Greens With Envy
Beverly Hills Teens - S1 - E62
It's Day Two of the Silver Spoon Olympics. The events are golf and polo. Switchboard continues her reporting of the event, and still hopes to nab an interview with India's hopeful. But Switchboard takes a break from her interviews to play a friend to Gig & Jett (who are still not speaking to each other. She manages to get them to start talking by arranging a meeting with a record producer who may sign them. Troy, Larke, Radley, and Bianca compete in their 18 hole golf game with the other teams. Bianca has bought Troy solid gold golf clubs as a way to win his affection, but Troy claims that he'd rather use his instead (plus, gold won't hit golf bars very far). However, Bianca's hit with the gold golf clubs eventually scores the winning hole for the Beverly Hills Teens. Blaze, Shanelle, Gig, and Pierce compete in the polo game. But it is Blaze and Shanelle who should be given most credit for their participation because both Gig & Pierce have their minds set on girls. While Pierce
Beverly Hills Teens: Season 1 - 54 Episode s
1x12 - Halloween in the Hills
December 5, 1987
1x13 - Visit from a Prince
December 12, 1987
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.
1x14 - Camp Camping
December 19, 1987
1x15 - Dream Date
December 26, 1987
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)
1x16 - The Perfect Gift
January 2, 1988
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.
1x17 - A Time to Remember
January 9, 1988
1x18 - Chester the Matchmaker
January 16, 1988
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.
1x19 - Who Wears the Pants?
January 23, 1988
1x20 - Open for Business
January 30, 1988
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.
1x21 - Operation Soap Opera
February 6, 1988
1x22 - Teen Club Carnival
February 13, 1988
1x23 - Potions of Love
February 20, 1988
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).
1x24 - The Teen Cup
February 27, 1988
1x25 - Ghost Story
March 5, 1988
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.
1x26 - Fairy Tale Flake Out
March 12, 1988
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)
1x27 - Nothing but Gossip
March 19, 1988
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
1x28 - Now We're Cooking
March 26, 1988
1x29 - Old at Heart
April 2, 1988
1x30 - Death Valley 500
April 9, 1988
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.
1x31 - Star Split
April 16, 1988
Fed up with the cruel world of acting, Nikki Darling has a nervous break down and decides to go into seclusion. Now only her friends can bring the dramatic star back to the spotlight.
1x32 - Double Your Trouble
April 23, 1988
1x33 - Take My Hostage, Please!
April 30, 1988
After Tara's boat rows off a high water fall, Troy comes to her rescue and is appreciatively thanked. A Jealous Bianca then comes up with an idea to get the same attention from Troy. Bianca hires a man to take her hostage while leaving clues for Troy to come to her rescue. However, the man she hired turns out to actually be a kidnapper who is holding her hostage. Unknown to Bianca that this man is really dangerous, Bianca demands how things must be go in order for this to be the perfect kidnapping - rescue case. But in the end, the kidnapper loses patience with Bianca and turns himself in before she can be rescued.
1x34 - Trouble Times Three
May 7, 1988
Tara is asked to baby-sit her aunt's triplet sons: Barry, Harry and Larry. Tara also asks Larke, Shanelle, and the other teens to help her take care of the triplets until her comes back from getting her hair done. (THANKS patriot State for your contribution!)
1x35 - Bianca's Dream
May 14, 1988
1x36 - Pierce's Hundred Dollars
May 21, 1988
Pierce is given a deal from a car salesman that if he can save at least from his allowance for the week, Ultimo, the world's fastest and only voice-activated car (but also the world's most expensive car) will be his. The other Teens including Chester, Gig, Nikki, Tara and Blaze try to trick him into spending his last so he will not be able to buy Ultimo. After their attempts fail, they ask Bianca to con Pierce into taking her to the concert and make him spend his . After Pierce spends his last on concert tickets, the other teens trick him into thinking that Bianca would rather ride with him in The Ultimo instead of going to the concert. At the end, they let Pierce find out that they have set him up. Bianca goes with them in the Teen Mobile to the concert instead of going with him in The Ultimo. (THANKS patriot State for your contribution!)
