Show Info
Clarissa Explains it All originally aired in the
The creator of CEIA is Mitchell
Kriegman, who is also the creator of the hit
Playhouse Disney show, Bear in the Big Blue House. Kriegman
also helped to develop the classic Nicktoons Doug, Ren and Stimpy and Rugrats. Kreigman created CEIA
solely for Nickelodeon and has said he doesn't know what he would've done if
Nick decided not to pick up the show.
In August of 1992, Clarissa (the
shortened title of CEIA) became a part of a line of programs shown on Nick on
Saturday nights called SNICK (Saturday Night Nickelodeon). By this time,
the show was becoming such a hit with Nick's viewers that Nick saw a market for
official CEIA merchandise. Official t-shirts, a series of books, videos,
a board game and even two CDs/cassettes were released. (NOTE: This merchandise
in now very rare. I have tried ordering the CD Clarissa and the
Straightjackets: This is What Na Na Means from
Sam Goody, and they said it was out of print, so I'm assuming the same is true
for Peter and the Wolf. Probably the best way to get any official CEIA
merchandise would be through an online auction service such as eBay, UBid, Barnes
& Noble and Amazon.)
Clarissa was indeed one
of Nickelodeon's top-rated programs.
However,
all good things must come to an end, and Clarissa Explains It All was no
exception to that rule. In October of 1994, fans of the show gathered
around their television sets one last time to bid farewell to Clarissa, Sam,
Ferguson, Marshall and Janet as Clarissa was gearing
up to head off to New York City to work as an intern at The Daily Post,
while Sam was getting ready to go to what might've been the college of his and
every other teenage boy's dream, an all-girls college in Bibbington,
Maine called Bibbington College. The
cancellation of CEIA marked the end of an era for actress Melissa Joan Hart
(insert IMDB address), who would go on to become an even more successful
actress. CEIA continued in repeats on Nick US until 1997.
In September of 1995, the major US television network CBS
decided to do a one-time-only sequel to CEIA called "Clarissa NOW."
It was about what happened to Clarissa when she went to work at The
Daily Post. The sequel only aired one time on CBS. It also
aired on Sunday, October 1, 1995 in the regular CEIA time slot on Nick US
during the "Big Help-A-Thon." It was reaired
in the regular time slot on Friday, December 15, 1995. Almost a week
later, it aired on Nick UK on Saturday, December 23. (Not sure if this is
the correct day. I do know that it aired on Nick UK on December 23, 1995,
but I'm not sure if December 23 was a Saturday or Sunday over there. If
anyone from the UK would like to clear this up for me, please contact me . Your help is greatly appreciated!
=-) ) I
am unsure if the sequel has aired in any other countries outside the
Despite it's cancellation in
1994, CEIA still airs in many countries on Nick and on some other channels.
It
ran in repeats in the US until 1997, when Nick decided to take it off the air.
Almost five years
after CEIA was taken off of Nick for good, one of Nick's sister channels in the
US called called Noggin started a new nightly block of teen
programming called The N
on