Melrose Place (season 6)

The sixth season of Melrose Place, an American television series, premiered on Fox on September 8, 1997. The season six finale aired on March 30, 1998, after 27 episodes. The season was produced by Chip Hayes, supervising producer James Kahn, co-executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Charles Pratt, Jr., and executive producers Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent and Frank South.

Melrose Place
Season 6
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes27
Release
Original networkFox
Original releaseSeptember 8, 1997 (1997-09-08) –
March 30, 1998 (1998-03-30)
Season chronology

Storylines

At the beginning of the sixth season, the show's ratings steadily fell. During most of the first half of the season, Heather Locklear's pregnancy was hidden from viewers with most of Amanda's scenes showing her from the chest up or hidden by props.

The day after Sydney's death Craig blames Samantha, but he later apologizes. In the season opener, Michael recommends Matt for a job at an AIDS clinic and Matt moves to San Francisco with his niece Chelsea. Before leaving, he says that he wanted to say goodbye to everyone but "nobody's home".

Two new characters are violent, vindictive Dr. Brett "Coop" Cooper (Linden Ashby) and his seductive ex-wife, snobbish heiress Lexi Sterling (Jamie Luner). The season focuses on Kyle and Amanda's troubled relationship; Amanda returns to her nasty ways after starting her own agency, Amanda Woodward Advertising. With Jake Hanson gone after selling Shooters, Kyle (backed by Amanda) opens the Upstairs Jazz Club and the bar becomes the group's new hangout. Amanda and Kyle's ex-wife, Taylor, continue their rivalry over him.

Kyle ignores warnings from Jennifer, Michael and Taylor that Amanda is untrustworthy and incapable of love. Amanda's mentor from a New York advertising agency, Eric Baines (Jeffrey Nordling), arrives in Los Angeles for a visit and tries to seduce her. When Amanda spurns his advances, Eric purchases the building with Kyle's restaurant and the jazz club to shut them down. Amanda then agrees to Eric's proposition, keeping it a secret. When Kyle finds out, he attacks Eric and threatens to kill him; Eric then returns their property and leaves town. However, Kyle is angry with Amanda for keeping Eric's proposition a secret and agreeing to it.

Billy and Samantha become engaged, and he asks Craig to be his best man. The couple have a falling-out after Samantha's old friend, Connie (Megan Ward), arrives in town. Although they reconcile and marry, Billy soon cheats on Samantha with Jennifer. Despite the affair, Billy is committed to making his marriage work. Samantha begins an affair with Jeff Baylor (Dan Gauthier), a minor-league baseball player.

Jennifer tries to attract Craig, who is grieving for Sydney, and he agrees to a physical relationship. Craig enters a business partnership with Michael for a mechanical surgical glove, an idea Michael stole from Cooper. Michael betrays Craig, using Jennifer to break up with him so Michael could dissolve the partnership and keep all the profits.

Craig attacks Jennifer after Michael ruins him, but she is helped by Billy after Billy destroys Craig's new advertising company. Craig escapes, steals Jennifer's car and commits suicide.

Peter ends his romance with Taylor after learning that she cooperated with Michael to trick him into thinking he had epilepsy and unseat him at chief of staff at Wilshire Hospital. Taylor tries to win Kyle back, pretending to be pregnant with his baby and asking Michael to impregnate her to make her story believable. She becomes pregnant, has a change of heart and tries to attract Michael, her baby's father.

Kyle is confronted with the return of Christine, his former Gulf War partner who was reported missing in action (and presumed dead) in Iraq, and Amanda is jealous of their friendship. When Christine attempts suicide before Kyle and Amanda's wedding, he abandons Amanda to save her. It is later revealed that Christine is not actually Christine, but she is actually Tiffany Hart (Susan Walters), a woman who Nick hired to pretend to be Christine (telling Kyle she had reconstructive surgery). In the psychiatric ward of Wilshire Hospital Tiffany is manipulated by Nick (another war buddy of Kyle's) and the jealous Taylor. After "Christine" sends another suicide letter to Amanda, Amanda visits her and threatens to kill her.

Tiffany (as Christine) escapes from the hospital to find Kyle and Amanda and tell them the truth about Nick and Taylor. However, Nick runs Tiffany into Kyle's car, accidentally killing her, and he and Taylor bring her dead body to a railway line. After their wedding Kyle and Amanda receive a desperate letter from "Christine", and rush to the railway to rescue her. They are too late; she is "killed" by a train.

