Comedy · Family · Science-Fiction
Sent to Earth to investigate civilization, an alien high commander and his quirky crew -- military officer Sally, information expert Tommy and transmitter Harry -- assume human identities to blend in. Although they possess superior intelligence, their naïveté about the human condition turns everyday events into farcical fun.
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Aliens have landed…in suburbia! To investigate Earth, four interplanetary explorers are posing as a "normal" American family. But what's normal to us, things like emotions, politics, and zoos, are shockingly alien to them. Through their innocence, irreverence and disarming honesty, we realize they've landed on the most bizarre planet of all - ours!
Tommy catches a bug from a fellow student and the Solomons have their first experience with flu; meanwhile Dick wrangles his way into escorting Dr. Albright to a wedding.
Dick discovers that normal Earthlings have birthdays, then he realizes he is getting old and tries to act younger.
Sally goes on a date and does not understand the signals her date is sending.
Dick takes up smoking because he thinks it is cool and then goes missing for three days. Sally thinks Dick being missing is a test of her command capability, meanwhile Tommy reanimates a dead frog in science class.
Dick becomes jealous when a old professor friend comes to town and tries his best to get Mary's attention. Meanwhile, Harry befriends a stray dog then finds out they are not allowed to have dogs because of the landlord's allergies. Sally is given a mission to discover what attracts women to different men.
When Dr. Albright goes on vacation, Dick misses her and becomes obsessive over her.
When a obnoxious professor passes away and Dick finds out he has been chosen to perform the eulogy, Dick has problems finding anything good to say about the man. Tommy sees a cheerleader on the side.
The Solomons are impressed with Dr. Albright's brother until he says he has been abducted by aliens, then they worry that they may have been involved somehow.
Dick finds out people sometimes lie to get what they want and Sally and Harry find out how hard it is to get a driver's license.
Sally takes over the school bake sale even though she can't cook; Dick and Harry take a painting class with Dr. Albright.
Dick goes on a trip to Chicago with Dr. Albright and has issues with the airplane, the Soloman family has their first experience with snowfall on Earth.
The Solomons decide to make friends in order to experience what humans do and Dick ends up with problems with his next door neighbor because of it.
Dr. Albright mistakes Dick for a radical activist who started a riot in the 60's and is wanted by the FBI. Harry joins a CD-of-the-month club and is swamped with CDs
Flummoxed by feminism, Dick dons a dress to infiltrate Dr. Albright's women only study group. Harry and Sally get jobs at a pancake restaurant.
Dick discovers ethnicity and decides the Solomon's need a ethnic background but he does not really understand what being ethnic is. Meanwhile, Sally wants to fit in with Tommy's handsome teacher.
Dick signs Tommy up for school basketball after the Solomons attend a basketball game; Dick is mugged at an ATM; Sally meets Officer Don for the first time.
Harry feels like he is a useless member of the team; Sally meets Randall's mother over dinner.
After Sally ends up in the hospital, Harry, Tommy and Sally pretend to be ER doctors. Dick gets upset when Dr. Albright moves to a new office and goes on a campaign to get her back.
After Dr. Albright finally agrees to date Dick, a message comes in from the Big Giant Head telling the Solomons that they are being recalled due to incompetence.
Evil Dick puts suave moves on Dr. Albright and her assistant while changing everything at the Solomon home. A new message comes in from the Big Giant Head which Evil Dick keeps secret. Later Harry makes a discovery in the basement.
Evil Dick plans to take over the world and the Solomons try to stop him. Meanwhile, Evil Dick picks up where Dick left off with Dr. Albright.
After seeing a scifi horror film that scares him, Dick decides to tell Mary that he is an alien while they are at a sci-fi convention. Harry, Sally and Tommy discover hotel amenities.
The Solomon's tell Sally she needs to get intimate with her boyfriend Mr. Randall. Romantic woes between Sally and Randell don't deter Harry from signing up with a dating service. August tests Tommy's loyalty.
Mary has problems with the relationship with Dick being out in the open; Sally decides that she wants to be a cop.
Harry runs for the city council while Mary and Dick have conflicts about how and why to vote for a candidate.
Dick can't understand the big deal about Homecoming then he discovers the meaning of school spirit; Sally decides that she needs a best girlfriend.
Sally meet a guy at a gay bar and falls for him; Tommy is accepted into a school for geniuses.
Mrs. Dubcek wants the Solomon's to babysit her grandson for a bit and things get out of hand when Sally becomes obsessed. Meanwhile, Mary makes the mistake of asking Dick to babysit her fish.
Thanksgiving is an alien concept for the Solomons; it's an annoyance for Sally (who must cook), and an onus on Tommy. But Harry finds romance.
