Season 1

1987–1988

Sep 19, 1987 · 30m

The double surfing contest is here, and all but Bianca are going to compete. Instead, Bianca decides to sit and sabotage the contest so that Larke and Troy won't win the competition, especially since Troy picked Larke over her to be his surfing partner. Her sabotage eventually works against her when she sets the wave maker to tidal wave frequency and gets washed away. Pierce convinces Jett to be his surfing partner, but really wants to win the affection of Larke. He has Chester build a robotic shark to attack Larke and Troy so that he can be Larke's hero. However, the robotic shark is broken and Pierce ends up wrestling a real shark. Troy and Larke are neck and neck with Radley and Blaze, but it is Troy and Larke who win the double surfing contest.

E2. The Dog Ate My Homework

Sep 26, 1987 · 30m

The Midnight Ball for the gang of Beverly Hills is near, but everyone's history essay must be done in order to go. Bianca shops for the perfect gown, only to discover Larke has already purchased it. Jealously, Bianca sends her dog Empress to destroy Larke's homework, which results in Larke having to re-do it in detention hall and miss the ball. Chester finds a way to both restore Larke's homework and get her to the ball on time in his pumpkin shaped automobile that he invented. They arrive just in time for the crowning of the Midnight Ball Princess. Larke wins the title, and Bianca is the runner-up with one vote.

E3. The Make Over

Oct 3, 1987 · 30m

They've just crowned Troy Jeffries as this year's homecoming king. Now it's time to pick the queen. At first, many girls are up to the challenge of being Troy's queen. But after a series of talent shows and questionnaires, it narrows down to two finalist: Bianca Dupree and Larke Tanner. The winner will be determined by the beauty contest. Thinking that she has the upper hand, Bianca decides to spend a whole day at Fifi's beauty salon for a make-over. Initially, Larke thinks that getting a make-over is unfair, but changes her mind after her friends Blaze and Nikki convince her to go. At Fifi's, Bianca does everything to try and sabotage Larke's make-over, but takes it one step further by dying Larke's hair green and styling it like ""The Bride of Frankenstein."" Right before the judging for homecoming queen, Larke feels mortified by her new look. But to her surprise, everyone loves her new edgy look and Larke wins the crown for Homecoming Queen.

E4. My Fair Wilshire

Oct 10, 1987 · 30m

After witnessing many occassions of Bianca walking all over Wilshire, Larke, Pierce, Radley, and Tara plan a scheme to make Bianca realize what a great man Wilshire really is. With the help of Switchboard, the news gets spread around that a hunky new guy (Wilshire) will be making an appearance at the teen club. Meanwhile, Pierce and Radley take Wilshire to Fifi's for a cool make over and then to shop for new clothes. When Wilshire arrives at the Teen Club with his new look and attitude, he is quickly rejected by Bianca. But as Larke pretends to fall for Wilshire, Bianca gets jealous and begs Wilshire for a date. On the date, Wilshire realizes that he prefers the old Bianca, and resurfaces to his former self.

E5. Robot Romance

Oct 17, 1987 · 30m

After Chester thinks he will not be able to get a real girl to go out with him to a dance, he creates an attractive human-like robot girl called Roberta to be his date. (THANKS patriot for your contribution!)

E6. Casting Call

Oct 24, 1987 · 30m

Buck Huckster decides to produce the famous Shakespearean play ""Romeo & Juliet"". Troy is chosen to play Romeo, but a girl is needed to play Juliet. Both Nikki and Bianca audition for the role of Juliet, but Nikki becomes disappointed during rehearsals because Troy only has eyes for Lark. His acting unprofessionalism causes Nikki to quit. Meanwhile, Bianca accidentally breaks her leg after another scheme of hers backfires. When both potential Juliets are out of the picture, Troy gets his wish and Lark steps up to play the part. (Thanks patriot for filling in the gaps)

E7. Down and Out in the Teen Club

Oct 31, 1987 · 30m

Tara thinks that she and her family are broke and penniless after she hears someone has claimed their fortune. So she gets a job working at the Teen Club. Everyone feels bad for Tara, except for the selfish Bianca who now has one less girl to compete with as the wealthiest teen is Beverly Hills. Later, as a way to teach Bianca a lesson, Tara and the other Teens decide to make Bianca think that she and her family is broke and penniles too. In the end, Tara finds out that she and her family are not broke and penniless after all because the person who was trying to claim their fortune was a fake. And Bianca is furious when she learns that she was the root of their joke.

