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.
Connections Featured in What's Up Doc? User reviews 84 Review. Top review. Three Shows in One!!! While "Beverly Hills " was making its ten year run, I never watched a single episode. The affairs of rich kids in Beverly Hills really didn't interest me; and, even though Jennie Garth and Tiffani Amber-Thiessan are real eye candy, that wasn't enough to tie me to watching a weekly continuing drama with what I thought would be such an uninteresting subject. However, when the Soap Opera Channel offered the show in sequence five days a week and my wife encouraged me to watch it with her, I reluctantly agreed.
I'm glad I did, because "Beverly Hills " is, in my opinion, the best written and produced continuing drama in TV history.
Why do I say this? Because "Beverly Hills " survived two radical format changes and remained consistently watchable for its entire 10 year run. Actually, "Beverly Hills " is three different shows: an excellent "high school teenagers in love" show; a very good "college kids antics" show and a good "Yuppies in love" show. The creative talent managed to produce three above average shows with an amazing consistency of story lines and talent, using mostly the original cast.
Nobody else has ever done this, at least to my knowledge. The producers are to be commended for keeping the cast remarkable intact, even down to the minor characters. To the best of my knowledge, only one character was played by two different actresses, that being Andrea Zuckerman's grandmother. Compare that to the more prestigious soaps, "Dynasty" and "Dallas.
While all three shows are above average, the "high school teenagers in love" episodes are the best. However, I believe they were also the easiest to plot, since teenagers have more restrictions on their behavior and their problems are generally more direct, easier with which to relate and generally easier to resolve.
This is only slightly less true for college students, but it's a whole different ball game by the time one gets out of school and into the "real world;" and, by the time these episodes were written and produced, the characters were no longer fresh. The loss of Shannen Dougherty "Brenda Walsh" was the series first major blow, and the series slipped badly her first season away the fifth.
However, after a weak start, Tiffani-Amber Thiessan "Valerie Malone" became a very impressive cast member. However, Shannen brought an inventiveness to the series which was never regained. The second major blow the series suffered was the loss of Kathleen Robertson "Claire Arnold" , at the end of "the college years". Kathleen's "Claire Arnold" was a fascinating blend of three of the main characters; she exhibited Brenda's daring, Kelly's poise and Donna's madcap sensuality.
The show lost a lot of it's warmth with Kathleen's departure, as well as the unfortunately correct decision to place less emphasis on the older adult cast members. This happens in life as well as young adults leave school and are out on there own.
The final blow to the series happened over two seasons. A fun and lighthearted season! Season eight is where things start to slide into daytime soap territory. After graduation, the writers thought it would be fun to have our main female character, Kelly, get shot in a drive-by and develop amnesia; saintly Donna gets her very own drug problem; and Brandon and Steve become the owners of a defunct tabloid newspaper.
View Iframe URL. Not great. By the final season, the personal lives of each character seemed depressing as hell. Party-boy Steve becomes a stay-at-home dad, but the show had to make his working wife, Janet, a bitter shrew. The gang starts their last year at California University, but a switch must have shorted somewhere because this shit goes off the rails. Kelly displays some alarming AIDS panic as a volunteer at a health clinic; Brandon starts dating Tracy, an anchor at the campus TV station who has nothing to do but be a jealous nag; and an hour is spent watching Donna trying to rescue a deer during a wildfire in the Hollywood Hills.
Her payment? Realizing her season-five attempted rapist is out on bail, then getting held hostage at the TV station by a new stalker. I guess her real reward or punishment was that, after episodes, her real father, creator Aaron Spelling, finally allows the character to lose her virginity to David in a blaze of candles and white lingerie. She even brought her own condom. Then everyone graduates. Kelly goes to rehab, then takes in a troubled young girl named Tara who pulls a Single White Female and becomes so obsessed with Kelly she tries to kill them both.
Donna dates boring quarterback Joe Bradley who—what are the odds? Where it all began! And where ya girl learned what the acronym BNJ meant. Before Nose Job, duh. Season one is iconic, yes, but is the best? Meanwhile, Dylan goes to bat for Andrew when he loses his job at the community center. But Dylan's victory over the center is bittersweet when word of Andrew's homosexuality S10, Ep Janet goes into premature labor near the end of the honeymoon and gives birth to a baby girl, while Steve maintains a vigil through the week as he worries about the safety of Janet and their newborn.
