California Dreams Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1992 - Dec 1996

Sep 1992 - Dec 1996
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Browse episode ratings trends for California Dreams. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of California Dreams's 78 episodes.
S2 Ep18
7.8
5th Feb 1994
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.
S2 Ep13
7.8
4th Dec 1993
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.
S2 Ep4
7.7
2nd Oct 1993
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.
S5 Ep1
7.5
7th Sep 1996
Jake gets a job fixing motorcycles for an attractive female mechanic. That leaves Tiffani feeling neglected and suspicious.

S1 Ep11
7.2
21st Nov 1992
Sly shoots a video of Matt that nearly shoots down their friendship.

S1 Ep2
7.1
19th Sep 1992
A battle of bands: Dreams vs. their rivals, Bradley and the Billionaires.
S5 Ep15
7.0
14th Dec 1996
Jake scores a recording contract, but the producer doesn't want the entire band, just him.
S5 Ep14
7.0
7th Dec 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.
S5 Ep8
7.0
25th Oct 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.
S5 Ep7
7.0
19th Oct 1996
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.
S5 Ep5
7.0
5th Oct 1996
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.
S5 Ep4
7.0
28th Sep 1996
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.
S3 Ep13
7.0
10th Dec 1994
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.
S3 Ep6
7.0
15th Oct 1994
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.
S2 Ep14
7.0
25th Dec 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.
S2 Ep6
7.0
16th Oct 1993
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.

S2 Ep1
7.0
11th Sep 1993
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.

S1 Ep8
7.0
31st Oct 1992
Sly and Tony's machismo irks the gals, who decide to retaliate.

S1 Ep4
6.9
3rd Oct 1992
The Dreams book two gigs on the same night: a wedding and a luau.

S1 Ep10
6.8
14th Nov 1992
Surf's up for Sly and Tiffani, who are drawn together by an interest in the waves.
S3 Ep4
6.8
1st Oct 1994
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.
S2 Ep10
6.8
13th Nov 1993
When Jake's over-acheiving brother, Kyle, comes to town, Jake decides to run for student body president in hopes to impress him.

S1 Ep9
6.8
7th Nov 1992
Tiffani is reunited with her mother, who walked out 10 years earlier.
S2 Ep9
5.2
6th Nov 1993
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.
S2 Ep3
5.3
25th Sep 1993
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.
S4 Ep10
5.3
25th Nov 1995
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.

S1 Ep13
5.5
5th Dec 1992
Matt loses his kid brother in the excitement of preparing for a party that's floating into the Garrisons' house.
S2 Ep16
5.5
15th Jan 1994
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.
S3 Ep3
5.5
24th Sep 1994
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"".
S3 Ep8
5.5
29th Oct 1994
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.
S3 Ep11
5.5
26th Nov 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.

S3 Ep16
5.5
31st Dec 1994
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.
S4 Ep3
5.5
30th Sep 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.
S4 Ep5
5.5
14th Oct 1995
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.
S4 Ep6
5.5
21st Oct 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.
S4 Ep8
5.5
11th Nov 1995
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.
S4 Ep9
5.5
18th Nov 1995
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.
S4 Ep11
5.5
2nd Dec 1995
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.
S4 Ep12
5.5
30th Dec 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.
S4 Ep14
5.5
30th Mar 1996
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.
S5 Ep10
5.5
9th Nov 1996
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.
S3 Ep10
5.7
19th Nov 1994
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.
S4 Ep1
5.7
9th Sep 1995
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.
S4 Ep4
5.7
7th Oct 1995
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.
S4 Ep15
5.7
6th Apr 1996
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.

S1 Ep7
6.0
24th Oct 1992
Racism rears its head when the father of Tony's date tries to buy him off.

S1 Ep1
6.7
12th Sep 1992
The Dreams' first gig: a sweet-16 party.

S1 Ep2
7.1
19th Sep 1992
A battle of bands: Dreams vs. their rivals, Bradley and the Billionaires.

S1 Ep3
6.2
26th Sep 1992
Drummer Tony trades his sticks for a helmet to please his coach father. Ton

S1 Ep4
6.9
3rd Oct 1992
The Dreams book two gigs on the same night: a wedding and a luau.

S1 Ep5
6.8
10th Oct 1992
Sly learns Jenny's idea of a "dream man" by spying on her slumber party.

S1 Ep6
6.4
17th Oct 1992
Jenny and Tiffani's friendship is threatened by competition for a guy's affections.

S1 Ep7
6.0
24th Oct 1992
Racism rears its head when the father of Tony's date tries to buy him off.

S1 Ep8
7.0
31st Oct 1992
Sly and Tony's machismo irks the gals, who decide to retaliate.

S1 Ep9
6.8
7th Nov 1992
Tiffani is reunited with her mother, who walked out 10 years earlier.

S1 Ep10
6.8
14th Nov 1992
Surf's up for Sly and Tiffani, who are drawn together by an interest in the waves.

S1 Ep11
7.2
21st Nov 1992
Sly shoots a video of Matt that nearly shoots down their friendship.

S1 Ep12
6.2
28th Nov 1992
Jenny is consumed by a reignited old flame, an actor who once dumped her for a costar.

S1 Ep13
5.5
5th Dec 1992
Matt loses his kid brother in the excitement of preparing for a party that's floating into the Garrisons' house.
The first episode of California Dreams aired on September 12, 1992.
The last episode of California Dreams aired on December 14, 1996.
There are 78 episodes of California Dreams.
There are 5 seasons of California Dreams.
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California Dreams has ended.