The First Gig

A battle of bands: Dreams vs. their rivals, Bradley and the Billionaires.

Battle of the Bands

Drummer Tony trades his sticks for a helmet to please his coach father. Ton

Beat of His Own Dream

The Dreams book two gigs on the same night: a wedding and a luau.

Double Date

Sly learns Jenny's idea of a "dream man" by spying on her slumber party.

Dream Man

Jenny and Tiffani's friendship is threatened by competition for a guy's affections.

Friends First

Racism rears its head when the father of Tony's date tries to buy him off.

Guess Who's Coming to Brunch

Sly and Tony's machismo irks the gals, who decide to retaliate.

It's a Guy Thing

Tiffani is reunited with her mother, who walked out 10 years earlier.

Mother and Child Reunion

Surf's up for Sly and Tiffani, who are drawn together by an interest in the waves.

Romancing the Tube

Sly shoots a video of Matt that nearly shoots down their friendship.

They Shoot Videos, Don't They?

Jenny is consumed by a reignited old flame, an actor who once dumped her for a costar.

This Time

Matt loses his kid brother in the excitement of preparing for a party that's floating into the Garrisons' house.

Where's Dennis?

Matt and Sly (as well as the rest of the band) are scared of the ""tough guy"" at school, Jake Sommers.  Then Jake starts to take an interest in joining the band.

Jake's Song

Jenny is accepted at a music conservatory in Rome, Italy.  Jake tries a find a way for her to stay after realizing that he likes her.  Sly comes up with a plan to hypnotize Jenny into blowing her audition, but Jake isn't sure that he wants to go through with the plan.

Ciao, Jenny

An exchange student from Hong Kong, Samantha Woo, comes to live with the Garrison family, taking Jenny's place.  When the band finds out that Sam can sing, they discuss letting her fill the open slot in the band.  The boys also make a bet as to who will first kiss Sam.

Wooing Woo

Tiffani and Tony think that there might be more than friendship between them.  Sly borrows Jake's bike and ends up causing an accident that sends Tony to the hospital and Jake's bike gets wrecked- ruining his chances of winning a motorcyle contest.

Sleazy Rider

Sly tries to get Matt to let him stay at the Garrison's house so that he can hit on Sam.  Matt agrees and Sly moves in.  Meanwhile, Tiffani is busy trying to figure out who her secret admirer is.

The Sly Who Came To Dinner

Tiffani takes an auto shop class to prove herself to Jake.  While spending time together, the two realize that they want to be more than just friends.  The boys have less than a bad time while taking a cooking class that's taught by Sgt. McBride.

Surfboards and Cycles

Football player Darrin Young gets tutoring from Sam, but is really trying to use her to pass his big Math test and to not pay for her services.  Her bandmates are not sure what to do about it.  Meanwhile, Jake and Tiffani's relationship gets rocky while they argue about their mid-term exams.

A Question of Math

Tony faints at a Western movie when his date's old flame shows up.  He has a dream that he and the rest of the band are back in the Old West.

High Plains Dreamer

Jake lies to Tiffani about the fact that he took on an awful job at a store entitled Maniac Music.  He needs the job in order to earn enough money for an anniversary gift for Tiffani.  Tiffani thinks that Jake might be cheating on her.

Bwa Ha Ha Means I Love You

When Jake's over-acheiving brother, Kyle, comes to town, Jake decides to run for student body president in hopes to impress him.

Vote of Confidence

After the van breaks down again, Sam gives the band the money that she was going to use to go back to Hong Kong to celebrate the New Year.  After giving the money to the mechanic, the gang is scammed and no repairs are done on the van.

The Year of the Woo

The band gets an audition to open for Sting, but Sgt. McBride is on the rampage and gives Jake and Tiffani detention.  The two have to try to escape detention in order to make the audition with the rest of the band.

Schoolhouse Rock

Matt starts to like a girl named Katie, but then he finds out that her father, Mr. Stone, is the new owner of Sharky's.  Mr. Stone would rather demolish the place instead of continuing it on as the restaurant Sharky's.  So, the band must figure out a way to stop Mr. Stone from tearing down their hangout.

