High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Melrose Place, a primetime soap opera created by Darren Star, premiered on July 8, 1992 on Fox network in the United States and ended on May 24, 1999. The show spans seven seasons of 226 episodes, and one special aired in 1995. Each episode was approximately 45 minutes long (without commercials) though there were several double or two-part episodes that were shown as feature length 90 minute episodes.