3rd Rock 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 extraterrestrials arriving on Earth and assimilating into American society.