Its funny the things you don't realise. I was just looking at an ad for Melrose Place on DVD. It mentioned that the series ran for 7 seasons and produced 227 episodes. That's longer than I remember the series running. Its often forgotten that the series was technically a spinoff of Beverly Hills 90210, although I suspect this was more a matter of convenience than anything else, and that the show would have appeared even without the 90210 connection.