Twenty Years Ago Today is the 8th episode of Season 4 on FOX teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210.
Synopsis
Cindy and Jim throw a party for their 20th wedding anniversary. As Stuart and Brenda's affair grows, he proposes marriage and she willingly accepts. Meanwhile, Brandon falls for an anthropologist grad student named Lucinda Nicholson. A paranoid Dylan buys a gun from a street dealer and almost shoots Brandon. Andrea tells Kelly that she has doubts about her affair with Dan after he tells her about his non-belief in marriage. Then, Andrea meets a charming, Latino barman at the party, named Jessie Vasquez. Mel asks David to look after baby Erin while he heads off to Mexico with his girlfriend.
Starring
- Jason Priestley as Brandon Walsh
- Shannen Doherty as Brenda Walsh
- Jennie Garth as Kelly Taylor
- Ian Ziering as Steve Sanders
- Gabrielle Carteris as Andrea Zuckerman
- Luke Perry as Dylan McKay
- Brian Austin Green as David Silver
- Tori Spelling as Donna Martin
- Carol Potter as Cindy Walsh
- James Eckhouse as Jim Walsh
Special Guest Star
- David Gail as Stuart Carson
Recurring cast
- Ann Gillespie as Jackie Taylor
- Matthew Laurance as Mel Silver
- Matthew Porretta as Dan Rubin
- Paul Johansson as John Sears
- Cress Williams as D'Shawn Hardell
- Dina Meyer as Lucinda Nicholson
- Mark Damon Espinoza as Jesse Vasquez
Guest starring
- April Peterson/Arielle Peterson as Erin Silver
- Robert Rockwell as Bill Beevis
- Julie Adams as Arlene Beevis
- June Claman as Georgette Walsh
- Andrew Gorman as Gus
Trivia
- First appearances of Jesse Vasquez and Lucinda Nicholson
Music
- "What the World Needs Now Is Love" by Jackie DeShannon
- "In the Midnight Hour" by Wilson Pickett (performed by the party band)
- "Midnight at the Oasis" by Maria Muldaur (performed by Ronnie Jayne)