Amanda, guilty about Tiffany/Christine's "suicide", breaks up with Kyle. When she marries evil businessman Rory Blake (Anthony Tyler Quinn), Kyle ruins the ceremony after discovering that the woman he saw killed by a train was actually a swindler. Taylor and Nick had manipulated the fake Christine into working for them; the real Christine had been killed by a bomb in Iraq. After Rory tries to kill Amanda for her money, Kyle kills him in self-defense and they remarry.

Peter begins a romance with Cooper's ex-wife, Lexi, who asks for his help getting more alimony from her ex-husband (who had a brief affair with Kimberly Shaw when she was recovering in Ohio years earlier). Lexi is addicted to antidepressants, and Peter saves her from a lethal overdose. Her father, who disapproves of her relationship with Peter, dies of a stroke during an argument with him. Blaming Peter, Lexi breaks up with him and reconciles with Cooper (who tries to help her run her late father's business). Cooper forces Lexi to remarry him, ostensibly to protect her from prosecution for her late father's business deals but also to kill her and get her father's money.

Michael faces off with Cooper, who tried to ruin his life because of Kimberly's death. Megan divorces Michael over his manipulation in unseating Peter as the hospital's chief-of-staff and begins a relationship with Cooper. Fired from the hospital, Michael opens a clinic in a poor Los Angeles neighborhood and avenges Megan and Cooper by ruining their plans to move to Philadelphia. He reconciles with Peter after saving his life when they were fishing, regaining part of the Burns-Mancini practice and his job at Wilshire.

Michael attends his high-school reunion and reunites with Jane, his first wife, who followed him to Melrose Place. Samantha and Jeff try to break up Billy and Jennifer by sending a fake fax from Alison in Atlanta, which breaks Jennifer's heart because she thinks he still cares about her.

Samantha, Jennifer, Billy, Taylor and Coop leave by the end of the season. In the season finale, Taylor gives birth to Michael's son (Michael Junior McBride) and agrees to share motherhood with the returning Jane. She then reconsiders, returning to Boston to raise the baby alone. After Coop's attempt on Lexi's life on a fishing boat, he leaves town to take a job with a man who had tried to con Megan into sex.

Cast

Episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
1661"A Brand New Day"Frank SouthFrank SouthSeptember 8, 1997 (1997-09-08)239715810.7

Peter proposes to Taylor and intentionally leaves her at the altar as revenge for her rage epilepsy setup. Back in Los Angeles, Peter tells Michael that he will get revenge. In Cleveland, Dr. Brett Cooper vows to avenge Kimberly’s death, which he attributes to Michael. Upon joining the Wilshire Memorial staff, Coop offers to set Michael up with a hand surgeon. Sydney dies of her injuries. Billy and Sam say they love each other after Sam is released from police custody. Craig swears revenge on Billy for Sydney’s death and rejects Sam’s apology. Sam becomes convinced that her father has poisoned her with evil and paints herself in Hell. Amanda turns down a job with her mentor Eric Baines in New York to stay with Kyle and the Upstairs, while Jennifer is frustrated by Amanda’s return. Elsewhere, Jennifer comforts a grieving Craig. Matt gets a residency at an AIDS clinic in San Francisco and moves out of the complex.

First appearance of Linden Ashby as Dr. Brett Cooper. Final appearance of Doug Savant as Matt Fielding, although his off-screen death would be the plot of a Season 7 episode.
1672"The Trojan Stork"Charles CorrellCharles Pratt, Jr.September 15, 1997 (1997-09-15)239715910.3
Michael agrees to give back Peter’s job after recovery in exchange for Peter keeping Michael as a partner, as brokered by Megan. Elsewhere, Michael suggests that Coop stash his assets in the practice. Taylor tells Kyle that the baby is his, and he promises to support Taylor during her pregnancy, angering Amanda. Taylor tells Peter that her fake pregnancy is the perfect opportunity to break up Amanda and Kyle and later blackmails Michael into finding her a sperm bank to get pregnant. Billy encourages Amanda to start her own ad agency. Amanda and Kyle admit that they love each other. Jennifer and a grieving Craig sleep together after Jennifer comforts him. Later, Craig rejects another apology from Sam and attempts to run her down with his car, at which point they finally reconcile.
1683"No Time for Sperm Banks"Jefferson KibbeeCarol MendelsohnSeptember 22, 1997 (1997-09-22)239716010.2
Peter tells Billy not to share his plans regarding Amanda’s agency, but not before Billy tells Sam. When Craig finds Billy’s file on Amanda Woodward Advertising, Sam spills the beans and Craig fires Billy for lying about helping Amanda. Amanda rejects Peter’s funding offer, and Kyle is frustrated when Eric agrees to fund Amanda’s agency. Peter is angered to find Coop is a new partner in Burns/Mancini; Michael apologizes to Coop and tells him they’ll push out Peter. Megan and Michael begin couples’ therapy, where they agree to be truthful to each other for 48 hours. Michael misses a date with Megan after the sperm bank suffers a flood and Taylor insists on sleeping with Michael to get pregnant. Megan finds Coop’s medical file on Kimberly and Coop lies about his reasons for moving to Los Angeles. At Kyle’s, Coop and Peter toast to being anti-Michael.
1694"The Doctor Is In...Deep"Anson WilliamsJames KahnSeptember 29, 1997 (1997-09-29)239716110.6

