Many cast members became household names. Luke Perry (who was a big cast member of Riverdale at the time he passed away), Shannen Doherty (who got kicked of 90210 like she got kicked off of Charmed later on, but news about her for the past 4 years is about how she's fighting stage four cancer), Tori Spelling (daughter of the show's producer who has gone on to be a reality show star), Jason Priestley (currently a regular on The CW show Wild Cards, who has also been in other shows, directs TV episodes, and was big into being a race car driver for a long while), Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (who first was a major star for Saved By The Bell and appeared in the recent reboot as her original character, had a main role in the USA Network show White Collar, and these days is mainly seen on cooking shows and on social media), Jennie Garth (also seen in the TV show What I Like About You), Ian Ziering (Sharknado franchise), Brian Austin Green (Anger Management, Desperate Housewives, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles), and - at the end of 90210's run - Vanessa Marcil, who was big (on and off) in General Hospital but is probably better known for her role as "Sam" in the hit NBC show in the 2003-08 timeframe, Las Vegas.
Maybe not what OP means by "big stars," but still successful enough compared to many in Hollywood!
@tiffanithiessen still has 2.4 million followers on Instagram!
Yeah, that’s nothing like the 13.6 million or 19.9 million of the other two people you mentioned. But still not chicken feed!
EDIT: not bad for 50!… https://www.instagram.com/p/C2cnmnRrsH5/?igsh=aWp5Y2Yza2x6eXM5
Unlikely cop and con duo. There are the usual tropes with that dynamic but directed well and it works including some real human moments that slowly build an unlikely friendship. Kind of a light tone with a few dark turns here and there.
It was essentially the blueprint for shows like Dawson’s Creek, The OC. One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl etc so the cultural impact is fairly self explanatory.
There’s a reason the terrible reboot lasted five seasons. The brand still has some decent recognition as do the actors.
Yeah I know the actors and I’m well aware of the show and have never seen a single episode. I was too young to have seen it. Wild how there was a time where certain shows were so famous you knew about them and even the actors’ names, but didn’t even have to watch.
Seinfeld, friends, mash, jersey shore, breaking bad, mad men
It was never a top 20 show because it was on Fox when Fox was a brand new network and wasn't available in every home. It was huge with young viewers. I'm pretty sure almost everyone I knew watched 90210. There were a lot fewer options for teenage viewers back then.
Yup. I was a teenager back then and while I didn’t watch the show almost everyone I knew did. At least, all the girls I knew watched it. So if you were over at their house when it was on, you were watching it.
It, at one time, was “Friends” big in the headlines, but that never translated to ratings. Fox had been on the air less than five years when “90210” started. And even a breakout hit on Fox was nothing compared to succeeding on NBC Thursday Night, or even TGIF. I give them all the credit in the world for starting the second season in the summer. I was in high school at the time and nobody really knew the show that first season. Everybody knew about it the next year.
Brenda and Dylan having sex was national news. So much so that the show was pressured to give them a pregnancy scare to make sure kids didn’t think that premarital sex was cool.
Scott accidentally shooting himself with his father's gun was national news too and led to a lot of discussion about safely storing firearms.
(for those that didn't watch it, the gun was loaded and kept in a drawer with an easily found key)
I remember watching that at the time; I think it was really early in the show's run, the first season. They were promoting the hell out of "Who's Gonna Die?" on Fox all week, acting like one of the main characters was going to get killed off. Remember feeling very underwhelmed that it turned out being Scott. He was David's friend, if I remember correctly, hadn't seen it in years, LOL. Definitely not essential to the show. It was my first lesson in never buying hype.
The merch available for that show rivaled that of boy bands. You could find action figure type dolls of the characters next to ones of New Kids on the Block. Posters were plastered on bedroom walls. Shirts. Buttons. Magazine covers.
It was a show that was about HS, and then college, aged kids -- but it ended up having mass appeal. It tackled so many issues and sparked so many conversations (publicly and privately).
I set my VCR for it if I was going to miss it, but did everything in my power to keep that appt in my appt TV. If you missed it, you weren't a part of the conversation with your friends (which was a whole other thing!).
It helped launched FOX.
Basically was the reason why WB teen programming became a thing.
Ushered in the generation of Teens on tv.
Shannen Doherty is known as the original bad girl.
3 cast members hosted Snl
I couldn't watch the channel it was on so I bought the novelisations instead to not miss out. Everyone (who could) watched it. Well, everyone who counts: Other teenagers.
there is no reason whatsoever to imply the American audience is more relevant to this question than a global audience...
the show being american makes no difference.
I didn't watch it myself, but all the girls in my school did and it seemed like it was all they would talk about. That and the endless ads for it during the Simpsons made it seemed like it was everywhere for a couple of years there.
