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Melrose Place was another huge success in Russia when it first appeared there many years ago. After that, it had many successful repeated runs in various Russian TV-channels. Why such a great popularity? Due to several reasons. First, the excellent choice of actors. Heather Locklear, Alyssa Mylano, Daphna Zuniga, all others are a great and very precise shot. They play their often malicious and cruel heroes with a surgical accuracy and with such persuasion that a mere serial becomes a real serious drama. All the events are another big plus. We are thrilled and attracted by the endless string of high-voltage events, all those slanders, kills, lies, love relations, fires and fights going on there. The serial is never boring. You see so many characters there and you know them all. And then, this is a true detective story. I have counted no less than 10 people killed there! And the marvelous performances of Marcia Cross or any other actor! Well, this is not a trivial small serial. No, this one is mature, strong and very exciting work.

What can you say about Melrose Place? I first saw it when it was still on air. At the time I was only a teenager, but I remember absolutely loving the hell out of it for one simple reason: The craziness never ended! Almost every episode ended with such a cliffhanger that you couldn't help but watch the next episode. It was like a drug. You just needed to know what happened each time. Yes, many of the lines were cheesy and sometimes the acting could've been better, but the show worked. People from all over the globe were watching it and everyone loved to talk about what was happening on it. Personally, I'll never forget some of those conversations. There were times when I almost gave up on it, but just when you thought you were done with it, they pulled you back in. One thing is for sure: The '90s would not have been the same without Melrose Place.

This is another drama by Speiling that defined the 90s, unlike 90210 this focused on young adults and the themes wore more mature compared to it's sibling, not as popular as Beverly Hills this was as long lasting and influential A decent view for the nostalgic.

Melrose Place ain't no Emmy winner but it sure is addictive. It's hard to resist the temptation to tune in daily to follow the absurd relationship dramas of this crew of snotty millionaires. In many instances it's just hilarious, for instance crazy Kimberley committing Peter to a mental institute before administering shock therapy and almost a lobotomy (hahahahaha), or Michael's wedding vows to Jane on their second wedding, "Jane you were my first wife, my favourite wife and I hope to god my last wife." The outrageous antics and schemes to win over lovers combined with the fact that every second character seems to be a murderer or a criminal of some sort, it is a wonder that they are not all in jail!

As rich and successful as they are, is this not the unluckiest group of people on television? (well except for the Days of Our Lives cast who all have brain implants and amnesia). I mean they've all been cheated on, dumped, married 4-5 times, been shot, run over, raped, sued, molested, paralysed, lobotimised, burnt, blinded, drowned, blown up, assaulted, tossed out windows, buried alive, stalked by psycho lovers, involved in war; gone bankrupt; suffered from drug addictions, impotency and alcoholism; had cancer, miscarriages, tumours, brain surgery, abusive parents, car wrecks and helicopter crashes just to name a few of the hardships inflicted upon these poor sods. You couldn't pay me to move into Melrose Place, that apartment block is the kiss of death. Seems to be quite the hangout for psychopathic freaks. The newspaper advertisment must read "Melrose Place Tenant Wanted: Must be unbalanced and of a psychotic nature, prone to fits of violence including murder and arson. Must also exhibit strong desire to destroy the lives of everyone you through infliction of emotional pain and suffering. Dodgy, unstable doctors preferred."

Granted, it's a silly show, but it's also the kind of program that makes you skip class so you can use the pay phone in the school lobby to ring home and remind your mum to tape it at 10 (yes I have done that). Can't help myself, I love it and recommend it to anyone looking for a good laugh and some light hearted entertainment.

Watching the series back doesn't have the same edge it did in its day, at the time it was modern, hip and cool. But what's with all the characters being mentally unhinged? Most have serious mental issues and volatile relationships. From womanisers, serial romantics, insecurities, possessive, murderers, backstabbers... your sure to get some classic drama from this show, mostly trashy but we'll watch it nonetheless.

"MELROSE PLACE," in my opinion, is an absolute FOX classic! I don't think I've seen every episode, but I still enjoyed it. It's hard to say which episode was my favorite. However, I think it was always sad when friends fought. I always wanted to cry at that. It would have been nice if all the main characters stayed with the show throughout its entire run. It seems that no one stays with a show throughout its entire run. Everyone always gave a good performance, the production design was spectacular, the costumes were well-designed, and the writing was always very strong. In conclusion, I hope they bring it back on the air for fans of the show to see.

