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Saved by the Bell: The College Years

TV·1993–1994·1 season, 19 episodes·NBC·Family, Comedy·22m·6.9·Created by Sam Bobrick

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The gang from Bayside High is leaving home and heading to the campus of California University for four years of new challenges, new faces and wild, new adventures.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E01PilotS01E01 · 9.0Zach, Slater, and Screech start school at Cal U, where they find the adjustment to college life is harder than they expected.
  2. 02Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E03Zack, Lies & VideotapeS01E03 · 9.0Zack gets off on the wrong foot with his new professor of anthropology, Professor Jeremiah Lasky. Professor Lasky pegs Zack as a smart mouth immediately and turns the tables on him by selling him a copy of the midterm before Zack realizes that he is the instructor. All the girls have crushes on Professor Lasky, while Slater is trying to gain weight so that he can wrestle in a higher weight class.
  3. 03Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E04Rush WeekS01E04 · 9.0Slater is being courted by an exclusive fraternity while Leslie is being courted by a sorority. Zack really wants to get into the same fraternity as Slater, but they don't seem as interested in him. Zack manages to impress Rick the fraternity guy, but both he and Slater worry that Screech might ruin their chances in being accepted because of his goofiness.

Cast

Mark-Paul GosselaarMark-Paul GosselaarZack MorrisMario LópezMario LópezA.C. SlaterDustin DiamondDustin DiamondSamuel 'Screech' PowersAnne TremkoAnne TremkoLeslie BurkeKiersten WarrenKiersten WarrenAlex TaborBob GolicBob GolicMichael RogersTiffani-Amber ThiessenTiffani-Amber ThiessenKelly Kapowski

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode19Episodes1993–94Aired 7.7Season avg
  1. S01E01Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E01Season's bestPilotMay 22, 1993 9.0Zach, Slater, and Screech start school at Cal U, where they find the adjustment to college life is harder than they expected.
  2. S01E02Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E02Guess Who's Coming to College?September 14, 1993 8.5Zack's pursuit of his suitemate Leslie is complicated by the arrival of a new transfer student -- his old high school girlfriend, Kelly.
  3. S01E03Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E03Zack, Lies & VideotapeSeptember 14, 1993 9.0Zack gets off on the wrong foot with his new professor of anthropology, Professor Jeremiah Lasky. Professor Lasky pegs Zack as a smart mouth
  4. S01E04Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E04Rush WeekSeptember 21, 1993 9.0Slater is being courted by an exclusive fraternity while Leslie is being courted by a sorority. Zack really wants to get into the same frate
  5. S01E05Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E05Slater's WarSeptember 28, 1993 8.5Zack wants to take Leslie on a ski trip, however, she won't go alone with just Zack. Zack asks Slater to go along, but he must first find a
  6. S01E06Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E06The HomecomingOctober 5, 1993 8.0It's homecoming weekend. Leslie's parents come to visit her. She is sick of their controlling ways, so she asks Screech to be her date in or
  7. S01E07Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E07The Poker GameOctober 12, 1993 7.0Zack, Slater, and Screech make plans for a Friday night poker game. Mike nixes the idea of having the game and the guys decide to help him w
  8. S01E08Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E08Professor ZackOctober 19, 1993 7.0While the girls put together a male pinup calendar in order to buy a big screen TV, Zack poses as Lasky in order to date an admirer of the p
  9. S01E09Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E09Screech LoveOctober 26, 1993 6.0Zack gets Screech to tutor a tennis star he is dating, only to find an attraction developing between the two of them. After they two argue,
  10. S01E10Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E10Dr. KellyNovember 2, 1993 7.0While working at the Student Health Center Kelly realizes that she'd like to become a doctor, however, Zack discourages her arguing that it
  11. S01E11Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E11A Thanksgiving StoryNovember 23, 1993 8.0After car trouble intervenes with their Thanksgiving plans, the gang helps Mike, Leslie, and Screech prepare Thanksgiving dinner for a group
  12. S01E12Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E12Teacher's Pet (1)December 7, 1993 6.0While Screech hides a lab monkey destined for the zoo, Zack discovers Kelly's crush on Professor Lasky.
  13. S01E13Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E13Kelly and the Professor (2)December 14, 1993 8.0A jealous Zack strikes back at Kelly and Professor Lasky with a vengeance by spreading the word about their affair, which climaxes at a cost
  14. S01E14Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E14A Question of EthicsDecember 21, 1993 9.0After a new professor takes over their Ethics class, the gang faces a dilemma when Zack gets his hands on a copy of the midterm. Meanwhile,
  15. S01E15Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E15The RaveJanuary 4, 1994 7.0With Mike gone and in need of money for a trip to Cancun, Zack and the gang stage a rave in the dorm.
  16. S01E16Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E16Bedside MannerJanuary 11, 1994 7.0With Kelly still pining over Professor Lasky, Zack tries to find ways of getting her attention and ends up volunteering as an orderly at the
  17. S01E17Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E17Love and DeathJanuary 25, 1994 8.0The gang is shocked by the death of a popular professor. As a result, Zack adopts a new attitude towards life by seizing the day and taking
  18. S01E18Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E18Marry MeFebruary 8, 1994 8.0Just as Zack and Kelly are getting pretty close, Kelly is accepted to the Semester on the Sea program, which involves a three-month cruise.
  19. S01E19Saved by the Bell: The College Years S01E19Wedding PlansFebruary 8, 1994 7.0As Zack and Kelly make plans for their wedding, they get a surprise visit from their old friend, Lisa Turtle. However, since Alex and Lesley

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