Last updated: January 25, 1998.
USA High, the cast:
Jackson Green -Josh Holland
Lauren Fontaine -Elena Lyons
Christian Mueller -Thomas Magiar
Winnie Barnes -Marquita Terry
Bobby Lazzarini -James Madio
Ashley Elliot -Kristen Miller
Miss Gabirelle Dupre -Angela Visser
Headmaster
Patrick Elliot -Nicholas Guest
The old gang (Winnie, Lauren, Christian, Lazzarini and Ashley) are reunited at the start of the new school year, their senior year, while Jackson Green shows up as a new student at The American Academy of Paris, and immediately causes troubles. Jackson's first efforts? Trying to leave the school (which he hates), deciding that he wants to stay (and pursue Lauren Fontaine), and trying to get school uniforms thrown out. [Copyright 1996.]
Mr. Elliot plans to race his Auston-Martin in a roadrace, which suits Miss Dupre just fine, as she is planning on winning the race (and beating him!) in her Ferrari. Meanwhile, Lauren loves Aston-Martins, and if Jackson will take her out in Mr. Elliot's, she'll go out with him. But when she drives it into the Seine, Jackson must find a way to pay for the repairs. His solution? Throwing a "rave".
Mr. Elliot decrees that the suitemates (and all the other students) must clean up their rooms. Meanwhile, Winnie's Dad sends her a credit card, and she quickly runs up a 3-hour bill of $1100! So Jackson comes up with a scheme: offer cleaning services to the students and charge them for it, to help Winnie pay off her bill. But their troubles get worse when the boys discover the answers to Miss Dupre's next test while cleaning her room.
Lauren's ex-boyfriend (he was her boyfriend during the previous schoolyear, before Jackson arrived), Paul Ember (Joel Berti) returns, and he and Lauren immediately rekindle their flame. This causes a jealous Jackson to spy on Lauren and her old beau. Meanwhile, Winnie is asked out on a date by one Prince Nicholas of Lichtenberg (Philip Rhys), but Ashley, Miss Dupre and Mr. Elliot think that Winnie needs to be "cultured" before she actually goes on the date.
Winnie is bummed when her boyfriend Giuseppe can't make it for her birthday, so to cheer her up, the gang agrees to let Winnie play "Truth or Dare". While only Lazzarini takes "truth" (and reveals he uses 'ladies deodorant'), the others all take Winnie's "dare", which means Ashley must do something to anger her father, Christian must hang the school banner from the Eiffel Tower, and Jackson and Lauren must kiss. Meanwhile, Mr. Elliot tries to get a reservation at the Eiffel Tower restaurant for a date with Miss Dupre.
Jackson's Dad has set him up with a date for the school's "Carnival" Costume Ball (and, for once, she's a babe!). The problem? Lauren has already decided that she and Jackson will go to the Dance. Jackson's solution? Try and take them both to the Carnival! Among the rest? Christian convinces Winnie to go with him, on the condition that Winnie gets to go in Lady Diana's wedding dress. Meanwhile, Lazzarini is almost dateless, until Miss Durpe helps him out, while Ashley is just dateless, and Mr. Elliot is too busy to go at all (despite the fact that Miss Dupre is going as Cat Woman!).
It seems to be impossible for Ashley to get a date (because she's the Headmaster's daughter), but things appear to brighten when a handsome chap named Chad (Chad Cox) takes her on a date. But Ashley is furious when she finds out that Mr. Elliot paid Chad (nee: Bernie!) to take her out, so she retaliates by pretending to date Lazzarini, which really drives her father up the wall! Meanwhile, it's Jackson and Christian squaring off against Lauren and Winnie in a contest, sponsored by Miss Dupre, to see who will cater for a Faculty diner and earn the $400 necessary to pay for a ski trip (and replace the previous $400 that Christian blew on ski clothes!).
Tired of the girls monopolizing the suite's phone, the boys try to pirate their own separate phone line, but what they get instead is a duplicate phone line, allowing them to eavesdrop on the girls, a situation that Jackson plans to use to his advantage with Lauren. Meanwhile, Winnie and Ashley try to track down a "hunky pizza delivery guy" as a prospective date for Ashley, and Mr. Elliot and Miss Dupre try to organize a fundraising dinner.
Lazzarini hits it off with a girl named Melanie (Shannon Elizabeth) on the Internet; but when she E-mails her picture (which shows that she's beautiful), Lazz figures that she won't be interested in him if she knows what he looks like, so he sends her a picture of Jackson, which causes all sorts of confusion when she visits Paris. Meanwhile, Lauren and Winnie can't sleep with Ashley's incredibly loud snoring!
Mr. Elliot and Miss Dupre have distressing news for Christian: he is failing Miss Dupre's American History class and he must get a B on the next test, or he will be off the basketball team. So the boys get Winnie (the best student) to tutor him, but she soon discovers that (gasp!) she actually likes Christian. Meanwhile, Lazz does such a good job cutting Ashley's hair that he and Jackson soon start up a hair styling business... that is, until a small mistake by Lazz turns Lauren's hair green!
Jackson gets Lauren a modeling job with a famous fashion photographer (Greg Wrangler), but he regrets it when Lauren's new modeling career may cause her to leave the Academy. Meanwhile, Winnie and Ashley try (and fail) to sell "Broadway Girl" cosmetics, but sales pick up when they get Christian to become a salesman.
Jackson's Dad (Michael Toland) visits the Academy, but when Jackson tells his Dad that he wants to pursue music (notice that Jackson's song is "Too Much to Dream", a song from California Dreams), his Dad threatens to pull Jackson out of the Academy. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang decides to sell some of their stuff at a "Yard Sale", and end up selling a painting, that may be a family heirloom of Mr. Elliot's, to the school librarian (Loren Freeman).
