Beverly Hills 90210 | 81
History of the 90s
Kathy Kenzora
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When the Aaron Spelling show Beverly Hills, 90210 debuted on the Fox Network in September 1990, it was panned by TV critics who called it shallow and stereotypical. Some predicted it would be cancelled before the end of the season.
Instead, the show went on to dominate the TV landscape for the rest of the decade and along the way redefined the teen drama genre.
On this episode of History of the 90s, host Kathy Kenzora looks at how Beverly Hills, 90210 went from the bottom of the ratings barrel to an international pop culture phenomenon.
Guests: Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting, co-hosts of the podcast: Again With This: Beverly Hills, 90210 & Melrose Place and co-authors of the book: A Very Special 90210 Book: 93 Absolutely Essential Episodes from TV’s Most Notorious Zip Code
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| 0:40.3 | On a Saturday afternoon in August 1991, a hot young TV star was set to make an appearance at the plantation fashion mall in southern Florida. |
| 0:51.1 | Organizers were warned the expected crowd of 2,000 to 3,000 teenagers might get |
| 0:57.0 | a bit unruly. They should prepare for some excitement. In response, about 50 security guards |
| 1:03.3 | and police officers were called in. The mall began to fill up at 9 a.m. teens climbed on |
| 1:09.5 | top of pots and planters to see over the crowd that grew to |
| 1:12.8 | 10,000 by 2 p.m. When the teen idol with dreamy sideburns finally took the stage, the crowd |
| 1:20.1 | surged forward, bursting through the blockade of police and security guards. Teenage girls fainted, |
| 1:26.6 | others were trampled. The actor who came to sign |
| 1:29.7 | autographs was whisked off the stage to the safety of an empty meeting room. Even still, |
| 1:35.6 | the teens kept chanting his name. It was a wild scene. Before it was over, more than 20 people |
| 1:42.7 | were hurt. At least 12 were taken to hospital with broken bones and other injuries. And that was just a taste of what was to come, as the actor and the TV show that he starred on, were on their way to becoming part of an international pop culture phenomenon that drove fans wild. |
| 2:03.8 | I'm Kathy Kinsora, and this is History of the 90s, a podcast about a decade that changed the world. On this episode, we're looking back at a show |
| 2:10.5 | that dominated the TV landscape for a decade, with love triangles, drug addictions, and over-the-top |
| 2:17.2 | storylines that you either loved or loved to hate. |
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