Beverly hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210

Starring

Jason PriestleyShannen DohertyLuke PerryJennie GarthIan ZieringGabrielle CarterisBrian Austin GreenTori SpellingCarol PotterJames EckhouseDouglas EmersonMark Damon EspinozaTiffani ThiessenKathleen RobertsonJoe E. TataJamie WaltersHilary SwankVincent YoungLindsay PriceVanessa MarcilDaniel Cosgrove

Composer(s)

John E. Davis (1 • 3)Stacy Widelitz (1—2 • 7)David Schwartz (Season 1)Jay Gruska (1 • 7 • 9)Kennard Ramsey (Season 2)Ian Prince (Season 4)Gary Stevan Scott (4-5 • 7)Marty Davich (4-6)Dan Foliart (5 • 7)Fred Mollin (Season 7)Jeff Danna (7-8)Lou Forestieri (Season 7)David Lawrence (Season 7)

Summer seasons[]

The Summer Seasons are story arcs which aired throughout the summers of 1991 and 1992 (July and August specifically) in the United States.

These story arcs presented all-new episodes which followed the teenage characters during their summer vacations from high school. In the DVD releases, they are packaged as parts of Seasons 2 and 3 respectively. The concept was highly unique, as television shows typically do not present new episodes during the period between their annual finales and premieres. In more recent times, certain shows have begun offering new interval material in other forms, including shorts on the Internet, and television movies.

Gabrielle Carteris (Andrea Zuckerman) notably is not in a bikini in the summer episodes, which was a choice Carteris made for her character. That decision was only cemented for Carteris when Aaron Spelling called her, prior to filming of the Season 3 summer episodes, and told her to lose weight.

1991

Beach Blanket Brandon • The Party Fish • Summer Storm • Anaconda • Play It Again, David • Pass, Not Pass • Camping Trip

1992

Misery Loves Company • The Twins, The Trustee And The Very Big Trip • Too Little, Too Late/Paris 75001 • Sex, Lies and Volleyball/Photo Fini • Shooting Star/American in Paris • Castles In The Sand

1993

Season 4 did not include summer episodes as the property used for the Beverly Hills Beach Club was not available

About[]

Beverly Hills, 90210 focuses on the assimilation of a solid, value-oriented Midwestern family into an accelerated Beverly Hills lifestyle. The show explores the realities and myths of social classes in Beverly Hills while at the same time exposing the strains this lifestyle can put on family relationships.

Beverly Hills, 90210 began with the introduction of the Walsh family—parents Jim and Cindy (played by James Eckhouse and Carol Potter), and their teenage twins Brandon (Jason Priestley) and Brenda (Shannen Doherty). As a result of Jim’s job reassignment, the family moved from Minnesota to Beverly Hills, California. The story initially presented Brandon as a flawed boy scout, Brenda as a good-hearted rebel, Kelly as a good-natured snob, Steve as a laid-back thrill-seeker, Andrea as a strait-laced smart girl, Dylan as a sensitive loner, David as a geeky musician, and Donna as a quirky, socially awkward girl.

Several of these characters were developed over time, revealing subsequent layers as they matured. In addition, many new characters were introduced during the course of the series’ run, and several guest stars appeared in recurring roles. Throughout the show’s high school and college years, stories largely centered around the love lives, academic matters, career aspirations, and parental issues of the younger cast. Among the topics covered were adoption, estrangement, safe sex, substance abuse, romantic affairs, love triangles, race-related school incidents, and budding romances between longtime friends. As the show grew in popularity, several successful musicians of the ’90s contributed to Beverly Hills, 90210: The Soundtrack. Additionally, their accompanying music videos aired during the end credits of various episodes. Among these artists were Shanice, Jeremy Jordan, and Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight. In addition, the music video for «Hold On» by Jamie Walters, who starred in the series as Ray Pruit, was also featured. The final episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 aired on May 17, 2000. The series outlived its first two spin-offs, Melrose Place and Models Inc., and would spawn additional spin-offs—90210 and a new Melrose Place—in 2008 and 2009.

