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MELROSE PLACE

Wednesday September 4, 1996: Melrose Place official website went online.

Since its debut on Wednesday July 8 1992, 4616 Melrose Place had been the most talked-about place on TV for many college-age fans. Between December 1996 and January 1997, Donna Mills made 4 special cameo appearances on the show. On Monday February 3 1997, Melrose Place celebrated its 150th episode.

Melrose Place made no pretense to be anything but "the fun, wild adult soap that it is," producer Darren Star pointed out. "I think people, as much as they love to watch the show and make fun of it, really empathise with these characters."

But by the spring of 1996, Melrose Place had become "a little ridiculous," Heather Locklear lamented. "Every character has become almost insane. You can't distinguish one from another. Now everybody's nasty – and that makes it not so much fun."

1993 to 1994 was Melrose Place best season of all time with an average 14 million viewers counted watching the show. Linda Gray guest starred.

Darren believed Heather as Amanda "was the right person and the right character at the right time."

In 1995 Domino's Pizza declared the time slot Melrose Place occupied to be the time slot that had generated the most pizza orders on television.

Of Amanda, Heather expressed, "Because I know myself, I'm always shocked that people believe that I'm like Amanda. I just think, 'Come on, I know you're smart people and a smart audience. I know you know there's a difference.'"

Melrose Place wrapped before the 2YK pandemonium made the headlines.

Of the seasons 1997 to 1999, producer Charles Pratt confessed, "The challenge in the past few years was trying to make all the new characters fit in."

Aaron Spelling acknowledged, "We have this crazy rule for the young ladies. Do not change your hair the first year. Let the audience get used to you. Talk to us if you want to cut your hair or do something to it, but not the first year of a show. It gives the audience a chance to connect to the characters."

Courtney Thorne-Smith recounted, "My clearest memory of Melrose Place was the daily 'Hi, I'm Courtney.' 'Hi, I'm Joe.' 'We'll be kissing over there.' It was really strange."

Melrose Place spun-off Models Inc in 1994. Darren made known, "It is defintely flattering this show became popular enough to spawn something else, but as far as I am concerned, you can only spread yourself so thin."

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