In its heyday, Melrose Place was a fun and complex 60-minute roller-coaster ride every week. It started off slow and weak, but began to pick up steam midway through the first season with the addition of Heather Locklear. Though many credit Locklear for the show's success, the real stars of the show were people like Thomas Calabro, Laura Leighton and Marcia Cross, as the Kimberly/Michael/Sydney storyline was the driving force of the show. The show peaked in its second and third seasons, but by season four things began to fall apart. The writing, while always over the top, reached a new level of ludicrousness towards the end of season four and the show made no sense whatsoever (i.e., Evil Billy, Amanda using Billy to keep her job at D&D, and Kimberly's mutiple-personality story which culminated in her attempting to lobotomize Peter ). To its credit, the show realized its mistakes and several behind the scenes changes were made at the end of season four (namely the firing of several writers on the show ). By season five, the show had back down to earth and told more traditional soap stories (i.e. the Billy/Alison/Jake/Jane quadrangle and the Amanda/Peter/Taylor triangle ). New players, including Lisa Rinna, Rob Estes, David Charvet, and Kelly Rutherford were added to the show. The show rebounded, but towards the end of season five things began to fall apart again due to the loss of several veteran cast members. By the end of season five Marcia Cross, Laura Leighton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Josie Bissett and Grant Show were gone. Especially damaging was the fact that the show had killed its two best characters in Kimberly and Sydney. That's why, for me, the last "real" episode of MP was the fifth season finale on May 19, 1997. Spelling and Co. saw many of these departures coming, but figured the void would be easily filled by the new faces that were brought in in season five. They were sorely mistaken. Season six was a disaster, for the most part. Even more new faces (Linden Ashby and Jamie Luner) were added to the show and another veteran cast member (Doug Savant) was gone after the sixth season premiere. The combination of too many new faces and poor writing irrevocably damaged the show. The show hit rock bottom in early 1998 when FOX announced the show would be pulled after March 30 and return sometime in the summer. It was also announced that the show would be once again retooled and thus several cast members would leave later that season and original cast member Josie Bissett would return. When the show returned in the summer of '98, there was a flicker of hope as several storylines became interesting to watch (i.e. the Kyle/Amanda/Peter triangle, the Billy/Samantha/Jeff/Jennifer quadrangle, and the rekindled Jane/Michael romance). But the fun was short-lived. On September 7, 1998, Billy, Samantha, Jennifer, Coop and Taylor all left L.A. for greener pastures, and on September 14, the "new" Melrose debuted. It was obvious from that episode "The World According to Matt" that no matter how hard TPTB tried, the magic was gone. The show sputtered through its final season, as the addition of Rena Sofer proved to be a failure. The final episode on May 24, 1999 was exactly like the final two seasons of MP: disappointing.

I didn't really start watching this show until about 1996. I was 16 and stumbled upon it on the E! Network one night when they were doing a marathon. I think I stayed up til 6 am that night watching from the beginning. I couldn't stop. Yes, it got a little crazy in the last couple of seasons but I still LOVED IT. The show really got going when Amanda Woodward (locklear) came to the show and stirred thing up. My fave characters were Amanda and Sydney. If you like drama, this is your show. When It was cancelled I was devastated. They tried a reboot but it just wasn't the same. I still follow the careers of all of the cast. Best drama ever!