Dick gets upset after he discovers that Mary has asked another professor to emcee the fund raiser she is organizing and decides that he is funny enough to be the Master of Ceremonies. Meanwhile, Harry loses his beloved coat, and Sally builds a shelf to hold her shoes.
The Solomon's experience their first Christmas on Earth. Harry and Sally discover the true meaning of Christmas at the mall, where they get jobs. But Dick turns curmudgeonly. Tommy tries to find the perfect present for August.
Dick, upset that Mary got a prime parking space and he didn't, quits his job. Harry loses his memory and becomes paranoid thinking aliens are taking over the world.
Dick directs Romeo & Juliet at Tommy's school and drives everyone crazy; Dick talks Sally into having Officer Don try to fix Mary's traffic tickets.
While helping Mary, Dick falls and sprains his ankle. Mary feels responsible and Dick takes advantage of Mary and the rest of the family. Tommy has to sell candy bars for his physical education class and Harry builds a tree house.
A Frenchman asks an unwitting Sally to marry him so that he can remain in the country. Tommy discovers he has a talent for flower arranging and styling. Dick is inspired to discuss marriage with Albright.
Dick becomes afraid that his romance with Dr. Albright is growing stale; Tommy gets tired of his girlfriend August being perfect at everything she does; Sally and Harry switch jobs at home.
After accidentally hitting a chipmunk, Dick becomes an animal rights activist; Tommy gets in trouble with August again; Harry joins the Boy Scouts.
Asserting his manhood, Dick joins Harry at a strip joint; Sally and Tommy duel in a long running Monopoly battle.
Mary wants to join a high society club and drags Dick along for the ride; Tommy starts hanging out with some high school toughs.
After Dick insults his students, he has to go through sensitivity training; Harry goes to Mrs. Dubcek's daughters high school reunion. Officer Don helps Tommy with his driving.
Nina refuses to work as Dick's assistant anymore so he brings in Harry; Sally experiences her first tea party with a little girl then takes up ballet.
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.
A shy and brainy librarian is attracted to Dick, while Sally realizes why she's attracted to Officer Don. Meanwhile, Tommy and Harry write a "killer" episode of The X-Files.
Dick experiences his first nightmare and the Solomons think he's gone mad. A psychologist gives him pills that make him mellow. Later Sally also has a nightmare and also ends up high on pills. Tommy and Harry desperately try to contact the Big Giant Head so they can go back to their home planet for emergency maintenance.
Tommy is the third of the family to have a nightmare but luckily doesn't take the pills Dick and Sally are on. When Dick and Sally are sober again they're informed they are all going back to the home planet for emergency maintenance. Dick however doesn't want to go back because he wants to stay with Mary.
Sally, Harry and Tommy return with the Big Giant Head's niece, Janet, who Dick is expected to marry.
Dick tries to explain the appearance of his 'wife' to a disgusted Mary, who dumps him. Meanwhile, Officer Don arrests Tommy when he confesses to being responsible for the crop circles in the nearby field.
Dr. Albright and Dick wage a prank war with each other; Sally forgets all about Officer Don when she meets a Yoga instructor. Meanwhile, Tommy reluctantly joins a band with some of the school bullies and Harry gets to be their roadie.
Dick meets Dr. Albright's parents and end up getting close with them; Sally decides to move in with Nina when she goes over with Harry and Tommy to help Nina move.
Dick is terrified when it comes to getting the required physical exam for the college; Sally and Tommy babysit Dr. Albright's house on Halloween night in order to protect it from getting tricked.
Dick faces a weight problem after overeating in reaction to his canceled engagement to Mary; Tommy has Harry spy on August when he suspects her of cheating on him.
Dick finally gets called for jury duty; Sally falls for an artist which upsets officer Don; Tommy and Harry help Mary with her pre-verbal experiment for which they aren't allowed to talk for five whole days.
Before they broke up, Mary and Dick reserved tickets for a dance performance by Peter Connelly and now Dick has to find somebody else to go with. Harry goes to night school because all the job offers in the newspaper ask for diplomas.
The sins of the Solomon's are demonstrated in clips from past shows as they discuss the 7 deadly sins at the dinner table.
Mary becomes interested in Tommy when he is able to talk with her about anthropology on an equal level; Sally gets a job; Harry has to go a week without tv.
Dick decides to rehabilitate one of the prisoners in Officer Don's jail when Don takes him to see the 'Tank'; Mary decides to get rid of the dog that Dick gave her when they were dating each other.
Dick becomes a wheel chair activist; Mrs. Dubcek's daughter Vicki decides that she is going to be celibate much to Harry's distress.
