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3rd Rock from the Sun Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
Episode I: The Baby Menace
Tue, Sep 21, 199922 mins
It's a boy! It's a girl! It's an alien? The alien baby!
Episode 2
Dick for Tat
Tue, Sep 28, 199922 mins
While playing a sexy party game with Dick, Mary reveals she once had a fling with Vincent Strudwick, Dick's nemesis at the university. Dick is shocked and decides to get back at Strudwick. While Dick wants to have sex with Strudwick's wife Dorothy, Tommy hopes to talk Alissa into having sex. Meanwhile, Don got a motor and while acting tough on a ride with Sally, he falls and ends up in the hospital, covered in plaster.
Episode 3
The Fifth Solomon
Tue, Nov 2, 199922 mins
Dick hits a tree with the Rambler. Because the Solomons don't have insurance, they can't keep the car and Dick hires a rental. The rental has a lot of gadgets Dick absolutely adores, but nonetheless the Solomons start to miss their good old Rambler. They are surprised to learn it's possible to get emotionally attached to a car. Meanwhile, a slick insurance salesman tells Harry to get insurance.
Episode 4
Dial M for Dick
Tue, Nov 9, 199922 mins
Mary invites Dick to a murder mystery weekend and the Solomons join Mary to the mansion where the weekend will take place. However, the Solomons do not realize it's all fake and all the other guests are merely actors. The first evening, Mary falls ill and spends the rest of the time in bed. Then, the first murder takes place and the Solomons don't understand why everybody remains so calm while somebody has just been murdered. They decide they have to find out who the killer is.
Episode 5
Dick and Tuck
Tue, Nov 16, 199930 mins
While Dick laughs at a magazine stating Harrison Ford is the world's most attractive man, Nina and Mary agree. They think Ford's hot! Dick starts to consider plastic surgery so he'll look as good as Ford and goes to a surgeon, along with the other Solomons. The surgeon tells Dick what his options are, declares Harry to have perfect features and asks Sally what she wants done about herself, which makes her so insecure she feels she should break up with Don because he deserves somebody who's hotter than her.
Episode 6
Dick, Who's Coming to Dinner
Tue, Nov 23, 199922 mins
When Nina can't have dinner with Dick because she's going to a Black Student Union meeting, he wants to come along and have the dinner afterwards. When she tells him he has no reason to come to the meeting because he isn't black, he doesn't understand. When Harry suggests there might also be a meeting for white people only, the Solomons end up going to a White Power meeting!
Episode 7
Sex and the Sally
Tue, Nov 30, 199922 mins
When Sally is told sex can lead to pregnancy, she doesn't know what to do. After some advice, she learns about birth control and starts taking the pill, but this gives her terrible mood swings. To complicate things further, she doesn't tell Don what's going on because she doesn't want him to think she doesn't want his child. In the meantime, Dick learns what tipping is but decides to change the concept a bit and ignorant Harry and Tommy become panhandlers.
Episode 8
Charitable Dick
Tue, Dec 14, 199922 mins
Mary and Dick go to a charity auction. All the buyers get applause and Dick wants this attention too. Therefore, he bids on a painting he actually doesn't want. Don has trouble sleeping because Sally snores. Meanwhile, Tommy and Harry write a new mission statement because Harry lost the original.
Episode 9
The Loud Solomon Family: A Dickumentary
Tue, Jan 11, 200022 mins
Mary admits to Dick she's been studying the Solomons for the past four years (because they are a typical one-parent American family) and that she's now been offered the chance to make a documentary about them. Dick agrees, seeing this as a perfect opportunity to prove they pass for humans. However, the Solomons are worried they might be exposed as aliens and, during the filming, they almost are. In trying to cover up the secret they're aliens, they make up other secrets: Sally's a lesbian, Tommy wets his bed and Harry is an alcoholic.
Episode 10
Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary
Tue, Jan 25, 200022 mins
The washer and dryer of the Solomons breaks down and Mary tells them about the laundromat. Tommy, Harry and Sally go there and immediately love it. Harry starts flirting with a pretty blonde while Sally and Tommy soon find out not everybody respects the laundromat etiquette's. Mary suggests she and Dick should find another couple to spend time with and they start having dinners and playing tennis with Gwen and Larry McMichael. After a while however, the McMichael's seem to avoid Dick and Mary.
Episode 11
Dick Puts the 'Id' in Cupid
Tue, Feb 8, 200022 mins
When Dick finds out Mary is seeing a therapist, he desperately wants to know what she says about him and he starts seeing Mary's therapist as well. Don wrote Sally a poem for Valentine's Day but Sally thinks it's from some obsessed pervert and asks Don to find the guy. Tommy wants to have sex with Alissa on Valentine's Day. He wants to rent a hotel room and make it very special because, after all, it is their first time. At least, that's what he thought, but it turns out Alissa already had sex. This makes Tommy a bit nervous: he might ruin the night. Then, Mary's rebellious niece Tiffany visits and says she and Tommy should have sex.