Save the Shark

Sly decides to get fake IDs for the band, but the plan doesn't work out when Jake's new girlfriend is really an undercover cop.  Matt and Tony also decide to use Sam and Tiffani as models for projects in art class.

21 Jake Street

The school has a servant auction to raise money.  Matt buys Tony and Tiffani is now Sam's servant.  Sly bids and wins a girl that he likes and hopes to win over, Julie Pruit.

Can't Buy Me Love

After actually studying for a history test, Sly gets an A and his teacher accuses him of cheating.  Tony also has to pick which girl will get to sing Tiffani's new song at the high school dance.

Rebel Without A Clue

Using Sly's radio transmitter, the band plays The California Dreams songs, but play them under the fake name of the Dirty Dogs.  Suddenly, there's a new popular band around school- The Dirty Dogs.

Dirty Dog Days

After not wanting to go to the prom, Jake decides that Tiffani can go with Glen, who in exchange for a date with Tiffani will hire the band to play the prom.  Tiffani goes to the prom with Glen, but Jake breaks up with her when he sees them kissing.

Indecent Promposal

After the Garrison family moves away, including Matt, Sam moves in with Lorena Costa.  The band also get to use her place to practice from now on.  Unfortunately, all their equipment is at a pawn shop and they have to get it back.  They also need to find a replacement for Matt.  Sly thinks that his cousin, Mark, might be right for the job, but Mark has had a bad case of stage fright ever since Sly embarrased him at Carnegie Hall.

The Unforgiven

Everyone takes a career aptitude test at school that will tell them what career would be perfect for them.  Mark a guidance counselor, Sam a photographer, Tiffani a veteranarian, Jake a florist, and Lorena and Sly both a fashion designer.  In trying to get a date with Lorena, Sly copied off of her test so that they would have more in common with each other.  While Jake has trouble writing a new song, he decides to work on his new florist career.

Follow Your Dreams

Lorena loves working on the school radio station, but due to budget cuts, the station will be closed.  She takes Jake's advice to try and keep it open.  Mark also does an on-air review of Tony's play ""Hamlet"".

Budget Cuts

Sly's trying to find a date for the Romance Dance at school.  So, he heads online and meets a girl, Allison, on the online chat room ""Comp-U-Chat"".  When he finally meets her, he finds out that she's blind.  After seeing Sly's good luck getting a date, Tony and Sam decide to give ""Comp-U-Chat"" a try for themselves.

Blind Dates

It's time for another battle of the bands.  This time the California Dreams are against the rap group Total Defiance.  Managed by Rosie, Sly in the form of a girl.  After Total Defiance says that Lorena is just a groupie, she wants to join the band.  When she auditions, the band realizes that she can't sing at all.  They don't want to hurt her feelings and tell her, especially Jake.

Yoko, Oh No!

After Allison announces that she's going away to another school, Sly is heartbroken.  Lorena and Sam accuse Jake and Tony of not being as romantic as Sly.  Jake and Tony try to prove that they are romantic, too.

The Long Goodbye

The gang competes in a video competition.  When trying to write a new song, Mark spends a lot of time at Lorena's house.  They end up kissing and Mark tries to find a way to confess to Jake without getting the pulp beat out of him.

Trust Me

Lorena's father hires the band to play at his ski resort in Colorado.  During their stay they run into some weird things, including an old mountain man and a Yeti driving the guests away from the resort.

The Princess and the Yeti

The band must work on a project for school, creating their own television shows.  Tiffani and Mark partner up to create ""Ms. Smith's Neighborhood"", which is a cross between a surfing show and ""Mr. Roger's Oceanside.""  Jake, Lorena, and Sam partner up to create ""Hall Monitors,"" a take-off on ""Cops.""  While Sly and Tony create ""The Goo-Ga-Moo Guys,"" a ""Wayne's World""-type show for guys that are interested in girls.  ""The Goo-Ga-Moo Guys"" becomes a hit show on a local station and Sly quits being manager of the band.  However, Sly and Tony's friendship gets strained over greed.

