The aliens in human bodies are still having problems understanding human behavior and society.
Dr. Albright ( Jane Curtin ) offers Dick ( John Lithgow ) and his family free tickets to the Cherrywood Who-Done-It Mystery Weekend. After arriving at Cherrywood, Dr. Albright comes down with food poisoning from eating prawns, and has to return to her room before the show starts.
The members of the Solomon family do not understand that the show is fantasy, and they think that actual murders are being committed. Things go from bad to worse as Dick tries to solve the murders himself.
Dick ( John Lithgow ) orders Sally ( Kristen Johnson ) to look like the earth women he sees in the glamour magazines.
She takes Tommy ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt ) and Harry ( French Stewart ) with her to the cosmetics counter at the local Department store. Tommy meets a girl, and Harry gets a free facial and a job selling men's cosmetics. Sally gets free make-up samples and buys a mini-skirt. She turns out to be gorgeous.
Dr. Mary Albright ( Jane Curtin ), Dick's love interest, leaves town for a much needed one-week vacation at a spa. She leaves instructions with her secretary that she does not want to be disturbed.
Dick becomes depressed and desperate without Mary, and when the secretary refuses to give him her phone number he searches the office for clues. Finding none, he breaks into Mary's house, puts on her slippers, and makes romantic overtures to her sweater. When she returns to work the following week, he is so overcome with emotion that the secretary has to beat him with a book to get him off Dr. Albright.
This comedy ran from 1996-2001, and is one of the funniest comedies I've ever seen.
A four-man team of alien scientists come to earth on an intelligence gathering mission. To avoid suspicion they take on human bodies and the common names Tom, Dick, Harry, and Sally. They picked their last name, Solomon, off a delivery truck.
Dr. Dick Solomon ( John Lithgow ), is the High Commander who gets a job as a Physics professor at the second-rate Pendleton College.
Sally Solomon ( Kristen Johnson ), is a Lieutenant, Security Officer, and a former commando. Ended up in a female body because of a lost bet and is being passed off as Dick's sister. Sally eventually becomes so comfortable in a female body that she develops a taste for mini shirts and stiletto heels. Also falls in love, and begins dating a police officer.
Harry Solomon ( French Stewart ), is an idiot with no impulse control when it comes to women. He was only allowed on the mission because some of his high-ranking relatives on the home planet pulled some strings to get him aboard. He has a communications chip implanted in his head and he serves as a two-way radio which keeps them in contact with home base. He is supposedly Dick's brother.
Tommy Solomon ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt ) is the Information Officer who was placed in an adolescent body. He is passed off as Dick's son.
Dr. Mary Albright ( Jane Curtain ), is an Anthropologist at Pendleton College. She shares an office with Dick and eventually becomes his love interest.
Dr. Albright receives a grant to do a documentary about a typical American family, and she chooses the Solomons. During the filming, Dick slips up and refers to Sally as Lieutenant. This causes the Solomons to tell one lie after another to cover up the mistake.