Melrose was, without a doubt, THE show of the 90's. Spawn from the popular 90210, Melrose developed into a show of backstabbing, bitterness, and bitchiness, a quality no other show since has mastered. For three seasons, the show brought grade A camp and sleaziness to television. Backstabbing, betrayl, lies, weddings, murder, affairs, setups, and shocking twists all lead up to the explosive third season finale in which crazy Kimberly caused the entire Melrose complex to explode. After the fiery (and much hyped) forth season premiere, the show went too far with ridiculous storylines and complicated twists. Instead of being a pleasure to watch, it became a puzzle to figure out. By the end of the season, Jane was burying Richard alive, Kimberly was calling herself Betsy and giving lobotomies to Peter, and Billy was the top dog at D&D. The show did MAJOR changes behind the scenes and returned with an intriging fifth season, full of twists and turns that kept you on the edge of your seat. However, by season's end, Melrose had lost a lot of key players. Though the fifth season finale pulled the steamy cliffhanger of Sydney hit by a car on her wedding day, Melrose was facing a large gap to fill in the sixth season. With no Jake, Alison, Kimberly, Jo, Sydney, or Jane, MP was in BIG trouble. They tried to fill in the absence with Lexi, Coop, Craig, Jennifer, and Megan, but it didn't take. Rotten storylines and the neverending Christine's death saga dragged the show to the pits. After nearly facing cancellation, MP retooled once again and returned the summer of 1998 (only to lose Billy, Samantha, Jennifer, Coop, and Taylor). But it was too late to save the sinking ship. Though the seventh season showed promise with sexy Lexi going up against Amanda and Kyle's sterility problem, 4616 Melrose Place got it's eviction notice and aired the "unforgettable" final episodes. The series finale lacked that Melrose kick only supplied by the true unforgettable characters, Kimberly and Sydney.

I remember how that I loved this show I never missed an episode! If I couldn't watch it right then and I had to be gone I recorded it. This was the best show to air on the FOX network. "Melrose Place" was situated in Los Angeles it would always be focussing on twenty-somethings who lived and loved in the garden apartment complex at 4616 Melrose Place. This series was so well liked because something was always going on in the characters daily life. The beautiful vixens were the reasons I also watched you name it you had them Heather Locklear was great as the beautiful but tough ad executive Amanda and Marcia Cross was great as the beautiful but crazy Kimberly. If those two tough beautiful vixens didn't thrill you then you had Josie Bissett, Kristin Davis, Brooke Langton, Laura Leighton, Kelly Rutherford, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Jamie Luner, Alyssa Milano, and Lisa Rinna. Now talk about a man enjoying his viewing and believe me you got treated to many scenes with those vixens doing many things you name it love scenes, affairs, sexy lingerie, accidents, bound and gagged scenes never was a dull moment present with these vixens. In fact so much bed changing and sleeping around that when the show ended in 1999 just about every female character had slept with most male characters! Speaking of the male characters great performances were given by Thomas Calabro and Jack Wagner both were great as good young doctors yet cunning and deceptive. Also Grant Show (Jake) was enjoyable as a rugged motorcycle mechanic plus Andrew Shue was good as an aspiring writer (Billy). This series became a traditional soap that always had the high drama and excitement that kept you glued to the TV. I hope some network picks "Melrose Place" up and shows the reruns from start to finish, I thought that back in 1998 that The E! Network showed reruns late at night but they don't now I hope that Melrose returns! Enough said even if you haven't watched you will want to and if your like me you will want to watch it all over from season 1 to the finish "Melrose Place" was just that good.

I started watching Melrose Place when I was only Seven years old and now at age thirty five it is still one of the most entertaining shows to this day. The majority of characters were very likeable and exceeded in their roles, especially the females in particular. I enjoyed watching this bunch of conniving people going to such great lengths to get what they want no matter how extreme certain storyline's may have been. I do agree with most fans that the creators killed off way too many good characters and the show became a bit rocky once season 5 had ended. I still enjoyed seasons 6 & 7 despite this, but seasons 2, 3, 4 and 5 were the absolute standouts, hence why the score still gets a 10 in my book.

I just Iove this show! I used to watch it on a weekly basis during seasons 4, 5 and 6 and got hooked on it since. Currently re-watching season 1 and 2 and love it even more! Trashy, campy, super exaggerated soap opera, fun and entertaining!

