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3rd Rock from the Sun Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
Dr. Solomon's Traveling Alien Show
Wed, Sep 23, 199822 mins
Harry has been kidnapped and sold to a circus where he works as Hargo the Alien while the Solomons and Vicki are trying to find him. This task is complicated by the fact that the Big Giant Head has decided to shut down Dick's brain functions one by one because he didn't send a report that was long overdue.
Episode 2
Power Mad Dick
Wed, Oct 7, 199822 mins
Mary is the new dean and Dick thinks this gives him power over colleagues as well. When he fires Lucy, the cafeteria lady who hates him, Mary tells him to apologize to her and tell her it was a misunderstanding. Meanwhile, Sally has lost her virginity but doesn't feel like talking about it with anyone, which makes her uncertain and leaves Tommy and Harry wondering if Don has done something to Sally.
Episode 3
Feelin' Albright
Wed, Oct 14, 199822 mins
When Sally realizes she isn't Don's first girlfriend, she starts to panic and considers Don's previous girlfriends competition. She desperately wants to find out who's she's up against. At a party, Dick finds out what it's like to be the partner of the Dean when nobody pays any attention to him and he ends up with the wives of important faculty members. He decides to organize a fashion show to raise money to repair a statue at the university to prove himself. Harry and Tommy try to sell lemonade.
Episode 4
Collect Call for Dick
Wed, Oct 21, 199822 mins
Starting as a promotional giveaway at Rusty's Burgers, Dick becomes addicted to collecting Fuzzy Buddies dolls at all cost. Tommy is forced by the basketball coach to show pep by dressing up as Hootie the mascot.
Episode 5
What's Love Got to Do, Got to Do with Dick?
Wed, Oct 28, 199822 mins
Mary, because she's the dean now, doesn't have much time for Dick, which frustrates him. Jennifer, a new professor at the university, becomes Dick's office mate and he can't help feeling attracted to her. In the meantime, Sally tries to fix Nina up with Eric, a colleague of Don. At the bar where Harry works, Tommy finds a broken love tester and gets it going, but soon regrets having fixed the machine when it tells him he's a "cold fish".
Episode 6
I Am Dick Pentameter!
Wed, Nov 4, 199822 mins
Dick is fascinated by Jennifer, his new office mate, and, when he's told it's not fair to Mary, tells Mary he feels they should see other people. To Dick's surprise, Mary doesn't object. However, after a while, Jennifer's passion for Moliere and rhyming starts to annoy Dick. In the meantime, Harry, Tommy and Sally want to combine the comforts of the living room and the kitchen and move the furniture around to create the 'Klivingtchen'.
Episode 7
D3: Judgment Day
Wed, Nov 11, 199822 mins
Dick is sick and tired of Jennifer and wants to break up with her. His first attempt at this fails, but this turns out not to be so bad for him when Mary tells him that seeing him and Jennifer together has made her realize how much she misses him. Dick decides not to break up with Jennifer just yet. Instead, because he holds the cards now, he tries to get Mary to make some sacrifices before taking her back. Meanwhile, Don has asked Sally to go bowling. However, Sally hasn't got a clue what bowling is.
Episode 8
Indecent Dick
Tue, Dec 8, 199822 mins
Sally tries out for a nude photo shoot for an adult magazine at Pendelton State University over the objections of boyfriend Don. Harry tries out home nudism and believes clothing might be a scam. An enraged Dick tracks down a photographer who took nude pictures of Dr. Mary Albright twenty years ago but then has a change of heart. Tommy becomes enamored with a new lab partner.
Episode 9
Happy New Dick!
Tue, Dec 15, 199822 mins
Everybody is exited about new year. Everybody? No, when Dick finds out people use new year to strike a balance, he does too and feels he hasn't accomplished anything the past year and feels depressed. Tommy organizes a new year party at the bar where Harry works. When Larry and Mrs. DeGuzman, his former night school class mates, tell him they still haven't found a job, Harry gives them a job at the bar. Don finally stands up for himself after being played 'like a fat cello' once again by Sally.