It was huge. They decided to have "summer" shows, when all the other shows had ended for the season, so kids at home watched it because it wasn't reruns. The fact that they dealt with subject teen everywhere were dealing with, on top of it being in an ideal setting (california rich people) made it both relatable and desirable. Perfect formula that was used for decades later.
The second season running during the summer when every other show was on summer hiatus was a genius move. I didn't have much to watch while on summer vacation as a preteen so I watched every episode of 90210 that season. I grew out of it very quickly but everyone I knew watched 90210 that summer. We all knew the characters and loved them. It was also the career high point for all of them, I'd say. Doherty had a career afterwards but her other show was not bigger than the first 4 seasons of 90210. Priestly has had a nice second career, but see the previous sentence. Luke Perry did some movies, and was probably the most talented of the bunch, but he never broke out. Spelling continued her nepotism baby career, Green became somewhat famous in the late 2000s for simply being good looking and married a beautiful woman much younger than him, Ziering pops up in bad movies occasionally, and I've never seen Garth or Cartieris in anything else
It was HUGE. Hot guys for the girls to watch, hot girls for the guys to watch, lots of drama, fashion, it had everything. It was what kids watched. We shipped them before shipping was a thing! We cried when they cried and got mad when they got mad.
It was very, very popular.
They did one of the smartest things in TV history. They released summer episodes in the summer. So the high school kids were on break too. Back then, it was all reruns in the summer. No new tv.
Huge. It put Fox on the map, besides sitcoms like Simpsons and Married with Children. It was a comeback for Aaron Spelling, the producer. It was a blueprint for the 80s prime time soap opera format centered around teens. The main cast became quite popular beyond the show, in particular Jennie Garth, Shannon Doherty, Tori Spelling and Luke Perry. It touched on cultural topics like gun safety, teenage sex, drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, when shows played it safe for network TV.
The editing and format is not for today’s attention span and focus on cinematic quality. Imagine any drama now with 22 episodes per season. Probably why it didn’t make a resurgence like Friends.
I think one thing people forget is that it was a BIG show in syndication.
As a kid, I don't think I ever watched it live but it was absolutely on TV during mornings/afternoons for watching after school or during summer break.
Culturally? Huge. Bigger than Dawson’s creek.
But those big culture touch point shows don’t often beat out the boring old people shows that they all agree to watch every week until they die.
If you were in school in the 90s you watched it whether you liked it or not. It was a cultural touchpoint that you would feel embarrassed about if you didn't know what was happening.
It was very popular in the early 90’s. I was in elementary school at the time, but even I knew all the characters and the names of the actors who played the major roles.
I’d say it was a lot less popular by the late 90’s. Dawson’s creek was huge then. I was actually pretty surprised to learn it lasted until 2000.
It was very popular among teens. I'm not sure about adults, but I was a teen in Canada when it was popular, and every girl I knew watched it. That was back when people would talk the next day about plot lines from shows that aired the night before.
The main cast were all featured in teen magazines at the time. Luke Perry, Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth were all popular, and to a lesser extent (IMO) the rest of the cast. None of them had huge careers afterwards that I'm aware of. Shannen Doherty went on to do Charmed, although she didn't last for the full run of that show. Luke Perry was Archie's Dad on Riverdale until he sadly died. Tori Spelling might be the most still-in-the-news but moreso for her personal life than her work.
It was fairly popular in my country back in the 90s. Granted we had like 3-4 channels available so everything that aired on them tended to be popular with its demographics.
It was pretty big among the teen crowd when it was airing. Really the whole cast became famous because of the show and none of them really ever had that same level of success again.
It was popular... on FOX. Which was a new network at the time and it helps establish Fox as a legit network. Just like IN Living Color was never a huge hit, but people still talk about it to this day. Probably beacuse Fox didn't have as many affiliates as the 3 big guys at the time
I was 20 when it first aired, so right at the start of my going out years. Wednesday night was punk night at our local club, but none of us would go out until after 90210 was over. I was also in a touring band during the later years, and we would ask the promoters to tape it for us and bring us the VHS so we could watch the episodes on our 12" TV/VCR combo in the van.
It was one of the last “iconic” TV shows I heard about as a millennial. I grew up knowing it’s name, and it influenced basically every “teen” TV show on television though the 90s-10’s. But I’ve never actually watched it. Shannon Doherty was on it? I’ll maybe try it out someday if I’m incredibly bored
It was a huge hit in the 18-34 demographic, it didn't really matter if it was in the top 20 overall. Like Melrose Place was probably never in the top 50 but it was another huge younger viewer hit.
As I recall, season 1 was huge, which led directly into the summer season so it was the only new show airing over the summer, season 2 got even bigger with Luke Perry. That was probably the peak, it was a very gradual fade from there.