1x37 - Look Deep Into My Eyes
May 28, 1988
1x38 - The Commercial
June 4, 1988
1x39 - Hold the Anchovies
June 11, 1988
1x40 - From Rad to Worse
June 18, 1988
Radley's parents won't allow him to surf anymore until he finishes a mountain load of homework. According to Chester, it may take him anywhere from 12 hours to 30 years to finish. Chester decides to help by testing his latest invention - a machine that can allow others to borrow his own intelligence. The experiment is a success, and Radley becomes a genious and completes all his homework within minutes. However, his new inherited intelligence has a side-effect. It turns Radley from a laid back dude to an ultra snooty intellect who thinks he is better than everyone else at the Teen Club. All his friends are fed up with the new Radley and decide they want their old friend back. They attempt to remind him of the stuff he used to enjoy like surfing, dancing, flying, and dating beautiful women. It all fails, and Radley concludes that no one around fits in with his uppity lifestyle, except for maybe Bianca who seems to understand the new Radley. Things return after Radley is hit by a
1x41 - Scene Stealer
June 25, 1988
1x42 - A Splitting Image
July 2, 1988
1x43 - Diet, Please
July 9, 1988
Tara is entering a teen beauty contest, and one of the requirements is that all contestants must weigh 110 pounds or less. Tara is sure that she weighs less than 110 pounds, so she continues to divulge in rich treats and desserts. But when she is weighed, much to her dismay, Tara ends up weighing 115 pounds. With a limited time before the contest, all of her friends do what they can do help her shed those 5 pounds. All but Bianca who wants to win the contest herself. Bianca sets Tara up to a room filled with goodies right before the contest, to which a very hungry Tara devours everything in sight. Right before getting weighed at the contest, a reluctant and guilt stricken Tara fears that her binge will disqualify her from the contest. Upon stepping on the scale, she is happy to see that her weight is 108 pounds. While Bianca wonders how that could possibly be, Chester then reveals that he has invented a new type of food ingredient that will not cause any weight gain no matter how m
1x44 - Jillian's Lesson
July 16, 1988
When the Thorndyke adults leave for somewhere without leaving a sitter for Jillian, Pierce is forced to take her along to a dance on the Teen Club Yacht. With a makeover courtesy of Tara, Jett, and Bianca, Jillian tries to snare Troy for herself by following advice from the three girls and with Chester's help. When Chester begins using his weather-making machine (global setting still pending), all heck breaks loose onboard. Fortunately, everything returns to normal, and after admitting that Chester's ""rather cute,"" Jillian ends up dancing with him along with the other couples under a rainbow created by the machine. (Thank You HA47 for your contribution.)
1x45 - What the Hex Happening?
July 23, 1988
The gang is fed up with Bianca's selfishness, so when they learn of a rich aunt of Bianca's that will be visiting, they demise a perfect plan to teach Bianca a lesson in selflessness. Nikki, the actress is called to play the part of Bianca's rich aunt. She orders Bianca do to selfless deeds, including giving up the famous BHT-1 license plates. But when Bianca figures it all out, the gang is in for a surprise of their own.
1x46 - Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover-Girl
July 30, 1988
Bianca thinks of a plan to get rid of Lark, so she can be with Troy. So she has Lark along with the Teen Magazine photgrapher sent to the wrong address having them end up in a high-crime area. They end up being confronted by a three-member motorcycle gang. But those gang members turn out to be friendly to Lark and the photographer decides to have them included in the photo session. Troy and the other Teens are concerned for Lark and they decide to come to her rescue even though she is not really in any danger. In the end, Bianca ends up having to be given a ride home by that motorcycle gang.
1x47 - Private Club - Ghosts Only
August 6, 1988
1x48 - Poll Climbers
August 13, 1988
Shanelle Spencer and Pierce Thorndyke III compete against each other for a chance to be elected class president.
1x49 - Rampage
August 20, 1988
The Teens are planning a benefit circus at the Teen Club to raise money for charity. Everyone is included in the act, except for Chester who is automatically assigned to work the control rooms for releasing the animal cages. But Chester decides to make the best of it and introduces a new timing mechanism that will make the cages open and close accordingly to each circus act. His hard work is thanked when he is offered a position with the circus. But Chester's excitement gets the best of him when he returns to the control room covered with cotton candy. Some of the candy falls onto the cage controls and causes a short circuit. The cages suddenly open and the animals run amok around the Teen Club, including a ferocious gorilla who later kidnaps Bianca. Now it's up to Larke, Troy, Radley, Blaze, Chester, and Wilshire to capture the animals and save Bianca before they destroy the Teen Club and Beverly Hills.
1x50 - That Winning Smile
August 27, 1988
1x51 - Eye of the Tigress
September 3, 1988
1x52 - Take Me Out to the Ball Game
September 10, 1988
A good, old fashioned baseball game soon turns into the battle of the sexes. The girls vs. the guys. The stake is that the losing team has to wash the cars of the winning team. Before starting the game, the guys already have declared victory knowing that guys can always beat girls at baseball. The guys decide to dirty their cars by throwing dirt and grime on it. However, at the game, the girls unleash their surprise secret weapon: Switchboard who scores the winning bat. Now the guys have both their cars and the girls's cars to wash.
1x53 - The Slumber Party
September 17, 1988
Larke's parents are going away for the weekend, but have given Larke permission to invite her girlfriend's over for a weekend slumber party. The guys over hear this and decide to crash the party and play pranks to scare the girls. But a much bigger surprise is in store for all of them. There is a power outage, Larke's mysterious new maid may be keeping a deadly secret from the gang, and an unexpected visitor arrives to turn the fun party into a bone chiller.