Billy is angered after Sam confesses to telling Craig about Amanda’s plans. While they later reconcile, Billy rejects Sam’s marriage proposal, leading her to disappear. Eric finances Amanda’s new office and pressures Craig’s banks to pull out of Sky High. Later, Eric attends the opening of Amanda Woodward Advertising and tells Amanda he has moved to L.A. When Lexi tells Coop she’s coming to L.A. to settle their divorce, Coop asks Peter to attend a medical conference in Santa Barbara in his stead. Coop encourages Megan to visit Michael at the conference. At the conference, Peter nearly sleeps with a woman he meets at the bar and Michael divides his time between Taylor and Megan, both of whom surprised him at the conference. Back in L.A., Taylor becomes convinced she is pregnant, while Peter learns that the woman he met is Lexi and they sleep together. Elsewhere, Coop calls Mrs. Shaw to provide an update.

First appearance of Jamie Luner as Lexi Sterling.
1705"Desperately Seeking Samantha"Chip ChalmersNeil LandauOctober 20, 1997 (1997-10-20)239716210.0
Amanda Woodward Advertising opens its office. Megan returns her wedding ring after catching Michael and Taylor in bed, and Taylor warns Michael not to tell Megan the truth. Kyle demands a paternity test after Jennifer tells him about Taylor, which Michael agrees to help fake if Taylor tells Megan she drugged Michael into sex. Eric lies to Amanda that he doesn’t want a relationship and invites Megan for a drink after breaking up her fight with Michael at the Upstairs. Billy travels to Maryland to win back Sam, where Sam tells him to go back to L.A. and Mrs. Reilly threatens him with a shotgun. Mr. Andrews visits to give something to Craig but leaves when he sees Jennifer exit Craig’s bedroom. Later, Jennifer explains Craig’s grief to Mr. Andrews, who gives Craig an insurance check from Sydney’s policy. Jennifer is disappointed when Craig says he’ll use the money to become a man of leisure. Lexi tells Peter about Coop’s affair in Cleveland.
1716"The Light At the End of the Tumble"Charles CorrellCynthia J. CohenOctober 27, 1997 (1997-10-27)239716310.3
Peter learns that Coop’s affair was with Kimberly. Megan resigns from Burns/Mancini/Cooper. Coop tells Michael about his idea for a cauterizer glove, which Michael quickly patents and forms a business with Craig to manufacture (at Jennifer’s urging). Peter gives Lexi a copy of Coop’s accounting records. Jennifer comforts Kyle after he loses the lease to his Boston restaurant. Taylor falls down the stairs during a fight with Amanda and “loses” the baby. Megan and Eric enjoy their first date, and Eric notices Amanda watching from her window when he takes Megan home. Billy says goodbye to Sam, but after he leaves, Mrs. Reilly apologizes to Sam for not protecting her from Jim and trying to start over. Upon his return to Los Angeles, Billy finds Sam at the apartment. Sam later gets hired as a graphic artist at Amanda Woodward Advertising and accepts Billy’s marriage proposal.
1727"Secrets and Wives"Jefferson KibbeeAntoinette StellaNovember 3, 1997 (1997-11-03)23971649.9
Eric hires Megan as a mentee and purposely kisses her in front of Amanda, upsetting Megan. Kyle suspects Eric as the buyer after the restaurant building is sold and their lease becomes monthly. Eric tells Megan that he only wants a piece of arm candy, not a relationship. Later, Eric gives Amanda an ultimatum: her ad agency or a relationship with Kyle. Craig gives Jennifer 24 hours to convince Michael to do business his way. Jennifer flirts with a scientist and switches the labels on a working and faulty version of the glove. During a demonstration, the faulty glove electrocutes a pharmaceutical executive, pushing Michael to accept Craig’s business terms. Mrs. Shaw surprises Coop in Los Angeles and offers her assistance. A judge rules in favor of Lexi in the divorce settlement. While initially planning to return to Cleveland, Lexi first visits the complex, where Peter professes his love for her in front of Coop.
1738"A Shot in the Dark"Anson WilliamsFrank SouthNovember 10, 1997 (1997-11-10)239716510.6