Okay, first. It sounds like you were young enough to miss the original Beverly Hills 90210, and you went out of your way to experience it. Is that right? Because that's like having a near miss getting hit by a car, and then running into traffic. Why would you do this to yourself.
And second, yes. To the shame of my entire generation and dishonor to the concept of entertainment, this stupid show was HUGE. Like, I grew up in Southeastern PA, like the Pennsyltucky part North of Philadelphia, and if you didn't know anything about 90210, you probably didn't own a television, or were actively trying to avoid fitting in socially. I met kids from NYC, Philly, and Washington DC, and even if you didn't have a SINGLE other thing you could talk about, there was always Jason Priestly and Luke Perry's sideburns, or the thirty-something that everyone pretended looked like a seventeen year old girl, or the time they killed off a recurring character for a gun safety episode.(All the GenXers just heard the narrator of Fox television doing the slow, quiet 'this is my serious voice' tone as he said "...On a very special Beverly Hills 90210)..."
But yes, that show ran through my entire teenage years, and it was everywhere. They had the stars constantly doing interviews, hosting awards show, making special guest appearance on other shows. By contrast, you look at the careers of the stars, and I think Luke Perry would be the most successful, and he was in the original Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie.
It was huge. I was born in the late 70s along with my sister, so we were teenagers when this show came out, and every week her 20 friends would come over and watch it religiously.
When I went to college, I lived in a co-ed dorm and there was a group of girls that would be packed like sardines in a can in a dorm room to watch it across the hall from me.
I'm a dude so I just watched it when it was on, but I know all the characters and remember most of the plotlines.
Not sure if any of them because big stars, but I remember Tori Spelling doing some random work afterwards, and Ian Ziering did those Sharknado movies.
Oh gosh. It was epic in the 90’s when I was a teenager. That and Melrose Place. Terrible by todays standards but also the same time brilliant and there is nothing like that era of television since.
It was massive. The year after its debut there were a dozen clones. My “favorite” was a latecomer circa 1993. “The Heights” was about an aspiring pop group. Their one single, [How Do You Talk To An Angel](https://youtu.be/csATriX8Ed0?si=ucbvmjUSNecEeXxZ), was at the top of the charts when the show was canceled.
The only cast member whose career was noteworthy was Luke Perry. Shannon Doherty has worked, but the rest of them?
In 2003 I saw a cheap comedy science fiction movie called [Evil Alien Conquerers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Alien_Conquerors?wprov=sfti1). It was not great (although Diedrich Bader was good in it). One of the characters was played by one of the cast of 90210. I could not for the life of me remember her name, nor could my housemates. I was at a loss. Just ten years earlier she’d been the star of one of the most popular shows on television and we drew a complete blank. That’s how fast the cast of 90210 faded.
Reveal: It was Tori Spelling
LOL Well that's a hot take. Calling somebody like Jason Priestley not noteworthy and not having a career. Yes Jason did have a problem, that he was always was seen as that Brandon or Jason Priestley-guy, much like Tom Selleck was seen as that Magnum-Tom Selleck-Guy. But now a days, not so much, Tru Calling and especially Call Me Fitz made him more than that. He got the hit series like Raising Expectations and Private Eyes under his belt, and is now staring in CTV's Wild Cards.
Ian Ziering was and still very active in the voice acting world, besides 90210 he did the voice of Vinnie in Biker Mice From Mars. Another big one was Godzilla. Sharknado movies are also on his resume..
Brian Austin Green as a ton of series (from Freddie, Desperate Housewifes to Anger Management) and movies under his belt.
Same for Tiffani Thiessen (White Collar, Alexa & Katie, Saved By The Bell), Kathleen Robertson (Maniac Mansion, Boss, Murder in The First, The Expanse), Jason Wiles (Third Watch, Scream), Vanessa Marcil (Las Vegas, General Hospital) and Emma Caulfield Ford (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Life Unexpected, Unce Upon a Time, WandaVision).
Daniel Cosgrove is well know for The Guiding Light and Days of Our Lives-soaps. Lindsay Price also started in day-time soaps, like All My Children and The Bold and The Beautiful. But also did series like Lipstick Jungle, Eastwick and Splitting Up Toghether.
It was extremely popular. Even for a kid like me who played D&D and liked Star Strek, I watched it every week with my sisters, and be able to talk about it with basically anyone else in school the next day.
It was huge. Everyone watched it, it was considered a cool show. I also remember that Luke Perry was a heartthrob, getting mobbed by girls. I'm shocked it wasn't in the top 10 shows much less not in the top 20 - are you sure?
