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Subject: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: TQHK on 06/10/02 at 00:04 a.m.

Did anyone watch this show?  

Amazingly, it was so popular it ran the whole decade, and even a little in the '00s.  90210 aired from 1990-2000, chronichling the lives of a group of 14-15 year olds in the early '90s, till they were young adults in their mid 20s in the '00s.  I thought it was a great teen/young adult drama.  It was certainly the longest running teen show that ever was.

I wish the episodes would get released on DVD.

Ofcourse, this show started the teen drama fad of the '90s that continues to this day.  Melrose Place, Party of Five, Dawsons Creek, Popular all shows that has its roots with 90210.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: panda on 06/12/02 at 11:18 a.m.

it was o.k.  i liked the 'brenda years' better than some of the later ones.  most people that i know liked the later ones better.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Shannon on 06/13/02 at 05:29 a.m.

I watched it for the first year or two.  Let me say, that I was very glad that it finally ended....I loved Melrose Place and Party of Five.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: ldhfurello on 07/10/02 at 08:24 p.m.

1st year was ok. didn't watch after that :P

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: PCxo on 07/15/02 at 02:12 p.m.

I've seen every show.  I liked everything until they went off to college.  I wish Brenda would have come back at the end:(

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Davester on 07/20/02 at 00:29 a.m.

   I'll admit to having watched this show from time to time (I was always partial to Jennie Garth), and I agree with PCxo, the show went south after the gang graduated from H.S.  I stopped watching at that point.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: RockandRollFan on 07/20/02 at 10:42 p.m.


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I watched it for the first year or two.  Let me say, that I was very glad that it finally ended....I loved Melrose Place and Party of Five.
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!!!!Melrose was SO cool..I also loved the Finale :D Of course I remembered Jack Wagner from his years on General Hospital, as Frisco Jones, and his great debut LP with the #1 hit "All I Need" from late 1984. IMO he is a great singer and actor :)

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: RockandRollFan on 07/20/02 at 10:44 p.m.


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   I'll admit to having watched this show from time to time (I was always partial to Jennie Garth), and I agree with PCxo, the show went south after the gang graduated from H.S.  I stopped watching at that point.
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I agree with you about Jennie Garth....I also think she looked much better before she "Dyked" her hair. I watched the show quite a bit..bringing in Tiffany Amber-Thiesan didn't hurt the ratings either ;)

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Marci on 07/24/02 at 00:39 a.m.

I watched it early on, though I always hated Brenda (sorry!) ::)...in any case, I stopped watching it around 1992, so I have no idea what happened on the show after that.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Jonman on 07/24/02 at 01:00 a.m.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm.....Brenda.........

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Gis on 07/26/02 at 03:21 a.m.

I watched it when it first started and then sort of gave up on it.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: OlDsKoOl_fAiRy on 07/26/02 at 08:19 p.m.

I only watched the high school years, and some of the college years. but then it just got boring.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Tv on 07/27/02 at 09:59 p.m.

I loved 90210 back in the day. I watched it during its last year to. I have probably seen every 90210 episode. I wouldn't probably watch all the re-runs again though.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Connie on 07/29/02 at 07:20 a.m.

I liked the show, but at times I found the Brenda character alittle bit whiny and annoying. But I did miss her when she left. She rounded out the cast and I feel the show never really had the proper replacement for her. I remember watching 90210 before it caught on and exploded with popularity. I was flippin through the tv one evening and long and behold I came across the show. I became addicted to it before I heard about it in the press. I think the show definatly was better in the early years with Dylan/Brenda. Brandon and variety of girlfriends ect .. I feel the college espisodes lacked the original formula that made it a hit. I also watched and liked Melrose Place.

Connie  :D

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Jackie on 08/09/02 at 07:07 p.m.

Hey, I used to love that show.  I watched it all ten years and I am sorry that finally it had to end.  

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: FunkyFresh on 11/13/02 at 11:36 a.m.

That show was great!  All the actors were starting high school around the same time I did, but most of them were already in their mid 20s then.  I know a lot of people that hated it too.  I mean the high school years shows were pretty cheesy, especially with David Silver trying to be a rapper(as in real life).  The college years were good just for the fact that Valerie Malone was in the cast.  However, the post-college year shows were horrible and that's when I stopped watching.  I mean it really did turn into a prime-time soap opera and it was hard to take the show very seriously at that point. Oh the melodrama!

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: John_Seminal on 11/16/02 at 00:47 a.m.

I loved the show. Luke Perry and Jenny Garth were my two favorite actors. The show should not have ended. What else is there to do on a wenesday night?

Quoting:
Did anyone watch this show?  

