CALIFORNIA DREAMS EPISODEGUIDE


Season 1(13 episodes)


One of Matt's friends gives the band their first gig for her 16th birthday party, but Matt and Jenny's parents have other plans for the family when they make reservations for the Grand Canyon on the same day.


When Jenny and Tiffani decide to have a slumber party, Sly thinks this is his chance to find out what kind of guy Jenny likes. Sly hides under her bed and takes notes, and then takes measures to become him.


The California Dreams are in a band contest and Sly suggests the only way to win is to date Angela, the girl with the deciding vote.


Jenny and Tiffani fight over the same guy, and their friendship and the band is put on the line.


Tony decides to quit the band in favor for football to make his father proud of him.


Jenny starts to date her ex-boyfriend even though Matt points out why they broke up in the first place, and that he hasn't changed.


Matt is so bummed out about breaking up with Randi Jo, that he writes a song about her, not knowing that Sly is video taping it to enter it in a contest.


After Matt makes fun of Dennis a party they were throwing, Dennis runs away, leaving the band to look for him before their parents come home.


Tiffani's mother returns after leaving her and her father 10 years ago and tries to make up for lost time, but Tiffani hasn't forgiven her for leaving.


Matt books the Dreams to play at a wedding for Randi Jo's sister, but Sly and Tony also book the Dreams to play a luau at Sharkey's for the same night.They try to figure out how to play both gigs without blowing it.


Tony starts to date Kimberly, who is white, and her father's prejudice makes him bribe Tony with an amp not to date her.


Jenny and Tiffani decide to play a joke on Tony and Sly and teach them a lesson when Jenny becomes "Monique" the new foreign exchange student.


After Tiffani breaks up with a guy, she begins to spent some time with Sly by teaching him how to surf, and find out there is an attraction between them.

Season 2 (18 episodes)


Matt and the gang are scared of the new guy, Jake Sommers, until he shows Matt what he's really like and that he would like to join the band.


When the guys find an old radio transmitter, they make a band called "The Dirty Dogs" only to find out that it actually went on the air and that the whole school loves them.


When Jenny has a shot to go to Rome for her singing, Jake needs to find a way to make her stay, now that he likes her. Sly suggests hypnosis for her to blow the audition, but Jake has second thoughts.


Jake, Tony, Matt and Sly make a bet on who can kiss Samatha Woo, the new foreign exchange student.


When Jake trusts Matt with his bike, Sly takes it for a spin and wrecks the bike and lands Tony in the hospital.


When the school has a "Servants Auction" to raise money, Sly bids on Julie, a popular girl in school who Sly wants to like him.


When Jake's brother, Kyle, comes to town for a visit, Jake tries to impress him by running for student body president of PCH.


Sly makes plans to get the band fake IDs and steals Jake's new girlfriend, Michelle, who is really an undercover cop.


When Matt goes out with Katie, he finds out that her father is a land developer and plans to tear down Sharkey's.


Sly gets Matt to let him stay over so he can put the moves on Sam while Tiffani has a secret Admirer.


Sam uses her "lucky money" to pay to fix the van, but now she can't get home for the Chinese New Year.


Sly decides to actually study for his History test, but when he aces it, his teacher thinks he cheated.


Tiffani takes Auto Shop to prove to Jake that girls can do anything guys can do, and they fall for each other in the process.


Mid-terms are causing stress for the Dreams and are taking tips from Matt to chill out, while Sam is tutoring a football player who's just pretending to like her so he get out of paying for the lesson.


Jake takes a job at "Manic Music" to buy something special for his and Tiffani's anniversary, but Tiffani thinks Jake's cheating on her.


When Tony takes a girl to a western movie, he meets her ex-boyfriend, passes out, and dreams that the gang is actually in the movie.


The gang gets an audition for Sting, but Jake and Tiffani have to get out of detention first. They try to find a way not to miss it.