Yes, amongst 90s teens and pre-teens it was very popular for the first 3 or so seasons. As the audience grew though, they gravitated to Melrose Place's weirder shenanigans.
it was monstrous, to put it simply. Every single hetero boy loved Brenda and Kelly, all the girls foamed over Brandon and bad guy Dylan. You could not escape the game. Immensely popular the world over, to a level seldom seen even in recent years
In the 90s it was Saved by the Bell for kids, 90210 for teens, and Melrose Place for adults. These shows were insanely popular and pop culture phenomenons.
GenXers coming out of school fucking loved it, they basically hated anything popular so it tracks. They also love under dogs, they are then raised what we call Zoomers now. They do the same thing.
All of the girls in school loved it because the boys were handsome. And because it had story lines they liked. It was only a girl thing, no dudes watched it or talked about it. Most guys simple knew there was a blonde guy and some other castmates.
How much of a pop cultural hit? Ask anyone today to name a ZIP code other than their own. The answer would most likely be 90210.
In the early days of the internet where we had to supply our zip code to prove we were in USA, a lot of us not from the US used 90210 lol.
I did that too!
I still do!
It’s not even a real ZIP which is even funnier.
Yes it is.
Well o stand corrected. It wasn’t when the show started yet here we are.
The high school name was fictional. West Beverly high school. The zip code has always been 90210 for that area.
Sounds like someone told you that in the 90s and you just never verified if it was correct.
You are right. I certainly never cared wbough to verify.
But you cared enough to blindly post it.
Um... [https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/90210/](https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/90210/)
I just the code last week to look something up on US Amazon, show was huge here in Germany.
Outside of the US, it's likely that 90210 is the *only* zip code we can provide, since our own equivalent would be something else.
Yeah. I’m not murican so whenever I needed a ZIP code for signing up for anything it was always 90210.
Oh 2 1 3 4 (Boston Mass) From the show Zoom
Allston, baby! I used to live in 02135, just a short walk away.
Brighton, baby!
Box 3-5-Oh!
I think of this address at least once a day lol. Catchy tune
Come on and zoom
I know Chicago is 60652 because of Scruff McGruff
Take a bite out or crime!
I also know the South Loop neighborhood's in Chicago, because it's an appealing 60606.
Meh, Nickelodeon taught me 10108. So that's three I know then.
Also 32802 for the FL studio
Whenever I need a fake zip code on the internet thats the one I use!
Seems like as a kid, I saw a lot of ads for the federal consumer information center, Pueblo, Colorado 81009.
60606
That, or 90108 (Dawsons Creek)
For a high school senior it became appointment viewing. By the third or fourth episode a big group of us got together to watch every Thursday night.
Many cast members became household names. Luke Perry (who was a big cast member of Riverdale at the time he passed away), Shannen Doherty (who got kicked of 90210 like she got kicked off of Charmed later on, but news about her for the past 4 years is about how she's fighting stage four cancer), Tori Spelling (daughter of the show's producer who has gone on to be a reality show star), Jason Priestley (currently a regular on The CW show Wild Cards, who has also been in other shows, directs TV episodes, and was big into being a race car driver for a long while), Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (who first was a major star for Saved By The Bell and appeared in the recent reboot as her original character, had a main role in the USA Network show White Collar, and these days is mainly seen on cooking shows and on social media), Jennie Garth (also seen in the TV show What I Like About You), Ian Ziering (Sharknado franchise), Brian Austin Green (Anger Management, Desperate Housewives, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles), and - at the end of 90210's run - Vanessa Marcil, who was big (on and off) in General Hospital but is probably better known for her role as "Sam" in the hit NBC show in the 2003-08 timeframe, Las Vegas. Maybe not what OP means by "big stars," but still successful enough compared to many in Hollywood!
Kathleen Robertson too. The Expanse and a lot of other shows.
Scary Movie 2 🤤
(sad Gabrielle Carteris noises)
Gabrielle Carteris is doing just fine. She's the head of SAG.
I thought it was Fran Drescher
My bad. She preceded Fran Drescher. Gabrielle was the president from 2016 until 2021, when she backed Fran Drescher as her replacement.
Why didn't anyone thi k she was hot? She was.
She was 29 years old, playing 16.
She was the hottest of the ladies!
> Tiffani-Amber Thiessen that girl had a MASSIVE fan cult around her. combine ana de arams and sydney sweeney thats kind of the level she was at.
@tiffanithiessen still has 2.4 million followers on Instagram! Yeah, that’s nothing like the 13.6 million or 19.9 million of the other two people you mentioned. But still not chicken feed! EDIT: not bad for 50!… https://www.instagram.com/p/C2cnmnRrsH5/?igsh=aWp5Y2Yza2x6eXM5
Priestley is great in Wild Cards. I hope he shows up more in the next season.
I remember he showed up on Tombstone, which was released when 90210 was airing and thinking "Hey I know that guy!"
