Vincent Strudwick (3rd Rock from the Sun)

Vincent Strudwick (3rd Rock from the Sun)

Infobox character
name = Vincent Strudwick


caption =
series = 3rd Rock from the Sun
first = "Dick Behaving Badly"
last = "The Thing That Wouldn't Die Pt. 2"
cause = End of the series
species = Earthling
gender = Male
occupation = Physics professor
title = "Doctor of Philosophy"
spouse = Dorothy "Dottie" Strudwick (wife)
Dr. Mary Albright (brief fling in 1992)cite episode |title=Dick for Tat|episodelink=List of 3rd Rock from the Sun episodes#Season 5: 1997 - 1998 |series=3rd Rock from the Sun|serieslink=3rd Rock from the Sun|network=NBC |airdate=1999-11-28 |season=5 |number=2]
children = Alissa Strudwick
portrayer = Ron West
creator = Bob Kushell
imdb_id = 0022423

Vincent Strudwick is a fictional character in the American sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun", played by Ron West. He is first a friend, and later the arch-enemy of Dick Solomon.

Relationship with Dick

easons 2 - 4

In the first seasons of the show, Dick and Strudwick appeared to be friends, and were seen playing physics-related games together in the second season episode "Dick Behaving Badly".cite episode |title=Dick Behaving Badly |episodelink=List of 3rd Rock from the Sun episodes#Season 2: 1996 - 1997 |series=3rd Rock from the Sun |serieslink=3rd Rock from the Sun|network=NBC |airdate=1996-03-23 |season=2 |number=19] Also, in the fourth season episode "Power Mad Dick", Mary is made Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Dick believes that this gives him her authority, and one of the changes he makes is giving Strudwick a pay rise.cite episode |title=Power Mad Dick |episodelink=List of 3rd Rock from the Sun episodes#Season 4: 1998 - 1999 |series=3rd Rock from the Sun |serieslink=3rd Rock from the Sun|network=NBC |airdate=1998-10-07 |season=4 |number=2]

easons 4 - 6

Strudwick's rivalry with Dick came into play after he released a bestselling book about physics, and Dick, as another physiscs teacher, became extremely jealous of his achievement and from then on appeared to detest him.cite episode |title=Dick v. Strudwick |episodelink=List of 3rd Rock from the Sun episodes#Season 4: 1998 - 1999 |series=3rd Rock from the Sun |serieslink=3rd Rock from the Sun|network=NBC |airdate=1999-05-11 |season=4 |number=21] Their rivalry continued until the very last episode of the series, in which the aliens held an alien-themed farewell party, that Dick misled Strudwick into arriving at dressed for a masquerade ball recreating the court of King Louis XIV.cite episode |title=The Thing That Wouldn't Die |episodelink=List of 3rd Rock from the Sun episodes#Season 6: 2000 - 2001 |series=3rd Rock from the Sun |serieslink=3rd Rock from the Sun|network=NBC |airdate=2001-05-22 |season=6 |number=20]

Alternate universe

In "Dick'll Take Manhattan", a two part episode in which the Solomon family visit a parallel universe, Strudwick turned out to be working as a priest, something which Dick found highly amusing.cite episode |title=Dick'll Take Manhattan (Pt. 1)|episodelink=List of 3rd Rock from the Sun episodes#Season 6: 2000 - 2001 |series=3rd Rock from the Sun |serieslink=3rd Rock from the Sun|network=NBC |airdate=2000-11-21 |season=6 |number=4] .

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