3rd Rock from the Sun is a high-concept sitcom that became one of the smartest and most inventive comedies of the 1990s by flipping the traditional “fish out of water” premise on its head. Premiering in 1996, the show follows a group of aliens sent to Earth on a research mission who disguise themselves as a human family while secretly studying human behavior. The alien group poses as the Solomon family, led by Dick Solomon, played by John Lithgow in one of the most celebrated comedic performance