E8. Chase of a Lifetime

Nov 7, 1987 · 30m

The Sadie Hawkin's Dance is approaching. That means it's time for the girls to ask the guys out. But if you're a Beverly Hills Teen, the game is played differently. Instead of simply asking the boys, the girls must chase the boys. Which ever girl gets both hands on a guy first wins him as a date for the Sadie Hawkin's Dance. All the girls have their eyes and chase plans set on Troy, but Troy really wants Larke to catch him. However, Larke insist on playing a fair game. Bianca has other plans - she secretly places an electronic homing device in Troy's jeans so she will have the advantage of finding him. The race is here. On foot, Troy, Pierce, Gig, & Wilshire are among some of the boys being chased. On wheels, Larke, Jett, Nikki, Shanelle, and Bianca speed up in hopes of nabbing Troy. Blaze is also among the girls, but she chooses to ride on horseback instead. The chase goes from the Teen Club, to the snow summits, to the beaches, and finally to the streets of Beverly Hills.

E9. Downhill Racer

Nov 14, 1987 · 30m

It's time for the winter carnival and both Larke and Bianca are competing to be this year's Snow Queen. There are three contests to determine the winner: (1) Ice Scupting, (2) Figure Skating, and (3) Downhill Skiing. Larke wins the ice sculpting contest by building a graceful ballerina. Bianca loses this contest when her ice replica of Empress is destroyed when the real Empress becomes jealous and attacks the statue. Bianca captures the title of figure skating when Empress runs out of control and drags both Wilshire and Larke down on ice rink. The downhill ski contest will determine the winner. Bianca decides to take matters into her own hands when she tricks Chester into making an invention that can make the snow a little more slick to help Larke and her go faster and win the competition. After Bianca finishes her downhill ski run, she gets a hold of Chester's invention and sets it to super-slick right before beaming it on a huge section of the ski run. The noise of the inventi

E10. Radley Wipes Out

Nov 21, 1987 · 30m

Radley has to finish an important History test but cannot retain the information. Every time the surf alarm sounds, he zones out, no matter where he is. So the other teens devise a treasure hunt involving history clues to help him study.

E11. Shipwrecked

Nov 28, 1987 · 30m

All The Beverly Hills Teens are bored living the luxurious but repetitous life and long to do somthing different for a change. Jett tells them that they are all invited to an ocean cruise, and they accept in order to get away from all the boredom. But during the cruise, they get caught in a freak storm at sea, abandon ship, and find a deserted tropical island which they have become marooned on. Eventually, they find the cruise ship and the other side of the island. Bianca tries to outbest the other girls by having more dresses than them until they become stranded on the island. Larke, Tara and Shanelle then trick Bianca into traded her dresses to the girls for some fish and fruits. (THANKS patriot State for your contribution!)

E12. Halloween in the Hills

Dec 5, 1987 · 30m

While her parents are away for the trip, Bianca decides to throw a Halloween party at home. The party includes a Best Costume competition. Bianca comes dressed as Cleopatra, but unfortunately, so does Larke. Bianca manages to obtain another costume, Native American girl, but Larke has changed to the same, having decided not to upset Bianca. In desperation, Bianca attempts to ruin Larke's costume. Unfortunately, the ruined costume proves very popular, and Larke wins "for her ecology conscious wet look". Bianca proves to be a sore loser and drives everyone out. At that moment, the butler notifies her that the parents' trip has been cancelled, and they are back. She is grounded for two weeks.

