John Lithgow
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 8
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English
Description
After attending a football game and observing how enthusiastically the crowd sang "The Star-Spangled Banner," Dick observes that humans have a deep love for their country of origin. To get with the program and to look inconspicuous, he assigns the aliens a handful of research tasks on America.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 16
Language
English
Description
Nina tells Dick that the Fleischman Foundation called to say that Dick's grant application has arrived just as Dick is opening a chain letter. He has no idea how a letter could give him luck, good or bad, and Mary observes that belief in chain letters is a silly superstition. But Nina is adamant that he follows the directions in the letter to avoid potentially disastrous results.
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 21
Language
English
Description
Dick is forced to take sensitivity training after he comes down too hard on his students and they make a complaint against him. Harry escorts Vicki to her high school reunion. And Officer Don tries to teach Tommy how to drive.
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 23
Language
English
Description
Sally becomes a pseudo-celebrity when she beats up Mark Hamill in a restaurant, and Dick becomes jealous while Tommy's school life is affected by Sally's newfound fame. As Sally's assistant, Harry becomes obsessed with keeping Sally on top.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 11
Language
English
Description
Officer Don takes Dick on a tour of the jail, and Dick's scandalized that little effort is being made to rehabilitate the prisoners. To make a point, he pays Eddie's fine and takes responsibility for turning him into an upstanding citizen.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 26
Language
English
Description
In the second part of the season finale, Harry contacts the Big Giant Head so they can return for emergency maintenance. Dick decides to stay behind and risk dying as a human than to go back and chance not returning in Mary's lifetime.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mary has been named Dean of Pendleton's School of Arts and Sciences. She moves into a nicer office and takes Nina with her; Dick tells Nina he didn't like her work anyway. Mary tries to cheer up Dick by authorizing some new office furniture. Dick, on the other hand, jumps to the conclusion that since his girlfriend is the dean, he's the dean.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 4
Language
English
Description
A very bored Dick, Sally and Harry step through a portal to another dimension and immediately find themselves in a chic Manhattan loft. It's soon revealed that Dick's a high-power attorney, Sally writes a racy newspaper column about sex, Tommy's a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" and Harry is president of a television network.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 9
Language
English
Description
When Mary asks Dick if the Solomons will be the subjects of her documentary on the typical American family, he's thrilled and agrees immediately.
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 20
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Albright fails to get "in" with Rutherford's high society, Dick ends up making the cut, but discovers it's not what it's cracked up to be. Meanwhile, Sally and Harry try wrestling. And to impress a girl, Tommy becomes a punk at school.
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 14
Language
English
Description
When Tommy asks Dick to direct his high school production of "Romeo and Juliet," Dick takes the role a little too seriously. Tommy works as the prop guy and when Mrs. Dubcek drinks Juliet's sleeping potion, Harry impersonates her and entertains her friends. Sally tries to get Officer Don to fix Albright's parking tickets and learns that he can't really do it.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 21
Language
English
Description
When Dick's co-worker, Professor Strudwick, gets a lot of attention because of his newly published book on physics, Dick claims he couldn't care less. In fact, he says, the whole thing's a colossal bore. But he's secretly overcome with envy.
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 22
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English
Description
When an insulted Nina has had enough and quits, Harry becomes Dick and Dr. Albright's secretary.
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 6
Language
English
Description
Dick can't understand why Nina won't let him attend the Black Student Union meeting with her. When Nina explains that it's a kind of support group for black students, Dick assumes it must be something like Weight Watchers. The next day in class, Dick learns that Caryn attended the meeting and he wants to know what happened.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 2
Language
English
Description
With the help of the other aliens, Dick escapes the basement and vanquishes Evil Dick. Dennis Rodman returns as a guest star.
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 14
Language
English
Description
When Nina tells Dick that Stanford has no graduate records on him and Dick reacts defensively, Dr. Albright observes that it's virtually impossible to get a straight answer from Dick about his past. Dr. Albright becomes convinced that Dick is actually Manny Rosenberg, a 1960s activist whom she knew briefly and who has been in hiding from the FBI in decades.
117) Distant Thunder
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Language
English
Description
A handful of emotionally-scarred Vietnam vets hide out in Washington's rain forest, living as if the fighting might erupt at any time. One day it did... John Lithgow (Shrek, Footloose) stars as a self-exiled "bush vet" and Ralph Macchio (My Cousin Vinny, The Karate Kid) co-stars as the son he hasn't seen in fifteen years. Their uneasy reunion accidentally sparks war-haunted violence - and father and son share a harrowing fight for survival that will...
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 9
Language
English
Description
Dick confides in Dr. Albright that he and Sally can't seem to stop fighting, and Mary tells him it's the same with her younger brother Roy. But when Dick meets Roy, he immediately likes him and invites him to dinner with the Solomon family. During dinner, much to Mary's embarrassment and the Solomons' alarm, Roy tells a story about being abducted from a cornfield by an alien spacecraft.
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 16
Language
English
Description
When Dick and Sally meet with Tommy's teacher, they learn that Tommy is having trouble fitting in. Sally is less concerned with Tommy's problem than with getting to know his handsome teacher, Mr. Randell. The aliens are mystified when Tommy announces that they must have an ethnic identity because, to them, all earthlings look alike, and Dick resolves to do some research on the issue.
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Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 15
Language
English
Description
When Dick confronts Sally about her obsessive shopping habits, she decides that it's time she and Harry get jobs to earn their own money. Feeling excluded when Nina and Dr. Albright do some female bonding, Dick dresses in drag, crashes a women's study group meeting in the teacher's lounge, shares his feelings and humiliates Dr. Albright.