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SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme song: “Saved by the Bell” written by Scott Gale and sung by Tom Weir

NOTE: This series is a continuation of the series “Good Morning, Miss Bliss”

• 001. Dance to the Max – 8/20/1989
  • The kids of the Palisades, California high school Bayside High are excited that Casey Kasem (himself) is bringing his Dance Party TV show to the local Max restaurant where they all hang out. Preppie student Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and jock A.C. Slater (Mario Lopez) are competing to be dancing partners with heartthrob Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen). Although Slater demonstrates his dancing skills, Zack still challenges him to a dance-off, despite knowing full well that he can’t dance. Zack looks to fellow friend Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley), who is suffering from a confidence crisis because she is taller than all of the boys, to help teach him to dance. Meanwhile class nerd Samuel “Screech” Powers (Dustin Diamond) pursues their friend Lisa Turtle (Lark Voorhies), but she agrees to be a partner with another boy named Byron. But when Lisa sprains her ankle and Byron ditches her, Screech volunteers to be her partner. When it comes time for the dance-off, Zack declines competing for Kelly and asks Jessie to be his partner. Both couples put on a good show at the Max, but ultimately it is Lisa and Screech’s dance “The Sprain” that wins first place. Dennis Haskins is school principal Mr. Richard Belding. Ed Alonzo is Max, the magician comedian proprietor of the Max. Hamilton Camp is Mr. Margolies, the band teacher who leads the class through a rousing rendition of Bach’s Minuet in G Minor. 11/17/15

