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At 4616 Melrose Place, a garden apartment complex in Los Angeles, a group of eight 20-something people try to get by in life any way they can. Alison Parker looks for a new roommate after her previous one leaves her in the dead of night without money for the rent. Billy Campbell arrives and charms his way into moving in with Alison, even though he gets on her nerves and has no money for the rent. At Alison's job as a receptionist at D&D Advertising, she finds herself receiving unwanted attention from her boss, Hal Barber. Michael Mancini is the building manager and an intern at the local Wilshire Memorial Hospital while his wife, Jane, is a boutique salesclerk who wants to start a family. Matt Fielding is a gay social worker. His best friend, aerobics instructor Rhonda Blair, meets a man in her aerobics class whose interests in her turn out to be anything but romantic. Rhonda's roommate is Sandy Louise Harling, a blond southern belle and struggling actress who moonlights as a waitress at a bar called 'Shooters.' Jake Hanson is an unemployed manual laborer who can't shake off Kelly Taylor, a cute 17-year-old girl from the series "Beverly Hills, 90210." Jake and Kelly decide to go out on a date to Shooters, but they find themselves watched over by Kelly's disapproving friends, David, Donna and Steve. Even after Jake dumps Kelly, she comes back to him.

While moonlighting as a taxi driver, Billy picks up a young dental student, named Marcy, and she practically moves in with him which frightens him and makes Alison jealous. Meanwhile, in a continuing cross-over from "Beverly Hills, 90210", Jake is still being pursued by Kelly who has a crush on him. When Jake gets arrested for getting into a fight at an unemployment office, Kelly bails him out of jail and still goes after him despite learning of his "colorful" police record. Jane experiences a crisis when Michael can't remember when he fell in love with her.

Jane feels lonely when Michael has no time for her when he comes home late every evening. So, Rhonda takes her out to Shooters where they meet two guys and proceed to go to the limits for a night on the town, until Jane loses her wedding ring. Billy finishes his first script and shows Alison. But she thinks it's awful and doesn't have the nerve to tell him the truth. Meanwhile, Jake finally decides to make a clean break when he invites Kelly over for dinner at his place and sets up a scene with an actress friend of Sandy's which makes him look very ugly to Kelly. Heartbroken, Kelly finally leaves Jake for good.

Alison starts dating a new co-worker who plans to steal her ideas for a sunscreen campaign that Lucy Cabot, Alison's supervisor and vice president of D&D, is working on. While working at a Cappuccino Shop, Jake meets Perry, a former girlfriend of his who persuades him to make a semi-legal deal with the rock group, "LA-Guns," in selling them a painting, which Jake shall paint. Meanwhile, Rhonda wants to help Matt in cooking a great meal at the homeless shelter where he works. But Rhonda angers him when she cancels her plans at the last minute when she has to teach another aerobics class.

Jane discovers that she's pregnant, but she doesn't want to tell Michael since he has previously told her that he doesn't want children so early in their marriage. So, Jane considers getting an abortion. Meanwhile, Billy tries to get a job as a column writer at a newspaper agency and decides to write an article on Bungee Jumping. So, he gets Jake and Matt to go out with him for the experience, but he himself chickens out at the last moment.

Rhonda is reunited with her old friend, Theresa, who is now with a traveling dance troupe and who inspires Rhonda to try out for the company again since Rhonda flaked out at a rehearsal years ago. Meanwhile, Jake asks Alison to help him study for his G.E.D. He's embarrassed and asks her to keep it a secret. The next morning, the rest of the tenants see her leaving Jake's apartment and wonder if something romantic happened.

Sandy auditions and gets a small movie role in a horror flick. But Rhonda becomes concerned that Sandy may let success go to her head when she annoys Rhonda and everyone else. Meanwhile, Billy tricks Alison into going out with him to visit his parents, where his father puts pressure on Billy to help with the family business of selling furniture at his store.

Sandy meets a guy while out shopping and goes on a date with him. After Sandy rejects him, he turns into an obsessed psycho, stalks her and even breaks into her apartment. Jake tries to help by beating the guy up, but Sandy gets angry at Jake's meddling with her life. Meanwhile, Alison wants to buy a new car, but has more problems selling the old one "Betsy," which she is attached to.

