[1] After Walsh's initial difficulties fitting into Beverly Hills, he soon settles down. Jim and Cindy are the parents of Brandon and Brenda Walsh and are mainly . In Season 6, he made friends with Antonia "Toni" Marchette, the daughter of his father's killer, Anthony Marchette. Even when Brandon (Jason Priestley) wrecks the car. On Tuesdays 90210 a shocker eight years in the making was revealed Dylan McKay is the father of Kelly Taylors 4-year-old son. In fact, Brenda explicitly states, "I'm a junior at West Beverly High a 16-year-old junior" in the pilot. In Season 5, Jesse continues to work as a bartender and plan for his legal future, but the marriage runs into problems (some of them related to money and stress, and others to the fact that Jesse is Catholic and Andrea is Jewish and both of them value those faiths and aren't sure how to present them together to their child) and he eventually shocks Andrea by revealing that just as she did, he had a fling with someone else. Jim and Cindy Walsh Real Name: James Eckhouse and Carol Potter Character: Jim and Cindy are all american parents. John Sears is a minor antagonist and nemesis to Dylan Mckay and Steve Sanders. Gina's manipulative ways made her Kelly's new post-Valerie enemy, and drove a wedge between Donna and Noah, as well. They choose to completely get rid of them rather than make them give them a reduced role like they did the other actors parents to free up money in the budget to offer more money to the bigger stars like Jason and keep them happy. ", the not very handicapped-friendly Tal Weaver back in season 2, Dylan was mulling who to have "Stand By Me,". David's mother Sheila (Caroline Lagerfelt) was shown as sweet and loving but suffers from manic depression. Jason Wiles plays Colin Robbins (also starring, season 6), A New York artist who meets Kelly during her internship in New York in Season 6. They were later married. He becomes friends with Andrea, Brandon, and Dylan. Then Jack was apparently killed by a mafia hitman with a car bomb. Throughout its decade-long run, the series had substantial cast changes. At the end of the semester, John and Steve met again at a carnival, engaging in a joust match over a mud pit. '", Eva Longoria got her first set of wings playing a stewardess who is of no help to Dylan, as she "could barely remember" her own name. Why did Brandon Walsh leave 90210? In the fall of '95, I went back to school and got a master's in marriage and family therapy, and became a licensed therapist. She did, however go on the trip. [citation needed]. That was great. [12] During Season 1, David and his best friend, Scott Scanlon, spent hours trying to be seen as cool by their peers. She also worries about her kids, who are almost immediately upon arrival thrown into some extreme situations, like saving a teen girl from drowning. Jim Walsh: Tom Irwin. Goggins told EW, "Literally, my lines were 'Arf, arf, arf, arf. It was revealed that Jackie was again abusing alcohol, and Kelly steps in to take Erin away from her. Cindy's a friendly and open woman and a community organiser and presence, although she feels uncertain and scales this back quite a bit when the family first move to Beverly Hills. When the gang graduated, they all went on to attend California University, another fictional institution of higher learning. Here's things you didn't notice in "Beverly Hills, 90210" as a teen. Jim and Cindy depart L.A. for Hong Kong on business in the summer of 1995, leaving their now-grown son Brandon whose sister had departed for England a year prior to live his life independently. And yet no one was older or held an age secret bigger than Gabrielle Carteris did, who was 29 playing Andrea Zuckerman at age 16. She is allergic to chocolate. Along with Nat, of Peach Pit glory, Jim and Cindy were the only adults who acted like grownups. She tries to hide this fact from Kelly by trying to push her away. In Season 10, he married Janet and they had a child. But you just have to swallow it. Beverly Hills, 90210premiered on FOX in 1990 and in the pilot, the Walsh twins Doherty's Brenda and Jason Priestley's Brendan moved from Minnesota to California with their parents Potter's. Her husband, Corey, took their divorce badly, and attempted to take it out on Brandon, and later on Steve Sanders, who tried to pass off an essay of Brandon's as his own. The character is often considered to be the moral center of the show (Priestley was the group's off-screen "quarterback"). Cindy Walsh Denise Dowse first checked in as Professor Harriet Strathmore in Season 1, and then 11 episodes appeared as Mrs. Yvonne Teasley, Vice Principal of West Beverly.