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Country of origin | Us |
Original language | English language |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 139 (list of episodes) |
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Camera setup | Pic; Multi-camera |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company | The Carsey-Werner Company |
Distributor | Carsey-Werner Distribution |
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Original network | NBC |
Moving picture format | NTSC |
Original release | January 9, 1996 (1996-01-09) – May 22, 2001 (2001-05-22) |
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American tv set sitcom created past Bonnie and Terry Turner, which originally aired from January 9, 1996, to May 22, 2001, on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, the tertiary planet from the Sun, which they consider to exist a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose equally a human family to observe the behavior of human beings.
The evidence premiered three years afterward the picture Coneheads (pic), which was also written by Bonnie & Terry Turner and featured a similar premise of aliens arriving on Earth and assimilating into American society. Coneheads also starred Jane Curtin every bit i of the titular alien Coneheads and featured a supporting bandage including Jan Hooks, Phil Hartman, Julia Sweeney and Laraine Newman, all of whom fabricated guest appearances on tertiary Stone from the Sun.
Overview [edit]
The premise of the evidence revolves around an extraterrestrial inquiry trek hailing from a planet in a barred spiral milky way on the Cepheus-Draco border attempting to live as a normal homo family unit in the fictional city of Rutherford, Ohio, said to be 52 mi (84 km) outside of Cleveland where they live in an attic apartment. The show's humor is principally derived from the aliens' attempts to written report human gild and sympathize the human condition, while living as humans on Earth, reflecting on human life from the perspective of aliens. Most of the episodes are named after the protagonist, Dick. In later episodes, they accept get more accepted to Earth and are oftentimes more than interested in their human being lives than in their mission.
The show also takes humor from its mirroring of all homo anthropological expeditions and their assumptions of superiority to the "natives", as well equally their inability to distinguish themselves from the natives. Dr. Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) is a professor of anthropology at fictional Pendelton State University, and many of the problems with which the four aliens struggle announced in her conversation and piece of work. Furthermore, these four alien researchers end upwardly looking more or less like joyriders as they become drawn farther and further into homo life.
Dick Solomon (John Lithgow), the High Commander and leader of the expedition, is the family provider and a physics professor at Pendelton (with Ian Lithgow, John Lithgow's eldest son, playing one of his less-successful students). Information officer and oldest fellow member of the crew Tommy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has been given the body of a teenager and is forced to enroll in high schoolhouse (later college), leaving security officer Sally (Kristen Johnston) and "the i with the transmitter in his head", Harry (French Stewart) to spend their lives as 20-somethings hanging out at dwelling and bouncing through short-term jobs. The evidence too involves their relationships with humans, mostly their love interests.
The family oftentimes communicates through Harry with their off-world (and normally unseen) boss, the Big Giant Head, who when he finally visits Globe, is played by William Shatner. Harry unexpectedly (and often in inconvenient circumstances) stands upwardly, his artillery stiff (acting every bit the antenna), and proclaims: "Incoming message from the Big Giant Head!"
Bandage [edit]
Main characters [edit]
From left to correct: John Lithgow as Dick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (top) as Tommy, Jane Curtin (bottom) as Mary, Kristen Johnston equally Sally, and French Stewart as Harry
- John Lithgow as Dick Solomon
- Kristen Johnston as Sally Solomon
- French Stewart as Harry Solomon
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tommy Solomon
- Jane Curtin every bit Mary Albright
- Simbi Khali equally Nina Campbell (seasons three–6, recurring previously)
- Elmarie Wendel as Mamie Dubcek (seasons 3–vi, recurring previously)
- Wayne Knight equally Officer Don Orville (seasons iii–6, recurring previously)
Recurring characters [edit]
- David DeLuise as Bug Pollone, ane of Dick'due south students
- Ian Lithgow as Leon, one of Dick's students
- Danielle Nicolet equally Caryn, one of Dick's students
- Chris Hogan as Aubrey Pitman, 1 of Dick'due south students
- Ileen Getz as Dr. Judith Draper, professor at Pendelton and colleague of Mary
- Shay Astar as Baronial Leffler, Tommy's first girlfriend (seasons ane–3, sparsely appears in seasons three and 4)
- Larisa Oleynik as Alissa Strudwick, Tommy'south second girlfriend (seasons 4–six)
- Ron West every bit Dr. Vincent Strudwick, Alissa'south father and rival to Dick (seasons two–six)
- William Shatner as The Big Giant Head, the aliens' boss
- Jan Hooks equally Vicki Dubcek, daughter of Ms. Dubcek, Harry's on-and-off girlfriend and later the married woman of the Big Giant Caput and the mother of his kid
- John Cleese as Dr. Liam Neesam, a professor who briefly has a human relationship with Mary, and is subsequently revealed to exist an evil alien (seasons 3 and 6)
- Chyna every bit Janice, a muscular female person police officer who is briefly Harry'southward girlfriend
- Michael Milhoan equally Coach Strickland, a high school concrete education teacher at Tommy's high school
Guest stars [edit]
Production [edit]
Theme music [edit]
The show'due south opening theme music was equanimous past Ben Vaughn, and for the first 4 seasons, it was originally a 1950s-style stone-and-ringlet instrumental piece; the theme was extended slightly in season 3, when Simbi Khali, Elmarie Wendel, and Wayne Knight were officially made serial regulars and added to the opening credits. During season one, James Earl Jones provided a vocalization introduction describing the crew. For Christmas episodes, jingle bells were added to the theme. The only major change to the theme was in season five, when the original Ben Vaughn version was replaced by a big band comprehend of the theme, performed past the grouping Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and was but used during that flavor. For the sixth and concluding season, the original theme returned and a modernistic jazz underline version of the theme was used for ii episodes.
