Production Notes

Featuring: Details about the history of the program. As well as supplementary notes, details about the cast and crew, as well as anecdotes concerning events during production and written information recorded during production.



Studio
Saban Entertainment Studio. The set is located on a soundstage over within the Saban Studio in Valencia, California. Other locations include the beach, the mall and the high school exterior. For more info, visit the Sweet Valley Set.



Airing details
Original episodes aired in the United States on FOX and UPN. Sweet Valley High is also known as California College: Les Jumelles de Sweet Valley (France) (dubbed version) and Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High. Runtime is approximately 30 minutes.



Sweet Valley Worldwide
The show was aired in the USA (UPN, ABC, FOX Family), CAN (YTV), UK (TCC, BBC 1&2, Disney Channel, MTV), the Philippines (ABC 5, GMA 7) amongst others.



Production Company
Saban Entertainment



Distributors
Buena Vista Television (2002-__)
Saban Entertainment Inc. (1994 - 1997)
United Paramount Network (UPN)(1997 - 1998)



Episodes
It took 15 hours a day, 4 days a week to shoot one episode.



Seasons
There are 4 seasons of the show. Seasons 1 - 3 were aired in syndication on FOX while the fourth season was aired on UPN. 22 episodes were produced for each season; resulting in an episode count of 88.



Executive Producers
Haim Saban, Lance H. Robbins, Ronnie Hadar and Francine Pascal



Creator
Francine Pascal



Director/s
Josh Goldstein, David Winning, etc.



Awards
1996- Nominated in the Young Artist Awards as Best Performance by a Young Ensemble Television
1995- Won in the Young Artist Awards as Best Performance in a TV Series (Brittany and Cynthia Daniel)



Trivia:
The show was a hit syndication on FOX, but it moved to UPN for its 4th season, after which, it was cancelled due to poor ratings.
During the whole 4 years of the show being on air, we never really fully see anybody's parents. We only hear the twins' parents in Season 1 Episode 6 ‘Almost Married’, and catch a glimpse of Shred's dad twice in Season 3.
Michael Hayashida, joined the cast in the middle of the first season, as foreign exchange student Koichi. He was featured ‘til the end of the season, but subsequently then disappeared, never to be mentioned again. Patty Gilbert also disappeared without any explanation, just before the beginning of the second season. Bruce Patman was the only character whose sudden disappearance was actually explained.
Amy Danles, who played Enid Rollins, and Manley Pope, who played Devon Whitelaw are married in real life. They have 2 children.
Bridget Flanery, who played Lila Fowler, and Ryan Bittle, who played Todd Wilkins, actually dated while they were starring in the show.
The majority of the songs - on the one & only official SVH Soundtrack - were mostly sang by Kathy Fisher/ Fisher the Band, those of which include the main opening intro theme, as well as, tracks which were played in the background during scenes at The Moonbeach.



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