List of 3rd Rock from the Sun characters

Below is a list of characters in the U.S. television comedy series 3rd Rock from the Sun: (Portrayed by John Lithgow; seasons 1-6) Though the High Commander and head of the expedition to Earth, Dick is often the most childlike member of the group, being the youngest of the crew, despite being the oldest family member (at least appearing to be the oldest due to his body).

When this happens, he shakes violently and gurgles while standing in a squatting position, with his arms at 90° angles, declaring "Incoming message from The Big Giant Head!".

He is often mocked for his inability to open his eyelids properly, requiring him to tilt his head back to look at people his own height.

He has an on-off relationship with August which is usually frustrated by his lack of emotional awareness, and attraction to almost any fertile female he encounters.

Reference is often made to the insecurity caused by her bad parenting, and the fact that before Dick arrived, she was known for sleeping around, and had even been nicknamed "Dr. Slutbunny".

Mrs. Dubcek lives below the Solomon family and is portrayed as a loose and carefree woman who is prone to having many sexual partners.

She apparently has an illegitimate granddaughter named Melanie, possibly from her aforementioned unnamed son, in the Season 2 episode, Will Work for Dick.

[3] Sally tends to regard Nina and Vicki Dubcek as her two best friends and is often seen asking them for advice and discussing her problems.

[8] Little is shown about Judith's life, as she is usually seen in purely academic situations, such as in the office or at Pendelton staff meetings or parties.

[9] She admitted that she once believed there was a hidden camera in the ladies restroom at Pendelton, and even went as far as to dismantle the ceiling tiles in her search for it.

However, he attempts to break up with her a couple of times to pursue other women (e.g. one of which is his music teacher in the episode "Fourth and Dick" in Season Two).

In the fourth season, Tommy begins dating Alissa Strudwick, who soon takes August's place on the show.

In the episode "Just Your Average Dick", August reveals that her family is of Dutch ancestry; her grandparents, Lucien and Mona, emigrated to the United States on a schooner in 1852.

Like Tommy, August was a studious high schooler, but she was also contemptuous of prettier girls whom she regarded as shallow and unintelligent.

August was often shown to have a lot of the same highbrow interests as Tommy does, and her perceived intellectual superiority over him, yet this seemed to give her a degree of elitism.

She was also known for her rather quaint neo-feminist views, such as her belief, stated in "I Brake for Dick," that cosmetics are a way for men to "decorate the women they own and turn them into vacuous playthings."

She seemed to also have similarly unusual opinions about other topics (according to Tommy in "I Enjoy Being a Dick," August got out of the Girl Scouts because she thought the cookie selling verged on racketeering).

In the following episode, "Alien Hunter", she appeared as a guest at Dick's birthday party, but didn't have any lines.

(Portrayed by Pauley Perrette in Seasons 1-3; Joey Lauren Adams in Seasons 4-6) is a sweet-natured, kind-hearted, determined, forgiving, and sympathetic extraterrestrial-human hybrid who was Sally's childhood friend from the home planet, and sent to Earth to study human behavior, like the Solomons.

Marla works as a waitress The Blue Cheese Bakery and Cafe and is close friends with Nina and Vicki.

In late season 5, her ex-husband impregnated her with their daughter, Sarah, to whom she gave birth to in "Why Dickie Can't Teach".

Their rivalry continued until the very last episode of the series, in which the aliens held an alien-themed farewell party, that Dick misled Strudwick into arriving at dressed for a masquerade ball recreating the court of King Louis XIV.

[20] During a summer weekend, he gets Alissa to watch a scary movie with him, hoping that she needed a big strong man to hold on to.

When he eventually is seen onscreen, he's played by William Shatner, who is famous from the science fiction show Star Trek.

(Portrayed by John Cleese; seasons 3 and 6) Dr. Liam Neesam is a professor who briefly has a relationship with Mary, and is later revealed to be an evil alien.