Background Information
About the Darling Family
Marshall Darling is a self-employed architect who works from home, his
main line of business is designing eye-catching retail premises,
although he has
received an award for his bathroom designs.
Janet Darling is a former dancer who now works at The Children's Museum.
Janet is a health food freak and normally serves the family with vegetarian
dishes, although she will occasionally cook a meat dish when she feels it
is required of her (Marshall's Parents Visit).
Clarissa is the older of their two children, and probably goes from 13 to
17 years old during the course of the series.
Her brother, Ferguson, is about two years younger than her.
Both Clarissa and Ferguson go to Thomas Tupper (Junior) High School,
as does Clarissa's best friend Sam Anders.
One of the minor mysteries is exactly when Clarissa and Ferguson move from
the Junior High to the High School itself.
Where they live...
We know for certain that they live at Number 44 in a street called
as Shadow Lane. Nothing else is stated for certain, but there is
a significant amount of information in the series that places their
home in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
For a detailed discussion of that evidence, see a
seperate document on the subject.
Behind The Scenes
There's also a seperate document on The TV series
itself which includes information on where it was made, behind the scenes
photos and details of a potential follow on series.
Other sources of information
World Wide Web
Anonymous FTP
There is an extensive Clarissa Explains It All archive on
ftp.tcp.com in
/pub/clarissa which includes Adam Lieberman's Descriptive
Episode List, archives of the clarissa mailing list and an archive
of images from the Show.
There is also a copy of the images in the tcp.com archive on
ftp.ee.surrey.ac.uk in
/pub/images/tv-shows/Clarissa.
This archive also includes some images I've captured myself for use
in the Web server.
Mailing List
There is a mailing list called clarissa also maintained at
tcp.com. Send mail to majordomo@tcp.com with a
body of subscribe clarissa to join.
Please do remember that this is an unoffical list of fan discussions
about the series and that it does not include Melissa Joan Hart or
anyone else directly connected to the series.
Also majordomo is an automatic mailling list manager, be patient if
it doesn't make sense of your request immediately.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk
27th September 1995