The BEST episodes of Saved by the Bell

Every episode of Saved by the Bell ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Saved by the Bell!

Teenager Zack Morris and five of his friends spend their days at Bayside High School in Palisades, California devising schemes to fool the gullible principal, Mr. Belding, and their nights at The Max.

Last Updated: 2/28/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
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Cream for a Day
star
8.25
85 votes

#1 - Cream for a Day

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/7/1989

The homecoming prom is coming up and Kelly is nominated to be crowned home coming queen, but she refuses to go out in public after discovering that she has a pimple. Zach and Screech accidentally create a zit removal cream only to find out that it has some very unusual side effects.

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Screech's Spaghetti Sauce
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8.14
36 votes

#2 - Screech's Spaghetti Sauce

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1992

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.

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Home for Christmas (2)
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8.03
39 votes

#3 - Home for Christmas (2)

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/14/1991

Zack learns that his new girlfriend is the homeless man's daughter. When she decides to get her dad a new coat and it turns up missing, her boss Mr. Mooney accuses her of stealing it.

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Palm Springs Weekend (1)
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8.00
39 votes

#4 - Palm Springs Weekend (1)

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/16/1991

The gang is all invited to Jessie's father's wedding. Jessie is excited about meeting her new mother, until she learns that her dad is marrying a younger woman.

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Student-Teacher Week
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7.98
43 votes

#5 - Student-Teacher Week

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1992

It's student-teacher week. Belding and Zack switch places. Kelly is Slater's teacher, but Slater thinks she's being too overboard. When she gives a test, Zack faces a hard decision: to be their friend or their leader

Writer: Tom Tenowich
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Wrestling with the Future
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7.97
34 votes

#6 - Wrestling with the Future

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/10/1992

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.

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Date Auction
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7.97
29 votes

#7 - Date Auction

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/9/1991

The school holds a dance-date auction to pay for new cheerleading uniforms, where Zach, Slater and Screech are up for auction. Jessie is appalled at the whole idea. Lisa becomes an intellectual to impress a smart boy.

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Operation Zack
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7.93
45 votes

#8 - Operation Zack

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1991

Zack sprains his knee before the big basketball game, and while in hospital learns that Lisa is a part-time candy-striper. However, he also learns that he will need surgery to repair his knee and worries that it may go wrong.

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Cut Day
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7.93
30 votes

#9 - Cut Day

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/7/1991

It's senior cut day. Zack tries his best to go through the day without being caught by Belding. Jessie and a boy protest the use of plastic cups.

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The Teacher's Strike
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7.93
28 votes

#10 - The Teacher's Strike

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/31/1992

To go on a ski trip, the gang conjures up a teacher's strike only to learn that it could affect the academic bowl.

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Palm Springs Weekend (2)
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7.92
38 votes

#11 - Palm Springs Weekend (2)

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/23/1991

Zach tries to stop Jessie from postponing her dad's wedding. Meanwhile, Slater tries to accept the fact his new girlfriend is really royalty.

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Day of Detention
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7.90
30 votes

#12 - Day of Detention

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/3/1992

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.

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My Boyfriend's Back
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7.90
39 votes

#13 - My Boyfriend's Back

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/5/1991

It's the annual ATV race. Zack and the gang are entering it. Zack feels inferior when Stacey's ex-boyfriend shows up at the beach resort.

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No Hope With Dope
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7.89
38 votes

#14 - No Hope With Dope

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/30/1991

A drug producer comes to Bayside to do an anti drug commercial and decides to use the gang. The gang feels betrayed when they learn that he also does drugs.

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Breaking Up is Hard to Undo
star
7.89
37 votes

#15 - Breaking Up is Hard to Undo

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/16/1990

First it's splitsville for Zack and Kelly when Kelly goes on a date with her ex-boyfriend. Then it happens to Jesse and Slater when Jesse wants to go to a ballet, but Slater wants to go see a football game.

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Zack's Birthday Party
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7.89
44 votes

#16 - Zack's Birthday Party

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1991

The gang takes summer jobs at a beach resort, but they have trouble dealing with their boss. Meanwhile Zack falls for the boss' daughter.

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Fatal Distraction
star
7.86
100 votes

#17 - Fatal Distraction

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/9/1989

Kelly has to choose between Zack and Slater to go to a big dance Bayside is having. Zack wants to make sure that he is Kelly's choice. In order to do that, he places a microphone in Jessie's room before her slumber party, which Kelly will be attending. Soon, Jessie discovers the microphone and Kelly comes up with a plan to play a trick on Zack, making him believe that she is a very dangerous soul.

Writer: Mark Fink
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The Glee Club
star
7.85
34 votes

#18 - The Glee Club

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 12/23/1990

The gang joins the glee club, but soon terrible things start happening. First Jesse catches Lisa's cold. Screech makes a fool of himself in front of his girlfriend's parents who forbid Screech to see her, and the glee club singing is way off-key.

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Graduation
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7.84
38 votes

#19 - Graduation

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/22/1993

It's graduation day, but Zack will not be able to join the gang when they get their diplomas. It seems that he is a credit short of graduating and the only way he can get it back is by doing the unbelievable- BALLET!

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Fake I.D.s
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7.84
37 votes

#20 - Fake I.D.s

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/19/1991

Zack falls for a college girl named Danielle when she goes to The Max to use the phone. In order to impress her, he lies about his age and makes fake I.D.'s so that that he, Slater and Screech can sneak into an over-18 nightclub. However, they get a big surprise when they see Kelly's boyfriend Jeff dancing with another girl there.

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School Song
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7.83
30 votes

#21 - School Song

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/28/1992

The school song needs changing, and the gang decide to write a new song. But Zack gets all of them to compete against one another. Then they find out what's going on and gets him back by sabotaging his likely-to-win song.

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The Senior Prom
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7.83
29 votes

#22 - The Senior Prom

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/7/1992

The Gang tries to raise enough money to hold a senior prom.

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Close Encounters Of The Nerd Kind
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7.82
40 votes

#23 - Close Encounters Of The Nerd Kind

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/23/1990

What starts out as a class film, ends up as Screech posing as an alien for a tabloid when a reporter comes to investigate. But is the reporter as real as he claims to be.

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The Aftermath
star
7.82
45 votes

#24 - The Aftermath

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1991

Zack seeks revenge after catching Jeff and Kelly so he decides to get even by making her jealous.

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The Fabulous Belding Boys
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7.82
38 votes

#25 - The Fabulous Belding Boys

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/9/1990

The gang is in trouble. If they fail a test by an obnoxious teacher, they won't be able to go on a class field trip. On the day of the test. the teacher doesn't show, so Belding's brother Rod takes over.

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