So what went wrong? Let’s take a look at why the second generation of this TV soap failed to make a splash. For starters, precious few people who hung around the original Melrose Place apartment ...

Sambora never watched Melrose Place with her mom, but Locklear did enjoy the show herself before she joined the cast as Amanda Woodward in the second season in 1993. 20thCentFox/Everett ...

Where's Helen?' Can Heather Locklear's Amanda Woodward bring 'Melrose Place' back to pop-culture prominence?

Michael Buckner/Getty Heather Locklear ... Wagner, 64, and Locklear — who starred as Amanda — played love interests on Melrose Place, and years later found love off screen too.

Similarly, Locklear’s Amanda made her villainous debut in Episode 10, but Melrose Place’s ratings continued to fall. “This is gonna be different because it’s the original cast,” Bissett ...