One of the best shows of the early 90's it lasted for 7 years. I came across this show as it's currently repeated on five every Saturday morning and I continue to love this show. I knew of this show when it screened during the 90's but couldn't care less at that time I was a huge fan of Beverly Hills 90210 which I'm not a big fan of anymore now. I just enjoy catching up with the lives of the beautiful and gorgeous people of Melrose Place. My favourite character is Alison (Courtney Thorne Smith) but my least favourite is Amanda Woodard (Heather Locklear) she is quite a B****. The cast are brilliant and I love the situations, which the characters go through every week just as our lives aren't as dramatic as these characters. Melrose is Glam but much better than Beverly Hills but as the seasons went on the series got over the top that's when I think it went downhill I think. The best year was the early years. I hope a DVD is released both in the US and the UK, as it was very popular and successful in both sides of the Atlantic. Melrose Place is one of my favourite shows and it's a classic with plenty to enjoy and a place we all wouldn't mind living in.

Melrose Place was a joy to watch and my favorite soap opera in the 90s.

I loved the drama, the comic moments, all the wonderful cast, their mischievous play and their much interesting interactions together.

Among them, Kimberly (Marcia Cross) was my shining star and the first time I got to know her in TV. She was beautiful, devious, psychotic with very believable acting showing a dark past well unfolded and explained in layers in the series storyline, little by little, outlining the craziness she was going through and her drowning in her own madness until that climatic episode. She was one of the pillars of the series.

It wasn't only a meaningless soap opera. The show had heart and soul. It was the guilty pleasure of many in the 90s and the awesome discovery and full enjoyment of many in later years.

IMO, no other SO series succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of its whole cast, while at the same time entertaining viewers with some unique twists and turns encompassed in a bigger plot picture in the span of its 7 seasons. The one coming close, though having a different vibe was Desperate Housewives.

Melrose Place lame reboot in 2008 for 1 season never achieved the magic of the original show and was obligatory cancelled.

Highly recommended to every fan of high-quality SO series aiming to relax, chill, living the lives of their favorite actors and becoming one with them for some moments, even if it's short-lived.

I thought this series was definitely one that stood out from the rest. For one thing, almost every actor in this series was great, and most have had notable performances in movies and made-for-tv movies, as well. I thought Billy (Andrew Shue), Jake (Grant Show) and Kyle (Rob Estes) were great as the good-looking, nice guys with bad luck in the female/relationship department. I thought they did a great job of trying to relate and live with the manipulative females that took constant advantage of them. Dr. Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro) was definitely the comic relief in the series and really made the fans laugh with his constant crazy (and often illegal) antics. Jack Wagner (Dr. Peter Burns) joined the series toward the end and really drew some last-minute interest as a love interest with Heather Locklear before the series ended. This series had some great, strong female characters as well. Amanda (Heather Locklear) was amazing and gorgeous. Just when you thought she was really low, and you really wanted to hate her, a completely different side of her showed up that made the audience relate with her. I was really impressed with the enjoyable and striking Lisa Rinna (Taylor); and Courtney Thorne-Smith (Alison) was beautiful and likeable as the nice girl as she rallied against Amanda. Jo (Daphne Zuniga) had a really strong character who often was up against Amanda's bad side. Another favorite was definitely Sydney (Laura Leighton). She schemed and plotted and really kept our interest; providing some real laughs on the female side. Kristin Davis was good as Brooke, but I can't remember much about her storylines, right now. Josie Bissett (Michael's ex-wife Jane) wasn't given enough substance later on in the series, and her character just kind of went downhill. I have liked her work in other things, though. Lexi (Jamie Luner) was a very intriguing and versatile character for too short a time-frame. Two other notables were Sam (Brooke Langton) and Megan (Kelly Rutherford). Every week the plot's twists and the interesting, sometimes shocking, relationship turns (I would love to see an outline of who slept with who!) kept us glued to our seats - only to get up during the commercials. It is amazing to see the list of cast members and notice so many famous actors that have guest stared during the series. Like, Antonio Sabato, Jr. (one of my favorites!), Pricilla Presley, Alyssa Milano, Kristin Alfonso, Vanessa Williams, Linda Gray, Brian Bloom, Dan Cortese, Greg Evigan, Shirley Jones, Traci Lords, Chad Lowe, Patrick Muldoon, Parker Stevenson, Rena Sofer, Deborah Adair - are just to name a few of the famous faces. It will be great to have this very memorable series available in DVD format.

I don't understand why a tv-series about all the worst calamities can be so pleasing. We start watching it and we can't stop anymore. It's always dramatic and intense.

