ORBzine - 2004 UK Television Review: "Third Rock From The Sun"

ORBzine - Third Rock From The Sun TV Review

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Third Rock From The Sun
  • John Lithgow ( Twilight Zone: The Movie as Dick Solomon
  • Kristen Johnston as Sally Solomon
  • French Stewart as Harry Solomon
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt ( ) as Tommy Solomon
  • Jane Curtin as Dr. Mary Albright
  • Simbi Khali as Nina Campbell
  • Elmarie Wendell as Mrs. Dubcek, the aliens' unsuspecting landlady

    recurring characters:

  • Shay Astar as August, Tommy's sometime girlfriend
  • David DeLuise as Bug, a student
  • Ileen Getz as Judith, Dr. Albright's colleague and friend
  • Chris Hogan as Pitman, a student
  • Jan Hooks as Vicki, Mrs. Dubcek's daughter and Harry's sometime lover
  • Ian Lithgow as Leon, a student
  • Michael Milhoan as Coach, Tommy's high school athletic coach & nemesis
  • Harry Morgan as Professor Suter
  • Bruce Morrow as Father Rice
  • Danielle Nicolet as Caryn, a student
  • Blake Soper as Elman, a fellow student of Tommy's
  • Ron West as Dr. Strudwick, Dick's hated rival professor of physics
  • John D'Aquino ( ) as Mr. Randall, Tommy's teacher & Sally's 1st boyfriend [ 1 ]

    Season 1 

    •   1.   1- 1        101      9 Jan 96   Brains and Eggs
  2.   1- 2        105     16 Jan 96   Post Nasal Dick
  3.   1- 3        106     23 Jan 96   Dick's First Birthday
  4.   1- 4        103     30 Jan 00   Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus
  5.   1- 5        107      6 Feb 96   Dick, Smoker
  6.   1- 6        109     13 Feb 96   Green-Eyed Dick
  7.   1- 7        110     20 Feb 96   Lonely Dick
  8.   1- 8        113     27 Feb 96   Body & Soul & Dick
  9.   1- 9        112      4 Mar 96   Ab-Dick-ted
 10.   1-10        102     12 Mar 96   Truth or Dick
 11.   1-11        111     19 Mar 96   The Art of Dick
 12.   1-12        117     26 Mar 96   Frozen Dick
 13.   1-13        104      2 Apr 96   Angry Dick
 14.   1-14        108      9 Apr 96   The Dicks They Are A-Changin'
 15.   1-15        116     21 Apr 96   I Enjoy Being A Dick
 16.   1-16        115     23 Apr 96   Dick Like Me
 17.   1-17        114     30 Apr 96   Assault With A Deadly Dick
 18.   1-18        119      7 May 96   Father Knows Dick
 19.   1-19        120     14 May 96   Selfish Dick
 20.   1-20        118     21 May 96   See Dick Run (1)
  • Wayne Knight as Don, Sally's police officer boyfriend [ 2-6 ]

    • Season 2

     
     21.   2- 1        201     22 Sep 96   See Dick Continue to Run (2)
 22.   2- 2        202     22 Sep 96   See Dick Continue to Run, Continued (3)
 23.   2- 3        205     29 Sep 96   Hotel Dick
 24.   2- 4        203      6 Oct 96   Big Angry Virgin From Outer Space
 25.   2- 5        203     13 Oct 96   Much Ado About Dick
 26.   2- 6        207     27 Oct 96   Dick the Vote
 27.   2- 7        206      3 Nov 96   Fourth and Dick
    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 2, Episode 8] World's Greatest Dick
    Shown 10 Nov 96

    Sally gets a Gay BF [he thinks she's a drag queen].

    Tommy does well in exam, goes to a posh school. His new classmate Aramis is played by his fellow Buffy alumni, Danny Strong. 

     29.   2- 9        209     17 Nov 96   My Mother The Alien
 30.   2-10        210     24 Nov 96   Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick
 31.   2-11        210      8 Dec 96   Dick Jokes
 32.   2-12        212     15 Dec 96   Jolly Old St. Dick
 33.   2-13        213      5 Jan 97   Proud Dick
 34.   2-14        214     12 Jan 97   Romeo & Juliet & Dick
 35.   2-15        215      2 Feb 97   Guilty as Dick
 36.   2-16        217     16 Feb 97   Dick on One Knee
 37.   2-17        216      9 Mar 97   Same Old Song and Dick
 38.   2-18        218     16 Mar 97   I Brake for Dick
 39.   2-19        219     23 Mar 97   Dick Behaving Badly
 40.   2-20        220     13 Apr 97   Dickmalion
 41.   2-21        221     27 Apr 97   Sensitive Dick
 42.   2-22        223      4 May 97   Will Work For Dick
 43.   2-23        222     11 May 97   Fifteen Minutes of Dick
 44.   2-24        224     11 May 97   Dick and the Single Girl
 45.   2-25        225     18 May 97   A Nightmare on Dick Street (1)
 46.   2-26        226     18 May 97   A Nightmare on Dick Street (2)

