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S1 • E1
It's Homecoming at Sweet Valley High and TODD and ELIZABETH have broken up. Elizabeth and JESSICA are both nominated for homecoming queen. Jessica is so sure she'll win that when the crown is placed on her sister's head, she is stunned. To top it off, Elizabeth catches the eye of SCOTT DANIELS, the college hunk Jessica is interested in. Jessica has no idea how she'll live this down. Meanwhile, the whole gang is hot in the trail of the mystery writer of the school's gossip column, "The Eyes and Ears." Tradition says, when caught, the writer gets thrown in the school pool. They're not quite sure, but rumor says it's Elizabeth. Scott Daniels, in the meantime, calls Elizabeth and asks her to a frat party. Unbeknownst to Elizabeth, Jessica poses as her and goes on the date in a misguided effort to win over Scott. Elizabeth, thinking she's been stood up, gives up on waiting and goes off to be alone. She runs into Todd and they make up. At the party, Scott has turned out to be a creep - he gets rough with Jessica so she bails, only to be rescued by Elizabeth and Todd. Elizabeth says she forgives Jessica, but Monday at school, she arranges for her twin to get dunked in the pool in her place.
S1 • E2
Sweet Valley High has decided to produce a weekly video news magazine. Everybody wants to be on its staff and they all prepare audition cassettes. ELIZABETH and JESSICA both want to be the anchorwoman. Elizabeth wants it because of her lifelong ambition to be a journalist; Jessica just thinks it would be cool to be on TV. Elizabeth makes an excellent tape and Jessica makes a horrible one. When Jessica sees her sister's tape, she decides to switch it with her own. Consequently, Jessica is chosen to host the show and Elizabeth is crushed. Of course, Jessica isn't able to write her own stories, so she begs Elizabeth to ghost write for her. Elizabeth concedes - until she finds out that Jessica deliberately switched tapes. With Jessica about to go on the air, Elizabeth shows up and tells Jessica to write her own stories. Jessica panics, goes on the air, can't say a single word and ends up handing the show over to Elizabeth.
S1 • E3
JESSICA falls for the hot new art student at Sweet Valley High. DAKOTA DANCER is a very talented artist and when he offers to paint Jessica's portrait and show it at the Annual Sweet Valley Art Show, she can't resist bragging about it to everyone in school. She poses for him in a bikini at the beach. By the time the day of the art show arrives, everyone in school has shown up to see the portrait of Jessica. When the painting is unveiled, it portrays Jessica posing nude on the beach! Jessica is mortified because everyone in school thinks she posed for the portrait; and ELIZABETH is furious because her body is the same as Jessica's and she fells exposed as well. Jessica demands Dakota change the painting, but he refuses. Elizabeth confronts Dakota and captures on tape his confession that Jessica wasn't naked when he painted her. Jessica then invites him on a picnic, suggest they go skinny-dipping and when he drops his boxers, the gang capture him on film. Jessica and Elizabeth use the pictures to blackmail Dakota into painting a bikini on Jessica's portrait.
S1 • E4
Sweet Valley High is putting on its rendition of Shakespeare's Macbeth and JESSICA has the female lead. BUCE PATMAN'S UNCLE ANDY, the famous director, is coming to town. Jessica figures a good review will insure her a part in his next production, so she schemes a way for ELIZABETH to write the review. When the review comes out, Elizabeth has trashed Jessica and praised everyone else. And to top it off, LILA gets a part in Andy's project, while Jessica gets nothing. Jessica is destroyed. She blames Elizabeth for everything. Elizabeth goes to Andy, who never read the review, and gets her sister part. Meanwhile, Jessica takes matters into her own hands, and Lila runs into a little accident. On the day of the school, there is a problem. Lila's role involves dancing and her injuries won't permit it. Jessica, who thinks Lila has a bigger part, offers to trade. Andy goes for it and Lila ends up being the spokesperson for the Holden soup commercial while Jessica is the dancing tomato.
