 The Walsh family which makes up of account executive Jim, his wife, Cindy, and their 16-year-old twins, Brenda and Brandon, arrive in Beverly Hills after moving from Minneapolis to start a new life, while the twins have their first week at West Beverly High School. Brandon s first date with Marianne Moore, the school s most popular student, gets him the wrong popularity. Brandon also befriends Steve Sanders, the school s popular guy and volunteers to do work at the school s newspaper Blaze which is run by the bright spectacled editor Andrea Zuckerman. Brenda befriends Kelly Taylor, a wild party girl who introduces her to the nightlife of the city. Using a phony ID to get into a nightclub, Brenda meets and starts dating a young lawyer named Jason, who doesn t know how young she really is. Meanwhile, two new freshmen, David Silver and Scott Scanlon, try to fit in with the new crowd, and David later fears retaliation from Steve when he accidentally drives and damages Steve s car after a party.