Episode 10
Two-Faced Dick
Tue, Jan 5, 199922 mins
Three years ago, Sally send in a request to the home planet for a male body because she hated to be a woman. Now, the Big Giant Head has granted the request and switches Dick and Sally's bodies. They immediately send in another request to be switched back but in the meantime they have to cope with the bodies ánd each other's relationship. Happy Doug has left Harry in charge of the bar when some tough looking guys come in. Tommy and Harry immediately suspect they are scum.
Episode 11
Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons
Tue, Jan 12, 199922 mins
Dick receives an invitation for a family reunion. Obviously, the invitation is meant for another Dick Solomon, but, after he finds out the family hasn't seen him in 43 years, Dick decides the Solomons and Mary go anyway. Dick feels it's good for them to have roots. Harry hits it off great with cigar-smoking uncle Abe, Sally feels she's becoming like a sister to cousin Michelle, Tommy tries to hit on cousin Janine and Dick discovers there's a reason the family hasn't seen Dick Solomon in 43 years.
Episode 12
Dick and Taxes
Tue, Feb 2, 199922 mins
Despite the fact they've been on Earth for about three years now, the Solomons have never filled in the annual IRS forms and therefore Dick asks Mary to help them. She calculates they owe the IRS 9,500 dollars. When looking at the numbers again, the Solomons think up the idea to lie on their forms so they'll receive money instead of having to pay. Unfortunately for them, the IRS doesn't trust it and announces they'll audit the Solomons. This makes them terrified. They think the IRS will find out they are aliens.
Episode 13
Sally Forth
Tue, Feb 9, 199922 mins
When the Solomons need a plumber to fix the bathroom, Mrs. Dubcek tells Dick she'll arrange one, but only after they pay her the rent. Dick feels bled white and a feud between him and the Dubceks is a fact. A fact that forces Harry to choose between Dick and Vicky. Don believes Sally has hinted that she wants him to propose, which he does. Meanwhile, Tommy wants to ask Alissa out but can't find the right moment to do so. When she gets detention, an opportunity arises.
Episode 14
Paranoid Dick
Tue, Feb 16, 199922 mins
Mary thinks she might not be respected as dean by her colleagues and Dick convinces her there's a conspiracy against her, led by Judith. Dick and Mary decide to find out more about this by breaking into Judith's office. Meanwhile, Vicky feels bad for Sally because she and Don broke up and talks her, and Tommy and Harry, into a weekend of riverboat gambling.
Episode 15
The House That Dick Built
Tue, Feb 23, 199922 mins
Sally feels she needs a place of her own and wants to move out. Vicki and Harry are thinking about having a baby. Dick feels he no longer has control over the mission and forbids Harry to have a child with Vicki and tries to sabotage Sally's attempts to find a new place. In the meantime, Tommy can't stop thinking about Alissa, a girl from school he considers to be his girlfriend. However, some remarks Harry makes, make him uncertain and he tries to find out if Alissa sees him as her boyfriend.
Episode 16
Superstitious Dick
Tue, Mar 2, 199922 mins
Dick receives a chain letter. Although he doesn't see the connection between a letter and having bad luck, he does hang on to the letter because Mary has thrown hers away and the only luck she now has is bad luck. Sally and Harry go to a hardware store. Sally has a problem with her toilet and she's helped by hunky employee Justin while Harry is mistaken for an employee by several costumers because his shirt looks just like the uniform of the store. Tommy wants to show Alissa he's manly and takes her to an ice hockey game. He soon regrets this when he thinks Alissa has a crush on one of the ice hockey players.
Episode 17
Y2dicK
Tue, Mar 16, 199922 mins
It turns out Dick doesn't know the first thing about computers. After being made fun of, he gets himself a computer and after a while he understands and discovers e-mail and Internet and gets totally hooked. So hooked that he teaches his class via web cam and Mary starts to worry about him. In the meantime, Sally and Tommy decide to buy a new TV set. Harry and Vicki are still trying to have a baby, but when Vicki turns to the medical-science part of it, Harry can't get in the mood anymore.