Amazingly, it was so popular it ran the whole decade, and even a little in the '00s.  90210 aired from 1990-2000, chronichling the lives of a group of 14-15 year olds in the early '90s, till they were young adults in their mid 20s in the '00s.  I thought it was a great teen/young adult drama.  It was certainly the longest running teen show that ever was.

I wish the episodes would get released on DVD.

Ofcourse, this show started the teen drama fad of the '90s that continues to this day.  Melrose Place, Party of Five, Dawsons Creek, Popular all shows that has its roots with 90210.
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Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Lord Garth on 11/16/02 at 06:12 p.m.


Quoting:
I loved the show. Luke Perry and Jenny Garth were my two favorite actors. The show should not have ended. What else is there to do on a wenesday night?
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Oh come on.

I think it was right to end Beverly Hills 90210 in 2000, though ideally it should have ended in 1997.  90210 was an early-mid 90's series and it really seemed to struggle in the late 90's.  The late 90's years of 90210 were so lame.  I don't think anyone was even watching, the series lost it's audience and a new group of teenagers in the late 90's wanted to watch stuff like Dawsons Creek and/or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  

The characters on 90210 graduated high school in 1993, so it would be silly if the show was still on the air now.  It's almost been 10 years since they were out of high school.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: John_Seminal on 11/18/02 at 02:21 a.m.

The series was not just about the high school life, it was about the characters lives. The show could have easily gone on another 10 years. I will admit, when Dillon left the show, it started falling apart. Brandon just could not keep it as exciting. When Dillon returned and Brandon left, it was a bit better, but they had too many new characters like Donna's love interest Noah. Of the non-original characters, the two I liked the best were the single mom (Hillary Swank) who dated Steve and the woman who dated Dillon towards the end of the show (the real thin brunette with the long hair). Oh, how I miss this show. Wouldn't it have been fun to have one more season where Brenda returns?


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Oh come on.

I think it was right to end Beverly Hills 90210 in 2000, though ideally it should have ended in 1997.  90210 was an early-mid 90's series and it really seemed to struggle in the late 90's.  The late 90's years of 90210 were so lame.  I don't think anyone was even watching, the series lost it's audience and a new group of teenagers in the late 90's wanted to watch stuff like Dawsons Creek and/or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  

The characters on 90210 graduated high school in 1993, so it would be silly if the show was still on the air now.  It's almost been 10 years since they were out of high school.
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Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Syncronos on 11/19/02 at 12:22 a.m.

That show was great when it was a SHOW and there were stand alone plots. You know...Brenda got a sunburn, Dillon wrecked the car...that sorta stuff.

But then they mutated it into this long running prime-time soap opera thing...it just got weird after that. Blech... :-/

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Chris_MegatronTHX on 03/16/03 at 08:12 p.m.

I'll admit I used to watch this show all the time in the Early and Mid 90's.  I graduated high school with the characters on the series in 1993, and this show was to teenagers then what Roswell or Dawson's Creek is to kids today.  No one cared that Luke Perry was really 45 years old, it was a popular series regardless.  But then Shannon Dorhety left, 90210 got boring, and audience for the show was starting to outgrow it by the Late 90s.  And like someone mentioned above, a different batch of teenagers were around by the Late 90's that had their own tastes.  90210 became yesterday's news to them.  I honestly couldn't believe the show was still on the air in 2000.  

Since 2003 marks 10 years out of high school for me, I've been keeping an eye out for the "high school graduation episode" for 90210 on Ebay or anywhere else that videos are sold.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: princessofpop on 03/16/03 at 09:13 p.m.

Here is a great story about 90210....it's a couple of pages long but REALLY funny!

http://www.tomatonation.com/enfants.asp

p.s. - this is also one of my favorite website journals, she is hilarious ;)

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: J.R. (guest) on 03/16/03 at 09:35 p.m.

No offense,but I only liked one episode.  Episode #14 with a very special celebrity guest who appeared towards the end of the show when David Silver (Brian "I Forgot His Last Name") was trying to call MC Hammer,but instead called a Pop Diva/future Broadway Diva & Pop Icon. 8)  Please, don't laugh if you,the reader, know what I'm talkin' about.

"Beverly Hills 90210" was an OK show,but not my taste of viewing. (No Offense) Some of my friends loved this show.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Chris_MegatronTHX on 03/16/03 at 09:50 p.m.

^I know what you are talking about, it was definately a fake show.  Fake teenagers living fake lives in Beverly Hills.  No teenager on Earth had the adventures those kids had.  But that seemed to be the campy, silly fun of it all.  I never took the show seriously, even when I was 15.  The high school episodes from the Early 90's were the best.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: FunkyFresh on 03/16/03 at 11:42 p.m.


