3rd Rock from the Sun Episode Guide

The Solomons arrive in Rutherford, Ohio, and begin studying humanity from an attic apartment. Dick becomes fascinated by colleague Mary Albright, while Sally, Harry and Tommy discover that their human bodies bring emotions, social expectations and a distressing number of household expenses.

Episode 1: Brains and Eggs

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Four aliens assume human form and establish themselves as the Solomon family. Dick takes a university job and immediately becomes fascinated by Mary, placing the mission in danger before anyone has finished unpacking.

Episode 2: Post-Nasal Dick

Tommy catches a cold, sending the household into panic over unfamiliar bodily symptoms. Dick’s concern for Mary introduces the crew to illness, sympathy and the strange pleasure humans take in being nursed.

Episode 3: Dick’s First Birthday

Dick is horrified to discover that humans measure their lives through birthdays and ageing. The others arrange a celebration while he contemplates mortality with his customary restraint, meaning none whatsoever.

Episode 4: Dick Is from Mars, Sally Is from Venus

Sally’s first date ends badly, prompting the family to investigate courtship and gender expectations. Dick attempts to explain women despite having been male for roughly five minutes longer than she has.

Episode 5: Dick, Smoker

Dick becomes addicted to cigarettes after mistaking smoking for sophisticated human behaviour. His rapid descent into dependency gives the Solomons an unpleasant lesson in addiction.

Episode 6: Green-Eyed Dick

Jealousy overwhelms Dick when Mary shows interest in another man. The emotion fascinates him scientifically until it begins controlling everything he does.

Episode 7: Lonely Dick

Mary leaves town, and Dick experiences loneliness for the first time. Sally and Harry try to manage him while discovering that an emotionally needy High Commander is considerably more work than an authoritarian one.

Episode 8: Body & Soul & Dick

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A colleague’s death introduces the Solomons to funerals, grief and human ideas about the soul. Dick is asked to deliver a eulogy despite barely understanding mortality or the deceased.

Episode 9: Ab-dick-ted

Mary’s visiting brother becomes the subject of Dick’s enthusiastic investigation into sibling relationships. Sally and Harry attempt to learn whether their assigned family roles carry genuine emotional obligations.

Episode 10: Truth or Dick

Dick decides that complete honesty is the answer to human hypocrisy. Rutherford rapidly demonstrates why civilisation has developed tact, discretion and the occasional harmless lie.

Episode 11: The Art of Dick

Mary encourages Dick to explore artistic expression, but he finds it difficult to separate creativity from competition. Sally also attempts acting and discovers that dramatic performance comes alarmingly naturally.

Episode 12: Frozen Dick

Dick and Mary become stranded during a snowstorm while travelling to an academic ceremony. Back home, Sally, Harry and Tommy discover that being snowed in together tests even extraterrestrial loyalty.

Episode 13: Angry Dick

The Solomons meet their unpleasant neighbours and become consumed by a feud. Dick embraces resentment with the enthusiasm of someone discovering an exciting new branch of physics.

Episode 14: The Dicks They Are a Changin’

An old acquaintance of Mary’s believes Dick is a radical activist she knew during the 1960s. Dick enjoys his borrowed history until maintaining it requires knowledge he conspicuously lacks.

Episode 15: I Enjoy Being a Dick

Dick accompanies Mary to a women’s retreat and becomes determined to experience female solidarity for himself. Sally resents his sudden confidence that he understands womanhood better than she does.

Episode 16: Dick Like Me

The Solomons attempt to identify their supposed ethnic heritage after discovering its importance to human identity. With no Earth ancestry available, they try several cultural traditions rather too enthusiastically.

Episode 17: Assault with a Deadly Dick

After being mugged, Dick becomes frightened and obsessed with personal security. Sally takes a more direct approach to crime, which does little to reduce the household’s general level of danger.

Episode 18: Father Knows Dick

Harry begins searching for his purpose within the family, prompting Dick to adopt a paternal role. Unfortunately, Dick’s concept of fatherhood appears to involve authority first and useful guidance much later.