Tired that Lauren's busy work schedule prevents him from spending time with her, Jackson comes up with a plan: he'll take a job as a waiter at Cafe USA, where he can spend plenty of time with Lauren. But when Lauren dares Jackson to take his job seriously, and Jackson does, the results have unintended and, for Lauren, disastrous consequences. The rest of the gang is terrified by a 'scary movie'. Mr. Elliot joins Miss Dupre's book club, but cheats by renting the videos.
Jackson comes up with another scheme to get closer to Lauren: he conspires to replace her page turner (a nerdy chap who Jackson sends on a date with Ashley) for Lauren's piano recital, a recital that may get Lauren a scholarship to a Music Conservatory. Meanwhile, Mr. Elliot's "Vibrator 2000" chair gets delivered to the suite by mistake, and the rest of the gang loves it so much that they hide it from him. Christian practices for a big track meet.
Winnie has a problem: she never told her boyfriend Giuseppe that she started dating Christian, nor did she officially break up with Giuseppe. So when Giuseppe comes to town, Winnie (unwisely) tries to juggle both men without telling them what's up. Lazz and Jackson set up a pirate satellite TV dish, which Mr. Elliot orders taken down, until Miss Dupre's desire to see a boxing match changes Mr. Elliot's tune.
Lazzarini discovers the school's old radio studio (which has been closed for 30 years), and he and Jackson soon start the "Dr. Romance" show, doling out advice to the lovelorn at the Academy (which includes Mr. Elliot). Now that they're dating, Winnie struggles to tone down her insults of Christian.
The gang take career aptitude tests, and all test out for cool careers, except for Lazzarini (who tests out as an elevator operator!). But things look up for him when a talent scout tells Lazz that he's funny and books him at a Amateur Comedy Night; but will Lazz listen to the gang when they tell him that his act needs work? Ashley hides out the science lab's chimpanzee, Albert, from Mr. Elliot who wants him returned to the lab, though Ashley thinks he deserves a better home.
Things seem to be going well with Jackson's quest for Lauren: they agree to go on a date to the Opera (even though Jackson would rather be watching football!). But when an old friend of Lauren's, a West Point grad named Wallace "The Wale" (due to his large size, when Lauren knew him) Wilson (David Chisum), shows up in town, Jackson figures Wallace's visit will give him a way to watch the football game while still making Lauren happy. But he seriously regrets his decision when Wallace shows up, trim and hunky, and Lauren starts to really fall for him. Meanwhile, Christian is heading home for Oktoberfest, but he can't bring along Winnie due to lack of money; so Lazz tries to double their money in a game with the local poker "idiot", Hadley (Jeff Payton). The problem? Poker "idiot" Hadley turns out to be a poker 'shark', and Lazz loses all of Christian's trip money. [Copyright 1997.]
A new German girl, Ursula (Ute Werner), arrives at the Academy, and Winnie gets jealous. Little does Winnie know that she's has good reason to be jealous, as Ursula is interested in Christian for herself. The rest of the gang try to catch a thief who keeps robbing the school, using Lazz's high tech security system.
During a theater exercise in Miss Dupre's drama class, Ashley and Jackson have to kiss in their scene, and when they actually do (in practice), they discover that they are physically attracted to each other. But do they have anything in common?! Christian has a toothache, and Winnie and Lazz insist he go see the dentist ("Mr. Giggles" as played by episode director, Frank Bonner).
Mr. Elliot's brother Nigel (Peter Sands), a self-proclaimed British "spy", comes to town and he and Mr. Elliot once again take up their bitter sibling rivalry. The situation is compounded by the fact that Mr. Elliot promises to get the gang 'Lollapallooza' tickets, and fails to obtain them, which prompts Nigel to promise to get them. Meanwhile, Lauren takes up fencing (much to the dismay of the boys), and she beats reigning champ Jackson, who demands a rematch.
It's the "Girl's Choice Dance": Winnie becomes convinced that Christian is taking her for granted, so she refuses to ask him to the dance; Ashley keeps asking different boys to the dance; Mr. Elliot is asked to the dance by a 'secret admirer', whom he is convinced is Miss Dupre; Lauren asks Wallace, who later becomes unavailable; and Lazz is just dateless. Throughout all of this, Jackson starts dating a delightful girl named Katherine (Nicki Lynn Aycox), who happens to be blind. But when he starts to really fall for her, he panics, and breaks things off, which causes her to get the wrong idea about his real motives.
Bad news for Jackson: just as he's ready to tell his girlfriend, Katherine Hanley (Nicki Lynn Aycox), that he loves her, he finds out that she's been accepted to the prestegious 'Chicago School for the Blind' and is leaving the Academy. Meanwhile, Lauren, Ashley, Lazz and Christian do a "hunks of the Academy" calendar, but Christian's popularity skyrockets as "Mr. October", causing problems for him, and jealousy from Winnie.
Lauren's on her way to a ski trip with Wallace, but her suitcase causes Jackson to throw his back out, and her guilt causes her to cancel her trip to take care of him. And Jackson loves the attention! Christian invents an exercise device, the "Mueller Muscle Machine", and the rest of the gang go into business with him. All they need to do to make money is rope Mr. Elliot and Miss Dupre into doing a testimonial in an infomercial for the device.
Jackson's third grade crush, TV star Tiffani Gleason ("California Dreams'" Kelly Packard) shows up in Paris, so they try to start going out, but her busy TV star schedule gets in the way. Also, Lazzarini is a huge fan of Tiffani, but he can't handle it whenever she's in the room. Meanwhile, the girls battle it out to be Fall Ball Queen, and the comeptition brings out the worst in all three of them.
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