1x54 - Roughing It
September 24, 1988
As a part of class ecology assignment, the teens are to observe nature in their natural habitat and do a report about what they see. While the gang is deciding where to go, Troy tells Larke that they should go visit his favorite nature spot - Silver Valley. Bianca overhears this, and invites herself along so she could have her chance at nabbing Troy. However, the hike is too much for Bianca, who then decides to have Wilshire carry her back to her limo. Bianca later phones Pierce about Silver Valley and the news spreads to the rest of the gang about what a beautiful place it is... to party that is. So Pierce choppers himself, Bianca, Wilshire, Buck, Radley, Nikki, and Tara to Silver Valley and they set up camp in their own Beverly Hills way: air conditioners and everything. When Troy and Larke finally hike their way to the valley, they are disappointed to see what their friends are doing, but they make the best of it by going their own way to observe nature. They start by observin
1x55 - The Buck Stops Here
October 1, 1988
1x56 - The Kindest Cut of All
October 8, 1988
1x57 - Bianca's Diary
October 15, 1988
1x58 - Go With the Flu
October 22, 1988
1x59 - Nikki's Big Break
October 29, 1988
Nikki and Pierce are putting on a play but Nikki's practical-joking oil rancher cousin, Wayne Duke comes to spoil everything for them. Lark and Troy try to intercept Wayne Duke for Nikki so he does not ruin the play when she and Pierce put on the play before a captive aduience but instead they end up intercepting Wayne Duke's friend who comes dressed just like him.
1x60 - McTech, P.I.
November 5, 1988
After Larke is accused of stealing the Star of Rodeo diamond from Bianca, Chester puts it upon himself to find the real thief. (Thank you HA47 for your contribution.)
1x61 - The Tortoise and the Dare
November 12, 1988
It's time for the Silver Spoon Olympics. This year, the Beverly Hills Teen Club will be hosting the event. Many rich teens from other countries (including: Great Britain, India, Arabia, France, Japan, and Germany) have come together in the spirit of sportmanship and a chance to win the Silver Spoon. Switchboard reports every moment of the event and intends to interview every competitor, but has a difficult time trying to get one with India's hopeful (who refuses to speak to reporters of any kind). At the opening ceremony concert, Gig & Jett have a falling out when they are both caught in compromising situations with other musicians from the Great Britain team, who were only using Gig and Jett as bait to make each other jealous. Chester is in charge of picking the US Golf team by means of a random picking machine. Bianca decides that random picking won't do, so she rigs the machine to pair her number with Troy's, but it backfires. Her partner ends up being Radley, followed by the pa
1x62 - Greens With Envy
November 19, 1988
It's Day Two of the Silver Spoon Olympics. The events are golf and polo. Switchboard continues her reporting of the event, and still hopes to nab an interview with India's hopeful. But Switchboard takes a break from her interviews to play a friend to Gig & Jett (who are still not speaking to each other. She manages to get them to start talking by arranging a meeting with a record producer who may sign them. Troy, Larke, Radley, and Bianca compete in their 18 hole golf game with the other teams. Bianca has bought Troy solid gold golf clubs as a way to win his affection, but Troy claims that he'd rather use his instead (plus, gold won't hit golf bars very far). However, Bianca's hit with the gold golf clubs eventually scores the winning hole for the Beverly Hills Teens. Blaze, Shanelle, Gig, and Pierce compete in the polo game. But it is Blaze and Shanelle who should be given most credit for their participation because both Gig & Pierce have their minds set on girls. While Pierce
1x63 - Troy Triathalon
November 26, 1988
It's the final day of the Silver Spoon Olympics. Both guys and girls are going to compete in a triathalon starting on skates, to skis, on foot, and finally by water. Pierce decides he will win by cheating. Instead of going through the entire triathalon, he shoots (himself cannonball style) ahead of the race, but his plan backfires and Pierce ends up in a cave, covered in mud. Bianca observes the event, and is rooting for Troy to win and Larke to lose. While she is observing, Wilshire gets himself caught in a mini-snow storm and gets covered from head to toe in snow. All the teens can't find him, and assume that the snowy figure by the ice is a snowman (when it is actually a frozen Wilshire). During the final hours of the Olympics, Switchboard still has not managed to get an interview with India's hopeful, Troy and Larke win the title for the Triathalon. Great Britian's hopeful and Blaze come in second, while Pierce finishes third in a the girl's triathalon. The day ends with the c
1x64 - Miracle at the Teen Club (Part One)
December 3, 1988
Buck becomes ultimately greedy and stingy during the holidays. When he sleeps that night, he is visited by three spirits who show him his past, present, and the possible future if he continues on this path.
1x65 - Miracle at the Teen Club (Part Two)
December 10, 1988
Buck becomes ultimately greedy and stingy during the holidays. When he sleeps that night, he is visited by three spirits who show him his past, present, and the possible future if he continues on this path.