    Third Rock From The Sun
    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season , Episode 1 ]
    Shown th January 2009 [Wednesday]

    This was reviewed in our special supplement Third Rock From The Sun

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  • Jason Carter [ Babylon 5 ] as Seth, Sally's third boyfriend [ 3 ]

    Season 3

    •  47.   3- 1        301     24 Sep 97   Fun with Dick and Janet (1)
 48.   3- 2        302     24 Sep 97   Fun with Dick and Janet (2)
 49.   3- 3        305      8 Oct 97   Tricky Dick
 50.   3- 4        304     15 Oct 97   Dick-In-Law
 51.   3- 5        306     29 Oct 97   Scaredy Dick
 52.   3- 6        303      5 Nov 97   Moby Dick
 53.   3- 7        307     12 Nov 97   Eleven Angry Men and One Dick
 54.   3- 8        308     19 Nov 97   A Friend in Dick
 55.   3- 9        327      3 Dec 97   Seven Deadly Clips
 56.   3-10        309      3 Dec 97   Tom, Dick and Mary
 57.   3-11        310     17 Dec 97   Jailhouse Dick
 58.   3-12        311      7 Jan 98   Dick on a Roll
 59.   3-13        311     21 Jan 98   The Great Dickdater
 60.   3-14        313     25 Jan 98   36! 24! 36! Dick! (1)
 61.   3-15        314     25 Jan 98   36! 24! 36! Dick! (2)
 62.   3-16        315     28 Jan 98   Pickles and Ice Cream
 63.   3-17        316      4 Feb 98   Auto EuroDicka
 64.   3-18        317     25 Feb 98   Stuck with Dick
 65.   3-19        318     25 Feb 98   Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man
 66.   3-20        319      1 Apr 98   My Daddy's Little Girl
 67.   3-21        323     15 Apr 98   The Physics of Being Dick
 68.   3-22        320     28 Apr 98   Just Your Average Dick (1)
 69.   3-23        321     28 Apr 98   Dick and the Other Guy (2)
 70.   3-24        322      6 May 98   Sally and Don's First Kiss
 71.   3-25        324     13 May 98   When Aliens Camp
 72.   3-26        325     20 May 98   The Tooth Harry
 73.   3-27        326     20 May 98   Eat, Drink, Dick, Mary (1)
  • Jim Beaver ( Supernatural ) as Doug, Harry's boss at Happy Doug's Bar [ 4-6 ]
  • Marianne Muellerleile as Lucy, the cafeteria cashier & Dick's nemesis [ 4-6 ]
  • Larissa Oleynik as Alissa, Tommy's lab partner & eventual girlfriend [ 4-6 ]

    • Season 4

     
     74.   4- 1        402     23 Sep 98   Doctor Solomon's Traveling Alien Show (2)
 75.   4- 2        401      7 Oct 98   Power Mad Dick
 76.   4- 3        403     14 Oct 98   Feelin' Albright
 77.   4- 4        404     21 Oct 98   Collect Call for Dick
 78.   4- 5        405     28 Oct 98   What's Love Got To Do, Got To Do With Dick?
 79.   4- 6        406      4 Nov 98   I Am Dick Pentameter!
 80.   4- 7        407     11 Nov 98   D3: Judgement Day
 81.   4- 8        410      9 Dec 98   Indecent Dick
 82.   4- 9        409     15 Dec 98   Happy New Dick!
 83.   4-10        411      5 Jan 99   Two-Faced Dick
 84.   4-11        408     12 Jan 99   Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons
 85.   4-12        415      2 Feb 99   Dick and Taxes
 86.   4-13        412      9 Feb 99   Sally Forth
 87.   4-14        414     16 Feb 99   Paranoid Dick
 88.   4-15        413     23 Feb 99   The House That Dick Built
 89.   4-16        416      2 Mar 99   Superstitious Dick
 90.   4-17        417     16 Mar 99   Y2dicK
 91.   4-18        418      6 Apr 99   Dick the Mouth Solomon
 92.   4-19        420     29 Apr 99   Citizen Solomon
 93.   4-20        422      4 May 99   Alien Hunter
 94.   4-21        422     11 May 99   Dick vs. Strudwick
    Third Rock From The Sun 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 4, Episode 22] Near Dick Experience
    Shown 18 May 99
    Shown First Week, September 2000

    Sally, Harry and Tommy are almost killed by a falling chandelier, and this brush with death makes them appreciate life all the more. The Professor, OTOH, misses this and spends the entire episode trying to have a near-death experience. 

     96.   4-23        423     25 May 99   Dick's Big Giant Headache (1)
 97.   4-24        424     25 May 99   Dick's Big Giant Headache (2)

    Season 5
    Third Rock From The Sun 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 1] Episode I: the Baby Menace (3)
    Shown 21 Sept 99
    Shown 14th October 2001 - Sunday

    Harry's slutty ex-GF Vicky has returned, pregnant by the Big Giant Head. BGH does a runner, but not before making Sally the Supreme Commander!