The show is about a group of Melrose Place's residents, and all the exaggerated situations that happen with them. Most of the things couldn't happen in real life, at least not with this frequency, but is happening with this group all the time.

Now that it's over, I can choose to watch the 1994's season or the 1998's. I prefer the first, the cast had some changes and a lot of the original one had gone.

I enjoy watching it, it's not a passion like the one I have for Friends, but if I have nothing better to do, and I know that it's on television, even a repeated one, I have to watch it.

This show is perfectly perfect in every way. Don't let season 1 turn you off. The idea was "nice kids finding their way as adults" but that didn't work at first. When I started watching I ONLY knew about multiple of my favorite actors being in it, despite hearing this show title a few different times in my life I never really Knew what it was about. I'm so glad I started watching! Around the end of season 1 there is a twist that's so crazy it gave me whiplash. The show already started to get better once Heather locklear joined as Amanda, she added conflict for sure but I don't want to spoil anything but I became absolutely obsessed by the end of season 1 and then season 2 started & I was in love! This show is scandalous, crazy, insane, funny, but can also be very dramatic too! It's trashy in a fun way. I'm glad that they didnt let two people back for season 2 as they were boring and didn't fit in to well. We go through so many emotions with this show. Shock, awe, tears, lust..... I would change a few things if I could but for its time it was a very good show. I'm on my 8tb rewatch in 2 years. Season 5 episode 1 already has a different dynamic then before and some of the neighbors don't interact with each other as much as they once did, but there are still good story lines! Season 6 feels like a different show completely but with Jack Wagner in it that alone is a reason to keep watching. The first few episodes of season 7 were the end of season 6 (I think 6 or 7 episodes) you'll notice the cast change when season 7 starts, which is really hard to get through and is incredibly rushed as they were low on money and just trying to wrap it up despite dismal ratings but the end of the series finale made it all worth it. Here is my ratings for each season

1. 3/10 stars for the first 3/4ths but 8/10 for the end.

2. 8/10 stars but still finding its footing

3: 10/10 stars!

4: 15/10 stars

5: 6/10 stars

6: 5/10 stars bonus points for Heather locklears Amanda performance.

7: 3/10 stars but end of last episode 10/10

Just give it a shot

BTW: Jane is the worst character on this show

Don't let anyone under 17 watch without parental supervision.

I loved Melrose Place. I wish it would make a comeback now that Heather and Jack are really dating now. That show still had so much life in it and I am surprised that even Beverly Hills 90210 lasted like one more year after melrose place and I never watched that show because I feel the actors on that show were not as good or as interesting as the Melrose Place characters. This show was more like an adult show than 90210 was, it dealt more with adult situations no kiddie high school crap. My favorite male actors on the show were the guys that played Peter, Micheal, Craig, kyle, jake, and of course the cute hunk billy babe. Please do a reuion show soon I want to see what has happened to all the actors and how they look now of course.

From the beginning in 1992, to the end in 1999, I watched "Melrose Place" every week. I grew up with these people...they were like my family! When they laughed, I laughed. When they cried, I cried. Every year at the season finale, I would say at the end, "I can't wait until September!!".

I don't care what people say, "Melrose" became my favorite show. I actually looked forward to Mondays! Lots of my friends said, "Who cares?" when I told them "Melrose" was going off the air. But I CARED!!! The only thing that made me happy about the series finale was that Amanda and Peter were finally together again, and Eve ended up in jail again. Not a day goes by that I don't wish my favorite show in the entire world was still on. PLEASE!!!!!!!!, let there be a spin-off, or a "Melrose: The Movie"!!!!!

Melrose has everything you could ask for: Gorgeous men and women, outrageous plots, sizzeling sex scenes, better cat fights than Dynasty, more bitches than Dallas, more OTT story line than The X Files and much, much more adult content than the 90210 brats could even think of. But lately, it has been losing a lot -- especially the biggest bitch ever to be in a soap -- Brooke Armstrong (Kristin Davis), and then mad bomber Kimberly (Marcia Cross) and the sizzeling red-head, Sydney (Laura Leighton). But it does still have its perks, and it also looks like Lexi Sterling (Jamie Luner) is becoming more bitchier by the episode. This is turly one soap which you watch one episode, and then you are hooked for life