Brandon submits one of Andrea's articles to a high school journalism contest. She wins the contest, but panics because a school district representative wants to conduct a home interview. Andrea asks her grandmother to say that she lives with her, but Rose does not want to play along. The school district initiates an investigation because they suspect that Andrea lives out of district. Andrea moves in with Rose, but decides to give up her fight because she cannot stand to be in the middle of the long-running feud between her parents and grandmother. Rose decides to let Andrea stay and agrees to talk to her daughter-in-law. Steve gets a girlfriend through a "chance encounter" at the Peach Pit, but Kelly suspects that the girl is only interested in his bank account. Music: 'Radio Song' / 'Shiny Happy People' / 'Losing My Religion' by R.E.M., 'I'll Turn to Stone' by The Four Tops, 'Build Me Up Buttercup' by The Foundations, 'Over and Over' by Dave Clark Five.
This long-running drama dealt with the experiences of a group of young people in Beverly Hills, CA as they navigated high school, college and ultimately the real world. The series focused on their travails as they tried to maintain their friendship while dealing with romances, family and personal crises, tragedies and countless drug addictions.