Starring[]

Jason Priestley as Brandon Walsh (1-9, guest 10)

Shannen Doherty as Brenda Walsh (1-4)

Jennie Garth as Kelly Taylor

Ian Ziering as Steve Sanders

Gabrielle Carteris as Andrea Zuckerman (1-5, guest 6, 8 and 10)

Luke Perry as Dylan McKay (1-6, 9-10)

Brian Austin Green as David Silver

Douglas Emerson as Scott Scanlon (1, guest 2)

Tori Spelling as Donna Martin

Carol Potter as Cindy Walsh (1-5, guest 6 and

James Eckhouse as Jim Walsh (1-5, guest 7 and

Later regulars: Joe E. Tata as Nat Bussichio (recurring 1-5, regular 6-10); Mark Damon Espinoza as Jesse Vasquez (recurring 4, regular 5); Kathleen Robertson as Clare Arnold (recurring 4-5, regular 6-7); Tiffani Thiessen as Valerie Malone (5-9, guest 10); Jamie Walters as Ray Pruit (recurring 5, regular 6, guest 7); Hilary Swank as Carly Reynolds (8); Vincent Young as Noah Hunter (8-10); Lindsay Price as Janet Sosna (recurring 8, regular 9-10); Vanessa Marcil as Gina Kincaid (9-10); Daniel Cosgrove as Matt Durning (9-10)

Recurring cast: Christine Elise as Emily Valentine (2, special guest 4-5); Dana Barron as Nikki Witt (3); Dina Meyer as Lucinda Nicholson (4); Emma Caulfield as Susan Keats (6); Jason Wiles as Colin Robbins (6); Cameron Bancroft as Joe Bradley (6); Jill Novick as Tracy Gaylian (7); Laura Leighton as Sophie Burns (9)

Trivia[]

The episodes that aired unopposed during Operation Desert Storm, as the three other networks suspended all but news programming, were One Man And A Baby • Slumber Party • East Side Story • A Fling In Palm Springs • Fame Is Where You Find It. Ratings were suspended during these episodes and the first episode following the return of ratings, Stand (Up) and Deliver, showed a huge increase which kept climbing subsequently, heralding the show’s arrival as a commercial success.
Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling are the only five cast members to appear in all 10 seasons of the series.
- Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling are the only six cast members to appear in both the Pilot and the Series Finale.
- Not one character appeared in all 293 episodes. The cast member who is closest to appearing in all 293 episodes is Tori Spelling, at 291/293. Ian Ziering and Jennie Garth are tied for second place at 290/293 episodes.

PRODUCTION

Former president of FOX, Barry Diller, came up with the title ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’

BEHIND THE SCENES

In a 2010 interview, Beverly Hills, 90210 writer/producer on Seasons 4–7, Larry Mollin, said of the set: «That’s what the guys do. That’s their free shot. Luke’s a wonderful man and Jason is a wonderful man. But they are young guy actors on a show, which basically means they get to feel anybody up they want. And that’s just the way they are. I’ve got tons of outtakes of this stuff. That was just the fun of it. That’s just the way it was before sexual harassment became really a watch word in the industry. Young actresses just had to put up with that sh*t. I had seen that for years and years on shows. It was the way it went. Obviously if a girl didn’t like it, she could complain but most of them just put up with it and just expected it. The guys were just like that.»
Larry Mollin on the show post-Doherty:

All the kids hated the show by season 5, other than Tori. They all just hated it. Every day they would come in was just torture for them.

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As 90210 was the first massive worldwide teen TV phenomenon, so in its wake followed the first inklings of what would become the cultlike behaviour of fanatics spending their time casting aspersions on fictional characters. The so-called I Hate Brenda Newsletter and a ‘song’ entitled Hating Brenda was published and MTV even deigned to interview people about why they hated the character of Brenda, as well as having the MTV host make derogatory comments about Doherty’s musical aspirations in a segment.