Ashley Tisdale | Beverly Hills, 90210

• Genre: Teen drama, Soap opera
• Created by: Darren Star
• Starring: Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green, Douglas Emerson, Tori Spelling, Carol Potter, James Eckhouse, Joe E. Tata, Mark Damon Espinoza, Kathleen Robertson, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Jamie Walters, Hilary Swank, Vincent Young, Lindsay Price, Daniel Cosgrove, Vanessa Marcil
• Theme music composer: John E. Davis
• Composer: Jay Gruska
• No. of seasons: 10
• No. of episodes: 293
• Executive producers: Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent, Charles Rosin, Darren Star, Steve Wasserman, Jessica Klein, Paul Waigner, Larry Mollin, Jason Priestley, Laurie McCarthy, John Eisendrath, Doug Steinberg, Michael Braverman, Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering
• Running time: 45–95 minutes
• Production companies: Propaganda Films, Spelling Entertainment / Spelling Television
• Network: Fox
• Release: October 4, 1990 – May 17, 2000

Originally based around the lives of a group of high school students living in the wealthy Beverly Hills neighborhood, then later moving on to their college days as they got older. The kids become friends and enemies, fall in and out of love, and go through an endless series of crises as this small group somehow becomes personally involved in every newsworthy social issue from alcoholism to South African apartheid to pregnancy to AIDS.

 

"Fertile Ground"

Matt's brother and sister-in-law come to town and reveal that they cannot conceive a child on their own. They ask Matt to be their surrogate father. Kelly objects and orders Matt to turn them down, then becomes angry upon learning that he told his brother that he had to bow to her wishes. She later realizes that not everything is about her and gives Matt her blessing. Gina, with Dylan's help, gets a shot at another television job. The man will not hire her unless she helps his teenage son lose weight before the school dance. Gina loses the job (as usual)after she encourages the boy to stand up to his overbearing father. She convinces the man to treat his son with respect by detailing the way that her pushy mother shaped her life. Gina escorts Michael to the dance, where Dylan surprises her by showing up to give her the prom she never had. Donna dates the clothing buyer for a chain of stores. He buys a bunch of her designs, but Donna nixes a relationship because they have nothing in common. She becomes jealous when David gets involved with Camille Desmond, the editor of a fashion magazine. Steve confesses his past fling with Darby to Janet, who fires the woman. Steve suffers a bruised ego because Darby doesn't remember the encounter. Josie fears for her life because she had to flush $90,000 worth of merchandise; she insists that the other dealer will kill her. Josie asks Noah to lobby Dylan on her behalf. He refuses to help. Josie's brother Shane and another man kidnap Noah at gunpoint, as they assume that someone would actually pay to get him back.