3rd Rock from the Sun on Netflix Streaming

When 3rd Rock from the Sun first came out, John Lithgow disagreed with critics who said that the aliens-on-earth premise was too narrow and would wear thin. He argued it was wide open. That a show about humans as a foreign species was really a show about everything. The show was a success, running for 6 seasons and earning dozens of awards for the creators and the performers.

If you care to, you can watch all 6 seasons streaming on Netflix.

Even if you want to complain that it's just a recycled version of Mork & Mindy, (subtract the improv savant; add the veteran of classical theatre) the show held up with a consistent absurdity and more Dick jokes than any other show on network television. It's easy when your main character takes that name. Here are a few of the titles of episodes from the 1st season:

• Post-Nasal Dick
  
• Dick, Smoker
  
• Body & Soul & Dick
  
• Frozen Dick
  
• The Dicks, They Are a Changin'
  
• Assault with a Deadly Dick
  
• Father Knows Dick

The second season added Gobble, Gobble, Dick, Dick, Fifteen Minutes of Dick, and a few more, then the episode titles calmed down. A bit.

But as is true of many shows, you won't see these titles on the screen. I wonder why.