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I always found it staggering when the show premiered in 1990, they were all supposed to be my age then - 16. Even the youngest actor, Brian Austin Green, was too old (17, though he did look more like 14). He had been on “Knots Landing” as the younger child of Donna Mills. Many of them had already played teens several years earlier, like Carteris. It was ridiculous. I tried, but couldn’t get into the show when it initially ran. Didn’t relate to any of the characters. The three high school guys who looked 30 just, ugh.

Yeah, Ellen Corby was a lesbian. She married a much older guy when she was younger. Didn’t work out. Moved in with a lady and you know how that goes. I was curious to read that supposedly Will Geer saved her life when she had her debilitating stroke. He was worried when she was late to work, went by her home and found her paralyzed and got her help. She lived another two decades or so after that.

Corby reminded me slightly of my lone grandmother, similar demeanor, although you know how mine was. :-\

Carteris was playing a teenager on a soap opera (”Another World”, I believe) in her mid-20s more than 6 years before she was on 90210. A big problem with Carteris is that after maybe, what, 4-5 years on the show, she hit that proverbial wall, and went from looking like she could maybe pass for early 20s to looking like mid 40s mama. They seemed to run her off the show once she did. When she appeared near the end, she definitely looked closer to 50. Ian Ziering had a similar problem, too.

That pregnancy storyline (she was pregnant in real life at the time) probably helped do her in. I'm sure it helped point out the fact that Carteris was further removed from high school in real life than the character she was playing (she was a young college freshman during this storyline).

I always found it staggering when the show premiered in 1990, they were all supposed to be my age then - 16. Even the youngest actor, Brian Austin Green, was too old (17, though he did look more like 14). He had been on “Knots Landing” as the younger child of Donna Mills. Many of them had already played teens several years earlier, like Carteris. It was ridiculous. I tried, but couldn’t get into the show when it initially ran. Didn’t relate to any of the characters. The three high school guys who looked 30 just, ugh.

True teenagers have that fresh faced look about them that disappears as you get into young adulthood. If you look at Michael J. Fox in the first Back to the Future and then again in the sequels, even though they take place immediately following the first movie, you can tell Fox has aged a couple of years. You can also compare Matthew Broderick from Wargames (1983) to Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and you'll definitely see that the difference in age even though he's supposed to be teens in both movies.