List of guest stars in 3rd Rock from the Sun

This is a list of notable guest stars who appeared in the American television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun throughout its six season run.

Guest stars

Season 1

• Harry Morgan - (3 episodes, seasons 1 & 2) playing Professor Suter, an elderly colleague of Dick and Mary
• Martha Stewart - playing herself ^[1]
• Phil Hartman - (seasons 1 & 3) playing a camp cosmetics store worker ^[2] and Randy, Vicki Dubcek's ex-lover ^[3]
• Jane Lynch - playing Tommy's science teacher, Ms. Koppel
• John Mahoney - playing Leonard Hamlin, a rude, sexist professor ^[4]
• Lauren Graham - playing Laurie Ives
• John Raitt - playing Singing Truck Driver
• Marla Sokoloff - playing Dina, Tommy's lab partner and love interest ^[1]

Season 2

• Dennis Rodman - playing himself; it is revealed that he is actually another alien ^[5][6]
• George Takei - playing himself at a sci-fi convention ^[7]
• Al Franken - playing Harry's opponent in the City Council election ^[7]
• Mike Ditka - playing Coach Mafferty; coach for Pendelton Badgers ^[8][9]
• Mark Hamill - playing himself ^[10]
• Christine Baranski - playing Sonja Umdahl
• Randy Newman - playing himself ^[11]
• Dick Martin-playing sociology professor Dr. Ben Littmeyer ^[12]
• Greg Proops

Season 3

• Roseanne Barr - playing Dick's forced-wife Janet ^[13][14]
• Leigh McCloskey - playing Matthew, a yoga instructor
• Elaine Stritch - (seasons 3 & 6) playing Martha Albright, Mary's mother ^[15][16]
• George Grizzard - (seasons 3 & 4) playing George Albright, Mary's Father ^[15][16]
• Cindy Crawford - playing Mascha, a Venusian woman ^[17][17]
• Angie Everhart - playing Chloe, A Venusian woman dating Tommy
• Dom DeLuise - playing the father of Dick's student Bug ^[18]
• Peter DeLuise - playing Franky
• John Cleese - (seasons 3 & 6) playing Professor Liam Neesam, a hostile alien ^{[19][20][21][21]}
• Sam Lloyd - playing Eddie, a man Dick helps.

Season 4

• Laurie Metcalf - playing Jennifer Ravelli, a teacher of comparative literature ^[22][23][24]
• Kathy Bates - playing Charlotte Everley, an alien hunter ^[25]
• Gil Christner - playing Carl, a Nobel Laureate ^[26]
• William Shatner - (seasons 4 & 5) playing The Big Giant Head (a.k.a. Stone Phillips) ^{[27][27][28][29][29]}
• Aaron Paul - (Season 4) Playing the Junior Prom King & Queen announcer^[27]
• Kurtwood Smith (Season 4) Playing Dick's "cousin" Jacob when they attend a Solomon family reunion
• Bryan Cranston - Plays a Neil Diamond Impersonator (whom Sally kisses) Season 4 Episode 14 ^[30]

Season 5

• Billy Connolly - playing an actor who is playing the part of Inspector McAffrey ^[31]
• David Hasselhoff - playing a plastic surgeon ^[32]
• Jonathan Frakes - playing Larry McMichael, the husband of Mary's friend Gwen ^[33]
• Genie Francis - playing Gwen McMichael, the wife of Larry McMichael ^[33]
• Chyna - playing Janice, a police officer ^[34][28][28]
• Miguel Ferrer - playing Jack McMannus, a government agent ^[35]
• Alan Cumming - playing Angus 'The Hole' McDuff, a hole expert ^[36]
• Enrico Colantoni - playing Frank, an ex-student of Mary's ^[37]
• Bob Odenkirk - plays as Gary Parkinson an insurance salesman in "The Fifth Solomon" (episode 3 season 5) ^[38]

Season 6

• Megan Mullally - playing Renata Albright, Mary's sister ^[39]
• Elvis Costello - playing himself ^[40]
• Mark McKinney - Playing a new alien that stumbled through the Solomon's closet door.

References

1. "Post-Nasal Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 1. Episode 2. 1996-01-16. NBC.
2. "Lonely Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 1. Episode 7. 1996-02-20. NBC.
3. "Eat, Drink, Dick, Mary". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 3. Episode 27. 1998-05-20. NBC.
4. "Body and Soul and Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 1. Episode 8. 1996-02-27. NBC.
5. "See Dick Continue to Run - Part I". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 2. Episode 1. 1996-09-22. NBC.
6. "See Dick Continue to Run - Part II". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 2. Episode 2. 1996-09-22. NBC.
7. "Hotel Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 2. Episode 3. 1996-09-29. NBC.
8. "Fourth and Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 2. Episode 7. 1996-11-03. NBC.
9. "Romeo and Juliet and Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 2. Episode 14. 1997-01-12. NBC.
10. "Fifteen Minutes of Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 2. Episode 23. 1997-05-11. NBC.
11. "A Nightmare on Dick Street". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 2. Episode 26. 1997-05-18. NBC.
12. "Dick Jokes". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 2. Episode 11. 1996-06-12. NBC.
13. "Fun with Dick and Janet - Part I". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 3. Episode 1. 1997-09-24. NBC.
14. "Fun with Dick and Janet - Part II". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 3. Episode 2. 1997-09-24. NBC.
15. "Dick-In-Law". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 3. Episode 4. 1997-10-15. NBC.
16. "My Mother, My Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 6. Episode 14. 2001-02-20. NBC.
17. "36! 24! 36! Dick - Part I". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 3. Episode 14. 1998-01-25. NBC.
18. "Auto Eurodicka". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 3. Episode 17. 1998-02-04. NBC.
19. "Just Your Average Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 3. Episode 22. 1998-04-28. NBC.
20. "Dick and the Other Guy". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 3. Episode 23. 1998-04-28. NBC.
21. "Mary Loves Scoochie - Part I". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 6. Episode 17. 2001-05-08. NBC.
22. "What's Love Got to Do, Got to Do with Dick?". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 4. Episode 5. 1998-10-28. NBC.
23. "I Am Dick Pentameter!". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 4. Episode 6. 1998-11-04. NBC.
24. "DIII: Judgement Day". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 4. Episode 7. 1998-11-11. NBC.
25. "Alien Hunter". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 4. Episode 20. 1999-05-04. NBC.
26. "Dick vs. Strudwick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 4. Episode 21. 1999-05-11. NBC.
27. "Dick's Big Giant Headache - Part I". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 4. Episode 23. 1999-05-25. NBC.
28. "The Big Giant Head Returns". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 12. 2000-02-22. NBC.
29. "The Big Giant Head Returns Again - Part I". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 21. 2000-05-23. NBC.
30. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0502700/
31. "Dial M For Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 4. 1999-11-09. NBC.
32. "Dick and Tuck". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 5. 1999-11-16. NBC.
33. "Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 10. 2000-01-05. NBC.
34. "This Little Dick went to Market". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 14. 2000-03-14. NBC.
35. "Youth is Wasted on the Dick". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 15. 2000-03-21. NBC.
36. "Dick and Harry Fall in a Hole". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 18. 2000-05-02. NBC.
37. "Frankie Goes to Rutherford". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 5. Episode 19. 2000-05-09. NBC.
38. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0502729/
39. "Les Liaisons Dickereuses". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 6. Episode 1. 2000-10-24. NBC.
40. "The Thing That Wouldn't Die - Part II". 3rd Rock from the Sun. Season 6. Episode 20. 2001-05-22. NBC.

See also

• 3rd Rock from the Sun episodes
• 3rd Rock from the Sun