Episode 12
The Big Giant Head Returns
Tue, Feb 22, 200022 mins
The Big Giant Head is back to take his son with him to the home planet. When he sees Vicky (who lost her trashy look, by the way) he instantly falls in love with her. She, however, hates his guts because he left her right after he made her pregnant. The Big Giant Head tells Dick to make her love him. Otherwise, he'll kill Dick. Meanwhile, Harry still loves Vicky but doesn't know what to do with these feelings, given the fact The Big Giant Head, his superior, wants her. Sally has her own problem: She's addicted to buying shoes. Tommy tries to help her.
Episode 13
Rutherford Beauty
Tue, Feb 22, 200022 mins
To his own surprise, Dick has erotic fantasies about Nina. He doesn't know what to do until Tommy and Harry tell him it's absolutely normal to have erotic fantasies, even if they're not about your girlfriend. Dick feels comforted and even tells Mary about his fantasies. Meanwhile, Sally is under the spell of a cooking expert a la Martha Stewart and becomes such a great cook that an impressed Mary asks her to cater a dinner party she's hosting.
Episode 14
This Little Dick Went to Market
Tue, Mar 14, 200022 mins
Dick goes into business with Tommy after his nemesis Dr. Strudwick told him about the stock market and the money he has made there. However, Dick and Tommy are a bit naive when it comes to buying shares. A new cop has joined the force. Her name's Janice and she is tough, strong and, if you ask Harry, very sexy. Sally however is not that happy with Janice because she feels her position as the toughest chick in town is in danger.
Episode 15
Youth Is Wasted on the Dick
Tue, Mar 21, 200022 mins
With a few of his colleagues, Don confiscates the Solomons' house so they can watch the neighborhood because they suspect one of the neighbors is a video pirate. When a state criminal investigator takes over from Don and his gang, Sally feels very attracted to this lieutenant. Meanwhile, Dick wants to know what it's like to be young and, while on a spring break holiday with Mary, by chance meets his students and starts partying with them.
Episode 16
Dick Strikes Out
Tue, Mar 28, 200022 mins
The new chancellor has decided - among other things several professors don't like - Mary's research will be canceled. Because he feels bad for her, Dick decides to organize a strike to make the chancellor change his mind. Dick delivers him letters of resignation of all the professors but to his surprise, the chancellor accepts them and a stunned and frightened Dick hasty takes his own letter from the pile. Meanwhile, Tommy starts at the pretzel stand where Alissa works. Unfortunately for him, working with his girlfriend doesn't really work out the way Tommy thought it would.
Episode 17
Shall We Dick?
Tue, Apr 18, 200022 mins
When Strudwick and Judith tell him they'll enter the Badger Day dance contest, Dick tells them he and Mary will also participate, despite the fact Mary can't dance. Harry asks Nina to enter the contest with him and both of them turn out to be great dancers. Meanwhile, Sally and Alissa become the best of friends and go shopping, much to the chagrin of Don and Tommy.
Episode 18
Dick and Harry Fall Down a Hole
Tue, May 2, 200022 mins
Dick and Harry fall down a hole and can't get out. Tommy and Sally find out via the television and on location, Don tells Sally not to worry because a hole expert - nicknamed 'The Hole' - is already on it. Sally clashes with 'The Hole' because she thinks she can do a better job getting Dick and Harry out than he can. Tommy uses the interest people have for the drama to make some money. Meanwhile in the hole, Dick loses control while Harry remains fully relaxed. Dick wants to learn to stay cool like Harry.
Episode 19
Frankie Goes to Rutherford
Tue, May 9, 200022 mins
Frank is a former student of Mary who's back in Rutherford for some lectures. Dick is very jealous at the way he and Mary get along and tells this to Frank. Frank tries to explain to Dick he hasn't got anything to worry about because he's gay but Dick misunderstands and thinks Frank's an alien. Dick tells Frank he is too. When Frank tells Dick there are bars for people like them, Dick is amazed and can't wait to go there. Meanwhile, Sally, Harry and Tommy plan a bank robbery.
Episode 20
Dick Solomon's Day Off
Tue, May 16, 200022 mins
When Nina is ill and takes a sick day, Dick comes up with the idea to take a sick day to have the day off. When he sees Mary at the end of his day, he convinces her to take the next day off as well so they can do something fun together. After they find a cellphone call on the scanner Don forgot at their place, Harry, Sally and Tommy have a new hobby: listening to the conversations of Andrea, who's got a cheating boyfriend.
Episode 21
The Big Giant Head Returns Again: Part 1
Tue, May 23, 200021 mins
The Big Giant Head and Vicky come back to Earth. The Big Giant Head admits their marriage is rather troubled and Vicky feels attracted to Harry again. However, Harry feels attracted to Janice and wants to ask her out, which makes Vicky very jealous. For some reason, The Big Giant Head wants to spend time so much with Dick and treats him so amicable, Dick longs to go back to the days when he feared his supreme commander. Meanwhile, Sally thinks Alissa wants to dump Tommy and tries to protect him.
Episode 22
The Big Giant Head Returns Again: Part 2
Tue, May 23, 200021 mins
Dick is totally astonished when The Big Giant Head turns out to be his father and he doesn't know what to do. Tommy's very angry with Sally when he finds out she dumped Alissa on his behalf. He now tries to do whatever he can to get her back. The tender relationship Harry and Janice have, won't last long if a jealous Vicky has anything to say about it.
