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3rd Rock From The Sun (season 3)
The third season of ''3rd Rock from the Sun'', an American television series, began September 24, 1997, and ended on May 20, 1998. It aired on NBC. The region 1 DVD was released on February 21, 2006. 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 John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Rock From The Sun
''3rd Rock from the Sun'' is an American television sitcom created by Bonnie and Terry Turner, which originally aired from January 9, 1996, to May 22, 2001, on NBC. The show is about four Extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, the third planet from the Sun, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human family to observe the behavior of human beings. The show premiered three years after the film ''Coneheads (film), Coneheads'', which was also written by the couple and featured a similar premise of aliens arriving on Earth and assimilating into American society. ''Coneheads'' also starred Jane Curtin as one of the titular alien Coneheads and featured a supporting cast including Jan Hooks, Phil Hartman, Julia Sweeney and Laraine Newman, all of whom appeared as guest stars on ''3rd Rock from the Sun''. Overview The premise of the show revolves around an extraterrestrial research expedition hailing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Orville
Officer Donald Leslie "Don" Orville is a fictional character in the NBC sitcom ''3rd Rock from the Sun''. He is portrayed by Wayne Knight and works as a Police Sergeant in the fictional town of Rutherford, Ohio, though he is consistently referred to as "Officer" throughout the series. Work Although Don works as a police officer and later sergeant throughout the series, he is often shown to be somewhat incompetent. In ''The Physics of Being Dick,'' he lets Dick interrogate a criminal with him, despite it being highly illegal. When he is paged, he also never appears to know what any of the crime codes actually mean. Don is known to make a blunder of things, for example, in ''Stuck With Dick,'' when he thinks Mary's house has been broken into, he attempts to burst in through the front door and ends up shouting "Ass right there, freeze hole!" In ''Dick's Big Giant Headache, Part II'', he also claims to be always losing things, adding "I even lost a whole dead guy once”. As the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Brazill
Mark Brazill is a television creator. Conflict with Judd Apatow In late 2001, Judd Apatow sought to have Topher Grace of '' That '70s Show'' appear in an episode of his series '' Undeclared''. This initiated a string of heated emails between the two. Brazill claimed that Apatow had stolen his idea for a comedy about a rock band and used it on '' The Ben Stiller Show'' in the early 1990s. The sketch was titled "The Grungies", a dark parody of ''The Monkees'' television series focusing on an outrageous grunge band. The emails were subsequently leaked and widely circulated online. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brazill, Mark Living people American television producers Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Hughes (director)
Terry Hughes is a British film and television director and producer. He won the 1976 BAFTA Award for Best Entertainment Programme for ''The Two Ronnies'', the 1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program for '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', and the 1987 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for ''The Golden Girls''. He directed 108 episodes of ''The Golden Girls'' between 1985 and 1990. Career Hughes has produced or directed BBC TV variety shows such as Val Doonican, Harry Secombe and Kenneth Williams and series such as ''Ripping Yarns''. He is probably best known in the UK for being the producer and director of ''The Two Ronnies'' from 1971 to 1976. He earned six consecutive BAFTA nominations for his work on this show, winning once in 1976. In 1985, as part of his work in America, Hughes won an Emmy for ''Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program'' for directing the televised ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on ''The Frost Report''. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show '' Monty Python's Flying Circus.'' Along with his Python co-stars Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Cleese starred in Monty Python films, which include '' Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' (1975), ''Life of Brian'' (1979) and ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Meaning of Life'' (1983). In the mid-1970s, Cleese and first wife Connie Booth co-wrote the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'', in which he starred as hotel owner Basil Fawlty, for which he won the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. In 2000 the show topped the British Film Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Strudwick (3rd Rock From The Sun)
Below is a list of characters in the U.S. television comedy series ''3rd Rock from the Sun'': Cast Main characters Dr. Richard "Dick" Solomon (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). Much of the behavioral or societal-based troubles faced by the crew in their mission while on Earth frequently arise from some juvenile act perpetrated by Dick, troubles which in turn are forced to be overcome by the entire troupe with a great deal of reluctance. Salome "Sally" Solomon (Portrayed by Kristen Johnson; seasons 1-6) With a rank of lieutenant, Sally is the security officer and second-in-command. She has been called Dick's sister, but was sometimes introduced as Tommy's sister earlier in the series, and, on one occasion, claimed to be his mother, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Hooks