S1 • E5
JESSICA needs to get an "A" on her upcoming chemistry test or else she goes on academic probation and will be kicked off the cheerleading squad. In an act of desperation, she steals a copy of the test and gets her grade. But when her teacher becomes suspicious, she blames the crime on WINSTON EGBERT. Now Winston is suspended and it's up to ELIZABETH and her friends to come to his aid and clear his name.
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S1 • E7
It's Halloween and time for all things spooky. BRUCE challenges the gang to spend the night at Sweet Valley High. Legend has it that a kid died there some years ago. The gang goes to the school completely unsuspecting that Bruce and MANNY have set up a world of horrors for them to encounter. However, Bruce's plans to scare his friends are foiled when the group finds him out and turns the tables - sending Bruce running all the way home.
S1 • E8
THE PRINCE OF SANTA DORA is coming to Sweet Valley. JESSICA and LILA both vie for his attentions and Lila plans a huge banquet in his honor in order to impress him. Meanwhile, Jessica spends a whirlwind weekend with the Prince. At the banquet Lila reveals that the Prince will have an arranged marriage with a girl from an important Santa Doran family. However, the Prince is so impressed with Jessica's spirit and independence that he himself is inspired to defy his royal family's traditions. He asks Jessica to give him one more day to talk to his father. She agreed and they decide to meet the next evening at the pier. Unfortunately, the Prince doesn't show up because of an emergency back home and Jessica goes home furious. However, she receives a letter from him apologizing for his sudden departure. He tells her he cares for her a lot and he's sure they will meet again someday.
S1 • E9
TODD has a new motorcycle and ELIZABETH refuses to ride it. She says it's too dangerous. However, when JESSICA leaves her stranded at a party, Elizabeth gets on the bike in spite of the danger. On their way home, Elizabeth and Todd get into an accident. Todd is fine, but Elizabeth falls into a coma. Everyone is devastated. Jessica and Todd blame each other for the accident and they end up fighting about it until Elizabeth's comes out of the coma. However, Elizabeth is no longer herself - she's acting like Jessica! Elizabeth's near death experience has taught her to live life as if every day is her last. She abandons her chores (leaving them to Jessica), she blows off her schoolwork, breaks up with Todd and starts hanging out with BRUCE PATMAN. No one can figure her out. Todd is enraged and starts a fight with Bruce. During the scuffle, Jessica gets pushed into the path of an oncoming car. Luckily, she escapes injury, but seeing her sister in mortal danger reminds Elizabeth how precious life and loved ones can be.
S1 • E10
Inspired after watching a James Bond movie, Liz writes a spy novel starring herself and her friends. Deciding that women don't have enough of an active role in the adventure genre, she makes the females the stars and the males secondary.
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S1 • E12
ELIZABETH, working on a photography assignment, accidentally takes a picture of some kidnappers. She tries to go to the police, but the picture was developed improperly and is not clear. Meanwhile, the kidnappers have mistaken JESSICA for Elizabeth and have plans to get the picture from her. Can Elizabeth provide the police with photographic evidence in time to catch the criminals and save her sister's life?
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S1 • E14
JESSICA doesn't share everyone's interest in poetry. That is, until she sees the new teacher. Jessica's infatuation turns into something much more serious when she misinterprets one of his poems. The rest of the gang can only watch as the old Jessica turns into the new Jessica. But the pot really begins to boil when she reads aloud a poem she believes to be anonymous.
S1 • E15
JESSICA becomes jealous when ELIZABETH spends all her time with her boyfriend, TODD. A plan ensues to break-up the lovebirds. Jessica talks to Elizabeth into dating KRIS, a guy completely smitten with Liz. Liz decides she's not ready to see anyone and the devastated Kris takes revenge when he finds Elizabeth's diary and starts to tell everyone's darkest secrets. The gang is angry with Liz until the truth about Kris is revealed.