Title sequence [edit]
The opening championship sequence, which was produced past the London graphic design business firm SVC Television set, opens with computerized shots of planets and celestial bodies, some either with the planets dancing or moving in warp speed. Information technology opens and closes with a shot of Earth (which at the open up is where the bear witness's championship logo appears, after a sunburst appears on the side of Earth). For the sixth and final season merely, the typeface of the cast and creators' names was altered.
Episodes [edit]
Of 139 episodes of the serial, 108 contained "Dick" in the championship (in reference to John Lithgow's character). While some of the episode titles with "Dick" in them are innocent (i.e., "Tom, Dick and Mary", "Dick Is From Mars, Sally Is From Venus"), others are more risqué and ofttimes are doubles entendres (i.eastward., "Sensitive Dick", "A Dick Replacement", "Frozen Dick", "Shall We Dick"), because the give-and-take "Dick" is both a short form of Richard and a slang term for penis. One episode from season 6 used an abbreviation for a title, "B.D.O.C.", since the full title ("Big Dick on Campus") was deemed besides risqué.
During the show'due south 6th and final season, John Lithgow commented to several media outlets that third Stone had been moved to more than xv different time slots in six years, causing its ratings to decrease substantially.
Broadcast [edit]
Syndication [edit]
In the The states, the series is distributed for syndication past Carsey-Werner Distribution, and entered broadcast syndication in September 1999, where it continued until the fall of 2004, when the testify moved into limited-run barter syndication, where it remained until 2016; The Program Exchange handled distribution for Carsey-Werner.[ane] ABC Family aired reruns between 2002 and 2006. Reruns of the series aired on TV Country from 2008 through 2010. In the fall of 2010, ReelzChannel began airing the series. The serial made its debut on digital broadcast network Laff on July 16, 2018, until May 16, 2021, when it moved to IFC as well on Cozi TV beginning July eighteen.
This series rerun is now also aired on Malaysia's national broadcast TV channel RTM's TV2 in the 12:30 am fourth dimension slot on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
In the Uk, the series originally aired on BBC Two from 1996 to 2002, and ITV2 later reran the entire series from 2005 to 2006. Cablevision network Virgin Media currently has 40 episodes from seasons one and 2 available on need from the One-act Central bill of fare option. The series began airing from the starting time on Channel four from May 12, 2014,[2] only moved to 5Star in January 2019 but was dropped in July 2020. Beginning on the 29th of March 2021 the series began airing on Comedy Cardinal.
In the fall of 2011, Canada's TVTropolis cable aqueduct began airing the show, and featured a long weekend marathon run of episodes.
Streaming [edit]
Netflix made the complete serial bachelor online in March 2011. It was removed several months later in the autumn of 2011, but returned on March fifteen, 2015,[three] and was removed again exactly two years later on. The series besides was available to stream on Hulu.[iv]
In the United kingdom, the first ii seasons were available to download through the UK iTunes store but are no longer offered, and no episodes or seasons have been made available digitally in the region since.
Equally of 2021, the series is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, FilmRise, Hoopla, Tubi,[five] Pluto Television set, Crackle,[half dozen] Vudu,[7] IMDb Telly[8] and Peacock.[9]
Home media [edit]
Region 1
Ballast Bay Amusement released all six seasons of 3rd Rock from the Sunday on DVD for the first time in 2005–2006.[10] [11] [12] [xiii] [14] [15] Seasons one & ii incorporate the edited, syndicated versions of the episodes instead of the original circulate versions. Every bit of 2010, these releases have been discontinued and are out of print. On these DVDs, the bloopers segments (on the concluding disc of each flavor) are in 16:9 format, indicating the serial may have been filmed in 16:9 format.
On May 4, 2011, Factory Creek Entertainment announced they had acquired the rights to re-release the series on DVD in Region ane.[16] They have subsequently re-released seasons 1–four. These releases comprise the unedited, original broadcast versions of the episodes.[17] [18] Seasons 5 and 6 were re-released on January eight, 2013.[19] [20] [21]
On May 14, 2013, Manufacturing plant Creek released 3rd Rock from the Sunday – The Complete Serial on DVD in Region one.[22]
Region ii
Network DVD released all six seasons on DVD in the UK. While seasons 1–4 feature unedited versions of the episodes, seasons 5 and half-dozen characteristic syndicated, edited episodes. Network re-released the series in 2008 in an individual set up and a consummate collection.