Winkle/Wicks World

Not wanting her dad to be alone, Tiffani sets her father, Paul, up with marine biologist Ariel.  This turns out to be a bad idea when Tiffani's dad spends all his time with Ariel instead of Tiffani.  Mark creates a compatability test that claims that Tony and Sam aren't compatabile as well as Jake and Lorena.  The couples start arguing over the results.

Daddy's Girl

The gang is assigned a school project to research their family tree and give a report.  Tony isn't able to find anything about his family past the Civil War.  Embarrassed, Tony lies about his family's background.  Sly and Mark give a speech about their ancestors who had the Winkle charm, and try to use it on girls.

Family Tree

Jake enters a motorcycle contest and Uncle Frank pays a visit to help Jake win the competition.  Uncle Frank gets Jake hooked on smoking.  The whole gang thinks that smoking is a bad idea, especially Lorena.  She threatens to not date Jake anymore if he doesn't quit.  The band also finds a box filled with money on the beach.  Mark is left in charge of it and Sly thinks investing the money in a get-rich-quick program is a good idea.

Harley and the Marlboro Man

The new guy at school, Tommy Keating, bad-mouths Jake around the school.  After Tommy challenges Jake to a motorcyle race, Jake accepts.  After hitting a speed bump at Sharkey's, Jake crashes his bike and doesn't compete in the race, resulting in being accused of being a coward.  Tony and Sly also become school safety monitors.

Rebel Without a Nerve

An old friend from Tony's childhood, Darren, pays a visit to Tony.  He aks Tony to help out one of their friends from a gang that he's joined.  The friend ends up in the hospital and Tony has to decide if he should help get revenge on the gang.  The rest of the band takes a job delivering singing telegrams.

Boyz R Us

For an economics project at school, the gang decides to sell Sam's Great Great Grandmother's cold remedy.  Sam is overwhelmed with greed, and later has to decide what's more important- money or her Great Great Grandmother's honor.  Jake and Mark decide to create their own business as music teachers.

Junior Achievements

Lorena makes a bet with Jake that greed can rip apart friendship, even the band's friendship.  Lorena and Jake create a plan to make the gang believe that there is buried treasure hidden nearby.  Lorena's right- friendships start to get strained.  Both Jake and Lorena end up surprised at the extent of everyone's greed.

The Treasure of PCH

While trying out for a spot on the National Volleyball Team, Tiffani realizes that her small size is keeping her from being the best.  Sly suggests that Tiffani takes steroids to make her bigger and stronger.  The band soon realizes that Tiffani is addicted to them.  Sam and Lorena also have a studs contest featuring Tony, Sly, and Mark as contestants to see which one of the guys is the best with the ladies.

Tiffani's Gold

Jake and Lorena decide that they don't have anything in common anymore.  After they call it quits, Jake realizes that he still has feelings for him and Tiffani realizes that she still has feelings for Jake.

Two Too Much

During Valentine's Day Tony realizes that he and Sam only have four months before Sam has to return to Hong Kong.  He writes a special song for her and also decides to propose to her, so that they can stay together.  The gang has doubts about whether she should accept.

My Valentine

Tiffani takes on the role of student principal for a week.  Sam tries to tutor the gang in physics for their upcoming midterm.  The gang decides to have a cut day during the midterm week while Tiffani is in charge.

Principal Tiffani

It's Jake and Tiffani's three month and two day anniversary.  Jake agrees to go on the dating game as contestants along with Sly and Tony.  To Jake's surprise, he ends up winning the date,  and decides to keep it a secret from Tiffani.  She finds out, causing her to break up with him again.  Meanwhile, Tony gets to meet his idol, gameshow host, Milt Bradley.

