Saved by the Bell: Season 1

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NBC | Season Premiere Date: November 30, 1988

Starring: Lark Voorhies, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani Thiessen

Summary: Saved By the Bell focused on Zack Morris and his friends: Samuel "Screech" Powers, Kelly Kapowski, Jessie Spano, A.C. Slater and Lisa Turtle. They had adventures and funny moments at Bayside High School in Palisades, California. They often tried to fool the gullible principal, Mr. Richard Belding, but also sometimes got advice from him.Saved By the Bell focused on Zack Morris and his friends: Samuel "Screech" Powers, Kelly Kapowski, Jessie Spano, A.C. Slater and Lisa Turtle. They had adventures and funny moments at Bayside High School in Palisades, California. They often tried to fool the gullible principal, Mr. Richard Belding, but also sometimes got advice from him. They regularly hung out at a burger joint called "The Max," which was owned in the first season by a magician named Max.As the years went by, they had adventures and relationships that lasted a long time. In the third season, the gang spent the summer at Malibu Sands, an exclusive beach club owned by Mr. Carosi, and his daughter Stacey Carosi, whom Zack fell in love with.The final season saw the arrival of a new cast member, Tori Scott, who took the place of Kelly and Jessie when Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Elizabeth Berkley left the show in mid-season. The show ended with the gang graduating and heading off to college in the spin-off series Saved by the Bell: the College Years. There was also another spin-off to this show called Saved by the Bell: TNC.Saved By the Bell began as a short-lived comedy/drama series named Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which focused on teacher Miss Bliss and her students at John F. Kennedy Junior High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. After the show was cancelled by the Disney Channel, NBC picked up 4 of the characters (Zack, Screech, Lisa and Mr. Belding) and turned it into a new Saturday morning series called Saved by the Bell, which became more of a comedy concentrating on the antics of the students and was re-located to Bayside High School in Pacific Palisades, California.… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E16. Save That Tiger
Air Date: December 16, 1989
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S1:E15. King of the Hill
Air Date: December 9, 1989
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S1:E14. The Zack Tapes
Air Date: December 2, 1989

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TheRealMovieGuy

Jul 31, 2011

Unbelievably Cheezy? Of course, but that just makes Saved By The Bell all the more enjoyable. It's a show for young people, so if you aren't young or were young like myself when it was on, don't watch it, you will probably hate it. For anyone alive at the time, Saved By The Bell was aUnbelievably Cheezy? Of course, but that just makes Saved By The Bell all the more enjoyable. It's a show for young people, so if you aren't young or were young like myself when it was on, don't watch it, you will probably hate it. For anyone alive at the time, Saved By The Bell was a terrific show for people our age. It presented every problem that being a teenager could honestly have (besides anything with sex, because apparently the folks at NBC don't have sex), and wrapped it up with a great dose of humour, some loveable characters and warm, feel good kind of effect. Looking back on it today, it's unbelievably dated. Not only the fashion, slang, and pop culture references, but just the overall presence is has. Is that bad? Of course not, if you're watching Saved By The Bell now you're almost certainly somehow just looking for some nostalgic memories, and Saved By The Bell sure brings them back. Some of the dated references are actually hilarious now aswell, like girls fantasizing over Michael Jackson, or two guys going to a George Michael concert together. Saved By The Bell may seem silly now, but it's gotten funnier with age and I think that helps it. It may seem more important for us now to watch all our favourite HBO dramas and highclass television, but if you want to go back to a time when life was simpler, clothes were brighter, and every guy had a crush on Kelly Kapowski, put in Saved By The Bell, it won't fail.… Expand

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ItsRaininMen

Jun 20, 2013

Saved by the Bell is, to be honest, a fairly bad show. However, it's the kind of bad you can really enjoy. The jokes are corny, the drama is over-exaggerated yet flat, and the characters are pretty annoying, but, if you've got a good sense of humor, it can be pretty easy to make it into aSaved by the Bell is, to be honest, a fairly bad show. However, it's the kind of bad you can really enjoy. The jokes are corny, the drama is over-exaggerated yet flat, and the characters are pretty annoying, but, if you've got a good sense of humor, it can be pretty easy to make it into a comedy gold festival if you start watching it expecting it to be terrible in the first place.… Expand

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drlowdon

Feb 8, 2017

Saved by the Bell has always had a cheesy kind of charm to it and as a result its gone on to become a bit of a cult favourite over the years but, once you remove the nostalgia factor, its a pretty average show in all honesty with very few jokes that are genuinely funny.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 12, 1992
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 14, 1991
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 8, 1990
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: August 20, 1989
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 30, 1988
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  S1:E16. Save That Tiger
  Air Date: December 16, 1989
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  S1:E15. King of the Hill
  Air Date: December 9, 1989
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  S1:E14. The Zack Tapes
  Air Date: December 2, 1989
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  S1:E13. The Election
  Air Date: November 18, 1989
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  S1:E12. The Mamas and the Papas
  Air Date: November 11, 1989
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  S1:E11. The Friendship Business
  Air Date: November 4, 1989
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  S1:E10. Beauty and the Screech
  Air Date: October 21, 1989
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  S1:E9. Pinned to the Mat
  Air Date: October 14, 1989
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  S1:E8. Cream for a Day
  Air Date: October 7, 1989
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  S1:E7. The Substitute
  Air Date: September 30, 1989
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  S1:E6. Aloha Slater
  Air Date: September 23, 1989
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  S1:E5. Screech's Woman
  Air Date: September 16, 1989
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  S1:E4. Fatal Distraction
  Air Date: September 9, 1989
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  S1:E3. The Gift
  Air Date: September 8, 1989
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  S1:E2. The Lisa Card
  Air Date: August 28, 1989
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  S1:E1. Dancing to the Max
  Air Date: August 20, 1989