Saved by the Bell
Welcome to California's hippest high school
Lovable schemer Zack Morris leads his pals on adventures at California's Bayside High School. The friends navigate relationships, final exams, school dances, breakups and more while frequently frustrating their principal, Mr. Richard Belding, who does his best to keep them in check.
Seasons
1. Dancing to the Max
Air Date: 1989-08-20
Casey Kasem hosts a dance contest at The Max.
2. The Lisa Card
Air Date: 1989-08-28
When Lisa charges too much on her father's credit card, her friends help her cook up a scheme to sell her belongings so that she can pay back the bill.
3. The Gift
Air Date: 1989-09-08
After Screech gets struck by lightning, he gains the ability to see into the future, and Zack uses him to cheat on a mid term exam.
4. Fatal Distraction
Air Date: 1989-09-09
In an attempt to find out who Kelly wants to take to a dance, Zack and Screech bug the girls' sleepover party and the girls get revenge.
5. Screech's Woman
Air Date: 1989-09-16
In an attempt to cheer Screech up enough to complete their science project, Zack pretends to know a girl who is interested in Screech, but things soon become complicated.
6. Aloha Slater
Air Date: 1989-09-23
When his father is offered a transfer to Hawaii, Slater must decide whether to move there or stay at Bayside, and Zack takes full advantage of the situation.
7. The Substitute
Air Date: 1989-09-30
After the school's drama teacher falls ill, a handsome substitute arrives, and quickly captivates the girls, much to the chagrin of the boys.
8. Cream for a Day
Air Date: 1989-10-07
When Screech accidentally invents a seemingly miraculous zit cream, Zack sells it at school. However, it soon becomes clear that the cream has an alarming side effect.
9. Pinned to the Mat
Air Date: 1989-10-14
During Career Week at school, Slater worries that continuing to focus on wrestling will not lead to a successful job. As a result, he quits the sport, worrying Zack, who has bet on Slater winning his next match.
10. Beauty and the Screech
Air Date: 1989-10-21
Zack enlists Screech to tutor Kelly, when he finds out that she needs to pass an upcoming science test in order to go to a concert with him. When Screech and Kelly begin spending more time together than he'd expected, it makes him uncomfortable.
11. The Friendship Business
Air Date: 1989-11-04
As part of an assignment for Business class, the gang forms a friendship bracelet company, but infighting soon leads to trouble and defection.
12. The Mamas and the Papas
Air Date: 1989-11-11
As part of a class project, Zack and Kelly, Slater and Jessie, and Screech and Lisa are paired up in mock marriages.
13. The Election
Air Date: 1989-11-18
When Zack finds out that the elected student council president gets to leave school for a trip to Washington D.C., he runs against Jessie.
14. The Zack Tapes
Air Date: 1989-12-02
When Zack tries to win Kelly's heart through the use of subliminal messages, the plan ends up severely backfiring on him.
15. King of the Hill
Air Date: 1989-12-09
Zack's plans of winning over Kelly Kapowski on the first day of high school are foiled when new transfer student, A.C Slater, also competes for her.
16. Save That Tiger
Air Date: 1989-12-16
When Bayside's rival school, Valley, revives the schools' ongoing prank war, the gang tries to get even.
1. The Prom
Air Date: 1990-09-08
Zack asks Kelly to be his date for the prom and she agrees, but when her father loses his job, she decides family is more important and gives up her chance to go, but cannot bring herself to tell Zack.
2. Zack's War
Air Date: 1990-09-15
In order to avoid detention, Zack agrees to take part in a pilot program organized by the California Cadet Corps, but Army life proves to be much more difficult than he imagined.
3. Save the Max
Air Date: 1990-09-22
The gang unearths Bayside's old school radio station and begins broadcasting again, before learning that The Max is to be closed if Max does not manage to pay $10,000 in back rent.
4. Driver's Education
Air Date: 1990-09-29
After becoming jealous of Slater's success in Driver's Ed class, Zack plots to get him into trouble, but his plan soon backfires.
5. House Party
Air Date: 1990-10-06
Zack stays over at Screech's place for the weekend where the two of them along with Slater throw a party which is interrupted by the girls before breaking off a valuable item from Mrs. Powers.
6. Blind Dates
Air Date: 1990-10-13
Zack agrees to go on a date with Mr. Belding's niece Penny, but when Kelly invites him to her birthday party, he sends Screech instead.