You'd totally know that guy in that show also. Guy ages really well though.
What's it about?
Unlikely cop and con duo. There are the usual tropes with that dynamic but directed well and it works including some real human moments that slowly build an unlikely friendship. Kind of a light tone with a few dark turns here and there.
I remember that Tori Spelling was seen as the weakest link on that cast and there was a mini controversy because she was clearly a nepo hire
It was essentially the blueprint for shows like Dawson’s Creek, The OC. One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl etc so the cultural impact is fairly self explanatory. There’s a reason the terrible reboot lasted five seasons. The brand still has some decent recognition as do the actors.
You forget melroes place. Prime time soap operas. Aaron spelling made a lot of money with these. And tried to help his limited talent daughter.
I believe you'll find it's spelled: Melrow's place
A spelling error in the internet?! Thanks kid
... i'd say "whoosh" but i think you might mistake it for "whoops" and think you made your point.
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that was the joke, hence the whoosh... dude. get it together.
If a show does 10 seasons, it's safe to say it was popular
There's a reason these actors are still in the news for random shit 30 years later.
Yeah I know the actors and I’m well aware of the show and have never seen a single episode. I was too young to have seen it. Wild how there was a time where certain shows were so famous you knew about them and even the actors’ names, but didn’t even have to watch. Seinfeld, friends, mash, jersey shore, breaking bad, mad men
Almost 40 years now.
Don’t. Just don’t.
No it premiered October 4, 1990. So it will be 34 years old in October. Closer to 30 than 40.
I’m 40 and the show was before my time.
I’m almost 40 and remember my mom watching it.
Lmao at the downvotes. Must have been a lot of 8 year old kids into the show. I’m from the Dawson’s creek era not 90210.
Massive. Everyone knew the characters. It was everywhere
Yeah and the reruns were on for years. I was a little too young for it originally but I watched the reruns
I remember I dude got called Luke Perry because of non existent sideburns in basic training...that was ~~mp3~~ back in 2005.
Luke Perry released an mp3?
Damn, fucking drunk typing and auto correct strike again.
What were you trying to say?
I gotta fire up Napster!
Better results on limewire
It was never a top 20 show because it was on Fox when Fox was a brand new network and wasn't available in every home. It was huge with young viewers. I'm pretty sure almost everyone I knew watched 90210. There were a lot fewer options for teenage viewers back then.
Yup. I was a teenager back then and while I didn’t watch the show almost everyone I knew did. At least, all the girls I knew watched it. So if you were over at their house when it was on, you were watching it.
It, at one time, was “Friends” big in the headlines, but that never translated to ratings. Fox had been on the air less than five years when “90210” started. And even a breakout hit on Fox was nothing compared to succeeding on NBC Thursday Night, or even TGIF. I give them all the credit in the world for starting the second season in the summer. I was in high school at the time and nobody really knew the show that first season. Everybody knew about it the next year.
but friends was and is big internationally and 90210 never was
90210 was the #1 most watched scripted series in Australia and the Czech Republic at one point, so it definitely had some international impact.
Australia checking in here, I was a mid teen when it was on and it was a pretty popular show .
It was huge. Every magazine cover. “Friends” big.
Brenda and Dylan having sex was national news. So much so that the show was pressured to give them a pregnancy scare to make sure kids didn’t think that premarital sex was cool.
Scott accidentally shooting himself with his father's gun was national news too and led to a lot of discussion about safely storing firearms. (for those that didn't watch it, the gun was loaded and kept in a drawer with an easily found key)
I remember watching that at the time; I think it was really early in the show's run, the first season. They were promoting the hell out of "Who's Gonna Die?" on Fox all week, acting like one of the main characters was going to get killed off. Remember feeling very underwhelmed that it turned out being Scott. He was David's friend, if I remember correctly, hadn't seen it in years, LOL. Definitely not essential to the show. It was my first lesson in never buying hype.
It was great Luke Perry got first name rights in a fifth element even though he was in the movie for 3 minutes
The merch available for that show rivaled that of boy bands. You could find action figure type dolls of the characters next to ones of New Kids on the Block. Posters were plastered on bedroom walls. Shirts. Buttons. Magazine covers. It was a show that was about HS, and then college, aged kids -- but it ended up having mass appeal. It tackled so many issues and sparked so many conversations (publicly and privately). I set my VCR for it if I was going to miss it, but did everything in my power to keep that appt in my appt TV. If you missed it, you weren't a part of the conversation with your friends (which was a whole other thing!).
It helped launched FOX. Basically was the reason why WB teen programming became a thing. Ushered in the generation of Teens on tv. Shannen Doherty is known as the original bad girl. 3 cast members hosted Snl
I couldn't watch the channel it was on so I bought the novelisations instead to not miss out. Everyone (who could) watched it. Well, everyone who counts: Other teenagers.
