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.

#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.

#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.

#3 - The Wicked Stepbrother (2)
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/2/1991
Eric learns that Zack and Slater paid Lisa off to go out with him in order to get him into trouble for driving Mr. Belding's car. To get back at them, Eric has the auto mechanic class take the totaled car apart. When Jessie finds out she confronts him about it, and soon gives him a black eye for calling her a "chick." To make amends, Eric puts Belding's car back together himself so Zack and Slater do not get into trouble, and apologizes.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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

#8 - 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.

#9 - Jessie's Song
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1990
Jessie is under pressure with midterms and her own singing group so she turns to caffeine pills, ignoring Slater's warning that the pills are hazardous to her health.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - Beauty and the Screech
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/21/1989
Kelly is in trouble. If she fails science she can't go to a concert. Screech agrees to tutor her and they become best friends but this doesn't impress rivals Zack and Slater.

#20 - 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!

#21 - 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.

#22 - The Substitute
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1989
Ms. Simpson injures her back. A substitute teacher comes and all the girls including Lisa, Jessie and Kelly fall for the him.

#23 - The Last Dance
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1991
Kelly gets a job working at The Max but may have to tell Zack it's over between them when she falls for her boss.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.