3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)

Comedy · Family · Sci-Fi

The high commander of an alien expedition lands on Earth -- what he considers to be the least-important planet -- in human form as Dick Solomon. Along for the ride are his alien compatriots Harry, Sally and Tommy -- who is the eldest of the group but is now angrily trapped in a teen's body.

IMDb rating: 7.8 (59,808 votes)
Episode average: 7.8 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 6
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 6 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1996)

7.82 avg 20 episodes 7.9 → 8.1 22 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Brains and Eggs	7.9	850
2	Post-Nasal Dick	7.9	690
3	Dick's First Birthday	7.9	661
4	Dick Is from Mars, Sally Is from Venus	7.8	596
5	Dick, Smoker	7.7	574
6	Green-Eyed Dick	7.8	580
7	Lonely Dick	7.8	569
8	Body & Soul & Dick	8.0	581
9	Ab-dick-ted	7.5	538
10	Truth or Dick	7.9	523
11	The Art of Dick	7.7	513
12	Frozen Dick	8.0	574
13	Angry Dick	7.7	506
14	The Dicks They Are A-Changin'	7.4	497
15	I Enjoy Being a Dick	8.0	501
16	Dick Like Me	8.3	523
17	Assault with a Deadly Dick	7.7	490
18	Father Knows Dick	7.5	482
19	Selfish Dick	7.8	482
20	See Dick Run	8.1	483

Season 2 (1996)

7.73 avg 26 episodes 7.7 → 7.6 23 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	See Dick Continue to Run	7.7	464
2	See Dick Continue to Run, Continued	7.7	456
3	Hotel Dick	7.8	465
4	Big Angry Virgin from Outer Space	7.5	451
5	Much Ado About Dick	7.7	452
6	Dick the Vote	7.6	443
7	Fourth and Dick	7.9	443
8	World's Greatest Dick	8.0	465
9	My Mother the Alien	8.0	475
10	Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick	8.1	483
11	Dick Jokes	7.5	431
12	Jolly Old St. Dick	7.9	449
13	Proud Dick	8.0	440
14	Romeo & Juliet & Dick	7.6	420
15	Guilty as Dick	7.7	414
16	A Dick on One Knee	7.5	410
17	Same Old Song and Dick	7.6	401
18	I Brake for Dick	7.8	417
19	Dick Behaving Badly	7.8	397
20	Dickmalion	7.5	413
21	Sensitive Dick	7.8	397
22	Will Work for Dick	7.8	392
23	Fifteen Minutes of Dick	7.6	404
24	Dick and the Single Girl	7.6	415
25	A Nightmare on Dick Street: Part 1	7.6	462
26	A Nightmare on Dick Street: Part 2	7.6	415

Season 3 (1997)

7.71 avg 27 episodes 7.4 → 8.1 22 min avg

Rebound

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Fun with Dick and Janet: Part 1	7.4	388
2	Fun with Dick and Janet: Part 2	7.4	373
3	Tricky Dick	7.8	401
4	Dick-In-Law	7.9	396
5	Scaredy Dick	7.8	399
6	Moby Dick	7.7	380
7	Eleven Angry Men and One Dick	7.9	381
8	A Friend in Dick	7.8	393
9	Seven Deadly Clips	6.3	375
10	Tom, Dick and Mary	7.9	376
11	Jailhouse Dick	7.6	355
12	Dick on a Roll	7.6	353
13	The Great Dickdater	7.5	352
14	36! 24! 36! Dick!: Part 1	7.7	402
15	36! 24! 36! Dick!: Part 2	7.6	389
16	Pickles and Ice Cream	7.6	376
17	Auto Erodicka	7.9	373
18	Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man	7.8	359
19	Stuck with Dick	7.7	358
20	My Daddy's Little Girl	7.7	349
21	The Physics of Being Dick	7.7	343
22	Just Your Average Dick	8.0	367
23	Dick and the Other Guy	8.1	392
24	Sally and Don's First Kiss	7.7	337
25	When Aliens Camp	7.8	348
26	The Tooth Harry	8.1	346
27	Eat, Drink, Dick, Mary	8.1	359

Season 4 (1998)

7.94 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 8.0 22 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dr. Solomon's Traveling Alien Show	7.8	356
2	Power Mad Dick	7.6	319
3	Feelin' Albright	7.7	320
4	Collect Call for Dick	8.2	355
5	What's Love Got to Do, Got to Do with Dick?	7.9	338
6	I Am Dick Pentameter!	7.9	340
7	D3: Judgment Day	7.8	336
8	Indecent Dick	8.1	360
9	Happy New Dick!	7.7	330
10	Two-Faced Dick	8.6	386
11	Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons	8.3	373
12	Dick and Taxes	8.1	339
13	Sally Forth	7.8	335
14	Paranoid Dick	7.7	325
15	The House That Dick Built	7.6	323
16	Superstitious Dick	8.1	340
17	Y2dicK	8.1	344
18	Dick 'The Mouth' Solomon	7.8	348
19	Citizen Solomon	7.8	341
20	Alien Hunter	7.9	359
21	Dick v. Strudwick	8.2	341
22	Near Dick Experience	7.7	319
23	Dick's Big Giant Headache: Part 1	8.1	367
24	Dick's Big Giant Headache: Part 2	8.0	349

Season 5 (1999)

7.85 avg 22 episodes 7.4 → 7.6 22 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Episode I: The Baby Menace	7.4	332
2	Dick for Tat	8.0	329
3	The Fifth Solomon	7.7	334
4	Dial M for Dick	8.5	413
5	Dick and Tuck	8.0	325
6	Dick, Who's Coming to Dinner	7.9	348
7	Sex and the Sally	8.1	324
8	Charitable Dick	7.7	317
9	The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary	8.4	352
10	Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary	7.7	337
11	Dick Puts the 'Id' in Cupid	8.0	329
12	The Big Giant Head Returns	7.8	315
13	Rutherford Beauty	7.9	318
14	This Little Dick Went to Market	7.7	324
15	Youth Is Wasted on the Dick	7.6	315
16	Dick Strikes Out	7.6	314
17	Shall We Dick?	7.8	332
18	Dick and Harry Fall Down a Hole	7.5	338
19	Frankie Goes to Rutherford	8.2	350
20	Dick Solomon's Day Off	8.0	330
21	The Big Giant Head Returns Again: Part 1	7.7	331
22	The Big Giant Head Returns Again: Part 2	7.6	322

Season 6 (2000)

7.63 avg 20 episodes 7.3 → 8.6 22 min avg

Big finale

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Les Liaisons Dickgereuses	7.3	324
2	Fear and Loathing in Rutherford	8.2	333
3	InDickscretion	7.4	298
4	Dick'll Take Manhattan: Part 1	7.4	342
5	Dick'll Take Manhattan: Part 2	7.2	310
6	Why Dickie Can't Teach	7.5	296
7	B.D.O.C.	7.5	299
8	Red, White & Dick	7.6	300
9	Dick Digs	7.8	303
10	There's No Business Like Dick Business	7.6	293
11	A Dick Replacement	7.4	294
12	Dick's Ark	7.6	287
13	You Don't Know Dick	7.6	291
14	My Mother, My Dick	7.3	291
15	Glengarry Glen Dick	7.6	290
16	Dick Soup for the Soul	7.4	294
17	Mary Loves Scoochie: Part 1	7.6	300
18	Mary Loves Scoochie: Part 2	7.7	295
19	The Thing That Wouldn't Die: Part 1	8.3	325
20	The Thing That Wouldn't Die: Part 2	8.6	400