The Dateless Game

Jake finally gets to meet his idol, Zane Walker, when he comes to town.  Zane is a musician that's having trouble writing a new song.  Jake thinks that Zane might be the key to getting the band a record deal, so they finally get him to listen to their song.  Zane ends up stealing the song from the band and making it a hit.  Also, after getting his fortune read, Tony has a streak of bad luck.

Fallen Idol

Using flashbacks from previous episodes, the gang puts Sly on trial for being the most greedy and selfish person in the world.  Tony is defending Sly, while Tiffani is the prosecutor, and Jake becomes the judge.

Defending Sly's Life

In order to get the California Dreams a gig, Sly goes on a date with an overweight girl that he used to tease.  He finally does get a conscience and starts to feel bad about using her.  Meanwhile, a poem that Mark wrote for a crush goes from Mark to Lorena to Jake and then to Tony, making everyone think that the poem was written for them.

Secret Admirer

Sly is rude and makes fun of the ""Senior Surfers"".  After having a dream that he is old, Sly decides to change his attitude toward the group.

After Sly causes Tony to hurt his shoulder, Tony must have an operation to repair his shoulder.  Tony's afraid of having the surgery and believes that he will die.  Meanwhile, Lorena decides to become a candystriper to get closer to Dr. Joe.

Operation Tony

The gang gets involved in community service projects.  Tony and Jake volunteer for Meals on Wheels, Mark cleans up the beach, Sam works for the blood drive, and Tiffany and Sly work at a teen help line.  Sly is of course just doing the community service in order to meet girls.

Community Service

With so much trash being discarded onto the beach, Tiffani and Mark decide to create an environmental group called Save the Beach.  Tony gets too involved and the gang ruins his date with a girl that he likes.  The gang also are wondering if Jake and Lorena like each other.

Heal the Bay

Sam's father gives her a credit card to use in case of emergencies.  Sam goes a little overboard and ends up reaching the limit of the credit card.  When she can't pay her father back, he threatens to make her return home to Hong Kong.  The gang has to try and help her raise enough money to pay off the debt.

Woo-ops

When Lorena's dad leaves her in charge of the ski lodge while he's away, she has Jake take over as the winter festival snow clown.  Mark ends up running into his old girlfriend Jenny Stevens, who is an Olympic hopeful skier.  She dumped him in order to try out for the United States National Ski Team.  Meanwhile, Tony has a crush on a snow bunny.

We'll Always Have Aspen

Lorena wants to impress the new guy at school, Alan, so she decides to pretend that she's a poet.  Sly and Mark want her to turn her loft into a coffe house while her parents are away.  Lorena reads a poem that her father wrote for her mother, passing it off as her own.  When Alan takes the poem, she has to think of a way to get it back from him.

Lorena's Place

Lorena enters a dance contest, but right before the contest, her dance partner gets injured.  Sly wants to get closer to Lorena, so he tries to convince her to let him be her partner.  Meanwhile, Tony argues with Jake about how the band should be run.

Dancing Isn't Everything

Jake gets a job fixing motorcycles for an attractive female mechanic. That leaves Tiffani feeling neglected and suspicious.

Stand by Your Man

Tony gets caught in an earthquake while playing his drums and nearly gets killed by a speaker.  He decides to try and move to Ohio where there aren't any earthquakes.  Meanwhile, Sly tries to get Jack Zyans, a big music producer, to come and listen to the California Dreams play.

Shaken, Rattled, and Rolled

Sly gets a job working as a used car salesman at a store run by Gem Diamond.  Sam comes to buy a used car and in order to make a sale, Sly sells her a bad car.  Not being a very good driver, when Sam comes to return the car, she drives it right into a telephone pole.  Meanwhile, Lorena pretends to be interested in Mark in order to help him get another girl's attention.

Honest Sly

Jake's dad, Al, gets laid off from his job as an airplane mechanic.  He takes on a job as PCH's new janitor.  Sly starts making fun of Jake's dad, causing Jake to be embarrased and ashamed of his father.  Meanwhile, the gang (minus Jake) plays a water version of tag called Ba-Boom.

