01of 14CLASS OF 1990alamayCutest Couple:The World’s Oldest Living Bridesmaid(CBS)Donna Mills is a high-powered lawyer who falls in love with her ponytailed, earringed, overall-wearing administrative assistant (back in those days they called them “secretaries”). Did I mention the ponytail? The coupling may be unorthodox, but these two overcame the odds — and their friends' and families' doubts — to be together. You do you, kids!Most Unexpected Pair:Fatal Charm(Showtime)Just your average story of a girl (Can’t Buy Me Love’s Amanda Peterson) falling in love with a boy (The Blue Lagoon’s Christopher Atkins) who’s an incarcerated rapist and murderer that breaks out of the big house to be with her. Ah, young love!Best Hidden Talent:Fear(Showtime)Nope, not thatFear. In this thriller, Ally Sheedy can psychically connect to murderers, witnessing their wicked deeds through the criminals' eyes. She uses this gruesome ability to help police arrest perps — which is all in a day’s work until one psychopath flips her power back on her. The twisty B-movie climaxes — where else? — in a house of mirrors at a carnival.
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CLASS OF 1990
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Cutest Couple:The World’s Oldest Living Bridesmaid(CBS)Donna Mills is a high-powered lawyer who falls in love with her ponytailed, earringed, overall-wearing administrative assistant (back in those days they called them “secretaries”). Did I mention the ponytail? The coupling may be unorthodox, but these two overcame the odds — and their friends' and families' doubts — to be together. You do you, kids!
Most Unexpected Pair:Fatal Charm(Showtime)Just your average story of a girl (Can’t Buy Me Love’s Amanda Peterson) falling in love with a boy (The Blue Lagoon’s Christopher Atkins) who’s an incarcerated rapist and murderer that breaks out of the big house to be with her. Ah, young love!
Best Hidden Talent:Fear(Showtime)Nope, not thatFear. In this thriller, Ally Sheedy can psychically connect to murderers, witnessing their wicked deeds through the criminals' eyes. She uses this gruesome ability to help police arrest perps — which is all in a day’s work until one psychopath flips her power back on her. The twisty B-movie climaxes — where else? — in a house of mirrors at a carnival.
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CLASS OF 1991
Most Adventurous:Chance of a Lifetime(NBC)In moreGolden Girls-adjacent greatness, Betty White stars as Evelyn in a geriatric pre-iteration of Queen Latifah’sLast Holiday. When the tagline is all about Betty White bungee jumping, do we really need more information?
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CLASS OF 1992
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Best Newcomer:Desperate Choices: To Save My Child(a.k.a.Solomon’s Choice) (NBC)Reese Witherspoon’s third role as an actress was 16-year-old football player Cassie, who’s diagnosed with leukemia. The twist? After chemotherapy fails, her parents are told that only a bone-marrow transplant from her brother brother (Jurassic Park’s Joseph Mazzello) might cure her — and it will mean risking his life to save Cassie’s.
04of 14CLASS OF 1993IMDBShadiest Siblings:Sudden Fury:A Family Torn Apart(NBC)Neil Patrick Harris and Johnny Galecki play brothers via adoption whose parents are sliced-and-diced to death. But is the right one behind bars for the brutal slaying? You’ll need about 98 minutes and a strong stomach to find out.Girl Everybody’s Talking About: Amy FisherDrew Barrymore and Alyssa Milano both took a turn playing the real-life teenager who horrified the nation when she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her adult lover Joey Buttafuoco, point-blank in the face. On Jan. 3, 1993, Barrymore’sThe Amy Fisher Storyaired on ABC in a primetime face-off against CBS and Milano’sCasualties of Love: The “Long Island Lolita” Story. Just six days before that, NBC had offered its own ripped-from-the-headlines riff in the form ofAmy Fisher: My Storystarring Noelle Parker.Varsity Dishonors:The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom(HBO)Despite its zany title, this movie netted Holly Hunter an Emmy Award for portraying Wanda Holloway, a real woman so hell-bent on getting her daughter on the spirit squad — themiddle schoolspirit squad, it should be noted — that she tried to hire her brother-in-law as a hitman to take out her daughter’s top rival.
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CLASS OF 1993
Shadiest Siblings:Sudden Fury:A Family Torn Apart(NBC)Neil Patrick Harris and Johnny Galecki play brothers via adoption whose parents are sliced-and-diced to death. But is the right one behind bars for the brutal slaying? You’ll need about 98 minutes and a strong stomach to find out.