Quoting:
Here is a great story about 90210....it's a couple of pages long but REALLY funny!

http://www.tomatonation.com/enfants.asp

p.s. - this is also one of my favorite website journals, she is hilarious ;)
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Thanks for posting that link.  You're right it was very funny.  I especially found the humor in the writer's opinions on David Silver's music and dancing.  I've been making fun of that for years.  Not too long ago, I was in a record store and saw his CD "One Stop Carnival"(appropriately titled, assuming that was the one album he recorded).  Obviously, it was a used CD, but it made me contemplate, who would buy that brand new?  

One other thing, it looks like Cindy Potter's doing TJ Maxx commercials now.  I saw the commercial earlier tonight, that's why it made this whole topic even funnier today.  I had never seen her on anything but 90210...

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: DJ Midas on 03/17/03 at 05:58 a.m.

I still find myself getting sucked into the reruns on F/X if I'm up early on the weekends... :P

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: kimmers on 03/17/03 at 11:34 a.m.

Okay, I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but...I was a very avid watcher and all life stopped for that magical hour every Wed. :P  I know, I know how stupid. But I couldn't seem to help myself.  Must be one of those guilty pleasure things.
I watched pretty much all ten years and I still catch the reruns on FX when I can.  My husband thinks I'm nuts.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: princessofpop on 03/17/03 at 02:24 p.m.


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Okay, I'm a little embarrassed to admit this but...I was a very avid watcher and all life stopped for that magical hour every Wed. :P  I know, I know how stupid. But I couldn't seem to help myself.  Must be one of those guilty pleasure things.
I watched pretty much all ten years and I still catch the reruns on FX when I can.  My husband thinks I'm nuts.

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Don't feel so bad kimmers!  I am 31 y.o. and still watch the Real World on MTV almost faithfully every week!  Worse part about is my girlfriend (32 y.o.) and I call each other and actually discuss it in detail.  My husband thinks I am nuts too, but I just tell him I am still a teenager living in a 31 y.o.'s body! ;)

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: Anti Pop Superstar on 03/17/03 at 02:36 p.m.


Quoting:
No offense,but I only liked one episode.  Episode #14 with a very special celebrity guest who appeared towards the end of the show when David Silver (Brian "I Forgot His Last Name") was trying to call MC Hammer,but instead called a Pop Diva/future Broadway Diva & Pop Icon. 8)  Please, don't laugh if you,the reader, know what I'm talkin' about.

"Beverly Hills 90210" was an OK show,but not my taste of viewing. (No Offense) Some of my friends loved this show.

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The very special guest was no other the very lovely & multi-talented DIVA...Debbie (now Deborah) Gibson!!!

I bet she's ashamed of appearing on that show,even for 2 minutes, like Sally Field being ashamed of "The Flying Nun".

A goddess shold've done an episode of "Sienfeld" or "E.R.".

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: kimmers on 03/17/03 at 02:59 p.m.


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Don't feel so bad kimmers!  I am 31 y.o. and still watch the Real World on MTV almost faithfully every week!  Worse part about is my girlfriend (32 y.o.) and I call each other and actually discuss it in detail.  My husband thinks I am nuts too, but I just tell him I am still a teenager living in a 31 y.o.'s body! ;)

You know.  I watched almost all of the Real Worlds too except the first (New York) and this last one(Las Vegas).  I really tried to watch Las Vegas but those people just got on my nerves big time.  You made me laugh with that whole thing about calling your friend to discuss it.  My best friend and I were addicted to 30 Something and you would have thought our mothers had died or something the night that Gary died. :)  She called me, I called her, we were both bawling like babies and my husband came running in from the other room to see what was going on!!  Should have seen his expression when he figured out who we were talking about. :P
He'll never let us live that one down.

Subject: Re: Beverly Hills 90210

Written By: KimmyGibbler on 03/18/03 at 11:29 a.m.

VIVA LA THE ZIP CODE!!!  90210 was, is and will be forever more my favorite show... *DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!*  I watched it from the beginning til it was sadly 90210ver.  Kelly Taylor...  my hero.  (oh the drama she faced)  I was not a Brenda fan, but maybe that's just because her bangs always got caught in her eyelashes forcing her to do the 'Brenda Blink' as we called it...  Steve Sanders left his legacy (key), Brandon dated Anya of BUFFY fame for a year (Susan Keets, if you will), Hilary Swank honed her Oscar skills at The Peach Pit, Andrea Zuckerman truly lived a surreal life as the poor Jewish girl from Van Nuys, Dylan drank and then drank some more, David- oh David, was Donna really worth the wait?  And Valerie Malone.  My love for you is eternal.
  Aaron Spelling.  I think we'll keep him.
jimmie.