3rd Rock from the Sun season 3

Cast and characters

Main cast

• John Lithgow as Dick Solomon
• Kristen Johnston as Sally Solomon
• French Stewart as Harry Solomon
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tommy Solomon
• Jane Curtin as Dr. Mary Albright
• Simbi Khali as Nina Campbell
• Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Mamie Dubcek
• Wayne Knight as Officer Don Leslie Orville

Recurring cast

• David DeLuise as Bug Pollone
• Ian Lithgow as Leon
• Danielle Nicolet as Caryn
• Chris Hogan as Aubrey Pitman
• Ileen Getz as Dr. Judith Draper
• Shay Astar as August Leffler
• Jan Hooks as Vicki Dubcek
• Ron West as Dr. Vincent Strudwick
• John Cleese as Dr. Liam Neesam

Episodes

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

Sally attends yoga classes with Mary, where she begins to take a liking to her instructor (Leigh McCloskey).

At home, Tommy and his friends have formed a garage band and are practicing in the garage, while Harry wants desperately to be their roadie.

In Rutherford, Sally, Harry, and Tommy help Nina move out of her apartment, before Sally decides that she would like to move in.

Sally begins to grow attached to her new tomato plant and names it Jeremy, leading Don to fear the worst when he hears that Sally is spending much time with "him."

Tommy is worried that August is cheating on him and sends Harry to investigate.

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

Sally, much to Officer Don's distress, falls for a cockney 'artist' called Seth, and makes herself over to look and sound similar to him.

Harry and Tommy volunteer themselves for Mary's class project - they must communicate without words for five days.

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

Tommy forces Harry to go to night school to earn a diploma, so that he can have the things that his friends do.

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

Sally finally gets a proper job, but her boss begins to sexually harass her, and she is fired.

Harry is under orders not to watch any TV for a week, since Dick thinks he is watching too much of it.

Mary is fed up with her dog Pepper and enlists Sally's help in finding a new home for him.

At home, Harry struggles to complete a book report on Little Women for night school.

Harry is delighted when Vicki Dubcek returns, but less than happy when she announces her newly established celibacy.

Tommy is annoyed because he is not old enough to get into a nightclub that Sally and the others are frequenting.

Tommy and Harry find somebody's wallet and return it to him, but after Mrs. Dubcek asks them how much in reward they were given, they stalk the owner until he coughs up.

Sally pretends to be pregnant to get in with a group of expecting women, but Officer Don finds out and panics. Sally then reveals the truth.

Sally is shopping for her own car and becomes enthralled by a Dodge Viper. However, she cannot afford it and becomes increasingly exasperated with the salesman, who, she believes, is intent on spoiling her happiness.

At work, Mary reveals to Dick that she had always dreamed of being a lounge singer, so he decides to try to help her realize this.

Don unwittingly ends up stealing one of Sally's panties, and makes a series of attempts to return it without being caught.

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

Harry and Tommy stumble upon Pendleton's university radio station, where Harry takes the controls and becomes a shock jock.

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

(Absent: Wayne Knight as Officer Don)

Sally becomes concerned that Officer Don has lost interest in her after hearing a woman tell him he was "great last night", so Mrs. Dubcek convinces her to disguise herself and follow him around.

At work, Dick is worried because he is the only person in the university who gets charged for crackers in the cafeteria.

Harry finally finishes night school and reminisces about his time there with his friends Larry and Mrs. Deguzman.

(Absent: Wayne Knight as Officer Don)

At work, Mary has been awarded a place in a promotional video for Pendleton and a jealous Dick takes desperate measures to ensure that he also is granted a place in it. Unfortunately, neither Dick or Mary share the director's vision and end up ruining the video.

Officer Don gives Sally a key to his apartment, hoping that the pair can spend more quality time together; however, he regrets it when she begins to treat the place a little too much as if it is her own.

(Absent: Elmarie Wendel as Mrs. Dubcek)

• 8 days after this episode aired, Phil Hartman was shot dead by his wife. For this reason, he is only mentioned in passing during the next episode.

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