Episode 18
Dick 'The Mouth' Solomon
Tue, Apr 6, 199922 mins
Mary feels communication between Dick and her should get better and takes Dick to a couple's retreat. Harry and Vicki also come along. Sally meets an Italian-American man named Sammy Marchetti, alias 'the Butcher', and is thrilled because she assumes he's a mobster. When he asks Tommy to bring someone a very important envelop, Tommy feels he's part of the 'family'.
Episode 19
Citizen Solomon
Tue, Apr 27, 199922 mins
Dick, Harry and Tommy decide it's time for someone to tidy up their place. However, Sally won't do it because it's not her place anymore and Dick asks Mary's maid Kathy. The Solomons like her so much they hire her for every day of the week and consider her to be family. This makes Sally jealous while Mary wants her maid back. Meanwhile, a very idealistic Tommy becomes the editor-in-chief of the school paper. His ex August is also part of the staff.
Episode 20
Alien Hunter
Tue, May 4, 199922 mins
Don gives Dick a gift for his birthday and Dick tells Harry, Sally and Tommy to throw him a surprise birthday party tomorrow. At school, he hands out invitations for his surprise party and in his class he meets Charlotte and her son Ned. She first claims to be auditing his class, then tells Dick she's a reporter who wants to interview him because of his scholarship and after that she says she's an intellectual groupie. Because his ego is boosted, Dick loves spending time with her. So do Harry, Tommy and Sally, because Charlotte helps them with the surprise party preparations. Unfortunately for the Solomons, Charlotte is up to something.
Episode 21
Dick v. Strudwick
Tue, May 11, 199922 mins
Dr. Vincent Strudwick, a colleague of Dick, has written a book on physics that everybody considers to be pure genius. There are even some Nobelprice winners at the presentation of the book. While Mary associates with these brainboxes, Dick is jealous at Strudwick and decides to write a much better book on physics than any man has ever done before, just to get even. He realizes this will expose him as a superior alien being and he has to find another way to get even with Strudwick. Luckily for him, Tommy's girlfriend turns out to be the daughter of Strudwick. Meanwhile, in spite of the fact they've broken up, Sally and Don go to a movie together, as friends. However, after the movie they go to Sally's place and one thing soon leads to another.
Episode 22
Near Dick Experience
Tue, May 18, 199922 mins
Tommy, Harry and Sally have a near death experience when in a restaurant, a chandelier falls on the table they want. This makes them appreciate everything the world has to offer like never before. Even the simplest, most for granted taken things make them sigh in awe. They tell Dick about it, but no matter how hard he tries, he just isn't able to see things the way they do. This makes him so desperate, he joins the annual hiking trip of the university staff hoping to have a near death experience there. Enlightened Sally and Harry start volunteering at a soup kitchen for homeless people.
Episode 23
Dick's Big Giant Headache: Part 1
Tue, May 25, 199921 mins
Because he feels the Solomons haven't done well on their mission, the Big Giant Head comes to Earth to personally chastise them. Thinking they might have become too human, Dick orders Sally to move back in and he tells Harry not to have a baby with Vicki. He also tries to prepare Mary for the visit of his old "college friend" because he's worried the Big Giant Head might think Dick has wasted his time with Mary. Meanwhile, Tommy and Alissa are starting preparations for their junior prom.
Episode 24
Dick's Big Giant Headache: Part 2
Tue, May 25, 199921 mins
Sally is the new high commander and feels she has finally gotten the promotion she deserved. However, the Big Giant Head tells her he made her high commander because of her looks, not because of her work for the mission. When the Big Giant Head makes a pass at Mary and she tells Dick, he's delighted to hear the Big Giant Head approves of her. This restores Dick's waning self-confidence. When he hears about the prom Tommy and Alissa are going to, the party and alcohol-loving Big Giant Head decides to be their chaperon...
