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 - 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.
#2 - From Nurse to Worse
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/15/1990
Zack falls for a new student, only to discover that she's the new school nurse. Meanwhile Slater is afraid of getting his flu shots.
#3 - 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.
#4 - The Fight
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1992
Zach and Slater might turn back into rivals when they each fall for a new girl
#5 - Mystery Weekend
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 12/21/1991
The gang wins a mystery weekend at a mansion where they are all part of a murder mystery. The trouble begins when the game goes awry and Zack is left as the prime suspect
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Babysitters
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/1/1990
Kelly leaves her infant brother in care of the gang while she gets her picture taken. While they are babysitting the little tyke, Kelly injures her arm.
#13 - All in the Mall
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/9/1991
Zach finds $5000 in the mall, and plans to use the money to buy and then scalp tickets for a U2 concert.
#14 - The Wicked Stepbrother, Part II
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.
#15 - Running Zack
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/24/1990
Zack fails a test. If he does it again, he's off the track team. His teacher arranges a tutor for Zack who is a Native American. Zack soon learns about his own heritage but doesn't feel like going to the rally when tragedy strikes.
#16 - House Party
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1990
Screech's parents leave for Graceland. While they are gone the gang accidentally breaks his mother's Elvis statue. With only a little money, they decide to hold a party to get a new statue before his mother finds out.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Pinned to the Mat
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/14/1989
Slater feels inferior when he can't choose a career on career day. Zach wants to win a bet with a student at Bayside's rival school Valley, only to find out he's caught between a rock and a hard place when Slater quits wrestling.
#19 - Screech's Woman
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/1989
Zach tries desperately to find Screech a woman so that he will concentrate on their science project but keeps on failing. Zack then comes up with the brilliant idea of posing as a woman over the phone to Screech. Brilliant that is, until Screech wants to meet his mystery woman and things get a little bit out of hand.
#20 - Dancing to the Maxx
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/20/1989
A dance contest is hosted by famed Casey Kasem and held at the Max. Zack and Slater both try to obtain Kelly as a dance partner but Slater wins the honor. Zack goes with Jessie. Lisa has someone all lined up for the dance as well, but when she sprains her ankle he backs out. Screech agrees to dance with her in the contest even still. Screech and Lisa win the contest with a new dance known as the "sprain."
#21 - The Gift
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/8/1989
Screech is struck by lightning in a freak accident. As a result, Screech can see into the future. Zack and Slater begin to bet on things in the future; Zack uses Screech's ability to see into the future to give him the edge in the bets. Screech tries to predict the questions to a school test but proves unsuccessful in this endeavor.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Rent-A-Pop
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1990
The gang decides to hold a carnival to raise money for a ski trip. Zack has been failing so Belding calls a meeting for Zack and his dad. Zack hires an actor so that Belding won't be able to call on his dad again.
#24 - The Lisa Card
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/28/1989
Because of her good grades, Lisa's dad gives her a credit card; but she goes overboard and her payment is due so she must find a way to earn some money.
#25 - Love Machine
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/17/1992
Slater's ex-girlfriend comes to Bayside and Screech's love machine shows that her and Slater still have feelings for each other, much to the annoyance of Jessie.
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