7. Rent-a-Pop
Air Date: 1990-10-20
When Mr. Belding tells Zack that he would like to see his father to discuss his bad grades, Zack hires an actor to play his father. However, things soon become complicated.
8. Miss Bayside
Air Date: 1990-10-27
Bayside holds it's annual beauty contest. Jessie thinks it's sexist, even when Screech enters, but Belding says that it's only for girls.
9. Jessie's Song
Air Date: 1990-11-03
Jessie turns to caffeine pills to keep up with her studies and her new singing group, Hot Sundae.
10. Model Students
Air Date: 1990-11-10
After a heated debate about the school calenders, a photographer decides to use Jessie, Lisa and Kelly in a photo shoot where Kelly is chosen as the winner of a contest that'll make her famous in France.
11. 1-900-CRUSHED
Air Date: 1990-11-17
In an attempt to make money, Zack sets up a 900 number hotline, with Lisa offering advice to the students of Bayside. However, things go awry when Zack decides to keep the line running by dishing out bad advice.
12. Close Encounters Of The Nerd Kind
Air Date: 1990-11-23
After Zack breaks the school's video camera, he and the gang pretend Screech is an alien in order to win a photo competition. However, their picture soon arouses government suspicion.
13. Running Zack
Air Date: 1990-11-24
If Zack wants to run the track meet, he better prepare his ancestry report where he gets help from an Indian.
14. The Babysitters
Air Date: 1990-12-01
Following a mix up, Kelly has to bring her baby brother Billy to school, and the gang must look after him.
15. The Fabulous Belding Boys
Air Date: 1990-12-09
Mr. Belding's brother, Rod, a substitute teacher, arrives at Bayside to take the gang's History class. Rod proves instantly popular, and soon Mr. Belding is dismayed to find that the kids prefer his brother to him.
16. From Nurse to Worse
Air Date: 1990-12-15
Zack and Kelly's relationship is going from strength to strength, but is soon jeopardized when Zack falls for the new school nurse.
17. Breaking Up is Hard to Undo
Air Date: 1990-12-16
A.C. Slater and Jessie are finally a couple, but messes it up by disagreeing about how they will celebrate their coupledom, football versus ballet. Zach makes all the wrong moves by getting jealous of Kelly going out with an ex-boyfriend. After a fight breaks out at school, Mr. Belding tries to set the example of how couples should communicate, and after failing miserably, sides with the boys. Neither the guys or the girls want to be the first to apologize, but are miserable without their counterparts. Can Slater and Zach make up for their shortcomings to their girls before it's too late?
18. Glee Club
Air Date: 1990-12-23
After finding out that Bayside's glee club will travel to Hawaii if they reach the finals of a nationwide competition, Zack signs up, and convinces the rest of the gang to join him.
1. The Fight
Air Date: 1992-09-12
The gang begin their senior year, but rather than it being a positive time, things turn sour when Zack and Slater clash over the new girl at school.
2. Student-Teacher Week
Air Date: 1992-09-12
It's student-teacher week. Mr. Belding and Zack switch places. Kelly is Slater's History teacher, but Slater thinks she's being too serious about it. When she gives the class a test and everyone skips out on it, Zack faces a hard decision: to be their friend or their leader.
3. Screech's Spaghetti Sauce
Air Date: 1992-09-19
During a project for TV ads, Screech comes up with a new flavor of sauce, but the gang might go out of business when Screech becomes the target of a snobbish girl.
4. The New Girl
Air Date: 1992-09-19
Transfer student Tori is introduced in this episode, but Zack and Tori don't hit it off, and they are paired up for an ad project. Lisa alienates the Dance Committee before the Fall Ball.
5. The Bayside Triangle
Air Date: 1992-09-26
When Lisa receives word that a recruiter from FIT wants to interview her, the gang help her put on a fashion show at The Max. However, the close working conditions mean Zack and Lisa grow close, leaving Screech brokenhearted and bitter.
6. Teen Line
Air Date: 1992-09-26
Zack participates in a Bayside's teen hot-line, and becomes close to a disabled girl. Meanwhile, Screech takes on a rambunctious boy.
7. Masquerade Ball
Air Date: 1992-10-03
As the annual masquerade ball approaches, Zack and Slater make a bet about who can kiss Tori first. However, when she discovers their scheme, she decides to get revenge, while Screech's love letters to Lisa cause all manner of mix ups.
