5.8/1019 votesLoading...#1 - High Plains Dreamer
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#2 - Reel Teens
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1019 votesLoading...#3 - Romancing the Tube
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1992
Surf's up for Sly and Tiffani, who are drawn together by an interest in the waves.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#4 - Letters from Woo
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/25/1996
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.
Director: Don Barnhart
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Defending Sly's Life
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1995
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1024 votesLoading...#6 - Beat of His Own Dream
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1992
Drummer Tony trades his sticks for a helmet to please his coach father. Ton
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1018 votesLoading...#7 - Mother and Child Reunion
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1992
Tiffani is reunited with her mother, who walked out 10 years earlier.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1019 votesLoading...#8 - Friends First
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1992
Jenny and Tiffani's friendship is threatened by competition for a guy's affections.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1020 votesLoading...#9 - They Shoot Videos, Don't They?
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1992
Sly shoots a video of Matt that nearly shoots down their friendship.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1018 votesLoading...#10 - Ciao, Jenny
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1993
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.
Director: N/A
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#11 - Junior Achievements
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1994
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.
Director: N/A
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#12 - Stand by Your Man
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1996
Jake gets a job fixing motorcycles for an attractive female mechanic. That leaves Tiffani feeling neglected and suspicious.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dawn Urbont
7.3/1039 votesLoading...#13 - The First Gig
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1992
The Dreams' first gig: a sweet-16 party.
Director: Don Barnhart
Writer: N/A
7.3/1019 votesLoading...#14 - It's a Guy Thing
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1992
Sly and Tony's machismo irks the gals, who decide to retaliate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#15 - Trust Me
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#16 - 21 Jake Street
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/25/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1017 votesLoading...#17 - This Time
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1992
Jenny is consumed by a reignited old flame, an actor who once dumped her for a costar.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Woo-ops
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/1995
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1020 votesLoading...#19 - Dream Man
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1992
Sly learns Jenny's idea of a "dream man" by spying on her slumber party.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#20 - The Unforgiven
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#21 - Family Tree
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Principal Tiffani
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1995
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.
Director: Don Barnhart
Writer: Rob Hammersley, Todd J. Greenwald
7.7/1027 votesLoading...#23 - Battle of the Bands
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1992
A battle of bands: Dreams vs. their rivals, Bradley and the Billionaires.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#24 - The Fashion Man
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/7/1996
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.
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Writer: N/A
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#25 - Boyz R Us
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1994
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of California Dreams
Every episode of California Dreams ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of California Dreams!
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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"High Plains Dreamer" is the worst rated episode of "California Dreams". It scored 5.8/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/30/1993. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Reel Teens".