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All episodes Season 5 S05E09 1994-11-02 60 min 1990s Fox

Beverly Hills, 90210

Intervention

TV Flash files “Intervention” as hour 121 of 293 in the TV Flash guide — Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–2000) on Fox, season 5, episode 9, aired 1994-11-02, 60 min.

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This leaf is S05E09: listed hour 121 of 293 in the Beverly Hills, 90210 guide, hour 9 of 32 in season 5. It aired 1994-11-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Things That Go Bang in the Night” (S05E08). Next is “The Dreams of Dylan McKay” (S05E10).

Beverly Hills, 90210 — Intervention (S05E09)

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Dylan's closest friends stage an intervention at Casa Walsh, where they beg him to enter rehab. Valerie and Clare, left out of the intervention, spend the day shopping together. Steve partakes in the intervention, but he is still angry with Dylan over his sexual tryst with Valerie and he still will not listen to Kelly or Jim or anyone else who tell him that Valerie is the really bad seed. Meanwhile, Kelly's modeling career takes an upward turn when she is offered the chance millions of girls only dream about: the opportunity to appear on the cover of the national fashion magazine Seventeen. Dylan runs away from the rehab clinic after one day with a little of Valerie's help, but begins to alienate her too with his self-destructive attitude and his unwillingness to go after the people who betrayed and stole from him, which leads her to finally walk out on him. Dylan's problems increase when he is given heroin by his pool hall dealer. That evening, Ray has dinner with Donna's parents Felice and John. Also, David and Clare's homemade video of their lovemaking disappears and turns up in the home of Donna's parents. However, Donna's father, John, sees the video first, but being a good sport, gives it back to Donna and makes her promise to keep her roommates under control. At the end, Dylan gets high while smoking heroin, and ends up crashing his car off a cliff.

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Where does Intervention sit in the Beverly Hills, 90210 guide?

S05E09 is listed hour 121 of 293 — hour 9 of 32 in season 5, season 5 episode 9.

When did Beverly Hills, 90210 S05E09 air?

Intervention aired 1994-11-02 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Where should I start?

The original 1990–2000 run, from high school into adult career and family arcs — later 90210 reboot attempts are a separate brand lap.

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Filed by Tessa Quinn · Spoiler-Free (Mostly) · Show package

Minnesota twins drop into Beverly Hills High and teach Fox that teens will show up weekly. Darren Star and Aaron Spelling built zip-code soap from peach-pit romance, Luke Perry heartthrob mythology, and Very Special Topics — then aged the courtyard into adulthood without ever leaving the brand. The teen-drama industrial complex starts here, spinoffs included.

So about the ZIP code. Minnesota twins Brandon and Brenda Walsh land at Beverly Hills High and Fox learns, in public, that teens will show up every week for peach-pit romance, pool-party lighting, and a curriculum of Very Special Topics. Darren Star created it; Aaron Spelling produced it (1990–2000). Luke Perry's Dylan, Shannen Doherty's Brenda, Jason Priestley's Brandon, Jennie Garth's Kelly, Tori Spelling's Donna — the original ensemble that made appointment TV out of adolescent melodrama. (I said spoiler-free.…

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