Mop n' Pop

Sam becomes the new president of the Honor Society at school.  Since Tony isn't a member, he never seems Sam because she's busy with activities involving the Honor Society.  Tony decides to cheat on a test in order to be able to join Sam in the club.  Harvey Cramdon, the old Honor Society president, will stop at nothing to get his old position back.

Diss-Honored

Jake gets chosen to be followed around by the TV show ""Reel Teens"" for a week.  The purpose of the show is to show how real teens deal with stress, school, and overall life.  The show follows Jake as he fixes Tiffani's car, writes a new song for the band, and the stress becomes overwhelming for Jake.

Reel Teens

Feeling neglected because his dad never spends any time with him, Sly starts to gamble.  His gambling gets too out of hand when he ends up losing the bands equipment.  The band has to figure out how to fix the relationship between Sly and his father.  Meanwhile, Tony is on the Senior Awards committee and can't keep the fact that Jake is going to be awarded with the Himalaya Award (an award that is given to the most unique senior) a secret.

Father Knows Bets

Sam creates a video letter to send back home to her Uncle Tze Tze to show him that she has made friends in America.  The episode is full of flashbacks from previous episodes.

Letters from Woo

During the contest for Prom King and Queen, Jake and Tiffani tie Tony and Sam for the crowns.  The competition between the two couples starts getting way out of hand.  Meanwhile, Mark tries to ask a girl to the Prom and Sly books the band for a gig on the day of the Prom.  -  The gang ends up getting stranded in the woods before they make it to the Prom.

Senior Prom

Tiffani, Sly, Mark, and Lorena, become extras on the television show ""Babewatch"" that films in their area.  Sam also gets a job working on the show, and one of the crew members takes a liking to her, causing Tony to become jealous.  Jake also gets a job working for the show as the assistant to the producer.

Babewatch

The gang decides to rectify the thing that they most regret doing or not doing during their time at high school.  Sly's biggest regret is never telling Lorena that he has feelings for her.  He tries to fix the problem by sending her anonymous love letters.  Tiffani's biggest regret is being mean to a boy that asked her out freshman year.  While, Sam and Tony regret not competing in the dance contest.  Mark regrets letting the school's gym teacher get to him and Jake regrets not playing the bagpipes in public.

Love Letters

While trying to impress Sara, a girl that he likes, Mark decides to drink at Lorena's graduation party.  He's too drunk to drive home, but does, and that leads to Sara ending up in the hospital and Mark ending up in jail.  Meanwhile, Jake and Tiffani have to finish a class project or they won't graduate.  The gang also finally get their diplomas from the Principal.

Graduation

The band's amp blows and Lorena offers to buy them a replacement.  The only catch is that she want's to be co-manager of the band alongside Sly.  When she and Sly start arguing, it costs the band gigs.  The new amp that Lorena buys blows the wiring at her loft and Jake and the guys try to fix it.

A Band Divided

Sly decides to become a model for the Amber Dubois Modeling Agency, after seeing an ad.  The agency claims to have discovered the famous model Samson, but when Amber starts charging Sly large amounts of money, the gang thinks that it might be a scam.

The Fashion Man

Jake scores a recording contract, but the producer doesn't want the entire band, just him.

The Last Gig

California Dreams is an American teen-oriented sitcom that aired from 1992 to 1996 on Saturday mornings during NBC's Teen NBC programming block. It was created by writers Brett Dewey and Ronald B. Solomon and executive produced by Peter Engel, all known for their work on Saved by the Bell.

All Episodes of California Dreams

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Season 1

The First Gig

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1992

Battle of the Bands

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1992

Beat of His Own Dream

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1992

Double Date

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1992

Dream Man

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1992

Friends First

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1992

Guess Who's Coming to Brunch

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1992

It's a Guy Thing

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1992

Mother and Child Reunion

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1992

Romancing the Tube

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1992

They Shoot Videos, Don't They?

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1992

This Time

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1992

Where's Dennis?

Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1992