Those fun-loving teens from Bayside High return for more adventures in the last two seasons of NBC's popular sitcom. During Season 3 and 4, Zack, Kelly, Slater, Screech, Lisa and Jessie spend the summer at Malibu Sands Beach Resort, where Zack meets and falls in love with Stacey Carosi. Season 4 sees the arrival of a new character, Tori Scott (Leanna Creel), after Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Elizabeth Berkley leave the show mid-season.
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired (U.S. dates) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | |||
| Good Morning, Miss Bliss | Pilot | July 11, 1987 | ||
| 13 | November 30, 1988 | March 18, 1989 | ||
| 1 | 16 | August 20, 1989 | December 16, 1989 | |
| 2 | 18 | September 8, 1990 | December 23, 1990 | |
| 3 | 26 | September 14, 1991 | December 21, 1991 | |
| 4 | 26 | September 21, 1992 | May 22, 1993 | |
| Hawaiian Style | 4 | November 27, 1992 | ||
| The College Years | 19 | May 22, 1993 | February 8, 1994 | |
| Wedding in Las Vegas | 4 | October 7, 1994 | ||
When Seasons 3 and 4 were released on DVD in 2004, only half of Season 4 was included - the other half was released as 'Season 5' in 2005.
Episodes
| # | Image | Title | Airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 |  |
The Fight | September 12, 1992 | |
| Zack and Slater's friendship is put to the test when they both fall for the same girl. Who'll be the one to have a date with her? Meanwhile, Lisa finds herself in an awkward situation when she finds out her date for the Senior Kick-Off party is only a freshman. | ||||
| 02 |  |
Student Teacher Week | September 12, 1992 | |
| The gang switch roles with the teachers during Student-Teacher week with Zack acting as Principal, Kelly as a history teacher and Screech and Lisa as gym teachers. However, things go wrong when Zack is caught in the middle between Kelly and Slater and must decide what the right thing to do is. | ||||
| 03 |  |
Screech's Spaghetti Sauce | September 19, 1992 | |
| After inventing a new kind of spaghetti sauce and making a T.V. advert, Screech begins to date Robin (Soleil Moon Frye), a rich and pretty girl at school. However, the gang discover that she "accidentally" stole the recipe and Screech soon realizes what Robin is really up to. | ||||
| 04 |  |
The New Girl | September 19, 1992 | |
| The new girl, Tori (Leanna Creel), is paired up with Zack for a school project. But Zack and Tori don't exactly get along. | ||||
| 05 |  |
The Bayside Triangle | September 16, 1992 | |
| Zack helps Lisa put on a fashion show for college. However, they soon start to fall for each other and Screech feels hurt when he realizes that Zack has taken the girl Screech has always loved. | ||||
| 06 |  |
Teen-Line | September 26, 1992 | |
| After participating on a teen hot-line, Zack becomes close to a disabled girl. Meanwhile, Screech has to take on a rambunctious boy. | ||||
| 07 |  |
Masquerade Ball | October 3, 1992 | |
| The masquerade ball is approaching and Zack and Slater both plan to kiss Tori, but she finds out refuses to see either one. At the ball, Zack reveals that he wanted to lose the bet because he could not bear hurting Tori. She thanks him for being honest with her, but had to teach both him and Slater a lesson. Meanwhile, Lisa has a secret admirer and believes it to be Zack, but discovers that it is Screech. | ||||
| 08 |  |
Day of Detention | October 3, 1992 | |
| In order to win a trip to Hawaii Zack needs to get out of detention, but in an attempt to get him out, everyone else ends up in detention as well. | ||||
| 09 |  |
Wrestling with the Future | October 10, 1992 | |
| A.C. and his dad argue over whether he should join a military academy or go to college. Meanwhile, Jessie fears for her college chances after becoming a cheerleader. | ||||
| 10 |  |
Drinking and Driving | October 10, 1992 | |
| After getting drunk at a party and crashing Dr. Turtle (Lisa mother)'s car on the way home, Zack and Company learn the worst thing about DUI: having to face the music from their enraged parents. | ||||
| 11 |  |
Love Machine | October 17, 1992 | |
| Slater's ex-girlfriend comes to Bayside and Screech's love machine shows that she and Slater still have feelings for each other, much to the annoyance of Jessie. | ||||
| 12 |  |
Class Rings | October 17, 1992 | |
| Zack is tricked into buying fake rings by a salesman after he is appointed to buy them for everyone in the graduating class. In the end, the salesman gets Zack and Slater the real rings after Screech confronts him. | ||||