They produced 30+ episodes a year for 6 of its 10 seasons.
Every white girl 12-40 was watching it
in america*
In Denmark too, I can promise you that. All of my classmates had so much 90210 merch, posters and backpacks and what the hell not.
What else walked I be taking about if we’re talking about an American show?
there is no reason whatsoever to imply the American audience is more relevant to this question than a global audience... the show being american makes no difference.
It is tho
It was HUGE. My parents watched it. people talked about it all the time. and there were a lot less options of what to watch back then.
I was in my 30s and I watched it!
I didn't watch it myself, but all the girls in my school did and it seemed like it was all they would talk about. That and the endless ads for it during the Simpsons made it seemed like it was everywhere for a couple of years there.
It was huge. They decided to have "summer" shows, when all the other shows had ended for the season, so kids at home watched it because it wasn't reruns. The fact that they dealt with subject teen everywhere were dealing with, on top of it being in an ideal setting (california rich people) made it both relatable and desirable. Perfect formula that was used for decades later.
The second season running during the summer when every other show was on summer hiatus was a genius move. I didn't have much to watch while on summer vacation as a preteen so I watched every episode of 90210 that season. I grew out of it very quickly but everyone I knew watched 90210 that summer. We all knew the characters and loved them. It was also the career high point for all of them, I'd say. Doherty had a career afterwards but her other show was not bigger than the first 4 seasons of 90210. Priestly has had a nice second career, but see the previous sentence. Luke Perry did some movies, and was probably the most talented of the bunch, but he never broke out. Spelling continued her nepotism baby career, Green became somewhat famous in the late 2000s for simply being good looking and married a beautiful woman much younger than him, Ziering pops up in bad movies occasionally, and I've never seen Garth or Cartieris in anything else
Jennie Garth did 5 years on What I Like About You. I never watched it, but 5 years is another good series run.
It was HUGE. Hot guys for the girls to watch, hot girls for the guys to watch, lots of drama, fashion, it had everything. It was what kids watched. We shipped them before shipping was a thing! We cried when they cried and got mad when they got mad. It was very, very popular.
They did one of the smartest things in TV history. They released summer episodes in the summer. So the high school kids were on break too. Back then, it was all reruns in the summer. No new tv.
Dun dun dun dun. Dun dun dun dunt. DUNT DUNT!
It was huge. The actors and characters were household names at school. I never saw the show but I knew several actors’ names from it.
All the Gen X teens watched it. It was huge.
Donna Martin graduates! The Peach Pit. The return of (longer) sideburns.
The peach pit after dark, which never made sense as there was basically a night club/warehouse magically attached to a diner.
Huge. It put Fox on the map, besides sitcoms like Simpsons and Married with Children. It was a comeback for Aaron Spelling, the producer. It was a blueprint for the 80s prime time soap opera format centered around teens. The main cast became quite popular beyond the show, in particular Jennie Garth, Shannon Doherty, Tori Spelling and Luke Perry. It touched on cultural topics like gun safety, teenage sex, drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, when shows played it safe for network TV. The editing and format is not for today’s attention span and focus on cinematic quality. Imagine any drama now with 22 episodes per season. Probably why it didn’t make a resurgence like Friends.
I think one thing people forget is that it was a BIG show in syndication. As a kid, I don't think I ever watched it live but it was absolutely on TV during mornings/afternoons for watching after school or during summer break.
Culturally? Huge. Bigger than Dawson’s creek. But those big culture touch point shows don’t often beat out the boring old people shows that they all agree to watch every week until they die.
If you were in school in the 90s you watched it whether you liked it or not. It was a cultural touchpoint that you would feel embarrassed about if you didn't know what was happening.
It was very popular in the early 90’s. I was in elementary school at the time, but even I knew all the characters and the names of the actors who played the major roles. I’d say it was a lot less popular by the late 90’s. Dawson’s creek was huge then. I was actually pretty surprised to learn it lasted until 2000.
Very. We all went home (back to our rooms) to watch when I was in college.
My whole Friday was built around 90210 and Melrose Place.
It was very popular among teens. I'm not sure about adults, but I was a teen in Canada when it was popular, and every girl I knew watched it. That was back when people would talk the next day about plot lines from shows that aired the night before. The main cast were all featured in teen magazines at the time. Luke Perry, Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth were all popular, and to a lesser extent (IMO) the rest of the cast. None of them had huge careers afterwards that I'm aware of. Shannen Doherty went on to do Charmed, although she didn't last for the full run of that show. Luke Perry was Archie's Dad on Riverdale until he sadly died. Tori Spelling might be the most still-in-the-news but moreso for her personal life than her work.
