Beverly Hills, 90210 

A group of friends living in Beverly Hills, California make their way through life from their school days into adulthood.

Creator:

Darren Star

Stars:

Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry

Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 14 wins & 19 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Jennie Garth	...	Kelly Taylor / ... 292 episodes, 1990-2000
Ian Ziering	...	Steve Sanders / ... 292 episodes, 1990-2000
Brian Austin Green	...	David Silver / ... 292 episodes, 1990-2000
Tori Spelling	...	Donna Martin / ... 292 episodes, 1990-2000
Jason Priestley	...	Brandon Walsh / ... 245 episodes, 1990-2000
Joe E. Tata	...	Nat Bussichio / ... 238 episodes, 1990-2000
Luke Perry	...	Dylan McKay / ... 199 episodes, 1990-2000
Gabrielle Carteris	...	Andrea Zuckerman / ... 147 episodes, 1990-2000
Carol Potter	...	Cindy Walsh / ... 147 episodes, 1990-1998
James Eckhouse	...	Jim Walsh / ... 146 episodes, 1990-1998
Tiffani Thiessen	...	Valerie Malone 136 episodes, 1994-2000

Storyline

Originally based around the lives of a group of high school students living in the wealthy Beverly Hills neighborhood, then later moving on to their college days as they got older. The kids become friends and enemies, fall in and out of love, and go through an endless series of crises as this small group somehow becomes personally involved in every newsworthy social issue from alcoholism to South African apartheid to pregnancy to AIDS.

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Plot Keywords:

high school | beverly hills california | 1990s | high school newspaper | high school friends | 

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Taglines:

New faces and dangerous places!

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 October 1990 (USA)

Also Known As:

Class of Beverly Hills

Filming Locations:

15001 Calvert Street, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

90210 Productions, Fair Dinkum Productions, Propaganda Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

44 min 60 min 60 min (293 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The series ran from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000.

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Goofs

Throughout out the series, it's clear that the actors/actresses portraying teenagers are actually in their 20s+. This is done as to not interfere with the schooling of real teenagers and to give the general viewing audience who are teenagers themselves, people to look up too.

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Quotes

Kyle Conner: [after Kelly starts kissing him] Kelly I'm not into this.

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Alternate Versions

During the original run and earlier syndication airings, the show featured a lot of music from up to the time the episode takes place. However, due to issues with rights regarding the songs, all DVD and Hulu versions change the majority of the original soundtrack with generic replacements. There are also episodes with scenes edited out that would mention certain songs or music artists. It is not known if there will ever be a future release that retains the original music with unedited episodes.

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Connections

Referenced in American Housewife: It's Hard To Say Goodbye (2018)

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Soundtracks

Theme From Beverly Hills, 90210
by John E. Davis

User Reviews

Essential show...

Well, growing up during 90210's run, I missed out on all the hype that this show received. Now, thanks to SoapNet, I can watch shows that were on while I was busy playing dress-up.

Let me be the first to say, that I never ever thought that I would EVER watch 90210, or get hooked on it. During a few weeks that I was grounded from my computer, I didn't have anything to do after I did my homework at 5 o'clock, so I turned on the TV. I normally would have put on Angel, but it was an episode I didn't care to watch, so I stopped on SoapNet and low and behold, 90210 was on. Immediately I went for the remote to change the channel but then I stopped and actually watched it. I was HOOKED. Mostly what hooked me was the romance between Dylan and Brenda.

Anyway, mostly what I remembered or heard people talk about 90210, was that it was all about drugs and sex and who was sleeping with who what week. (I don't know if that's true yet, but I have a feeling that it's getting to that point. I'm still in the "high school years".) As I watched more of the plot lines going on in the first, second and third seasons, things seemed really familiar. As I looked more at them, I really began to realized that 90210 curved the pathway for today's teen dramas like "Dawson's Creek", "One Tree Hill", "The O.C.", etc. Without 90210, these show's most likely wouldn't have been created.

So, the question becomes, do I think 90210 is a good show? So far, yes. But I think it was essential to have something like this (at least in the first few years) on the air for teenagers to watch so that it could make a pathway for other shows of this kind.