    Vicky gives birth, and the baby appears perfectly human. However, she calls in a tabloid reporter [Curtis Armstrong - Revenge of the Nerds] with her story ...

    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 2] Dick for Tat
    Shown 28 Sep 99

    Third Rock From The Sun 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 3] The Fifth Solomon
    2 Nov 99

    For the Season 1999/2000 there is new theme music.

    Dick [Lithgow] decides to sell the family's old car. Meanwhile, his dimwitted brother Harry learns about the concept of insurance ...

    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 4] Dial M for Dick
    Shown 9 Nov 99

    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 5] Dick and Tuck
    Shown 16 Nov 99

    Third Rock From The Sun 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 6] Dick, Who's Coming to Dinner
    Shown 23 Nov 99
    Shown 7th November 2000

    Dick learns about the Black Support meetings, and thinks it's like Weight Watchers. He and the family attend a White Power rally, and get quite a shock. Then Dick learns about human history and gets a case of white guilt. The others write a poem about the evils of racism, and enter a competition in the local library. The competition is for under-10s, but that doesn't bother them.

    The disturbing aspect of this is when Dick asks his African-American friend if her meeting involved anyone preaching hatred. Well, she obviously wasn't at a Louis Farakhan rally! 

    104.   5- 7        509     30 Nov 99   Sex and the Sally
105.   5- 8        508     14 Dec 99   Charitable Dick
106.   5- 9        506     11 Jan 00   The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary
107.   5-10        512     25 Jan 00   Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary
108.   5-11        514      8 Feb 00   Dick Puts the Id in Cupid
    Third Rock From The Sun 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 12] The Big Giant Head Returns
    Shown 22 Feb 00
    Shown 9th January 2001 - Tuesday

    William Shatner appears as the Big Giant Head.

    Third Rock From The Sun 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 13] Rutherford Beauty
    Shown 22 Feb 00
    Shown 16th January 2001 - Tuesday

    Dick is overcome with erotic fantasies ... but not about Mary, his GF! 

    111.   5-14        518     14 Mar 00   This Little Dick Goes to Market
    Third Rock From The Sun 3rd Rock From The Sun [Season 5, Episode 15] Youth Is Wasted On The Dick
    Shown 21 Mar 00
    Shown 30th January 2001 - Tuesday

    Dick learns the true meaning of Spring Break. 

    113.   5-16        510     28 Mar 00   Dick Strikes Out
114.   5-17        513     18 Apr 00   Shall We Dick?
115.   5-18        519      2 May 00   Dick and Harry Fall Down a Hole
116.   5-19        520      9 May 00   Frankie Goes to Rutherford
117.   5-20        516     16 May 00   Dick Solomon's Day Off
    Third Rock From The Sun 3rd Rock from The Sun [Season 5, Ep 21-2] The Big Giant Head Returns Again
    Shown 23 May 00
    Shown

    The Big Giant Head [Bill Shatner] and his new bride [Harry's ex-GF] return to Earth to visit the family. Harry has a new GF - a female cop [ Chyna the wrestler!].

    Season 6

     
    120.   6- 1        609     24 Oct 00   Les Liaisons Dickgereuses
121.   6- 2        603     31 Oct 00   Fear and Loathing in Rutherford
122.   6- 3        605     14 Nov 00   Indickscretion
    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 6, Episode 4] Dick'll Take Manhattan (1)
    Shown 21 Nov 00

    We get a parallel universe parody of Sex in the City.

    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 6, Episode 5] Dick'll Take Manhattan (2)
    Shown 28 Nov 00

    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 6, Episode 6] Why Dickie Can't Teach
    Shown 5 Dec 00

    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 6, Episode 7] B.D.O.C.
    Shown 12 Dec 00

    Third Rock From The Sun Third Rock From The Sun [Season 6, Episode 8] Red, White & Dick
    Shown 19 Dec 00

    It turns out that Dick is technically a Canadian, so he must get a US citizenship or he will be kicked out of the country. 

    128.   6- 9        601      9 Jan 01   Dick Digs
129.   6-10        610     16 Jan 01   There's No Business Like Dick Business
130.   6-11        607     30 Jan 01   A Dick Replacement
131.   6-12        608      6 Feb 01   Dick's Ark
132.   6-13        616     13 Feb 01   You Don't Know Dick
133.   6-14        611     20 Feb 01   My Mother, My Dick
134.   6-15        614     17 Apr 01   Glengarry Glen Dick
135.   6-16        615      1 May 01   Dick Soup for the Soul
136.   6-17        617      8 May 01   Mary Loves Scoochie (1)
137.   6-18        618     15 May 01   Mary Loves Scoochie (2)
138.   6-19        619     22 May 01   The Thing That Wouldn't Die (1)
139.   6-20        620     22 May 01   The Thing That Wouldn't Die (2)

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