8. Day of Detention
Air Date: 1992-10-03
If Zack can just get out of detention with Mr. Belding, he can win a trip to Hawaii. Instead the whole gang ends up in detention with him, trying to get him out.
9. Wrestling With the Future
Air Date: 1992-10-10
A.C. and his father fight over where he should attend college and Zack tries to fix it. Jessie becomes a cheerleader and worries about college acceptances.
10. Drinking and Driving
Air Date: 1992-10-10
The gang learn about the dangers of drinking and driving when, after getting drunk at a party, they get into an accident in Lisa's mother's car and try to cover it up.
11. Love Machine
Air Date: 1992-10-17
Slater is horrified when his girlfriend from Germany arrives at Bayside as a new student. Zack helps hide the relationship from Jessie, but it is only a matter of time before she finds out, and Slater must figure out where his heart lies.
12. Class Rings
Air Date: 1992-10-17
Zack appears to have negotiated a great deal on class rings for the senior class, but it turns out he has been scammed. While he plots revenge, a misguided bet between Tori and Lisa leads to Screech falling for Tori.
13. Isn't it Romantic?
Air Date: 1992-10-24
On Valentine's Day, the gang reminisce and share memories of love and past romance.
14. The Will
Air Date: 1992-10-24
A member of Bayside's alumni dies, leaving $10,000 to the students. It is suggested that school sports should receive the money, but deciding which sports are most deserving leads to a battle of the sexes, and some cheating on Zack's part.
15. The Teacher's Strike
Air Date: 1992-10-31
To go on a ski trip, the gang conjures up a teacher's strike only to learn that it could affect the academic bowl.
16. Slater's Sister
Air Date: 1992-10-31
Slater is pleased when his younger sister J.B. arrives at Bayside, but his happiness is short lived, as she wants to date Zack, and Slater does not approve.
17. The Senior Prom
Air Date: 1992-11-07
As the senior prom approaches, Zack discovers he still has feelings for Kelly. However, she already has a date, and Zack resorts to skulduggery to win her hand, while romance brews elsewhere.
18. The Video Yearbook
Air Date: 1992-11-07
The gang decide to make a video version of the annual yearbook, but Zack has other ideas and decides to use it to sell a dating video made from the video clips. However, he regrets his decision after Screech mistakenly puts Kelly on the video and she starts getting calls from other guys.
19. Screech's Birthday
Air Date: 1992-11-14
When his friends forget his birthday, they try to throw him a late surprise party. Screech, upset that his friends didn't remember, takes advantage of his new hall monitor position and makes it difficult for them to plan it.
20. Snow White and the Seven Dorks
Air Date: 1992-11-14
The gang put on a rap version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". However, when Jessie and Zack find out they have to kiss in the last scene they start to doubt their friendship and question their feelings for each other, falling out with Kelly and Slater in the process.
21. Earthquake
Air Date: 1992-11-21
To avoid a Physics test, the gang throws a baby shower for Mr. Belding's wife Becky. As they are leaving the school, an earthquake strikes, trapping Zack and Tori in the elevator with Becky, who goes into labor.
22. Best Summer of My Life
Air Date: 1992-11-21
Zack, Slater, Screech and Lisa reminisce about their summer working at Malibu Sands beach club and attending Jessie's father's wedding in Palm Desert.
23. Slater's Friend
Air Date: 1992-11-28
Screech is left to look after Slater's chameleon when he goes away, but things go awry.
24. School Song
Air Date: 1992-11-28
The senior class want to leave a gift to Bayside's future students and suggest a contest to come up with a new school song. However, Zack decides to rig the competition in his favor in order to be remembered for more than just his bad behavior.
25. The Time Capsule
Air Date: 1992-12-05
In 2003, the senior class find a video time capsule buried by the gang in 1993 before graduation, and Mr. Belding, still Bayside's principal, watches it with them.
26. Graduation
Air Date: 1993-05-22
As graduation approaches, Zack learns that he is just one credit short of graduating. Desperate to get extra credit, he joins Bayside's ballet company, and when illness strikes some of the other cast members, he calls on the gang for help.
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Rating
7.8/10
Release Date
1989-08-20
Episodes
86 (4 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Peter Engel Productions
NBC Productions
NBC Studios