Jake doesn't want to go to the prom, so he allows another guy to take Tiffani as a favor (also to get a gig on Catalina for the summer) but itbackfires when he sees them kissing.

Season 3 (17 episodes)


After Matt moves away, Sam and the band move to Lorena's. Then to replace Matt, Sly suggests his cousin Mark. The gang laugh until they
hear him play. They ask him to join but he has stage freight because Sly made fun of him when he played Carnegie Hall.


When the gang takes an aptitude test, Jake finds his career should be a florist (not a musician) and Sly copies Lorena's aptitude test tohave more in common with her and try to score a date.


Tiffani is trying out for the volleyball team. But to be the best, she has to be stronger and better at her game. She suggests to Sly that if she uses steroids, she's be stronger faster, but the gang realizes that she's addicted to them.


Tny doesn't think about the environment much, until he has a bad dream about it destroying his favorite spot, Paradise Cove. He then becomes obsessed with trying to save the Earth.


When Lorena finally finds an after-school activity that she likes, the school board decides to close the radio station down due to cutting costs, and takes Jake's advice to keep it open.


Sly is looking for a date for the Romance Dance. When he meets a girl on "Comp-U-Chat" a computer chat program, he thinks she's perfect until he finds out that she's blind.


For a class project, the gang decides to sell Sam's grandmothers cold remedy, but when they compromise the recipe to save money, Sam must decide if making money or respecting her Grandmother's honoris more important.


To prove that success will ruin the band's friendship, Jake and Lorena come up with a plan to make them think their rich and to see if their friendship will survive.


When the gang visits Lorena's father's ski lodge they find out that a Yeti is scaring away all the guests.


Mark runs into his old girlfriend, Jenny Stevens, but her plans call for her attention in skiing for the Olympics than on her and Mark getting back together.


Mark is staying at Lorena's place so he and Jake can write a song together, but a misunderstanding leads Mark to kiss Lorena and hasto find a way to tell Jake without getting killed.


Tired of being out of the limelight, Sly joins a modeling academy to get some attention, while the gang is trying to prove to him that its a con-artist's scam to make money.


Its another Battle of the Bands contest and while the gang tries to beat out Total Defiance, Lorena wants in on the action. But she hasno ear (or voice) for music.


When Tony's childhood pal Darren, comes to visit him, he tells Tony about their friend JR being in a gang. When they find out that JR'sbeen hurt, they vow to get back at the guys who did it.


When Allison gets accept to a college prep school, Sly realizes that she's leaving him and he'll be all alone. Trying not to let that happen, he tries to find someone else.


Tiffani uses Marks computer to try and find a date for her father. But it backfires when she finds out he's spending more time withher than with Tiffani.


While working on a project for school, Tony and Sly's TV show "The Goo-Ga-Moo Guys" gets picked up by a local station. As theshow becomes a hit, both of them want all the credit and puts a strainon their friendship.

Season 4 (17 episodes)


Tony tries to get a part in the TV show, "Babewatch" that's filming on the beach. While he charms the producer, the leading man is charmingSam and Tony's jealous.


When the group has to do a family tree project, Tony can only find that he comes from slaves. Ashamed, he makes up his past toimpress his friends.


When Jake's favorite uncle, Uncle Frank comes to town, he gets Jake hooked on smoking, which the group tries to get him to quit. Meanwhile,Sly and the gang found a box of money on the beach and try to decidewhat to do with it.


When a new guy, Tommy Keating, goes around bad-mouthing Jake, he challenages him to a race during Safety Week. When Jake wreckshis bike, he gets scared and Tommy strips Jake of his leather jacket.


Jake and Lorena realize that they don't have much in common anymore, and Jake also realizes that he still has feelings for Tiffani and wouldlike to start dating her again.


Valentine's Day reminds Tony that Sam will only be in the country for a few more months, so that prompts him to propose to her so that they willstay together. The band tries to talk them out of making a big mistake.


Jake's idol, Zane Walker, comes to town trying to write a new song. The Jake and the gang tries to get him to help them get discovered, but Jakegets burned when his idol steals a song from him.


