Pacific Palisades (1997)

This one-hour serial drama from Aaron Spelling follows the lives of young professionals who have it all-- but haven't paid for it yet--on the southern California fast track to fame, fortune, scandal, and ruin. The cast of characters includes Joanna (Michelle Stafford) and Nicholas Hadley (Jarrod Emick), a young married couple who left their native Midwest for the Pacific Coast where Nicholas has landed a job as an architect; Joanna's troubled teenage sister Rachel Whittaker (Natalia Cigliuti); Rachel's friends Ashley MacInally (Jennifer Banko) and Michael Kerris (J. Trevor Edmond), who excel in sneakiness; Robert (Greg Evigan) and Kate Russo (Finola Hughes), whose sterling life is beginning to tarnish; Jessica Mitchell (Jocelyn Seagrave), a rising professional whose choice of men leads to trouble; Matt Dunning (Lucky Vanous), a construction businessman with a dark side; Laura Sinclair (Kimberley Davies), a real-estate agent who does whatever it takes to close a deal; Cory Robbins (Dylan Neal), a promising but manipulative plastic surgeon; and beautiful Beth Hooper (Brittney Powell), who rents an apartment from Laura and is being romanced by Cory.