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  • Sep 20, 1996
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  • Sep 20, 1996
Clueless

Summary Based on the 1995 hit film of the same name, Clueless is a popular half-hour American sitcom. The show aired for three seasons between 1996 and 1999. Clueless began life as part of ABC's popular 'TGIF' strand, but after it had finished it's first run, the network decided to cancel the series. It was a decision they would later regret, wh...

Created By: Amy Engelberg

  • ABC
  • Sep 20, 1996
  • ABC
  • Sep 20, 1996
Clueless
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 20, 1996
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
53
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Summary Based on the 1995 hit film of the same name, Clueless is a popular half-hour American sitcom. The show aired for three seasons between 1996 and 1999. Clueless began life as part of ABC's popular 'TGIF' strand, but after it had finished it's first run, the network decided to cancel the series. It was a decision they would later regret, wh...

Created By: Amy Engelberg

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 20, 1996
As If a Girl's Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp
Miss Geist is helped by Cher and so she recommends that Cher anonymously fill in as "Miss Buzzline", the advice column in the Alcott High School newspaper. Things start off well but then her advice begins to cause relationship problems.
Episode 2 • Sep 27, 1996
To Party or Not to Party
Cher transfers into drama class and is immediately in love with a boy, who is also new to the class. But a date with him will see her out after her curfew. What is she going to do?
Episode 3 • Oct 4, 1996
City Beautification
When Cher is criticised by Mr. Hall as not living up to her potential, he suggests that she do some volunteer work to broaden her outlook. Cher and Dee end up beautifying a city park, which becomes a much bigger project than she expected.
Episode 4 • Oct 11, 1996
Do We with Bad Haircuts Not Feel?
When Cher's hair stylist ceases work, Cher is persuaded to go to Ka-feen, who gives her a disastrous shabob style. They are all are aghast at the result and her boyfriend drops her. Unfortunately, there is nothing she can do about it.
Episode 5 • Oct 18, 1996
We Shall Overpack
After Miss Geist is injured in class, Principal Lehman bans backpacks in school and only allows them to wear fanny packs. Inspired to fight the injustice, Cher leads a school revolt against the decision.
Episode 6 • Oct 25, 1996
Making Up Is Hard to Do
Dee is spending a lot of time with Murray and Cher feels left out. However, they have a very public fight and split up. Seeing how unhappy Dee becomes, Cher is determined to get them back together.
Episode 7 • Nov 1, 1996
Don't Stand so Close to Me
Mr Hall becomes ill and Cher is infatuated with his substitute. She decides that she needs to become more mature in order to attract his attention. But Cher finds this difficult to do after she is put on a budget by her father.
Episode 8 • Nov 8, 1996
Kiss Me Kip
Mel represents movie star Kip Kllmore. Cher and Dee find out his girlfriend is willing to sabotage his career to advance her own, so they decide to warn him. They find his appointment diary, which starts a series of misadventures.
Episode 9 • Nov 15, 1996
I Got You Babe
It seems like fate has arrived when Cher is swept off her feet by Sonny in the local ice-cream parlor. Unfortunately, he is 20 years old and in college, and Cher hasn't told him that she is just 16.
Episode 10 • Nov 22, 1996
Driving Me Crazy
Drivers Ed has started at school and Mel takes Cher on her first driving lesson. It turns out disastrously and Cher loses confidence. Soon everybody in the class has their licence except Cher. It takes a tragedy to inspire Cher.
Episode 11 • Dec 13, 1996 • 30 m
Romeo and Cher
Cher and Skylar are smitten with each other. Unfortunately, he is the son of Mel's arch rival and they are forbidden to see each other. However, this Romeo and Juliet story has a different ending.
Episode 12 • Dec 20, 1996
Cher, Inc.
Cher and Dee are inspired to make stylish muff purses for their hands. Before long everybody at school wants one so Cher starts up a business making them. However, after selling them at a show the reality of running a business sets in.
Episode 13 • Jan 3, 1997
Fixing Up Daddy
Rachel decides to look after her father and fixes him up with Sheila Kendall, the author of a book called 'First Kill All the Lawyers'. She is too successful and she suddenly finds herself being neglected.
Episode 14 • Jan 10, 1997 • 30 m
The Party's Over
Bronson Alcott High gets a new principal and everybody is upset when she bans mobile phones and institutes other strict rules. Then, when Mr. Hall is sacked, Cher decides to act.
Episode 15 • Jan 24, 1997
I'm in with the Out Crowd
The class is randomly broken up into pairs for a project on a particularly country. Cher is drawn to work on Canada with the class geek and social outcast, Felice. Cher learns a lot about friendships during the exercise.
Episode 16 • Jan 31, 1997 • 30 m
All Teed Off
Murray and Sean play a round of golf with Josh and become hooked on the sport. Dee becomes upset when she realises that Murray's obsession means that she is being ignored. Cher comes up with a plan.
Episode 17 • Feb 7, 1997 • 30 m
Mr. Wright
Everybody is preparing for the MTV dance party coming up but Cher is dateless, until a new boy joins the class. Cher arranges to meet in the modern dance class and they hit it off. He seems too good to be true, so what is his flaw?
Episode 18 • Feb 14, 1997 • 30 m
Secrets & Lies
Valentine's Day is coming up and thoughts have turned to love. Cher blurts out a secret about one of Dee's former dates and causes some serious rifts in friendships. Amber has a secret admirer and has difficulty finding out who it is.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
53
28% Positive
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50% Mixed
9 Reviews
22% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
53
28% Positive
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50% Mixed
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22% Negative
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80
May 20, 2014
Blanchard is lovely and plays Cher so well that you'll never miss Silverstone. Many of the key supporting actors from the movie reprise their roles in the TV series, but the chief saving grace is the clever script. [20 Sept 1996, p.3E]
By Ron Miller FULL REVIEW
70
May 20, 2014
Yet tonight's pilot retains the supporting cast and all else that made Amy Heckerling's film a delight, especially its unexpectedly tangy one-liners and eye-candy production values. This sitcom looks as if it were shot through Kool-Aid, and is, in sips, just as refreshing. [20 Sept 1996, p.D10]
By Frederic M. Biddle FULL REVIEW
60
May 20, 2014
Fans of the movie should beware. Tonight's opener feels like a vague replay of the film. [20 Sept 1996, p.E1]
By Hal Boedeker FULL REVIEW
50
May 20, 2014
It's unfortunate that while Clueless looks fabulous, much of the fizzy comic energy of the film's bright teenybopper satire has been lost. [20 Sept 1996, p.9D]
By Mike Duffy FULL REVIEW
50
May 20, 2014
Blanchard was witless and charmless in the original -- and so far unaired -- pilot program. But her performance as pampered Cher has improved in "As If a Girl's Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp,' tonight's debut episode. [20 Sept 1996, p.39]
By Lon Grahnke FULL REVIEW
37
May 20, 2014
Clueless is meant to be a spoof of spoiled and petulant teen-age girls. But even at that, Clueless comes up, like, seriously shallow. [20 Sept 1996, p.E-6]
By John Freeman FULL REVIEW
30
May 20, 2014
This is lame-brained - if relatively harmless - junk. [20 Sept 1996]
By Scott D. Pierce FULL REVIEW

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