Alison has some opinions about Billy's relationship with an older woman, who is a stand-up comedy actress, when she asks Billy to babysit for her 8-year-old son. Meanwhile, Jake and Sandy negotiate a date just to demonstrate that sex is not all they think about. When it fails, Jane and Michael play cupid to get them back together.

Billy gets robbed by African Americans while driving his taxi around downtown Los Angeles one night. When the police don't take an interest in his case, he investigates himself to find the muggers, much to the worry of Alison, while racist comments from him make Rhonda angry and she has to teach him some lessons about black people in America. On Jake's birthday, he is visited by his long estranged mother Stella Rivers, who annoys him greatly. Meanwhile, Jane and Michael attend a boring Lamaze class.

Jane's baby is checked via ultrasound and it turns out to be stillborn and she has to get an abortion, which is a emotional setback for her and Michael. Sandy tries to cheer up Jane with a little stray dog she found at the beach who runs away, while Michael confides his frustrations with his co-worker, medical intern Kimberly Shaw. Meanwhile, Billy and Alison go head-to-head over the right to privacy in the apartment.

Just as Alison's new career at D&D takes off, she meets a marine biologist named Keith Gray, and falls for him immediately. But she is hurt when she discovers that he is married. Meanwhile, Billy has some stress with paying off a $2,000 student loan that he took while at college and blew off, although his college tuition was paid by his parents.

Alison continues her torrid affair with Keith, although she is under stress from her conscience and her friends because he is married and under major stress at work for arriving late and leaving early. Meanwhile, Matt gets beaten up on a dark street at night by gay bashers after he is followed by his assailants from a gay bar. When Matt's boss finds out that he's gay, he immediately fires him. So, Jake persuades Matt to sue his former boss. Sandy is discovered by a talent agent for a TV soap opera in New York and flies off to the east coast, leaving Melrose forever.

Keith's wife shows up and although he keeps reassuring Alison that he will divorce her, Alison decides to break up with him. Meanwhile, Rhonda finds a new roommate, named Carrie, after Sandy moves out. But she is overly hygienic and gets on Rhonda's nerves. Matt wants to hire a lawyer for the lawsuit against his former boss, but he has problems to pay the required advance of $5,000, so he tries borrowing from his parents, then selling his car, and more.

Jo Reynolds, a mysterious photographer from New York City, arrives and moves into Rhonda's apartment for herself while Rhonda moves to a single apartment. Alison, still recovering from her breakup with Keith, befriends Jo in which the two ladies go out that night to Shooters, and end up scamming two bar creeps at billiards. Jake immediately takes a liking to her. Meanwhile, Michael and Jane become friends with another doctor and his wife, until Jane discovers the wife is being abused.

When Jo hits financial hard times, Jake offers to help her. But she rudely blows him off and starts acting crazy when he asks too many questions. Things come to light when Jo tells him about her leaving her alcoholic husband in New York. Meanwhile, Jane loses her job when the boutique shop she works in goes out of business. But when she is hired as a clothing designer by Kay Beacon, the head designer at a prestigious company, Jane puts off getting pregnant again. Matt continues his legal threads and when he is offered a nice settlement and his job back, he drops the lawsuit. Also, Billy has a toothache, has it checked, comes back high on medication, and has dreams involving a romance-mined Alison.

Jake gets visited by Colleen, another former girlfriend, who informs him that she has a four-year-old boy that may be from him and wants his permission to get it adopted by her current husband. Meanwhile, Alison falls ill and it turns out to be a benign tumor on her uterus that needs to be removed. But she has no health insurance and not enough money to pay for herself. Jo learns about Alison's health problem and offers her a solution. Also, Rhonda meets a wealthy restaurant owner, named Terrance Haggard, and immediately starts dating him.

Alison gets her operation and she goes home to recover while Billy takes care of her and becomes overprotective. While Jake tries to get intimate with Jo, she says that she needs time to think about it, while he helps her overcome her depressing past against Christmas. Rhonda decides to go on a skiing trip to Aspen with Terrance. Meanwhile, Matt prepares a holiday meal for the tenants, while trying to make up with his estranged father whom has always disapproved of Matt being gay and open about it. While Jane is out of town, Michael is divulged with hospital patients in the ER and invites his co-worker, Kimberly Shaw, over at Melrose for the Christmas party.