
However, she hasn't earned enough to pay for the cards and she finds it difficult to sell them in July. Meanwhile, Janet and Marshall argue over Janet's high school boyfriend.Ĭlarissa tries to buy a car with money from Christmas cards.

It does not work, and Clarissa sets up a seance to contact Mafalda's dead husband.Ĭlarissa suspects that her parents are having another child when they plan to add a room to the house.Ĭlarissa hates having to wear uncool clothes on picture day and starts campaigning to wear what she wants. When Aunt Mafalda visits from Canada, Clarissa tries to scare her away by saying the house is haunted. Meanwhile, Janet faces a dance friend who steals one of her best moves, and Ferguson cons Marshall into buying a music cassette that he thinks will teach him Swahili. Family members try to gain access to TV through various schemes.Ĭlarissa wants to become a TV journalist. Janet decides the household watches too much TV and begins an anti-TV rule. Janet was played by Nancy Youngblut, Marshall was played by Terry Layman, and Sam was played by Daren E. It was directed by Henry Irving, and was identical to the broadcast version, but with everyone, except for Clarissa and Ferguson, played by different actors. Note: An early, unaired version of this Pilot was taped in September 1990. They burst and he falls to the ground, injuring his arm - meaning that he cannot play football. Her plan fails when Sam is lifted in the sky while holding the balloons, and crashes into a nearby tree.

Meanwhile, Sam wants to get out of the school football team. The original Pilot was taped in September 1990 episodes 1-13 were taped from February to June 1991.Īfter Clarissa gets her first training bra, she tries to exact revenge on her brother for showing her bra at school, using a plan involving putting him into a straitjacket and having her friend Sam attach large helium balloons to him to carry him into the sky.
