This article is about the American sitcom. For the Joe Diffie album, see Third Rock from the Sun. For the album's title song, see Third Rock from the Sun (song). For the Jimi Hendrix song, see Third Stone from the Sun.
3rd Rock from the Sun
Genre
Sitcom
Science fiction
Created by
Bonnie Turner
Terry Turner
Directed by
Terry Hughes
Various (seasons 1–2)
Starring
John Lithgow
Kristen Johnston
French Stewart
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Jane Curtin
Simbi Khali
Elmarie Wendel
Wayne Knight
Theme music composer
Ben Vaughn (seasons 1–3)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (season 5)
Ben Vaughn & Jeff Sudakin (season 6)
Composers
Ben Vaughn (seasons 1–3)
Jonathan Wolff (seasons 4–5)
Paul Buckley (seasons 4–5)
Jeff Sudakin (season 6)
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
6
No. of episodes
139 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
John Lithgow
Bonnie Turner
Terry Turner
Marcy Carsey
Tom Werner
Caryn Mandabach
Linwood Boomer (season 1)
Bill Martin [fr]
Mike Schiff (seasons 4–5)
David Sacks (seasons 4–5)
Bob Kushell
Christine Zander (seasons 5–6)
David Goetsch
Jason Venokur (season 6)
Producers
Patrick Kienlen
David Goetsch
Jason Venokur
David M. Israel
Jim O'Doherty
Andrew Orenstein
Michael Glouberman
Gregg Mettler
Tim Ryder
Aron Abrams
Camera setup
Film; Multi-camera
Running time
22 minutes
Production company
The Carsey-Werner Company
Original release
Network
NBC
Release
January 9, 1996 (1996-01-09) – May 22, 2001 (2001-05-22)
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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 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, which was also written by the couple and featured a similar premise of aliens arriving on Earth and assimilating into American society.
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