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Episode 1: "Misery Loves Company" (recap)
Original airdate: 7/15/1992

As summer begins, Brenda sneaks around in order to see Dylan behind her parents' back, and Brandon returns to the Beverly Hills Beach Club to work as a cabana boy.
Episode 2: "The Twins, the Trustee and the Very Big Trip" (recap)
Original airdate: 7/22/1992

Brenda continues to defy her parents by shacking up with Dylan, and then gets rewarded for her bad behavior with a trip to Paris.
Episode 3: "Too Little, Too Late/Paris, 75001" (recap)
Original airdate: 7/29/1992

Dylan's felonious father is up for parole but it gets denied. Brandon is suddenly hot for Ahn-drea when she gets a boyfriend. Brenda and Donna arrive in Paris and accidentally order veal brains for dinner.
Episode 4: "Sex, Lies and Volleyball/Photo Fini" (recap)
Original airdate: 8/5/1992

Steve is dejected when his volleyball tournament partner is attracted to Brandon and not him, and a lecherous French photographer convinces Donna that she's model material.
Episode 5: "Shooting Star/American in Paris" (recap)
Original airdate: 8/12/1992

A few days before she's due to leave Paris, Brenda meets Dean Cain and for some reason decides to speak English to him in a terrible, phony French accent. Brandon, meanwhile, tries to line up a job interview for a hostile homeless man.
Episode 6: "Castles in the Sand" (recap)
Original airdate: 8/19/1992

Brenda and Donna return home from Paris, but it bums out Dylan because he's now into Kelly...and Brandon dumps Brooke after she lets loose a few racist rants.
Episode 7: "A Song of Myself" (recap)
Original airdate: 9/9/1992

The gang returns to West Beverly Hills High to begin their senior year. Kelly gets depressed by the sight of Brenda and Dylan kissing all the time, and Ahn-drea wigs out when the new English teacher appoints Brandon as editor-in-chief of The Blaze.
Episode 8: "The Back Story" (recap)
Original airdate: 9/16/1992

A reporter from a sleazy tabloid news show gets Brenda to dish about her self-entitled friends, then uses the information to exploit the teenagers for ratings. Steve is offered a legacy key that will give him unfettered access to a bunch of forbidden stuff at West Beverly High.
Episode 9: "Highwire" (recap)
Original airdate: 9/23/1992

Brenda and Brandon are shocked to discover that their parents can only afford to send one of them to an expensive, out-of-state college. David walks in on Kelly in the bathroom and sees her naked, and Steve accepts the legacy key from B.J. Harrison, but is dismayed to learn that it doesn't actually unlock anything at West Beverly High. 
Episode 10: "Home and Away" (recap)
Original airdate: 10/7/1992

When a football game is canceled between West Beverly High and Shaw High School because of a shooting on Shaw's campus, Brandon deludes himself into thinking he's shaking things up when he invites the Shaw kids to a Beverly Hills dance.
Episode 11: "Presumption of Innocence" (recap)
Original airdate: 10/21/1992

Sue Scanlon causes scandal at West Beverly High when she falsely accuses Gil Meyers of sexual misconduct...and then later admits that her creepy, rotund uncle was the real abuser. Ew.
Episode 12: "Destiny Rides Again" (recap)
Original airdate: 11/4/1992

Brenda reconnects with with her Paris fling, Dean Cain, and finally comes clean about not being a native Parisian. Steve enlists Herbert to help him break into the school's computer system to improve his shitty grades, and Ahn-drea nearly becomes roadkill when she's seriously injured in a hit and run.
Episode 13: "Rebel With a Cause" (recap)
Original airdate: 11/11/1992

Brenda starts dating Dean Cain, but totally schizzes out when she catches Dylan and Kelly together. Steve realizes he might be really screwed after breaking into the school's computer system to tamper with the grade bank.
Episode 14: "Wild Horses" (recap)
Original airdate: 11/18/1992

Nikki encounters her abusive rock star wannabe ex-boyfriend and it's obvious she's still really into him. Steve is forced to confess to the computer break-in, and Dylan meets a rich woman who owns a ranch with horses, and the two engage in an awkward May-December hookup.
Episode 15: "The Kindness of Strangers" (recap)
Original airdate: 11/25/1992

Brandon encounters homeless military vet Jack Canner as he's picking through a dumpster, and invites him to spend Thanksgiving at the Walsh house. Dylan's felonious father is released into his custody for two days, and Steve breaks the news to his mother that he got expelled from school.
Episode 16: "It's a Totally Happening Life" (recap)
Original airdate: 12/16/1992