Episode 19: Selfish Dick

Mary needs medical treatment, but Dick struggles when caring for her interferes with his own plans. The experience forces him to consider whether love involves inconvenience as well as dramatic declarations.

Episode 20: See Dick Run

Dick’s feelings for Mary become so disruptive that the mission command intervenes. A replacement arrives with a colder personality, leaving the family facing a version of Dick without the limited compassion Earth has taught him.

The crew has survived its first months on Earth, but familiarity merely gives them more human mistakes to make. Sally’s romantic life expands, Tommy grows increasingly independent and Dick discovers politics, guilt, celebrity and dreams.

Episode 1: See Dick Continue to Run: Part 1

With the original Dick imprisoned, his replacement assumes control of the mission and pursues Mary. Sally, Harry and Tommy gradually realise that their commander’s personality has changed for reasons beyond ordinary moodiness.

Episode 2: See Dick Continue to Run: Part 2

The real Dick attempts to regain his identity and position before his replacement permanently damages his life. The confrontation leaves the Solomons deciding which version of their commander they actually want.

Episode 3: Hotel Dick

A university function introduces the Solomons to luxury hotel life. Dick becomes intoxicated by room service and temporary status, while the others explore an environment seemingly designed to encourage bad behaviour.

Episode 4: Big Angry Virgin from Outer Space

Sally becomes frustrated by her unsuccessful romantic experiences and directs her anger at the family. Tommy attempts to help her understand intimacy without worsening the situation, a heroic ambition under the circumstances.

Episode 5: Much Ado About Dick

Mary becomes involved in local theatre, leaving Dick jealous of the attention she receives from her co-star. His effort to support her soon turns into an attempt to dominate the production.

Episode 6: Dick the Vote

Election season inspires Dick to campaign for public office. His initial enthusiasm for democracy becomes complicated when he discovers that winning requires popularity, compromise and actual policies.

Episode 7: Fourth and Dick

The Solomons embrace American football without understanding either its rules or its tribal importance. Dick’s university loyalty becomes ferocious once he realises sport permits socially approved shouting.

Episode 8: World’s Greatest Dick

Dick becomes jealous when Tommy is placed in an advanced class and receives intellectual recognition. Their rivalry reveals that the High Commander is comfortable encouraging talent until it threatens his own status.

Episode 9: My Mother the Alien

Sally is mistaken for the mother of a neglected child and enjoys being needed. Her growing attachment forces her to confront emotions that do not fit neatly within her security duties.

Episode 10: Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick

The Solomons host their first Thanksgiving and struggle to understand its competing traditions of gratitude, family tension and excessive food. The dinner inevitably becomes a field study conducted at very high volume.

Episode 11: Dick Jokes

Dick discovers practical jokes and becomes obsessed with making his colleagues laugh. He fails to appreciate that humour generally works better when the victim is laughing too.

Episode 12: Jolly Old St. Dick

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Dick embraces Christmas but becomes disillusioned by its commercial excesses. The Solomons’ attempt to manufacture festive joy captures both the absurdity and genuine warmth of their first human holiday season.

Episode 13: Proud Dick

Dick resigns from the university after feeling undervalued and takes work at a fast-food restaurant. His determination to preserve his dignity meets a job built around uniforms, instructions and customer complaints.

Episode 14: Romeo & Juliet & Dick

Tommy’s school production gives Dick an opportunity to impose his theatrical vision on Shakespeare. Tommy is caught between adolescence, romance and a director who regards every rehearsal as a command performance.

Episode 15: Guilty as Dick

Dick is overwhelmed by guilt after accidentally injuring Mary. The unfamiliar emotion turns him into an excessively attentive companion whose concern rapidly becomes another problem.

Episode 16: A Dick on One Knee

Sally accepts a marriage proposal from a Frenchman she barely knows. The family investigates matrimony while Dick attempts to determine whether losing Sally would disrupt the mission or merely the cleaning rota.

Episode 17: Same Old Song and Dick

Dick worries that his relationship with Mary has become predictable. His attempts to restore excitement demonstrate that forced spontaneity is among humanity’s more exhausting inventions.