Dick decides to date again, so he goes to Sally and Officer Don for advice; Harry and Tommy find a wallet with $200 in it, and decide to give the money back to its owner.
Venusians disguised as gorgeous women plot to plunder Earth of its riches.
The Solomons head to the Super Bowl to save Earth from an alien plot once they discover that the strange women are all Venusians.
Harry's pet from the home planet shows up and takes on human form; Sally pretends to be pregnant when running into several pregnant women at the gynecologist.
Dick discovers casual sex while Sally desperately wants to buy a very expensive car.
Tommy retires and Dick, deciding that Mary wants to be a singer, sets her up to sing at a night club.
Dick wants to get back with Mary, so he's in luck when they find themselves locked in the school library overnight. Meanwhile, Sally, Harry and Tommy search for Dick.
Sally ends up having a fling with Dr. Albright's father; With Tommy's help, Harry becomes a radio Shock Jock.
Dick demands that Sally and Harry go to work, so she signs on as Albright's assistant and he gets a job tending bar. Then Dick decides on a career change: he wants to be cop.
The Solomons start doubting their normalness. When both August and Mary admit they can sometimes be pretty weird, the Solomons decide to become as average as possible.
Dick has a rival for the title of Pendelton's nuttiest professor with the arrival of the mysterious Dr. Liam Neesam. Meanwhile, Sally thinks she's losing her touch with men.
It's time for Don and Sally's first kiss, Harry has his night school exam and the cafeteria lady hates Dick.
Dick decides that the Solomon's are going camping, so with Mary in tow, things go from bad to worse as Dick discovers the law of the jungle.
When Dr. Albright is asked to make a promotional video for the college, Dick becomes involved; After a trip to the dentist, Nina discovers that she has a thing for Harry and Don gives Sally a key to his house.
Dick plans a romantic dinner as an anniversary for him and Mary and everybody is invited. Tommy "comes out" as a gourmet chef. Vicki Dubcek is back and her ex-boyfriend kidnaps Harry.
Harry has been kidnapped and the Solomons try to find him, a task that is complicated by the fact that Dick is literally losing his mind.
After Mary is made the new Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Dick uses her position to his advantage and ends up firing his arch nemesis, cafeteria worker Lucy, who then files a grievance. Sally prepares to lose her virginity to Don, but afterwards finds that she cannot talk to anyone about it, much to the other Solomons' annoyance.
When Sally discovers that Officer Don has had other girlfriends before her, she starts to track them down. Dick has problems adjusting to being the dean's boyfriend.
Dick becomes obsessed with collecting a series of stuffed animals; Tommy's principal has a talk with him about school spirit and Tommy then goes overboard.
Dean Albright puts another professor in the office with Dick and problems arise; Sally tries to play match maker with Nina. At Happy Doug's bar, Tommy fixes up an old 'love tester' machine but is disappointed when it classifies him as 'cold fish' and Harry 'hot stuff'.
Dick becomes obsessed with Jennifer after Dean Albright can't find time for him anymore. Harry, Tommy and Sally become obsessed with rearranging furniture and giving rooms uses they were not meant for.
Dick finds Jennifer extremely irritating and tries to get back together with Mary; Sally discovers bowling and drives Officer Don up a wall with her unique bowling style.
Sally wants to pose in the nude but it is Harry who ends up that way instead; Tommy tries to impress his new female lab partner.
Dick gets down in the dumps as the New Year approaches; Sally manipulates Officer Don once again.
The Big Giant Head finally grants a request that Sally made when she first arrived on Earth and forces her to swap bodies with Dick.; Harry takes over Happy Doug's bar while Doug is on vacation.
Dick receives an invitation for a family reunion that was meant for someone else but the Solomons go anyway.
After living on Earth for three years, the Solomons finally find out they have to file and pay taxes and Dick causes the family to get audited by the IRS. Sally attempts to help by setting up a failed home hairdressing business, but when women start arriving for haircuts, Harry and Tommy 'camp up' and take to the 'salon' to help.
Dick and the family fight with Mrs. Dubcek over their apartment's plumbing problems; Don proposes to Sally then Sally seeks advice from Mary and Nina.
Dr. Albright becomes concerned that Judith is after her job; Sally falls for a Neil Diamond impersonator; Vicki, Sally, Harry and Tommy hit a riverboat.
Sally wants to get a place of her own and move out; Vicki wants Harry to father a child with her. Meanwhile, Tommy sees babysitting with Alissa as an opportunity to prove to a dubious Harry that she really is his girlfriend.