Janet Vivian HooksJan Hooks obituary liteseyfh.com; accessed October 21, 2014. northwestgeorgianews.com; accessed October 21, 2014. (April 23, 1957 – October 9, 2014) was an American actress and comedian, best known for her work on '''', where she was a repertory player from 1986 to 1991 and continued making cameo appearances until 1994. Her subsequent work included a regular role on the final two seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Leffler
Below is a list of characters in the U.S. television comedy series ''3rd Rock from the Sun'': Cast Main characters Dr. Richard "Dick" Solomon (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). Much of the behavioral or societal-based troubles faced by the crew in their mission while on Earth frequently arise from some juvenile act perpetrated by Dick, troubles which in turn are forced to be overcome by the entire troupe with a great deal of reluctance. Salome "Sally" Solomon (Portrayed by Kristen Johnson; seasons 1-6) With a rank of lieutenant, Sally is the security officer and second-in-command. She has been called Dick's sister, but was sometimes introduced as Tommy's sister earlier in the series, and, on one occasion, claimed to be his mother, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shay Astar
Shay Astar (born September 29, 1981) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter best known for portraying the teenage feminist August Leffler, a semi-regular character on the sitcom ''3rd Rock from the Sun''. Career Astar played Elizabeth in the Halloween comedy film ''Ernest Scared Stupid'' (1991), Paula Kelly in the '' Boy Meets World'' episode "I Am Not a Crook", and Isabella, the imaginary friend of a young girl aboard the '' Enterprise'' in the '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode " Imaginary Friend" in 1992. In 1996, she voiced Andrea on the cartoon series ''The Oz Kids ''The Oz Kids'' is an American direct-to-video animated fantasy comedy-drama series produced by Hyperion Animation based on '' The Wizard of Oz'', L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel, and its various sequels. Nine episodes were released between ...''. Astar released her first EP, ''Blue Music EP'', on May 24, 2010. This was followed by her full-length debut, ''Blue Music'' on September 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Draper
Below is a list of characters in the U.S. television comedy series ''3rd Rock from the Sun'': Cast Main characters Dr. Richard "Dick" Solomon (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). Much of the behavioral or societal-based troubles faced by the crew in their mission while on Earth frequently arise from some juvenile act perpetrated by Dick, troubles which in turn are forced to be overcome by the entire troupe with a great deal of reluctance. Salome "Sally" Solomon (Portrayed by Kristen Johnson; seasons 1-6) With a rank of lieutenant, Sally is the security officer and second-in-command. She has been called Dick's sister, but was sometimes introduced as Tommy's sister earlier in the series, and, on one occasion, claimed to be his mother, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ileen Getz
Ileen Getz (August 7, 1961 – August 4, 2005) was an American actress, most recognized for her role as Dr. Judith Draper in the television series ''3rd Rock from the Sun.'' Professional life Getz began working professionally at The Practical Theatre Company while still in college. After graduating from Northwestern University, she became a company member of the Econo-Art Theatre Company, and worked in other Chicago, Illinois, theaters. She began her television work in 1995, with appearances on shows such as ''Law & Order'' and ''Seinfeld''. In 1996, Getz became a recurring cast member on ''3rd Rock from the Sun'', playing a professor of women's studies with no personality. Her film career included minor roles in such films as '' Celebrity'', ''Lovely and Amazing'', '' The Station Agent'', '' Changing Lanes'', and the posthumously-released '' Friends with Money'' and ''East Broadway''. Getz also worked in New York City theatre, on Broadway (Jake's Women ''Jake's Women'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Hogan (actor)
Christopher Hogan is an American actor and comedian, most notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on ''MADtv'' and for the character of Aubrey Pitman, one of Dick Solomon's students, on ''3rd Rock from the Sun''. Early life Hogan grew up in Eastchester, New York, and went to Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in the class of 1985. While at Trinity, he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Career ''MADtv'' Hogan joined the cast of ''MADtv'' in 1997, as a repertory performer, for the third season. He is remembered for playing characters who could only wrestle the infamous response, "He looka like a man" from Alex Borstein's Ms. Swan, whether it would be a fast food clerk, a police officer, or his Fox Mulder character. Hogan's other characters included Miguel O'Reilly (New at Six), Vonda Parker (Parker Sisters), and public accountant Milton Cladwell. However, Hogan is most remembered for succeeding David Herman as the colorful E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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