“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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