Production Notes



Studio
Saban Entertainment. The set is located on a soundstage at the Saban Studios in Valencia, California. Other locations include the beach, the mall and the highschool 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 30 minutes.



Sweet Valley Worldwide
The show was aired in the Philippines (ABC 5, GMA 7), United States (FOX, UPN, ABC) and many other countries.



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 had been 4 seasons of the show. Seasons 1-3 were aired in syndication on FOX while the fourth season was aired on UPN. 22 episodes have been produced each season for a total of 88 episodes.



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 in syndication on FOX, but it moved to UPN for its 4th season, after which it was cancelled due to poor ratings.

In the whole four years the show was aired, we never fully see anybody's parents. We hear the twins' parents in Episode 6, 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 stayed until the end of the season, when he disappeared, never to be mentioned again. Patty Gilbert also disappeared without an explanation 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 a daughter.

Bridget Flanery and Ryan Bittle had dated when they were both on the show.

The SVH Soundtrack was mostly sang by Kathy Fisher, including the theme song. The Moonbeach plays some of the songs from the sounctrack as background music.



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