Episode 18: I Brake for Dick

After hitting a chipmunk with the car, Dick becomes preoccupied with animal welfare. His sudden compassion expands beyond anything the rest of the family can practically accommodate.

Episode 19: Dick Behaving Badly

Dick believes Mary prefers rebellious men and reinvents himself as a swaggering rule-breaker. His performance proves that genuine bad boys seldom need quite so much rehearsal.

Episode 20: Dickmalion

Mary attempts to improve the manners of one of Dick’s students. Dick objects to the transformation, partly from principle and partly because someone else is receiving Mary’s attention.

Episode 21: Sensitive Dick

A training seminar encourages Dick to become more considerate towards women at work. He adopts sensitivity as another opportunity to demonstrate his superiority, thereby missing much of the intended lesson.

Episode 22: Will Work for Dick

Harry becomes Dick’s personal assistant but finds his commander impossible to satisfy. The arrangement tests Harry’s loyalty and Dick’s ability to perform even basic tasks without an audience.

Episode 23: Fifteen Minutes of Dick

Sally becomes a local celebrity after confronting Mark Hamill in a restaurant. Fame changes the family dynamic as she discovers how quickly public attention rewards behaviour it previously condemned.

Episode 24: Dick and the Single Girl

A shy librarian becomes convinced that Dick is interested in her. Mary’s jealousy delights Dick until the misunderstanding develops consequences he is expected to handle responsibly.

Episode 25: A Nightmare on Dick Street: Part 1

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The aliens begin dreaming for the first time, and their unfamiliar brains respond dangerously. Their private fears emerge through surreal fantasies as Dick searches for a scientific explanation.

Episode 26: A Nightmare on Dick Street: Part 2

The crew’s dreams intensify and threaten their survival. Dick must help the family accept the emotional material their minds have been storing since arriving on Earth.

Earth has begun changing the Solomons, but their home planet has not forgotten them. Dick’s alien wife arrives, Sally and Don move closer together, and Harry’s romance with Vicki creates consequences even mission command could not have predicted.

Episode 1: Fun with Dick and Janet: Part 1

Dick’s alien wife Janet arrives on Earth and expects to resume their marriage. Mary is understandably surprised to learn that Dick has omitted a fairly substantial detail from his past.

Episode 2: Fun with Dick and Janet: Part 2

Dick must choose between his assigned alien marriage and his human relationship with Mary. Janet’s presence forces him to recognise how deeply attached he has become to his Earth life.

Episode 3: Tricky Dick

Dick and Mary become fiercely competitive during a game of paintball. What begins as recreation escalates because neither can tolerate the possibility that affection might require losing gracefully.

Episode 4: Dick-in-Law

Dick meets Mary’s wealthy parents and desperately seeks their approval. Their strained family relationships provide the Solomons with another example of how humans can love one another while making every visit unbearable.

Episode 5: Scaredy Dick

A medical appointment awakens Dick’s fear of doctors and bodily vulnerability. Meanwhile, Halloween gives Harry and Tommy an opportunity to explore humanity’s carefully organised relationship with fear.

Episode 6: Moby Dick

Dick gains weight and becomes increasingly self-conscious about his appearance. Sally attempts to help while confronting the contradictory standards humans apply to different bodies.

Episode 7: Eleven Angry Men and One Dick

Jury service delights Dick until the other jurors refuse to follow his superior reasoning. His determination to control the verdict turns civic responsibility into an endurance test.

Episode 8: A Friend in Dick

Dick becomes jealous when Mary reconnects with an old friend. Harry’s own attempts at companionship prove that loneliness can lead the Solomons towards questionable social choices.

Episode 9: Seven Deadly Clips

The family reflects on its behaviour through memories illustrating the seven deadly sins. Unsurprisingly, Dick supplies enough pride for several households.

Episode 10: Tom, Dick and Mary

Tommy develops a crush on Mary, creating an uncomfortable rivalry with Dick. The attraction says more about Tommy’s confused adolescence than Mary, but Dick is in no mood for psychological nuance.

Episode 11: Jailhouse Dick

Dick befriends a prisoner and becomes determined to rehabilitate him. His confidence in human reform is tested when the man arrives at the Solomon home.