Meanwhile, Dylan asks Kelly and Nat to volunteer in a feed the homeless Thanksgiving dinner at the community center. Kelly, seeking a way to get Jackie's mood in a boost, asks her to help out with the dinner, while little Erin continues to mope around about her parents separation.
Donna learns of a past indiscretion by her father with Gina's mother, which brings out Dylan gives an expensive painting to Kelly as a gift which disturbs Matt thinking that Dylan is trying to buy Kelly's affections again.
Meanwhile, Donna finally tells Gina their whole story about that they are half sisters, which throws Gina into anger and frustration. But Donna learns that Noah hasn't told her all of his life story when he tells her that he never went to Harvard.
After returning from the hospital, Steve becomes overprotective of baby Madeline. Also, David's jealousy surfaces again when Gina confides in Dylan instead of him with her personal troubles. As Christmas approaches, Gina's meeting with Dr. Martin as her biological father is awkward and unsatisfying, similar to Janet and her parents when they accidentally run into each other at a Christmas tree lot.
Steve eventually confronts Janet's parents and tells them to stop acting cold towards her and him. Donna's mother, Felice, offers to help Gina financially, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Donna can't let go of Noah's accident years ago resulting in the death of his girlfriend which leads to her and him considering breaking up. Also, Dylan loses control in front of The loss of a client's business puts Matt in financial straits because of the engagement ring he bough for Kelly which was paid for with the retainer.
Meanwhile, Dylan grows uncomfortable about God-parenting to Kelly because of her engagement. David and others benefit from a man's crush on Donna whom she asks out on a date that flops. Also, Noah attempts to fight his loss over Donna and David meet promising new mates for themselves, she with an unpredictable businessman named Jerry, and he with a law clerk named Chrissy.
Meanwhile, Kelly decides to quit working at the boutique store. Soon after being suspended by the state bar for misappropriate use of legal funds, Matt violates his suspension by taking a case of an injured factory worker, until Chrissy finds out and threatens him.
The increasingly moody Dylan suffers from the fast-lane acquaintances of Noah's which takes a turn for the worse when both Dylan and Gina are arrested when Matt's older brother, Patrick, pays a visit with his wife and asks Matt for a very personal favor: to be a sperm donor so his wife can have a baby since he is sterile.
But Kelly pressures Matt not to agree to the favor. Noah is threatened by Josie's brother, Shane, when Dylan refuses to cover for Josie's drug loss after David destroyed a drug stash to avoid getting arrested. Meanwhile, Steve tells Janet about his previous encounter with Darby who was a wild and crazy nymphomaniac during her days at college. Donna, now running the boutique shop on her own, goes out A revenge-seeking Shane and his friend Carl, kidnap Noah and then send a ransom e-mail to Dylan for his release.
Dylan agrees to deliver the ransom money without notifying the police, but confides in Steve about the situation. Then Dylan is waylaid by Josie and Shane who plan to kill him and Noah anyway. But when Kelly has an attack of nerves, Donna goes on the show with Matt in her place. Donna's father tries to bond with Gina who continues to be After Dr. Martin dies from a sudden and massive stroke, unspoken accusations regarding his death haunt Gina. But Felice, as always, speaks her mind accusing Gina of bringing on her husband's fatal stroke while Donna gets consul David and the rest of the gang.
Meanwhile, Kelly considers taking a job in public relations while Matt's financial situation gets worse. Dylan decides to explore greener pastures when he decides to leave town and Gina decides on the same.
Also, Noah has trouble getting over his kidnapping and brush with death which leads to him drinking again. Dylan becomes intrigued with his past after he and Steve see a live news report showing a group of plane crash survivors, one of whom is the dead-splitting image of his long death father Jack McKay.
Dylan tries looking into his family storage locker, but finds it broken into and ransacked. Dylan then goes to see Christine Pettie, the FBI agent who was involved in protecting his father many years ago, but she is not very helpful and advises Dylan to leave this alone. Meanwhile, Noah's return to drinking gets worse when he intrudes on Donna's newest date Eli.
Matt and Kelly aid Dylan in trying to help him find his father in which the search leads them to Arizona where they find Dylan's father, who lives under the alias Eddie Waitkus, and has a wife and young son. Meanwhile, Donna brings Noah at the beach apartment to convalesce for his injuries where he begins to take advantage her loneliness to make the moves on her.
Janet becomes worried when Steve reverts to his old partying form when his stepbrother Ryan visits.
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