But Darren and I, and the staff at that time, talked a lot about making a show that was as true as it could be for the teenage experience, and I signed on. It really didn’t seem like something I was interested in doing. It would be their point of view, like the John Hughes movies that were very popular at the time, like “Breakfast Club.”ĬHARLES ROSIN I looked at the pilot, and I fell asleep.
The one show I really liked was “Thirtysomething.” The issues were so small and particular to that group, and I wanted teenagers to examine their own navels, in a sense. They were interested in doing a show set in high school in Beverly Hills and had already arranged for Aaron Spelling to produce it. In this oral history the principal cast and creative team of “Beverly Hills 90210” and the central players behind the new “90210” recall the unpredictable trajectory of an improbable television franchise.ĭARREN STAR I was 27, and I was approached by Fox. On Tuesday it unveils “90210,” a series that mixes a new roster of teenagers and parents with a few “Beverly Hills” alumni. Now the upstart CW network hopes to ensure its own longevity by returning to that famous ZIP code. It scrambled to find its cast, limped through its earliest seasons and was nearly consumed by infighting among its stars.
Yet during its run “Beverly Hills 90210” did not seem destined for the history books. “90210” also invented the genre of the prime-time teenage soap opera without it it’s hard to know whether angst-ridden imitators from “Party of Five” to “Gossip Girl” would ever have existed. WHAT event defines the 1990s for you? Was it the day the Dow Jones industrial average crossed the 10,000-point mark? Bill Clinton’s admission of an inappropriate relationship with a White House intern? Or was it that fateful prom night when Brenda Walsh lost her virginity to Dylan McKay?įor millions of television viewers who came of age in that decade of irrational exuberance, it’s hard to overstate the impact of “Beverly Hills 90210.” From 1990 to 2000 the show chronicled the relationships, rivalries and mating rituals of a clique of telegenic young Southern Californians.Ĭreated by Darren Star, then an unknown writer, and shepherded by Aaron Spelling, the prolific producer of “Dynasty,” “The Love Boat” and “Charlie’s Angels,” who died in 2006, the series made celebrities of its young actors and proved the viability of the struggling Fox network.
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