Episode 12: Dick on a Roll

Dick experiences life in a wheelchair and becomes an outspoken disability campaigner. His enthusiasm for advocacy quickly competes with his desire to remain the centre of attention.

Episode 13: The Great Dickdater

Dick attempts to teach Sally how to succeed at dating. His advice reflects a magnificent confidence unsupported by anything resembling a stable romantic history.

Episode 14: 36! 24! 36! Dick: Part 1

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Beautiful Venusian visitors arrive and captivate the men of Rutherford. Sally suspects their intentions while Dick proves extremely vulnerable to interplanetary flattery.

Episode 15: 36! 24! 36! Dick: Part 2

The visitors’ plan becomes clear, leaving Sally to protect men who ignored her warnings. The story combines alien invasion with a gleeful reversal of familiar science-fiction gender roles.

Episode 16: Pickles and Ice Cream

Harry learns that Vicki is pregnant and attempts to understand impending fatherhood. Sally becomes involved with the situation while Dick treats the pregnancy as useful mission data.

Episode 17: Auto Erodicka

The Solomons buy a car and immediately attach status, freedom and sexual significance to it. Their mechanical problems begin only after the emotional ones are firmly established.

Episode 18: Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man

Tommy becomes depressed by the prospect of spending years trapped in adolescence. His desire for an adult life collides with a body that requires him to endure school and parental rules.

Episode 19: Stuck with Dick

Dick and Mary are trapped together after an argument. Forced proximity strips away their usual escape routes and leaves them confronting what they actually want from one another.

Episode 20: My Daddy’s Little Girl

Mary’s relationship with her father leaves Dick feeling excluded. Sally and Harry explore family loyalty while discovering that childhood roles can persist long into adulthood.

Episode 21: The Physics of Being Dick

Dick becomes dissatisfied with physics and searches for a more fulfilling profession. The household watches him cycle through possible identities with exhausting conviction.

Episode 22: Just Your Average Dick

Dick decides the Solomons should become an entirely average American family. His obsessive pursuit of normality inevitably makes them much stranger.

Episode 23: Dick and the Other Guy

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John Cleese appears as Dr Liam Neesam, a charming professor who rivals Dick for Mary’s attention. Dick suspects there is something unusual about him, although jealousy makes his judgement difficult to trust.

Episode 24: Sally and Don’s First Kiss

Sally and Don finally move their relationship forward but struggle with the vulnerability it requires. Their awkward courtship remains unexpectedly sweet beneath the physical comedy.

Episode 25: When Aliens Camp

The Solomons join Mary on a camping trip and discover that nature is less accommodating than television suggests. Dick treats the wilderness as an adversary that has failed to respect his rank.

Episode 26: The Tooth Harry

Harry experiences tooth pain and becomes terrified of dental treatment. His fear spreads through a household already suspicious of most human medical practices.

Episode 27: Eat, Drink, Dick, Mary

Mary believes Dick may be preparing to propose, while Dick remains unaware of the expectations surrounding his behaviour. A celebratory dinner turns into a major test of their relationship.

The mission continues amid university politics, relationship trouble and increasing interference from alien outsiders. The season also brings the crew face to face with the Big Giant Head, who proves rather less majestic than his title has suggested.

Episode 1: Dr. Solomon’s Traveling Alien Show

Mary discovers the Solomons’ apparent secret but interprets what she sees through hypnosis and confusion. Dick must restore normality without revealing how close she came to the truth.

Episode 2: Power Mad Dick

Dick is placed temporarily in charge at the university and immediately embraces administrative power. His colleagues discover that a minor promotion can be dangerous in the hands of a High Commander.

Episode 3: Feelin’ Albright

Mary becomes depressed, and Dick attempts to improve her mood without understanding its causes. His increasingly elaborate interventions demonstrate that support cannot always be delivered by force.

Episode 4: Collect Call for Dick

The Solomons receive an enormous telephone bill after misunderstanding long-distance charges. Dick’s battle with the phone company becomes a lesson in bureaucracy and consumer helplessness.

Episode 5: What’s Love Got to Do, Got to Do with Dick?