Girl Everybody’s Talking About: Amy FisherDrew Barrymore and Alyssa Milano both took a turn playing the real-life teenager who horrified the nation when she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her adult lover Joey Buttafuoco, point-blank in the face. On Jan. 3, 1993, Barrymore’sThe Amy Fisher Storyaired on ABC in a primetime face-off against CBS and Milano’sCasualties of Love: The “Long Island Lolita” Story. Just six days before that, NBC had offered its own ripped-from-the-headlines riff in the form ofAmy Fisher: My Storystarring Noelle Parker.
Varsity Dishonors:The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom(HBO)Despite its zany title, this movie netted Holly Hunter an Emmy Award for portraying Wanda Holloway, a real woman so hell-bent on getting her daughter on the spirit squad — themiddle schoolspirit squad, it should be noted — that she tried to hire her brother-in-law as a hitman to take out her daughter’s top rival.
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HOMECOMING QUEEN: TORI SPELLING
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CLASS OF 1994
Biggest Teachable Moment:For the Love of Nancy(ABC)Growing Painsstar Tracey Gold drew from her own experiences with disordered eating to portray the title character, who spirals into anorexia and bulimia. The film offered an unflinching, yet sensitive, portrayal of how body image struggles impact not only those struggling but also their family and friends.
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CLASS OF 1995
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Most Extra (Terrestrial):Amanda and the Alien(Showtime)Baywatch’s Nicole Eggert dyed her beachy blonde mop red for this out-of-this-world romance, which was likeEarth Girls Are Easy— only infused with Gen X ennui, a smattering of alien-on-human cannibalism and a sensual synthesizer duet. It was officially the mid-’90s, and things were starting to get weird, y’all.
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PROM QUEEN: CANDACE CAMERON BURE
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CLASS OF 1996
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CLASS OF 1997
Biggest Cautionary Tale:Dying to Belong(NBC)Don’t let anybody tell you peer pressure wasn’t just as vicious before social media. The hazing-related death of a sorority pledge (Blossom’s Jenna von Oÿ) haunts her close friend (eventual two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank), who has to confront sinister sister Sarah “Second Becky” Chalke to discover what really happened that fateful, fatal night at the campus bell tower.
Most Family-First (for Better or Worse):My Stepson, My Lover(USA)Everyone’s playing to type in this textbook late-’90s offering, especiallyThe Young and the Restless’s resident hunk Joshua Morrow and Terry O’Quinn as a ruthless husband that will feel familiar to fansThe StepfatherandLost.
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CLASS OF 1998
Most Unprepared for Y2K:Every Mother’s Worst Fear(USA)The Internet was ascendent, and parents everywhere were getting antsy. Real-life mother-daughter duo Cheryl and Jordan Ladd also played family here, with the younger Ladd turning to an Internet “friend” called Scanman during her parents' bitter divorce. Confiding your deepest, most closely-held secrets to a faceless online friend — whatevercould go wrong?
Future Detective:Silencing Mary(NBC)In a dark-universe sequel toClarissa Explains It All, Melissa Joan Hart goes rogue and uses her college paper-honed skills to get answers — and justice — after the sexual assault of her best friend (Doogie Houser, M.D.’s Lisa Dean Ryan).
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CLASS VALEDICTORIAN: KELLIE MARTIN
13of 14CLASS OF 1999Lifetime Tv/Kobal/ShutterstockBest Teamwork:Invisible Child(Lifetime)Imagine an entire town conspiring to indulge an emotionally brittle woman in the trauma fantasy that she has one more child than she actually does. Oh wait, thanks to this yarn starring Rita Wilson, you don’t have to!Most Tech Savvy:Fatal Error(TBS) andFinal Run(CBS)The computers are out to get us! The year 2000 was a much-hyped milestone when technology was supposedly going to rise up and take over the planet, and this duo of small-screen fear-baiters — about a virus on a killing spree and a computer glitch that sends a train on a runaway collision course — conveyed this air of pre-millennial paranoia. Fortunately, Antonio Sabàto Jr., Janine Turner, Robert Urich and Patricia Kalember were there to save the day.
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CLASS OF 1999
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Best Teamwork:Invisible Child(Lifetime)Imagine an entire town conspiring to indulge an emotionally brittle woman in the trauma fantasy that she has one more child than she actually does. Oh wait, thanks to this yarn starring Rita Wilson, you don’t have to!
Most Tech Savvy:Fatal Error(TBS) andFinal Run(CBS)The computers are out to get us! The year 2000 was a much-hyped milestone when technology was supposedly going to rise up and take over the planet, and this duo of small-screen fear-baiters — about a virus on a killing spree and a computer glitch that sends a train on a runaway collision course — conveyed this air of pre-millennial paranoia. Fortunately, Antonio Sabàto Jr., Janine Turner, Robert Urich and Patricia Kalember were there to save the day.
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