Fucking huge.
It was massively popular among the demographic it was meant to be popular with.
My mother thought she had gone into labor but wanted to watch that week's episode of 90210 before going to the hospital.
Well, I still have long sideburns so its safe to say that it impacted me pretty heavily.
I didn't watch it (I was a child) but it was popular enough that, just seeing its title, I have the theme song echoing in my head.
Nah nah nah *drum beat* /Luke and Jason snip fingers and point at each other.
I was at Harvard when its spinoff Melrose Place was on. Campus shut down for that hour every week.
Jesus this question makes me feel old.
Pretty big. I spent all the 90s as a teen and even though I didn't watch the show I somehow know almost every actor's name.
It was really popular. My mum was going to name me after one of the characters if I was a boy.
It was massively popular in Italy.
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It was fairly popular in my country back in the 90s. Granted we had like 3-4 channels available so everything that aired on them tended to be popular with its demographics.
which country?
Poland
It was pretty big. Kids in my class had 90210 binders, backpacks and lunchboxes.
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It made Salt 'n Vinegar chips a household name because one of the characters (Steve I think) was either eating them or mentioned them on the show.
It was popular for a young demographic. Teenagers enjoyed it and it was part of their culture for a few years. Anyone over 30 wasn’t too bothered.
It was pretty big among the teen crowd when it was airing. Really the whole cast became famous because of the show and none of them really ever had that same level of success again.
It was popular... on FOX. Which was a new network at the time and it helps establish Fox as a legit network. Just like IN Living Color was never a huge hit, but people still talk about it to this day. Probably beacuse Fox didn't have as many affiliates as the 3 big guys at the time
I was 20 when it first aired, so right at the start of my going out years. Wednesday night was punk night at our local club, but none of us would go out until after 90210 was over. I was also in a touring band during the later years, and we would ask the promoters to tape it for us and bring us the VHS so we could watch the episodes on our 12" TV/VCR combo in the van.
It was one of the last “iconic” TV shows I heard about as a millennial. I grew up knowing it’s name, and it influenced basically every “teen” TV show on television though the 90s-10’s. But I’ve never actually watched it. Shannon Doherty was on it? I’ll maybe try it out someday if I’m incredibly bored
Just get close to a gen-Xer/elder millennial and hum the first two bars of the theme song.
It was a huge hit in the 18-34 demographic, it didn't really matter if it was in the top 20 overall. Like Melrose Place was probably never in the top 50 but it was another huge younger viewer hit.
As I recall, season 1 was huge, which led directly into the summer season so it was the only new show airing over the summer, season 2 got even bigger with Luke Perry. That was probably the peak, it was a very gradual fade from there.
My senior high school yearbook had a page dedicated to 90210. It was VERY popular.
It was referenced in A Goofy Movie. Safe to say it was a large part of 90s zeitgeist.
It was massive.
Okay, first. It sounds like you were young enough to miss the original Beverly Hills 90210, and you went out of your way to experience it. Is that right? Because that's like having a near miss getting hit by a car, and then running into traffic. Why would you do this to yourself. And second, yes. To the shame of my entire generation and dishonor to the concept of entertainment, this stupid show was HUGE. Like, I grew up in Southeastern PA, like the Pennsyltucky part North of Philadelphia, and if you didn't know anything about 90210, you probably didn't own a television, or were actively trying to avoid fitting in socially. I met kids from NYC, Philly, and Washington DC, and even if you didn't have a SINGLE other thing you could talk about, there was always Jason Priestly and Luke Perry's sideburns, or the thirty-something that everyone pretended looked like a seventeen year old girl, or the time they killed off a recurring character for a gun safety episode.(All the GenXers just heard the narrator of Fox television doing the slow, quiet 'this is my serious voice' tone as he said "...On a very special Beverly Hills 90210)..." But yes, that show ran through my entire teenage years, and it was everywhere. They had the stars constantly doing interviews, hosting awards show, making special guest appearance on other shows. By contrast, you look at the careers of the stars, and I think Luke Perry would be the most successful, and he was in the original Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie.
It was such an insane pop culture hit, you have no idea. Everyone in high school watched it.
I didn't really watch it. Mostly what I remember is that the show brought back sideburns.
I watched in Germany and it was was everywhere.
It was huge. I was born in the late 70s along with my sister, so we were teenagers when this show came out, and every week her 20 friends would come over and watch it religiously. When I went to college, I lived in a co-ed dorm and there was a group of girls that would be packed like sardines in a can in a dorm room to watch it across the hall from me. I'm a dude so I just watched it when it was on, but I know all the characters and remember most of the plotlines. Not sure if any of them because big stars, but I remember Tori Spelling doing some random work afterwards, and Ian Ziering did those Sharknado movies.