Dick becomes involved with a woman who shares his intellectual interests, provoking Mary’s jealousy. He discovers that compatibility on paper does not remove the emotional chaos of attraction.

Episode 6: I Am Dick Pentameter!

Dick becomes captivated by the work of William Shakespeare and begins speaking theatrically. The family must endure his literary transformation until life itself starts resembling an overproduced play.

Episode 7: D3: Judgement Day

Dick attempts to impress a committee judging his professional work. Academic assessment becomes a personal referendum on his value, dignity and position in the universe.

Episode 8: Indecent Dick

Mary receives an indecent proposal from a wealthy man, and Dick’s outrage becomes complicated by the promised reward. Sally and Don confront their own disagreement over money and principles.

Episode 9: Happy New Dick!

The Solomons prepare for New Year’s Eve and attach enormous importance to securing the perfect celebration. Midnight approaches while their various plans disintegrate with reassuring human predictability.

Episode 10: Two-Faced Dick

A botched experiment leaves Sally’s personality trapped inside Dick’s body. John Lithgow and Kristen Johnston gleefully imitate one another as the crew searches for a reversal.

Episode 11: Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons

Dick meets people who may plausibly be presented as his extended family. The Solomons experience the pleasures and obligations of relatives they never knew they had.

Episode 12: Dick and Taxes

Dick receives a tax demand and refuses to accept that the government can claim part of his income. His resistance lasts until he learns how seriously humans treat unpaid taxes.

Episode 13: Sally Forth

Sally considers leaving the family to establish a life of her own. Dick struggles with losing control while she discovers that independence involves more than changing addresses.

Episode 14: Paranoid Dick

Dick becomes convinced that university colleagues are conspiring against him. Every ordinary conversation begins resembling evidence once he commits himself to the theory.

Episode 15: The House That Dick Built

Vicki attempts to create a stable home, drawing Harry into her plans. The Solomons’ involvement turns domestic ambition into an increasingly crowded experiment.

Episode 16: Superstitious Dick

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Mary introduces Dick to superstition, and he becomes consumed by omens and rituals. His scientific confidence collapses remarkably quickly once coincidence begins feeling personal.

Episode 17: Y2dicK

Harry becomes concerned about the approaching millennium bug and persuades the family to prepare for catastrophe. The Solomons embrace survivalism with more enthusiasm than technical understanding.

Episode 18: Dick the Mouth Solomon

Dick repeatedly reveals information he was expected to keep private. Learning the social value of discretion proves difficult for someone who treats every secret as an opportunity to command a room.

Episode 19: Citizen Solomon

The family becomes involved in local community life and discovers that good citizenship requires sustained effort. Their initial enthusiasm weakens once civic duty stops providing immediate applause.

Episode 20: Alien Hunter

A woman claiming to detect extraterrestrials arrives in Rutherford. The Solomons attempt to discredit her without behaving exactly like aliens desperate not to be discovered.

Episode 21: Dick vs. Strudwick

Dick’s rivalry with Vincent Strudwick intensifies when their professional and family lives collide. Tommy and Alissa are caught between two men determined to turn every encounter into a contest.

Episode 22: Near Dick Experience

A brush with death causes the Solomons to reconsider how they are spending their lives on Earth. Their search for meaning produces several dramatic resolutions of uncertain durability.

Episode 23: Dick’s Big Giant Headache: Part 1

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The Big Giant Head finally visits Earth in human form and proves demanding, impulsive and fond of alcohol. Dick’s fear of his commander competes with growing disappointment in the leader he idolised.

Episode 24: Dick’s Big Giant Headache: Part 2

The Big Giant Head’s visit destabilises the family and brings him into Vicki’s orbit. Harry notices a curious similarity between their commander’s travel story and a particularly famous aeroplane incident.

The Big Giant Head’s visit has lasting consequences, particularly for Harry and Vicki. The Solomons now understand Earth well enough to create more sophisticated disasters involving cosmetic surgery, charity, psychotherapy and the stock market.

