Beverly Hills, 90210
Love Hurts
TV Flash files “Love Hurts” as hour 135 of 293 in the TV Flash guide — Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–2000) on Fox, season 5, episode 23, aired 1995-03-01, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E23: listed hour 135 of 293 in the Beverly Hills, 90210 guide, hour 23 of 32 in season 5. It aired 1995-03-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Alone at the Top” (S05E22). Next is “Unreal World” (S05E24).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The campus is in an uproar when an alleged rapist is released from custody. Despite his alibi, the students are sure that Lenny is responsible for the string of crimes on campus. And while everyone is fixated on Lenny, the real rapist is in the perfect position to strike again when he targets Donna and holds her hostage at her beach apartment, where quick thinking from David and pure rage from Donna save her from a terrible fate. Meanwhile, Valerie manipulates Donna and everyone into believing that David is the one responsible for Ray's departure from Los Angeles. Steve tries to secure the rock group, the Flaming Lips, as the new band for the After Dark. Also, Dylan finds out about Andrea's extramarital affair with Peter when he sees them together at Charley's motel while he and Charley are working on a movie script. Later, when Andrea offers to leave Jesse to be with Peter, he refuses to leave his wife and as a result, Andrea angrily breaks up with him.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Love Hurts sit in the Beverly Hills, 90210 guide?
S05E23 is listed hour 135 of 293 — hour 23 of 32 in season 5, season 5 episode 23.
When did Beverly Hills, 90210 S05E23 air?
Love Hurts aired 1995-03-01 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.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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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- Jason Priestley as Brandon Walsh
Jason Priestley’s Brandon Walsh dropped Minnesota morals into Beverly Hills, 90210 and taught Fox that teens would show up weekly — peach-pit romance, zip-code soap, Very Special Topics, a courtyard that aged into adulthood without…
- Shannen Doherty as Brenda Walsh
Shannen Doherty’s Brenda Walsh dropped Minnesota twins into Beverly Hills, 90210 and taught Fox that teens would show up weekly — peach-pit romance, Luke Perry mythology, Very Special Topics — then spelled sisterhood as Prue on Charmed.…
- Luke Perry as Dylan McKay
Luke Perry taught Fox a zip code as Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills, 90210 — peach-pit romance, Minnesota twins in a courtyard, heartthrob mythology with Very Special Topics, then adulthood without ever leaving the brand. Darren Star and…
- Jennie Garth as Kelly Taylor
Jennie Garth’s Kelly Taylor made Beverly Hills, 90210 a blonde weather system — Minnesota twins in the zip code, peach-pit romance, Luke Perry mythology, Very Special Topics aging a courtyard into adulthood. Fox teen soap as a weekly…
- Ian Ziering as Steve Sanders
Ian Ziering's Steve Sanders taught Beverly Hills, 90210 that the rich kid could be the plot — Minnesota twins dropping into a zip-code soap, Darren Star and Aaron Spelling, peach-pit romance, Luke Perry mythology, Very Special Topics.…
- Tori Spelling as Donna Martin
Tori Spelling’s Donna Martin made Beverly Hills, 90210 feel like a courtyard you could actually live in — peach-pit romance, zip-code soap, Minnesota twins dropping into a high school Fox taught teens to visit weekly. Darren Star and…