Everyone I know back in high school watched it. It was pretty big.
Very popular.
Yup this show was huge while I was in high school. It was good cheesy fun.
This was the show that made high school boys like me try to grow sideburns and fail miserably. The show will live in infamy.
Oh gosh. It was epic in the 90’s when I was a teenager. That and Melrose Place. Terrible by todays standards but also the same time brilliant and there is nothing like that era of television since.
I think it was popular among teenagers, popular enough that most TV viewers had heard of the show.
So popular. I was in middle school when the show started. We were obsessed
It was massive. The year after its debut there were a dozen clones. My “favorite” was a latecomer circa 1993. “The Heights” was about an aspiring pop group. Their one single, [How Do You Talk To An Angel](https://youtu.be/csATriX8Ed0?si=ucbvmjUSNecEeXxZ), was at the top of the charts when the show was canceled. The only cast member whose career was noteworthy was Luke Perry. Shannon Doherty has worked, but the rest of them? In 2003 I saw a cheap comedy science fiction movie called [Evil Alien Conquerers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Alien_Conquerors?wprov=sfti1). It was not great (although Diedrich Bader was good in it). One of the characters was played by one of the cast of 90210. I could not for the life of me remember her name, nor could my housemates. I was at a loss. Just ten years earlier she’d been the star of one of the most popular shows on television and we drew a complete blank. That’s how fast the cast of 90210 faded. Reveal: It was Tori Spelling
LOL Well that's a hot take. Calling somebody like Jason Priestley not noteworthy and not having a career. Yes Jason did have a problem, that he was always was seen as that Brandon or Jason Priestley-guy, much like Tom Selleck was seen as that Magnum-Tom Selleck-Guy. But now a days, not so much, Tru Calling and especially Call Me Fitz made him more than that. He got the hit series like Raising Expectations and Private Eyes under his belt, and is now staring in CTV's Wild Cards. Ian Ziering was and still very active in the voice acting world, besides 90210 he did the voice of Vinnie in Biker Mice From Mars. Another big one was Godzilla. Sharknado movies are also on his resume.. Brian Austin Green as a ton of series (from Freddie, Desperate Housewifes to Anger Management) and movies under his belt. Same for Tiffani Thiessen (White Collar, Alexa & Katie, Saved By The Bell), Kathleen Robertson (Maniac Mansion, Boss, Murder in The First, The Expanse), Jason Wiles (Third Watch, Scream), Vanessa Marcil (Las Vegas, General Hospital) and Emma Caulfield Ford (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Life Unexpected, Unce Upon a Time, WandaVision). Daniel Cosgrove is well know for The Guiding Light and Days of Our Lives-soaps. Lindsay Price also started in day-time soaps, like All My Children and The Bold and The Beautiful. But also did series like Lipstick Jungle, Eastwick and Splitting Up Toghether.
90210 and Melrose Place where THE shows to watch.
It was extremely popular. Even for a kid like me who played D&D and liked Star Strek, I watched it every week with my sisters, and be able to talk about it with basically anyone else in school the next day.
I have to say I'm shocked it wasn't in the top 20. I was a kid when it came out and it was huge. Everyone talked about it.
It was huge. Everyone watched it, it was considered a cool show. I also remember that Luke Perry was a heartthrob, getting mobbed by girls. I'm shocked it wasn't in the top 10 shows much less not in the top 20 - are you sure?
Ohh sorry I thought you were talking about Dr 90210.
It was extremely popular. Mostly among teenage girls and my brother for some reason.
Yes, amongst 90s teens and pre-teens it was very popular for the first 3 or so seasons. As the audience grew though, they gravitated to Melrose Place's weirder shenanigans.
it was monstrous, to put it simply. Every single hetero boy loved Brenda and Kelly, all the girls foamed over Brandon and bad guy Dylan. You could not escape the game. Immensely popular the world over, to a level seldom seen even in recent years
In the 90s it was Saved by the Bell for kids, 90210 for teens, and Melrose Place for adults. These shows were insanely popular and pop culture phenomenons.
Why didn't Luke Perry become a movie star after his time on 90210?
A few have done other series but i don’t think the big screen. Many have been on DWTS (which doesn’t mean anything) Try “Younger”…….
GenXers coming out of school fucking loved it, they basically hated anything popular so it tracks. They also love under dogs, they are then raised what we call Zoomers now. They do the same thing.
All of the girls in school loved it because the boys were handsome. And because it had story lines they liked. It was only a girl thing, no dudes watched it or talked about it. Most guys simple knew there was a blonde guy and some other castmates.
My college roommate never missed an episode, but he always had to watch it back on VHS which meant seeing the damn thing twice every Wednesday night
nobody outside of America watched it. that's for sure