Episode 1: Episode I: The Baby Menace

Vicki returns carrying the Big Giant Head’s child, leaving Harry uncertain about his place in her life. The unusual pregnancy develops rapidly and attracts the Solomons’ anxious attention.

Episode 2: Dick for Tat

Mary’s past relationship with Strudwick provokes Dick into seeking revenge. His attempt to balance the romantic record creates fresh damage rather than correcting the old.

Episode 3: The Fifth Solomon

A young man becomes attached to the family and wants to join their household. Dick enjoys the admiration until the newcomer begins affecting the established command structure.

Episode 4: Dial M for Dick

The Solomons attend an interactive murder-mystery weekend and take the fictional crime far too seriously. Dick’s investigative confidence is matched only by his inability to recognise theatrical clues.

Episode 5: Dick and Tuck

Dick becomes self-conscious about ageing and considers cosmetic surgery. The others also examine their appearances, discovering another human industry built upon insecurity.

Episode 6: Dick, Who’s Coming to Dinner?

Dick befriends a group of Black university colleagues and congratulates himself on his enlightenment. His eagerness to demonstrate social awareness exposes how much he still has to learn.

Episode 7: Sex and the Sally

Sally and Don confront differences in their expectations about intimacy. Their attempt at mature communication becomes complicated by Sally’s unfamiliarity with emotional compromise.

Episode 8: Charitable Dick

Dick becomes involved in charity but is more interested in recognition than service. The Solomons learn that generosity loses some of its shine when performed entirely for applause.

Episode 9: The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary

A documentary crew records life inside the Solomon household. Everyone adjusts their behaviour for the camera, producing a portrait that is revealing for all the wrong reasons.

Episode 10: Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary

Dick and Mary befriend another couple but become competitive about the new friendship. Their effort to appear socially desirable places all four relationships under strain.

Episode 11: Dick Puts the ‘ID’ in Cupid

Dick attempts to act as a romantic matchmaker. His confidence in understanding attraction exceeds his ability to recognise what the people involved actually want.

Episode 12: The Big Giant Head Returns

The Big Giant Head returns to Earth and reveals further complications surrounding Vicki and the baby. Dick again finds that serving an idol is easier when the idol remains on another planet.

Episode 13: Rutherford Beauty

Sally enters a beauty contest and discovers the peculiar standards by which contestants are judged. The experience appeals to her competitive instincts while challenging her developing sense of identity.

Episode 14: This Little Dick Went to Market

Dick enters the stock market and mistakes early success for financial genius. The family follows his lead as speculation replaces anything resembling responsible planning.

Episode 15: Youth Is Wasted on the Dick

Dick becomes envious of Tommy’s youth and attempts to reclaim youthful experiences for himself. Tommy, meanwhile, is increasingly eager to leave adolescence behind.

Episode 16: Dick Strikes Out

Dick organises a university strike and embraces the role of labour leader. Solidarity becomes harder to maintain once his personal comfort is threatened.

Episode 17: Shall We Dick?

Mary invites Dick to dance, revealing that his confidence does not extend to coordinated movement. Lessons turn the situation into another contest he is determined to win.

Episode 18: Dick and Harry Fall Down a Hole

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Dick and Harry become trapped at the bottom of a hole and assess their relationship while awaiting rescue. Above ground, the others discover that organising help is not as straightforward as shouting into the opening.

Episode 19: Frankie Goes to Rutherford

An old acquaintance of Sally’s arrives and disrupts her relationship with Don. Sally must decide whether excitement is worth sacrificing the stability she has gradually built.

Episode 20: Dick Solomon’s Day Off

Dick skips work and attempts to enjoy a carefree day away from responsibility. His absence creates confusion at the university while leisure proves surprisingly demanding.

Episode 21: The Big Giant Head Returns Again: Part 1

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The Big Giant Head returns with personal revelations that force Dick to reconsider their relationship. Vicki’s involvement adds further tension to an already unstable family gathering.

Episode 22: The Big Giant Head Returns Again: Part 2

Dick processes the truth about his connection to the Big Giant Head while the others navigate the resulting upheaval. The visit leaves the Solomons’ command structure more personal and considerably less dignified.