Dick and Mary both receive a chain letter. Mary throws hers away and a lot of bad luck befalls her. Don treats Tommy and Alissa to a series of ice hockey games for which he bought tickets for when he was dating Sally, but Tommy begins to worry that he isn't manly enough to compete with the likes of the players. Sally and Harry visit a hardware store, where Sally takes a liking to a series of workers, while Harry is mistaken for an employee, due to his bright orange shirt.
Dick catches the computer bug; Sally and Tommy become obsessed with a better television experience as technology takes over with the Solomons.
Sally meets Italian-American Sammy Marchetti, who's also known as 'the Butcher'. Mary & Dick and Harry & Vicki go to a couples' retreat.
Dick hires a maid away from Mary, then Sally feels like she has been replaced. Tommy becomes a crusading editor for the school newspaper and alienates his ex-girlfriend.
Dick meets a strange woman who says he is at the top of her list and claims to have several different occupations, only to get a unexpected and unwanted surprise.
Dick becomes jealous of professor Strudwick; Sally and Don go to the movies 'as friends' and things escalate; Mary babysits needy Nobel scientists.
When Sally, Tommy and Harry have a near death experience at a restaurant, Dick feels left out and starts searching for the experience. Sally and Harry volunteer themselves at a homeless shelter. Meanwhile, Tommy decides to waste no more time in his life - and asks Alissa to marry him.
When the Big Giant Head visits Earth to inspect the alien mission, he embraces human vices, causing chaos for the Solomons.
After 'The Big Giant Head' makes Sally the new high commander, Dick has problems adjusting to his different rank. Tommy is preparing for his high school prom with Alissa, but when the Big Giant Head insists on coming, things start to slide.
Vicki delivers her alien baby and the rest of the Solomons try to figure out how to keep the world from discovering they are aliens.
When Dick discovers Mary has slept with Strudwick in the past, he decides the best revenge is to sleep with Strudwick's wife. Meanwhile, Sally gets the hots for Don after he starts riding a police motorbike, but the pair crash and Don ends up in full body plaster.
Dick wrecks the family car while driving with Mary and trying to use his cell phone. Because the Solomons don't have insurance, they can't keep the car and Dick hires a rental. The rental has a lot of gadgets Dick absolutely adores, but nonetheless the Solomons start to miss their good old Rambler. Meanwhile, a slick insurance salesman tells Harry to get insurance.
Mary invites the Solomon's to attend a interactive murder mystery, she then gets sick before the show starts and Dick and the rest of the family believe that there really has been a murder.
Dick decides to have plastic surgery when he talks himself into believing he needs to be more good looking. Sally feels bad that she is so plain and feels that Officer Don is dating her out of pity. Harry, meanwhile, is chuffed when the surgeon tells him that his face is perfect.
Dick inadvertently attends a white supremacy rally; Sally, Harry and Tommy enter a contest intended for children.
Dick learns about tipping while Sally learns sex can lead to pregnancy.
Mary and Dick go to a charity auction. All the buyers get applause and Dick wants this attention too. Therefore, he bids on a painting he actually doesn't want. Don has trouble sleeping because Sally snores. Meanwhile, Tommy and Harry write a new mission statement because Harry lost the original.
Mary makes a documentary about Dick and the rest of the Solomon family. However, the Solomons are worried they might be exposed as aliens and, during the filming, they almost are. In trying to cover up the secret they're aliens, they make up other secrets: Sally's a lesbian, Tommy wets his bed and Harry is an alcoholic.
Mary suggests she and Dick should spend time with another couple. Tommy, Harry and Sally discover the laundromat.
When Dick finds out Mary has been seeing a therapist, he starts seeing the same one in a effort to find out what Mary has been saying about him. Sally is concerned she has a stalker. Meanwhile Tommy makes a big mistake while preparing for his first night with Alissa.
The Big Giant Head returns to take his son with him to the home planet. Meanwhile, Harry admits that he is still in love with Vicki, but Dick tells him that he cannot have her because the Big Giant Head will punish him; whilst Tommy attempts to help Sally beat her addiction - shoes.
Mary starts getting upset when Dick has fantasies about Nina. Sally discovers cooking tools and fancy cooking.
Dick and Tommy discover stock investing and then go on a roller coaster ride. Harry falls for a new female police officer; Sally wants to fight her.
Dick and Mary try to recapture their youths and of course Dick goes to extremes. Don conducts a stakeout from the Solomons' place when the man across the street is suspected of video piracy.
The university gets a new chancellor who announces huge budget cuts. Dick organises his colleagues to take industrial action in response, but weasels out. Meanwhile Tommy gets a job at the pretzel place with Alissa.
