 (28 November 2000)
Why Dickie Can’t Teach (5 December 2000)
B.D.O.C. (12 December 2000)
Red, White & Dick (19 December 2000)
Dick Digs (9 January 2001)
There’s No Business Like Dick Business (16 January 2001)
A Dick Replacement (30 January 2001)
Dick’s Ark (6 February 2001)
You Don’t Know Dick (13 February 2001)
My Mother, My Dick (20 February 2001)
Glengarry Glen Dick (17 April 2001)
Dick Soup for the Soul (1 May 2001)
Mary Loves Scoochie Part One (8 May 2001)
Mary Loves Scoochie Part Two (15 May 2001)
The Thing That Wouldn’t Die Part One (22 May 2001)
The Thing That Wouldn’t Die Part Two (22 May 2001)
Alternative Titles
3e planète après le soleil – France
3º Calhau a Contar do Sol – Portugal
Caiguts del cel – Spain (Catalan)
Cosas de marcianos – Spain
Encounters of the Personal Kind – Israel
Una famiglia del terzo tipo – Italy
Uma Família de Outro Mundo – Brazil
Hinterm Mond gleich links – Germany
Kolmas kivi auringosta – Finland
Kolmas kivi päikesest – Estonia
Mælkevejen 1.th – Denmark
Tierra, la tercera roca – Venezuela
Treći kamenčić od Sunca – Croatia
Trečias luitas nuo saulės – Lithuania
Tredje klotet från solen – Sweden
A treia planeta de la soare – Romania
Trešā planēta no Saules – Latvia
Tretji kamen od Sonca – Slovenia
Trzecia planeta od Słońca – Poland
Űrbalekok – Hungary
На гости на третата планета – Bulgaria
Третья планета от Солнца – Russia
Третя планета від Сонця – Ukraine
Трећи камен од Сунца – Serbia
サード・ロック・フロム・ザ・サン – Japan
外星人報到 – Taiwan
References
Periodicals
- Broadcast 12 April 1996 p.5 – illustrated note
- Broadcast 18 August 2000 p.3 – article (Paramount wins Third Rock rights by Simon Ellery)
- Cult TV vol.2 no.1 (January 1998) p.64 – illustrated review (Sundays: Choice to 25 January by Edwin Worthing)
- Cuts no.78 (October 1997) pp.30, 33, 35 – illustrated article (So Aliens can have funny dreams! by Harvey Bishop
- Emmy vol.19 no.3 (June 1997) p.24 – illustrated interview with Jane Curtin (Ten questions by John Freeman)
- Empire no.181 (July 2004) p.163 – illustrated DVD review (Remote control: Small screen by OR)
- Entertainment Weekly no.502 (10 September 1999) pp.68 – review (Returning shows)
- Interzone no.111 (September 1996) p.61 – review (by Paul Brazier)
- Interzone no.124 (October 1997) p.46 – review (by Wendy Bradley)
- Interzone no.129 (March 1998) p.60 – review (by Paul Brazier)
- Interzone no.165 (March 2001) p.44 – review (by Evelyn Lewes)
- Radio Times vol.291 no.3795 (19 October 1996) pp.28-29 – illustrated article (The Aliens have landed! by Alison Graham)
- Radio Times vol.298 no.3882 (4 July 1998) p.8 – illustrated note (News & Notes)
- Sight and Sound vol.14 no.9 (September 2004) p.97 – DVD review (Television releases by Ben Walters)
- Starburst no.313 (August 2004) p.102 – illustrated DVD review (DVD reviews by David Richardson)
- TV Guide vol.44 no.16 (20 April 1996) pp.30-33 – illustrated article (The A (as in alien) team by Hilary De Vries)
- TV Guide vol.44 no.25 (22 June 1996) pp.28-29 – illustrated article ((Who’s on 3rd? Kristen Johnston by Mark Schwed)
- TV Guide vol.44 no.3 (20 January 1996) p.12 – illustrated review ((The couch critic by Jeff Jarvis)
- TV Guide vol.44 no.36 (7 September 1996) pp.30 – illustrated article (More standout sidekicks by Monica Collins)
- TV Guide vol.44 no.38 (21 September 1996) pp.27 – article (Returning favorites: 3rd Rock from the sun by Mark Schwed)
- TV Guide vol.44 no.49 (7 December 1996) p.16 – illustrated review (The Couch critic by Jeff Jarvis)
- TV Guide vol.45 no.1 (4 January 1997) pp.22-27 – illustrated article (The Year’s top ten shows)
- TV Guide vol.45 no.9 (1 Mar 1997) pp.20-26 – illustrated article ((Classic rock by Jamie Malanowski)
- TV Guide vol.45 no.26 (28 June 1997) pp.10-67 – illustrated article ((100 greatest episodes of all time)
- TV Guide vol.45 no.51 (20 December 1997) p.44 – illustrated article (Shows of the Year by Mary Murphy)
- TV Guide vol.46 no.17 (25 April 1998) pp. 5-6 – illustrated interview with John Cleese (Walking on the sun by Stef McDoald); 14 – review (The Roush review by Matt Roush); 24 – article (Straight is enough)
- TV Guide vol.46 no.36 (5 September 1998) p.48 – review (Returning favourites: Wednesday: 3rd Rock from the Sun by Matt Roush
- TV Guide vol.46 no.38 (19 September 1998) pp.38-40, 42 – illustrated interview with French Stewart (Mr Big Stuff by Joe Rhodes)
- TV Guide vol.46 no.4 (24 January 1998) pp.5-6 – article (Sugar and space by Stef McDonald)
- TV Guide vol.46 no.40 (3 October 1998) p.6 – illustrated article (Will the earth move on 3rd Rock? by Jeanne Wolf)
- TV Guide vol.47 no.19 (8 May 1999) pp.12 – review (NBC Sitcoms: No laughing matter by Matt Roush)
- TV Guide vol.47 no.21 (22 May 1999) p.4 – illustrated article (A Trek to 3rd Rock by Jeanne Wolf)
- TV Guide vol.47 no.36 (4 September 1999) pp.14-62 – illustrated article (Returning favorites by Matt Roush)
- TV Guide vol.47 no.47 (20 November 1999) pp.46-47, 49 – illustrated article (Where’s Momma? by James Kaplan
- TV Zone no.120 (November 1999) pp.6-12 – illustrated article (US Fall/Winter series 1999/2000)
- TV Zone no.33 Sci-fi Comedy (May 1999) pp.68-70 – illustrated interview with Wayne Knight (Wayne Knight: Knight in shining armour by Steven Eramo; 72-74 – illustrated interview with Simbi Khali (Simbi Khali: Universal translator by Steven Eramo; 76-77 – illustrated interview with Elmarie Wendel (Elmarie Wendel: Glamour queen by Steven Eramo)
Books
- Sci-fi Chronicles by Guy Haley (ed.) p.479