E13. Visit from a Prince

Dec 12, 1987 · 30m

Blaze meets a new male, foreign exchange student at school who shares her feelings that life is not all about money and fame. They end up spending a lot of time together, especially on Blaze's ranch riding her horses. The two hit it off, and Blaze soons finds herself being swept off her feet. However, this young man is keeping secrets from Blaze. He is really a well-known prince. Blaze is upset over the lies, and soon has a broken-heart when the prince must return to his country to fulfill his duties. Lucky for her, she has the best friends that can help her get through this.

E14. Camp Camping

Dec 19, 1987 · 30m

The teens decide to go on a camping trip. Everyone is excited, even Bianca. Meanwhile, Pierce ends up saving Wilshire's life, leading to the latter proclaiming himself to be Pierce's slave, and following him around with disastrous results.

E15. Dream Date

Dec 26, 1987 · 30m

Gig, Pierce, Radley and Chester are challenged to a contest to try and do something to impress Lark and appear with her on the cover of next month's Teen Magazine. Jealous, Bianca decides to sabotage each of their ways to impress Lark with the help of Wilshire. They succeed in ruining it for Gig, Pierce and Radley but not with Chester. In the end, Chester is the winner of that contest. (Thank you patriot for filling in the gaps)

E16. The Perfect Gift

Jan 2, 1988 · 30m

Troy's Birthday is approaching and Bianca is determined to be the one who gives him the best birthday present. In order to succeed, Bianca follows her rival Larke around town to see what Larke is buying for Troy. Larke is seen giving a photograph to a painter at the mall, and Bianca concludes that Larke is having a self-portrait painted for Troy. Thinking she has the upper hand, Bianca hires the best painter in Beverly Hills to paint a giant portrait of herself to give to Troy. At the party, Bianca's portrait does not come out the way she expected, and Larke's portrait was not of her, but of one of Troy's favorite types of Sports Cars.

E17. A Time to Remember

Jan 9, 1988 · 30m

During a horse race with Blaze, Bianca is injured and gets amnesia. She becomes very nice and starts trying to be ultra helpful, only to have all her nice plans backfire due to her lousy memory. Chester invents a gadget to help her remember, but Pierce, intent on using Biana for his own ends, destroys the machine. During a dance, Bianca regains her memory, only to end up with Pierce losing his.

E18. Chester the Matchmaker

Jan 16, 1988 · 30m

Chester's new invention is a match-making computer that he uses to help Gig find a perfect date for a contest. However, Gig is disappointed that the computer filtered out his favorites like Larke and Tara to match him up with Switchboard. Not wanting to go out with Switchboard, Gig starts to tell all his favorite hopefuls that they each have won the contest before the winner is even revealed, but they all must keep it a secret. Now almost every girl at school thinks she has a date with Gig, and Gig is feeling quite lucky that he has more dates than he can handle. But the truth slips when all of Gig's hopefuls find out that they were all the winners of the contests. They decide to investigate, so they go to see Chester for the truth and find out that Switchboard actually won. To get even with Gig and be fair to their friend Switchboard, they devise a plan where Gig will secretly meet with Switchboard for their date.

E19. Who Wears the Pants?

Jan 23, 1988 · 30m

The Teen Magazine photographer, Eric Hotshots, is about to put on the cover the best clothing designed by one of the Beverly Hills' Students. The winner is Bianca, with solid gold jeans. The problem is, she stole them from Tara, and should they appear on the cover under Bianca's name...

E20. Open for Business

Jan 30, 1988 · 30m

As part of class assignment, the gang is divided into two teams: boys vs. girls to run a business for a day on Rodeo Drive. The goal is to see which sex makes better business people. The girls: Larke, Jett, Switchboard, Shanelle, Bianca (even Wilshire) run an Ice Cream Parlor while the boys: Troy, Radley, Chester, Gig, and Pierce run a Chocolate shop. Coincidentally, the two shops are right across the street from each other. Each team comes up with strategies to beat the other team, but ultimately it is Bianca who causes the most trouble when she uses sneakier tactics behind her teams back to win the contest. She sends Wilshire to destroy Chester's bonbon machine. The machine goes beserk and ends up firing bonbons at Mrs. Van Worthington, the most important woman in Beverly Hills. The boys think they are in trouble, but are surprised when Mrs. Van Worthington wants to buy the recipe from them. In the end, the girls are the winner.

