Melrose Place: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

In an elegant Spanish-style apartment building in the trendy Melrose neighborhood of Los Angeles, a diverse group of 20-somethings have formed a close-knit surrogate family. Sydney Andrews is the landlady, still beautiful at 40, and a central figure in the lives of all her tenants, especially handsome and rebellious David Breck. Sydney started an affair with David despite her turbulent history with his estranged father, Dr. Michael Mancini. Both father and son learned through experience that Sydney was not above using blackmail to control people. Another tenant, high-powered publicist Ella Simms, once considered Sydney her mentor, but their friendship was destroyed by betrayal, and Sydney threatened to evict Ella and ruin her career. Sydney also played a pivotal role in the career of Auggie Kirkpatrick. After they met at an AA meeting, she became Auggie's sponsor and encouraged his dream to become a chef. Now a successful sous chef at the trendy restaurant Coal, Auggie has been avoiding Sydney since she began drinking again. The other tenants include Lauren Yung, a medical student in desperate need of money to pay her student loans, and Jonah Miller, an aspiring filmmaker who has just proposed to his live-in girlfriend Riley Richmond, a first-grade teacher. The newest tenant, 18-year-old Violet Foster, has just arrived in LA with her own secret connection to Sydney. When a bloody body is found floating in the courtyard pool, David is the leading suspect. However, as the police are soon to discover, almost everyone living at Melrose Place had a reason to want the deceased out of the way.

Series details

• Title: Melrose Place
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Romance
• Premiere date: 2009-09-08
• Final broadcast date listed: 2010-04-13
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: The CW
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 5.7/10
• TVMaze ID: 1260

Cast and credited roles

• Katie Cassidy — Ella Simms
• Jessica Lucas — Riley Richmond
• Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen — Lauren Yung
• Michael Rady — Jonah Miller
• Shaun Sipos — David Breck
• Ashlee Simpson-Ross — Violet Foster
• Colin Egglesfield — Auggie Kirkpatrick

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-09-08; final listed air date 2010-04-13; episode order: 18.

Source and licence

Adapted from Melrose Place on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.