In an homage to It's a Wonderful Life, two guardian angels, Miriam and Clarence, save the gang from dying horrible deaths in a horrific collision with a drunk driver.
Episode 17: "The Game is Chicken" (recap)
Original airdate: 1/6/1993

Steve and Brandon briefly enter the dangerous world of illegal car racing, and Brenda and Kelly agree to go on a blind double date with who they think are two Ivy Leaguers, but they're dismayed when the guys turn out to be prepubescent dorks.
Episode 18: "Midlife...Now What?" (recap)
Original airdate: 1/13/1993

During a mother-daughter spa retreat, Jackie discovers that Mel has been cheating on her. Papa Walsh admits to a client that he's hot for his secretary Dottie, and Brandon starts gambling with a shady bookie named Duke.
Episode 19: "Back in the High Life Again" (recap)
Original airdate: 1/27/1993

Dylan's father is released earlier than expected from prison and throws himself a party that hardly anyone wants to attend. Dylan officially chooses Kelly as his new girlfriend and gives Brenda the heave-ho and ends their noxious relationship for good.
Episode 20: "Parental Guidance Recommended" (recap)
Original airdate: 2/3/1993

Iris arrives in town to keep Jack from looting Dylan's bank account, but then totally caves and signs the papers needed to dissolve the trust. Brenda is depressed over her final breakup with Dylan and mopes around in unfashionable clothing. Steve hooks David up with Icon Records, but the head of the company thinks Steve is a yutz and orders David to cut him loose.
Episode 21: "Dead End" (recap)
Original airdate: 2/10/1993

Cash-strapped Jackie informs Kelly and David that she has no choice but to put the house up for sale. Papa Walsh signs the papers needed to dissolve Dylan's trust fund, and Jack McKay fakes getting blown to smithereens.
Episode 22: "The Child is the Father to the Man" (recap)
Original airdate: 2/17/1993

Dylan hallucinates an angry figment of himself while he mourns the sudden loss of his father. When the implausible media frenzy surrounding Jack's untimely demise becomes too intrusive, Brenda invites Dylan to temporarily bunk at the Walsh house.
Episode 23: "Duke's Bad Boy" (recap)
Original airdate: 3/3/1993

Brandon runs afoul of Duke when his gambling debts start to pile up. David is convinced by Serge Menkin to record the most horrible song in his repertoire, "Precious", and then gets dropped by the president of Icon Records. Kelly becomes insecure about her non-existent weight problem and starts popping diet pills.
Episode 24: "Perfectly Perfect" (recap)
Original airdate: 3/24/1993

Kelly passes out at her eighteenth birthday party after starving herself and popping one too many appetite suppressants. When Brandon and Steve appear on a cheesy TV dating show, Steve wins a dream date with a pretty girl named Celeste.
Episode 25: "Senior Poll" (recap)
Original airdate: 4/7/1993

Kelly is voted "most beautiful" in the senior poll, but gets mad at Dylan when she thinks he only values her for her looks, great fashion sense, and sexual favors. At a Lakers game, Steve is randomly chosen to make a half court shot, which he does and wins $10,000. Brenda applies to the University of Minnesota.
Episode 26: "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" (recap)
 Original airdate: 4/21/1993

Steve, Brandon, and Dylan get duped by a pretty con artist who pretends to work as a celebrity tour guide. The rest of the gang goes to Magic Mountain for Senior Ditch Day, where Kelly gets her wallet stolen and Donna beats up the mugger.
Episode 27: "A Night to Remember" (recap)
Original airdate: 4/28/1993

After drinking too much champagne at Mel's pre-prom party, Donna arrives at the prom drunk, gets sick, vomits repeatedly, and when her friends try to hustle her out of the hotel, she falls over in an obvious drunken stupor right in front of Mrs. Teasley.
Episode 28: "Something in the Air" (recap)
Original airdate: 5/12/1993

When the school board rules that Donna will not be permitted to graduate because of her drunkenness on prom night, Brandon organizes a massive Donna Martin graduates! protest...and at the last minute appeases the junior class by agreeing to tack on the issue of the unpopular dress code. 
Episodes 29 & 30: "Commencement" (recap)
Original airdate: 5/19/1993

The gang graduates from West Beverly Hills High School in a two-part episode that's packed to the gills with superfluous flashbacks.