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Melrose Place
*Heather Locklear was credited as a "special guest star" for six seasons.
*Thomas Calabro,(Michael Mancini) was the only original cast member to remain on Melrose Place throughout the entire run.
*Melrose Place is a so-called "branch" of Beverly Hills, 90210 since part of the Melrose Place story begins there. The storyline between Jake Hanson (Grant Show) and Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) continued during the beginning of the series. Also in the pilot the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210 which included Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Brian Austin Green, and Tori Spelling made several recurring guest appearances.
*Actress Hunter Tylo was originally cast in the role of Taylor McBride, but became pregnant soon after being hired, and was fired. Producers said the pregnancy violated the change-in-her-appearance clause in her contract, and she sued them. Tylo won the suit against Aaron Spelling and the other producers, and was rewarded $4.9 million.
*Stephen Fanning was originally cast in the role of Billy Campbell, but was fired when filming first began because he had gained too much weight. He was replaced by Andrew Shue, who re-shot the "Billy" scenes in the pilot two days after getting the role.
*The third season was originally going to end with Kimberly blowing up the apartment complex, but that was scrapped since the Oklahoma City bombing occurred a month earlier. Not wanting to be insensitive to the national tragedy of the Oklahoma City bombing, the producers had the final shot of the season being Kimberly hitting the detonator, then showed the explosion in the season premiere in the fall of 1995.
*When the series ended, people who worked on the show sold bottles of the swimming pool water on EBay.
*Courteney Cox, Dean Cain, Calista Flockhart, Julianna Margulies, Paul Rudd, Robert Sean Leonard, Sherry Stringfield, Pamela Anderson, Noah Wyle, and Kathy Ireland all auditioned for roles when the show was first being cast in 1992.
*As "Matt Fielding" on this show, Doug Savant played the first openly gay character in a prime-time American soap opera.
*Both Linden Ashby and Rob Estes had guest appearances in the first season and second season and then became prominent members in the cast later in the series as completely different characters. Ashby played Jo's ex-husband and then became Dr. Brett "Coop" Cooper and Estes played Sam and then became Kyle McBride.
*By early 1999, FOX decided that the ratings erosion as well as the extremely high production costs (it was said that they could have filmed an entire pilot just on Heather Locklear's salary) warranted cancellation
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