E21. Operation Soap Opera

Feb 6, 1988 · 30m

Nikki wins the role for the school soap opera. Bianca, in turn, is made her understudy. She resents the fact, and would like nothing more than to play herself. However, nothing but a national disaster can make Nikki fail to show up. Perhaps a disaster named Wilshire will do?

E22. Teen Club Carnival

Feb 13, 1988 · 30m

Shanelle announces a charity carnival. All the Teen Club members are to draw numbers in order to see who goes as a visitor, and who goes as a worker. Bianca decides not to leave matters to chance.

E23. Potions of Love

Feb 20, 1988 · 30m

Chester invents a love potion as a way to get girls to like him. When Bianca overhears this, she comes up with a plan to use it on Troy so that he will fall in love with her. But a big chaos of events causes all the wrong people to fall in love with each other. Instead of troy chasing Bianca, Bianca is now chasing Wilshire (who is not thrilled with this love-obsessed Bianca).

E24. The Teen Cup

Feb 27, 1988 · 30m

The gang decides to hold a yacht race. Whoever loses must scrub the barnacles off the winner's yacht. Bianca's plan? Plant an explosive on Troy's ship. Not so that he'll lose. So that he'll win... on her yacht.

E25. Ghost Story

Mar 5, 1988 · 30m

High in the hills of the Beverly Hills Teen Club lies the castle where the teens often have their dances. But strange occurences have been taking place. Chester does some research and discovers that long ago, there was an evil man who lived in the castle. After he died, his ghost haunts the place to keep others away. The teens are determined to reclaim their castle, so they come up with a plan that will drive the ghost out.

E26. Fairy Tale Flake Out

Mar 12, 1988 · 30m

As the teacher is giving all the Teens in class some lessons about fairytales, Bianca falls asleep and has a dream the she is an evil queen and all the other Teens are other fairytale characters. The fairytales in Bianca's dream include Robin Hood, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzal, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. In the end, after she is kissing Wilshire in her sleep, the teacher has her punished by being locked up in a tower that looks exactly the the one in her dream. (Thank you patriot for filling in the gaps)

E27. Nothing but Gossip

Mar 19, 1988 · 30m

Beverly Hills teen gossip queen Switchboard is running out juicy of ideas for her tabloids. As a way to spice up the story lines, Switchboard invents false rumors about her friends and reports them in the papers. One of the rumors she creates is telling everyone that Nikki said that Blaze has been riding horses for so long that she is starting to look like one. This causes Blaze to break off her friendship with Nikki. At first, she is excited about all the new storylines, but soon regrets her actions after she is given a taste of her own medicine. Larke, Shanelle, and Chester do some investigating of their own and discover Switchboard's secret. They hold a meeting with the teens to let them know the truth. Apologies and forgiveness follows, especially between Nikki and Blaze. Finally, all the teens come up with a plan to give Switchboard a taste of her own medicine - false rumors about Switchboard. When Switchboard hears all these new rumors about her, she becomes hurt and feels that s

E28. Now We're Cooking

Mar 26, 1988 · 30m

A restaurant owner holds a contest between the teens. Whoever proves to be the best cook, will get his or her recipe published in the book the owner is writing. Bianca, of course, has a bit of a problem with her cooking skills, but who ever heard of her playing fair?

E29. Old at Heart

Apr 2, 1988 · 30m

Nikki tries for the role of an old lady. She doesn't pass, and decides to practice off stage.

E30. Death Valley 500

Apr 9, 1988 · 30m

As the gang prepares for a car race from Beverly Hills to Death Valley, they find that their cars have been sabotaged. The only cars that are still able to compete in the race are Larke's Ferrari, Bianca's Limo, and Radley's Beach Wagon. With Troy, Pierce, Tara, along with Chester's help via car computer, the gang race to win the title of Death Valley 500 along with the money needed for charitable causes.