Tiffani is named principal of the week, and the gang decides to have cut day from exams while she's in charge.


Jake goes on a dating game show for charity. But when he finds out he won a date, he has to find a way to keep it from Tiffani.


When Sly finds out that a girl he use to make fun of in grade school is willing to pay big money for a band, Sly pretends to like her to getthe gig.


Sly makes fun of the "Senior Surfers", a group of senior citizens who came to town. But when he has a dream that he is old, he changeshis mind about the way he he's been treating them.


The group decides to work for charity: Sam is for the blood drive, Lorena is for donating items for homeless people, Jake and Tony do"Meals On Wheels", Mark cleans up the beach and Sly and Tiffaniwork at a Teen help line, but Sly has other plans to help himselfget a date.


When Sam receives a new credit card, she goes overboard on her spending and can't pay back the money. He father threatens to sendher back home, so the group helps Sam earn the money to pay her bill.


After Sly caused Tony to hurt his shoulder, Tony has to face surgery. Afraid to go under the knife, Tony dreams that he will never make itout alive. Lorena volunteers as candy striper to get a date from acute doctor.


The gang is in court to prove that Sly is the most selfish person on the earth. They try his case by flashing back to past episodes.


To impress a guy, Lorena turns the loft into a poetry coffee house because he only likes serious girls who like poetry. When she giveshim a poem that her father wrote for her mother, she has to find away to get it back.


When Lorena's dance partner is injured, Sly steps in to take his place. Tony and Jake discuss who should be in charge of the band.

Season 5 ( 13 episodes)


When Tiffani helps Jake find a job as a mechanic, she discovers that Mel is not a guy, but a beautiful woman. She then becomes jealousand thinks Jake's cheating on her so she disguises her self as a guy to check up on him.


When the gang's been hit with an earthquake, Tony become shaken and scared. The gang tries to convince Tony that with the right preparationfor one, he'll be fine. Tony's thinking about moving to his aunt and uncleshouse where earthquakes don't exist.


Sly gets a job as a used car salesman and when Sam tries to buy her a car, he sells her a lemon. He then tries to get Sam's money backand learns a lesson.


When Jake's dad gets laid off from his job, he finds work as the school's janitor. When Sly starts to make fun of Jake, he tries to get his father'sjob back and warns Sly to back off.


To get into the Honor Society with Sam, Tony cheated on his test. The gang enters a photo contest.


Jake gets picked to do a TV show called "Reel Teens" and discuss how teenager's relate to stress, school, and life.


As Sly feels he's not important to his father, he starts gambling. When he goes so far as to loss the bands' equipment, the gang must get father and son back together.


Sam makes a video letter to her uncle back in China about how life's going in America.


The gang gets stranded in the woods on the way to their Senior Prom.


Lorena has a secret admirer who's writing her love letters. It turns out its Sly, and Jake helps him to tell her the truth. Then someone takes the credit for his work, and Sly is trying to let her know how he feels.


To impress a girl, Mark convinces Lorena to have a graduation party, including beer. Mark is too drunk to drive, and Tony and Jake try to stop him. Mark drives anyway landing the girl in the hospital and Mark in jail. Meanwhile, Jake and Tiffani have to work on a project to be able to graduate on time.


Lorena and Sly fight over who will be the Dreams' Manager.


Well, folks, here it is, the last show. :( Everyone is planning on attending college and moving on, so there would be no more band. Sam is going to Oxford in England to study physics, Mark is going to Juliard in New York for his piano playing, Tiffani is going to the University of Hawaii to studyMarine Biology and Lorena and Sly would be attending Pacific University. Jake wanted the band to stay together and hope that they will bediscovered. When a record promoter is interested in signing only Jake, he doesn't want the band to break up. Everyone else wants to move on to go to college, but the band has been Jake's dream more than anyone else. They finally realize that they all must move on and they went their seperate ways. :(



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