S1 • E16
Will the real ENID ROLLINS please stand up? Love blossoms when Enid meets MIKE, Bridgewater High's football star, on the teen hotline. But when they finally meet, JESSICA poses as Enid. In order to get Mike back, Enid asks LIZ to impersonate Jessica, who has already passed herself off as Enid. Liz, as Jess (as Enid) completely disappoints Mike with her superficial ways. Spurned, Mike falls for the real Enid. Unfortunately, Mike still thinks Enid is Elisabeth. But when TODD inadvertently spoils the plan, Mike realizes the real Enid is the girl for him.
S1 • E17
Everyone is having problems with their new responsibilities during career week: WINSTON and KOICHI create a video game, TODD and LIZ become reporters for the Sweet Valley Tribune and JESSICA gets an internship with DANTE, the famous designer. Meantime, LIA goes to work at the Moon Beach Café and falls for HEATH, the delivery guy/aspiring chef. When Dante adds to his new line of clothes by stealing a design of Jessica's, the gang devises a plan to make him reveal the truth.
S1 • E18
JESSICA, the two-time winner of the Pacific Freestyle dance competition, has no doubt she'll win top honors again this year - until FRANCO, her regular partner, is whisked away by MADONNA, the Queen herself. Desperate, Jessica settles on WINSTON as her new partner. Franco returns, and Winston is dumped and disappointed. LILA sabotages Jess by getting Franco a job on her family's cruise line. Jessica, once again in need of a partner, swipes LUIS, Lila's imported Latin dance champion. Lila teaches Jess a lesson by teaming with Winston to win the competition.
S1 • E19
Much to TODD's dismay, while putting in long hours as a candy striper at Sweet Valley Hospital, Elizabeth befriends Peter Carpenter, a quiet orderly. Winston has taken up the rest of her time with a birthday project for his mother. When Jessica learns that one of Liz's patients is Jeremy Franks, the well known host of "Frankly Speaking", Jess "volunteers" to help herself get a co-host position on the talk show. Unfortunately for Jeremy, Jessica's ability as a candy stripper is nowhere near her sisters. Several accidents and a scheme or two later, Jeremy finally concedes to Jessica.
S1 • E20
Seventeen year old Nicholas Morrow has just moved to Sweet Valley. A man of mystery and money, Lila and Jessica are at it again going for the same guy. When Elizabeth doesn't show up to Nicholas' big party, Todd gets concerned. Jessica is far too caught up in Nicholas to worry about Elizabeth. Todd convinces Jess that they should call the police who find a suspect in Winston Egbert. Meanwhile, Peter Carpenter (the orderly Liz befriended at the hospital) has taken Elizabeth to an old cabin where he professes his love to her. Back at the Wakefields, the gang decides to cover Sweet Valley with "missing" fliers. The next day at the hospital Peter see's Jessica and thinks it's Liz. The police apprehend him and find that Liz has managed to escape on her own.
S1 • E21
Jessica has lost her chance to be on "Frankly Speaking" to Liz and her harrowing abduction. In the first few minutes of the broadcast, the news breaks that Peter Carpenter has escaped. A policeman has been assigned to each of the girls, but Jessica can't stand having a constant bodyguard and, alluding him, manages to get caught by Peter. Peter believes he has Liz until he see's Liz make a plea for Jessica's life on "Frankly Speaking". Peter contacts Elizabeth to make the switch. To safeguard himself, he sets up a timed death trap for Jessica. The police once again catch Peter, but now it's a race against the clock for the whole gang to find Jessica before it's too late.
S1 • E22
Everyone has their doubts about LIZ and TODD staying together when Todd receives a basketball scholarship to Vermont's Fairmont Prep School, which is 300 miles away. The distance proves fatal to their relationship. When ELIZABETH unknowingly cuts in on NICHOLAS, JESSICA'S love interest, Jess needs to bring Todd and Liz back together.
Jessica Wakefield
Elizabeth 'Liz' Wakefield
Enid Rollins
Winston Egbert
Manny Lopez
Cheryl Thomas
Todd Wilkins
Lila Fowler
Todd Wilkins
Lila Fowler