- The Complete Season One (released May 17, 2004)[23]
- The Complete Flavour Two (released June 21, 2004)[24]
- The Complete Flavour Three (released Baronial 30, 2004)[25]
- The Complete Season 4 (released Oct 25, 2004)[26]
- The Complete Season Five (released January 24, 2005)[27]
- The Complete Season Six (released Jan 24, 2005)[28]
- The Complete Series (released October 25, 2004)[29]
- Series One (re-released Nov three, 2008)[xxx]
- Series Two (re-released November 3, 2008)[31]
- Series 3 (re-released Nov three, 2008)[32]
- Serial Four (re-released November 3, 2008)[33]
- Series Five (re-released November 3, 2008)[34]
- Series Six (re-released November 3, 2008)[35]
- The Complete Series (re-released November 3, 2008)[36]
Region 4
Magna Abode Entertainment released all 6 seasons on DVD in Australia between 2005 and 2007. These releases accept been discontinued and are now out of print.
- Season i and Season 2 (released November 11, 2005)
- Season 3 (released February vii, 2006)
- Season iv (July 6, 2006)
- Season five and Season vi (released February 16, 2007)
On November fifteen, 2010, Across Home Entertainment re-released all half-dozen seasons on DVD in Region 4.[37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] The complete drove was also released iii days afterwards, on November 18.[43]
Reception [edit]
Nielsen rankings [edit]
Season | TV season | Rank | |
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1 | 1995–1996 | 22[44] | |
2 | 1996–1997 | 28[45] | |
iii | 1997–1998 | 44[46] | |
iv | 1998–1999 | 77[47] | |
5 | 1999–2000 | 82[48] | |
six | 2000–2001 | 89[49] |
Awards and nominations [edit]
In 1997, 3rd Rock won the most Primetime Emmy Awards (five from 8 nominations) for a television series:
- 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 — Outstanding Atomic number 82 Histrion — Comedy Series — John Lithgow
- 1997, 1998, 1999 — Outstanding Supporting Actress — Comedy Series — Kristen Johnston
- 1996, 1997 — Outstanding Hairstyling for a Serial — Pixie Schwartz
- 1996 — Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series — James Burrows
- 1998 — Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series — Terry Hughes
- 1997 — Outstanding Special Visual Furnishings — Glen Bennett, Visual Effects Artists; Patrick Shearn, Visual Effects Supervisor; Chris Staves, Visual Furnishings Artists
- 1997, 1999, 2000 — Outstanding Sound Mixing — Comedy Series
- 1998 — Outstanding Sound Mixing — One-act Series — "A Nightmare on Dick Street"
- 1997, 1998 — Outstanding Costume Design — Serial — Melina Root
- 1997, 1998 — Outstanding Comedy Series
- 1997 — Outstanding Choreography — Marguerite Derricks
- 1998 — Outstanding Guest Extra in a One-act Series — Jan Hooks as Vicki Dubcek
- 1998 — Outstanding Guest Actor in a One-act Series — John Cleese every bit Dr. Neesam
- 1999, 2000 — Outstanding Multicamera Picture Editing for a Series
- 1999 — Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series — Kathy Bates as Charlotte Everly and Laurie Metcalf every bit Jennifer
- 1999 — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series — William Shatner as the Big Giant Head
- 2000 — Outstanding Cinematography for a Multicamera Series
John Lithgow received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Atomic number 82 Actor in a Comedy Series for each year the show was broadcast, winning the Emmy in 1996, 1997, and 1999. Accepting the 1999 honor, he said, "Many wonderful things have happened to me in my life, but the 2 best are 3rd Stone and my love family unit."[50]
Golden Earth Awards
- 1997 — Best Actor in a Television Comedy or Musical — John Lithgow
Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 1996, 1997 — Best Male Actor — Comedy Series — John Lithgow
Other media [edit]
A necktie-in book, 3rd Stone from the Sunday: The Official Report On World, was released in 1997. It is essentially a study of the Solomons' findings during their stay on World. Primarily a source of sense of humor, the volume includes such features as "What to do if you encounter Jell-O", a fan biography of Katie Couric written by Harry, and Sally's version of a Cosmo quiz. Portions of the book are included in the booklets inside each season set of the series.
Despite the study's existence fix within the fictional world of 3rd Rock, a foreword written by John Lithgow himself is included in which he explains how he was abducted by the 3rd Rock producers and forced to work on their production. A Post-it note is attached to the foreword, manifestly written past Dick Solomon, stating he does not know why the foreword is there, but that Lithgow is an Earth actor who appeared in "some helicopter movie".
See also [edit]
- ALF
- Coneheads
- Invader Zim
- Mork & Mindy
- My Favorite Martian
- My Parents Are Aliens
- The Neighbors
- Ready Jet Go!
- Solar Opposites
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External links [edit]
- tertiary Rock from the Sun @ Carsey Werner
- Carsey Werner - 3rd Stone from the Sun Archived 2018-09-24 at the Wayback Car
- 3rd Rock from the Sun at Curlie
- tertiary Rock from the Lord's day at IMDb
- tertiary Rock from the Sun at epguides.com
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Rock_from_the_Sun
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