Dick gets Mary to enter a dance contest despite the fact that Mary can't dance; Harry invites Nina to dance in the contest with him and they hit it off; Sally and Tommy's girlfriend hit it off at the mall then Tommy gets jealous when Sally sees his girlfriend naked.
Dick and Harry tumble down an air shaft, prompting a televised search and rescue led by an eccentric Scot. Angus 'The Hole' McDuff devises a plan to build a second hole in order to access the one Dick and Harry are stuck in; however he becomes highly offended when Sally belittles his idea. Tommy uses the interest people have for the drama to make some money.
Dick becomes jealous over one of Mary's former students, then when he makes a discovery about the student, he thinks the student and some of his friends are from another world just like him. Meanwhile Sally, Harry and Tommy plan a heist.
Dick finds out what sick days are and what one can use them for. Harry, Sally and Tommy listen to cellphone conversations on Don's scanner.
The Big Giant Head returns along with his queen and he has a surprise for Dick. Meanwhile Queen Vicki tries to break up Harry's relationship with Janice. A misunderstanding between Tommy and Alissa leads to interference from Sally.
Dick is totally astonished when The Big Giant Head turns out to be his father and he doesn't know what to do. Tommy's very angry with Sally when he finds out she dumped Alissa on his behalf. The tender relationship Harry and Janice have, won't last long if a jealous Vicky has anything to say about it.
Mary's sister comes back into her life and Dick comes up with a sneaky plan to help Mary get even with her. Meanwhile Sally and Harry open a youth center in the living room.
Dick and Alissa's father think that Tommy and Alissa have eloped. Can Harry and Sally scare up a date for Tommy?
Dick and Mary double date with Don and Sally leaving everyone feeling a little insecure. Meanwhile Mary and Don run into each other in a food store and, consumed by what they'd heard about each other in bed, share a kiss. Elsewhere, Harry and Tommy follow in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac and take to the open road.
Out of boredom, Dick, Sally and Harry go to a parallel universe and end up in New York where they all live the good life.
The Solomons begin to discover the downside of their new lives.
Tommy is looking for a college to attend and Dick steers him toward Pendelton. Upon taking one of Dick's classes, however, Tommy decides that Dick is a lousy teacher and that he would rather look elsewhere. Meanwhile, Sally is concerned that Don isn't listed one of Rutherford's ten most powerful men and so she gets him a job working for one of them.
Tommy goes off to college and Dick has to adjust to his absence. The Solomons start interviewing Tommy's replacement but Sally gets the hots for the new guy and makes him feel uncomfortable.
The Solomon family discover patriotism.
Dick accompanies Mary on an archaeological dig. Meanwhile, Sally, Harry and Tommy start up a bed and breakfast at home.
Mary has her purse snatched in a park, so Harry, Nina and Mary attend a self defense course that Don is teaching. Dick and Sally become a nightclub magician and a glamorous assistant.
After visiting a psychic, Dick decides to choose Mary's next mate so she won't be lonely when he leaves Earth. Meanwhile, Sally and Harry decide that if the psychic really knows that they are aliens, then they must kill her, but in a way that isn't possible for her to predict.
Sally's accurate predictions as the local weather forecaster have Dick fearing she will be exposed as an alien. Dr. Albright and Dick spend some time apart.
Dick tries to get to know Mary better, meanwhile Sally wants to go farther in the tv business and her mentor tries to give her some unexpected help. Harry gets a new job as a gopher and takes it literally.
Mary reveals to Dick that she has issues with her mother and Dick tells Mary's mother that she is a bad mother; Sally and Harry leave the portal open after using it and a alien life form gets caught in it and they have to take care of the new visitor.
Dick and Don go in halves on a timeshare; Harry has issues with his height when he finds out Tommy is taller than he is now.
Dick becomes obsessed with a book about happiness. Harry decides to paint the ceiling and Sally comes to Tommy's rescue when he is faced with hazing at college.
When the Solomons receive no recognition for their mission at the Alien Awards Show, Sally and Harry head out to try and discover who the winning team are. Dick is confused when he finds love letters that Mary has been keeping, which he didn't write.
Dr Liam Neesam returns and declares himself to be Scoochie, the author of the love letters Mary has received. He reveals nefarious plans for Earth. Meanwhile Sally, Harry and Tommy discover there is a prequel to their favorite movie.
Having witnessed Dick's encounter with Liam Neesam, Mary is in shock. The Big Giant Head makes a decision about the Solomons' futures. Sally catches Don in a compromising position. Harry believes that he is dating twins.
The Solomons struggle with the news the mission is cancelled and they must return to their home planet. They hold a party to say farewell to all their friends on Earth. Elvis Costello entertains at the Solomon's going away party.
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