Amanda tells Kyle that Eric purchased his Boston restaurant. Eric purchases the Kyle’s Restaurant and Upstairs building and gives Kyle 30 days to vacate. Amanda rejects Eric’s offer to stop his campaign against Kyle in exchange for one night of sex; Megan quits as Eric’s mentee in protest. When Megan tells Taylor about the offer, Taylor suggests to Amanda that she accept the offer or she’ll tell Kyle. Coop tells Peter that he doesn’t mind the Lexi/Peter relationship. Lexi takes tranquilizers after promising to be honest with Peter. Michael begins finding Kimberly’s belongings around the hospital and office and has Coop arrested after learning about the Kimberly/Coop affair. After getting a phone call summoning him to the beach house, a shadowy figures fires a gun at Michael. After arguing about their wedding costs, Billy relents and puts on a down payment on Sam’s wedding gown. Jennifer flirts her way into glove sales at a medical supplies convention and Craig later rewards her with a new car.
1749"Attack of the Scalpel Woman"Chip ChalmersCharles Pratt, Jr.November 17, 1997 (1997-11-17)239716610.2
Peter bails Coop out of jail, and Michael realizes he could not have been the gunman. Coop tells Megan not to be corrupted by Michael. After Megan and Michael notice a gun in Coop’s bag, they follow Coop to the airport where they confront Mrs. Shaw as she leaves for Cleveland. Coop refills Lexi’s tranquilizer prescription after she runs out of pills and experiences withdrawal symptoms. After Coop warns Michael that Mrs. Shaw did not disembark in Cleveland, Mrs. Shaw attacks Michael with a scalpel in the OR, accidentally stabbing Megan, who slips into a coma after an allergic reaction to the surgical anesthetic. Eric sets a deadline on his offer to Amanda. Taylor tells Kyle about the offer after Amanda leaves the Upstairs under false pretenses. Enraged, Kyle breaks into Eric’s hotel room, catching him in bed with Amanda, and pushes Eric off the balcony, leaving him hanging by his fingers. Jennifer and Craig join Billy and Sam on a double date. Sam’s maid of honor, Connie, arrives in LA, secretly vowing to ruin the marriage. Jennifer is upset when she notices another woman leaving Craig’s apartment on the morning after Billy’s bachelor party.
17510"My Little Coma Girl"Charles CorrellCarol MendelsohnNovember 24, 1997 (1997-11-24)239716710.7
17611"Everybody Comes to Kyle's"Jefferson KibbeeJames KahnDecember 1, 1997 (1997-12-01)23971689.8
17712"A Bump in the Night"Charles CorrellCynthia J. CohenDecember 15, 1997 (1997-12-15)23971698.8
17813"A Tree Talks in Melrose"Thomas CalabroAntoinette StellaDecember 22, 1997 (1997-12-22)23971708.3
17914"To Kill a Whirlybird"Charles CorrellFrank SouthJanuary 5, 1998 (1998-01-05)239717110.3
18015"Amanda's Back"Charles CorrellJames KahnJanuary 12, 1998 (1998-01-12)239717210.8
18116"Kyle of the Desert"Charles Pratt, Jr.Charles Pratt, Jr.January 19, 1998 (1998-01-19)239717310.4
18217"Coop de Grace"Chip HayesChip HayesJanuary 26, 1998 (1998-01-26)239717410.1
18318"Mama Mia"Thomas CalabroCarol MendelsohnFebruary 2, 1998 (1998-02-02)23971759.9
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20		"Last Train to Baghdad: Part 1 & 2"Anson WilliamsJames Kahn & Frank SouthFebruary 9, 1998 (1998-02-09)2397176A-2397176BN/A
18621"A Swing and a Mrs."Jefferson KibbeeAntoinette Stella & Cynthia J. CohenFebruary 16, 1998 (1998-02-16)23971779.8
18722"Blunt Drama"Harvey FrostCharles Pratt, Jr.February 23, 1998 (1998-02-23)239717810.2
18823"A Christine Runs Through It"Charles CorrellCarol MendelsohnMarch 2, 1998 (1998-03-02)239717910.4
18924"Too Romantic For Words"Chip ChalmersFrank SouthMarch 9, 1998 (1998-03-09)239718010.8
19025"Four Affairs and a Pregnancy"Jefferson KibbeeJames KahnMarch 16, 1998 (1998-03-16)239718110.2
19126"M.P. Confidential"Robert J. MetoyerCharles Pratt, Jr.March 30, 1998 (1998-03-30)239718211
19227"The Nasty Minded Professor"Charles CorrellChip HayesMarch 30, 1998 (1998-03-30)239718311

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