| 13 |  |
Isn't it Romantic? | November 24, 1992 | |
| It's Valentine's Day and the gang reminisce about past romances. | ||||
| 14 |  |
The Will | November 24, 1992 | |
| A favorite student dies and leaves $10,000 in his will resulting in the guys and the girls fighting over who should get the money. | ||||
| 15 |  |
The Teacher's Strike | October 31, 1992 | |
| The gang hurt their chances of winning the academic championship after causing a teacher's strike so they can go on a trip. | ||||
| 16 |  |
Slater's Sister | October 31, 1992 | |
| Zack falls for Slater's long lost sister, but when Slater finds out he tries to break them up. | ||||
| 17 |  |
The Senior Prom | November 7, 1992 | |
| The senior prom is coming up and the gang need to raise money in order for it to go ahead. However, things go wrong when Zack finds out Kelly has a date to the prom and sabotages it. She then agrees to go with him until she finds out why her date was canceled. Meanwhile, Slater and Jessie get locked in the boiler room and miss most of the prom until Kelly and Zack rescues them. | ||||
| 18 |  |
The Video Yearbook | November 7, 1992 | |
| 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 | November 14, 1992 | |
| The gang forget Screech's birthday and try to make it up to him by throwing him a late birthday party in Belding's office. | ||||
| 20 |  |
Snow White and the Seven Dorks | November 14, 1992 | |
| 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. In the end, Jessie remains with Slater, while Zack rekindles his love for Kelly. | ||||
| 21 |  |
Earthquake! | November 21, 1992 | |
| Tori, Zack and Mrs Belding get stuck in an elevator during an earthquake. But things get worse when Mr. Belding's wife goes into labor. | ||||
| 22 |  |
Best Summer of my Life | November 21, 1992 | |
| Zack takes a day off school and reminisce about the time he and the gang spent in Malibu Sands and Palm Springs. | ||||
| 23 |  |
Slater's Friend | November 28, 1992 | |
| Screech is left to look after Slater's chameleon when he goes away, but things go awry. | ||||
| 24 |  |
School Song | November 22, 1992 | |
| The gang begins to compete against one another when Bayside holds a contest for who can write the best school song. Zack decides he wants to be remembered for something positive and so begins to sabotage everyone else so that he can win, but later regrets it. | ||||
| 25 |  |
The Time Capsule | December 5, 1992 | |
| Ten years on in 2003, the latest class find a time capsule which takes the form of a video, so Belding puts it on. They discover it is footage of the old gang and highlights the ups and downs they went through. Note: In Saved by the Bell: The New Class Mr. Belding has chosen to accept a new job in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga by the end of 1999 (episode: Mr. B Goes to College & The Bell Tolls). | ||||
| 26 |  |
Graduation | May 22, 1993 | |
| With graduation day approaching, Zack discovers he needs to gain one more credit in order to graduate. This results in Zack having to be in dance class and perform in the ballet to get that last credit. Jessie is heartbroken when Screech is named valedictorian and wants it for herself. However, she soon realizes how much valedictorian really means to Screech when Lisa wisely tells her that he put others before him. | ||||
Trivia
The following are the SAT scores for the gang:
- Zack - 1502
- Screech - 1220
- Jessie - 1205
- Tori - 1150
- Lisa - 1140
- Kelly - 1100
- Slater - 1050
The following schools are where the gang decides to go to college.
- Zack - Yale University.
- Slater - University of Iowa on a wrestling scholarship.
- Screech - University of California, Berkeley. Also accepted to Clemson, Duke, USC, Princeton, Emerson, but not to an all-women's school, his first choice.
- Jessie - Columbia University. Rejected from Harvard, Yale.
- Lisa - Fashion Institute of Technology
- Kelly - An unnamed California community college. In one promotional photograph, she is seen wearing a CSUN sweater (i.e., Cal State Northridge)
- Tori - Never specified on the show, but in the above-mentioned promotional photograph, she is seen wearing a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sweater.
- However, Zack, A.C., Screech, and Kelly end up at fictional "California University" in Saved by the Bell: The College Years. Lark Voorhies appeared once as Lisa Turtle and made one unattributed appearance on the show as an asbestos remover at the university.