Their original forms, for example, are described as nonsexual, with reproduction a matter of sending packets of genetic material to each other in the mail. Leaders like The Big Giant Head are unelected and assumed infallible in fact, it is stated that politicians on their planet are chosen by seeing which one can outrun the giant fireball. The upshot is that living in an Earth culture provides the Solomons with an almost intolerable degree of emotional stimulation and conflict.
Although they are ill-equipped to handle such an emotional maelstrom, they love it. Part 1. Part 2. Browse more videos. Furthermore, these four alien researchers end up looking more or less like joyriders as they get drawn further and further into human life.
Dick Solomon John Lithgow , the High Commander and leader of the expedition, is the family provider as a physics professor at Pendelton State University with Ian Lithgow, John Lithgow's oldest son, playing one of his less successful students. Information officer Tommy Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been given the body of a teenager and is forced to enroll in high school later college , leaving security officer Sally Kristen Johnston and "the one with the transmitter in his head," Harry French Stewart to spend their lives as twenty somethings hanging out at home and bouncing through short-term jobs.
The show also revolves around their relationships with humans, mostly their love interests. The family often communicates through Harry with their off-world and usually unseen boss, the Big Giant Head, who when he finally visits Earth, appears in the body of William Shatner. Harry unexpectedly and often in inconvenient circumstances stands up, his arms stiff acting as the antenna , and proclaims: "Incoming message from the Big Giant Head.
Details about their alien nature are rarely given and inconsistent, except to reinforce the idea that their former lives were almost barren of emotion and most of the relationships humans have with each other. Dick is devastated when Dr. Albright gets a new office. Mary has finally agreed to go on a date with Dick. Season 1 Season 2 ». See also TV Schedule. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Top Gap. See more gaps ». Add episode. In Memoriam Stars We've Lost.
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