3rd Rock from the Sun Season 1

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Season 1

Air date: 1996-01-09

Episodes: 20

Episodes

E1: Brains and Eggs

The leader of an alien recon party on Earth discovers he has "feelings" for a professor.

Air date: 1996-01-09 • ★ 8.5

E2: Post-Nasal Dick

When Tommy catches a bug, the crew gets its first taste of human illness.

Air date: 1996-01-16 • ★ 7

E3: Dick's First Birthday

Dick is introduced to the concept of birthdays--and it dawns on him that he's getting old.

Air date: 1996-01-23 • ★ 7

E4: Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus

Dick assigns Sally to go on a date and, not surprisingly, the guy turns out to be a jerk.

Air date: 1996-01-30 • ★ 7.8

E5: Dick, Smoker

While Sally does a slow burn at being the often-overruled second in command, Dick lights up his life by taking up smoking.

Air date: 1996-02-06 • ★ 7.5

E6: Green-Eyed Dick

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.

Air date: 1996-02-13 • ★ 7.5

E7: Lonely Dick

Dick's one lonely guy when Dr. Albright goes on vacation. Sally and Harry are lured by skin-care products that promise eternal youth.

Air date: 1996-02-20 • ★ 7

E8: Body & Soul & Dick

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. Tommy neglects his female pal August to hit it off with an “easy” cheerleader.

Air date: 1996-02-27 • ★ 8

E9: Ab-Dick-ted

Dick receives a roundabout lesson in family values from Dr. Albright's loopy brother, who claims to have been abducted by aliens.

Air date: 1996-03-05 • ★ 8

E10: Truth or Dick

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 licenses.

Air date: 1996-03-12 • ★ 8

E11: The Art of Dick

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.

Air date: 1996-03-19 • ★ 8

E12: Frozen Dick

A snowstorm -- the Solomons' first -- spoils Dr. Albright's trip to Chicago, leaving her stranded in a truck stop with Dick.

Air date: 1996-03-26 • ★ 7.5

E13: Angry Dick

The Solomons learn about the give and take necessary to human friendships when they turn their anthropological gaze to the next-door neighbors.

Air date: 1996-04-02 • ★ 7.5

E14: The Dicks They Are A-Changin'

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.

Air date: 1996-04-09 • ★ 8

E15: I Enjoy Being a Dick

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.

Air date: 1996-04-21 • ★ 7.5

E16: Dick Like Me

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.

Air date: 1996-04-23 • ★ 7.5

E17: Assault with a Deadly Dick

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 team.

Air date: 1996-04-30 • ★ 7.5

E18: Father Knows Dick

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 boyfriend.

Air date: 1996-05-07 • ★ 8

E19: Selfish Dick

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.

Air date: 1996-05-14 • ★ 8

E20: See Dick Run (1)

Dr. Albright finally agrees to date Dick and Harry receives an ominous message from the home planet.

Air date: 1996-05-21 • ★ 7.5