The final season experiments with alternate lives, changing relationships and the possibility that the mission cannot continue indefinitely. Dick and Mary’s romance faces one last extraterrestrial rival before the Solomons receive their final orders.

Episode 1: Les Liaisons Dickgereuses

Mary’s wealthy sister Renata arrives and attracts Dick’s attention. Long-standing family resentment combines with Dick’s vanity to create a particularly dangerous social triangle.

Episode 2: Fear and Loathing in Rutherford

The Solomons experience Halloween alongside a mysterious series of unsettling events. Their attempt to distinguish real danger from seasonal entertainment does little for household morale.

Episode 3: InDickscretion

Dick and Mary encounter someone connected to Mary’s past, raising uncomfortable questions about fidelity and trust. Sally also explores the consequences of acting without considering Don.

Episode 4: Dick’ll Take Manhattan: Part 1

The Solomons enter an alternate reality in which their lives have developed very differently in New York. Dick enjoys his apparent success before recognising what this world has cost the family.

Episode 5: Dick’ll Take Manhattan: Part 2

The alternative lives continue to unravel as the Solomons search for their way home. Familiar relationships reappear in altered forms, highlighting what their ordinary Rutherford lives mean to them.

Episode 6: Why Dickie Can’t Teach

Dick receives poor student evaluations and attempts to modernise his teaching. His determination to become popular competes with his belief that students should simply appreciate his brilliance.

Episode 7: B.D.O.C.

Tommy begins college and reinvents himself as a confident campus figure. His family’s interference threatens the independence he has been demanding since the mission began.

Episode 8: Red, White & Dick

Dick becomes intensely patriotic after discovering the emotional power of national identity. The other Solomons adopt their own interpretations of what belonging to America means.

Episode 9: Dick Digs

Mary’s archaeological interests inspire Dick to join a dig. His impatience with careful research soon collides with his desire to make a spectacular discovery.

Episode 10: There’s No Business Like Dick Business

Sally and Harry experiment with show business and believe they have found their calling. Success proves elusive when enthusiasm must be supported by talent and organisation.

Episode 11: A Dick Replacement

Mary hires an assistant who appears capable of replacing Dick in several areas of her life. Dick’s jealousy escalates as he attempts to prove himself indispensable.

Episode 12: Dick’s Ark

Concern about environmental destruction inspires Dick to build an ark. The scale of his response demonstrates how quickly scientific awareness can become High Commander panic.

Episode 13: You Don’t Know Dick

Mary realises how little she truly knows about Dick’s history. His inability to provide ordinary personal details forces the Solomons to manufacture a more convincing past.

Episode 14: My Mother, My Dick

Mary’s mother visits and Dick tries to secure her approval. Family expectations and old grievances once again leave Mary caught between Dick’s performance and parental judgement.

Episode 15: Glengarry Glen Dick

Dick enters the world of property sales and becomes captivated by its aggressive culture. His competitive instincts flourish while honesty receives rather less attention.

Episode 16: Dick Soup for the Soul

A self-help book transforms Dick’s outlook and inspires him to impose enlightenment upon everyone nearby. His followers soon discover that borrowed wisdom can be dangerous in authoritative hands.

Episode 17: Mary Loves Scoochie: Part One

A mysterious admirer named Scoochie begins courting Mary while Dick struggles to compete. The situation becomes more alarming when the admirer appears connected to a familiar extraterrestrial threat.

Episode 18: Mary Loves Scoochie: Part Two

Dick confronts Liam Neesam after learning the truth behind Scoochie’s identity. Mary becomes caught in a conflict between two aliens whose rivalry has moved well beyond academic disagreement.

Episode 19: The Thing That Wouldn’t Die: Part One

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Mary finally learns that Dick and the Solomons are extraterrestrials just as the mission receives a devastating new order. Dick asks her to leave Earth with them, forcing both to confront what their relationship can survive.

Episode 20: The Thing That Wouldn’t Die: Part Two

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The Solomons prepare to return to their home planet while Mary decides whether she can abandon her human life. The series closes with a funny, affectionate and unexpectedly poignant farewell to the family’s six-year experiment on Earth.