• 002. The Lisa Card – 8/28/1989
  • Lisa’s father (Henry Brown) allows Lisa to buy herself something for having a good report card and entrusts her with his credit card. She promptly spends $386, then feels guilty and fearful of her father’s reaction. Zack assists in trying to raise money to pay him back, by first selling kisses to Lisa’s cheek, then selling her clothes – while Slater keeps Mr. Belding busy by telling him he is having an identity crisis and wants to dress like a woman. Belding eventually finds out, but Zack tells him that Lisa is donating the clothes to the charity drive. Lisa resorts to taking a job at the Max, and with her friend’s help she is able to garner some decent tips. Eventually Lisa simply confesses to her father, who is so impressed by her tenacity that he tells her that the only punishment will be to keep her job and pay him back. Lisa is appreciative and even turns down the money that Zack and her friends were offering to give her. 11/17/15
• 003. The Gift – 9/8/1989
  • Zack and Slater are engaging in a series of bets and Zack loses his ham radio. While helping Zack disconnect it, Screech is struck by lightning and develops a sixth sense whereby he can see the future. Zack uses this to his advantage to win another bet with Slater to get his radio back, plus win Slater’s bomber jacket. Zack has Screech predict the questions that we will be on the upcoming history exam with fast-talking teacher “Terrible” Testaverde (John Moschitta Jr.), and uses the info to both make a bet with Slater that he will ace the test, the winner of which will be the other’s slave for the week, and get Kelly to study with him. Kelly shares this information with Lisa and Jessie, but before the test, Screech realizes that he is now seeing different questions and has lost his ability. Zack conspires to fake a call to Mr. Belding indicating that Testaverde is calling in sick, while telling Mr. Testaverde not to come to school. The plan nearly succeeds until Testaverde shows up to help with the ‘plumbing emergency’ that nearly closes the school. Zack’s F ensures that he loses the bet, while the girls are all angry that they received sub-par scores. William Joseph Barker is Edgar Poindexter the nerd. 1/3/16
• 004. Fatal Distraction – 9/9/1989
  • With the upcoming dance at the Max to be a girl’s choice dance, Zack and Slater are dying to know who Kelly will pick. Both fend off other girls’ requests until the can see if Kelly will ask them, Zack especially trying to ward off the giant wrestler Rhonda Robistelli (Kirsten Holmquist). Zack and Screech plant a bug at Jessie’s slumber party in order to eavesdrop and find who she plans to take. When the girls locate the bug, Kelly pretends to be a psychopath who admits that she physically injures any boy she likes. Slater gets in on the act by pretending that Kelly put him into a leg cast. Zack tries to avoid being alone with Kelly, but she corners him in the classroom and confronts him with a baseball bat. When he tells her that he already has a date, she reveals that it has all been a prank. Kelly ends up at the dance with Slater, while Zack is stuck being thrown around and lifted by Rhonda. 1/4/16
• 005. Screech’s Woman – 9/16/1989
  • Zack is relying on Screech to handle their school science project, but Screech is too upset to work because not only does Lisa not like him, but he isn’t having any luck with any other women either. Zack vows to find Screech a girlfriend, and after he tries to coach Screech on how to talk to women and fails to get Jessie to go out with him, Zack himself poses as an interested girl named Bambi via phone conversation with Screech. Soon Screech thinks he’s in a relationship with Bambi, and Zack eventually has to make her materialize by dressing up in girls clothes as Bambi himself. ‘Bambi’ tries to make unreasonable demands on Screech, including dumping Zack as a friend until Screech eventually has to refuse and says goodbye to Bambi. After the relationship ends, Screech gets back to work on the science project. Meanwhile Mr. Belding overhears Zack talking to Screech as Bambi while in the bathroom stall and thinks that Bambi is actually crazy about him. 3/12/16
• 006. Aloha Slater – 9/23/1989
  • Slater outdoes Zack again when he wins a large wrestling trophy that dwarfs Zack’s track ribbon. When Slater’s father Major Martin Slater (Gerald Castillo) visits Bayside, Zack has Screech hide in Belding’s filing cabinet to find out why. Screech reports that Major Slater is considering taking a job in Hawaii and transferring out of Bayside. Slater tells his father that he has made friends and wants to stay, but Zack sees the opportunity to get rid of him by telling everyone that Slater has a terminal disease and that his only hope is a doctor in Hawaii. Therefore everyone should give Slater the cold shoulder to get Slater to leave and ‘save his life.’ The plan backfires when Kelly offers to go with him to take care of him, which also alerts Slater to the lies Zack told. He retaliates by telling Zack that the only he can stay now is for Zack to speak to his father. Slater involves his father in the joke, and Major Slater pulls a grenade on Zack, causing him to flee in fear. Slater’s friends throw him an Aloha party at the Max, complete with Kelly, Jessie, Lisa, and Screech in hula skirts. When they find out that Slater isn’t really leaving, they all think both Slater and Zack are slimeballs. Mark Diamond is Mr. Bennett. 3/12/16
• 007. Substitute – 9/30/1989
  • Zack finds a new way to impress Kelly by performing Shakespeare in drama class. When the teacher Mrs. Simpson (Pamela Kosh) injures her back, the class gets a handsome substitute teacher named Tony Crane (Hank Stratton) who wins over all of the girls in class. Kelly, Jessie, and Lisa all have fantasies about marrying Tony, and begin ignoring the boys. Zack and Slater form an alliance to rid the school of Tony by hiring an actress named Vicki (Bess Meyer) to pretending to be Tony’s fiancee. Unfortunately Vicki mis-identifies Mr. Belding as Tony and plays the scene out for him. Tony gets wind of this and confronts the boys who apologize to him. He sympathizes with their situation and calls them and all the girls to the Max, where he introduces Vicki as his fiancee to the girls. The girls bid him a quick farewell, and the boys move back in on the girls, with Slater heading straight for Kelly, having called off his truce with Zack. 6/16/16
• 008. Cream for a Day – 10/7/1989
  • The homecoming game against Valley is coming up and Kelly is anxious to be the Homecoming Queen, to the point that she is beginning to annoy her friends with worrying about how she looks. Meanwhile Screech is thrilled to be getting his first zit “Murray”, and is crestfallen when it disappears so quickly. Zack helps him remember that he had applied his recent science experiment to his face, and after testing it on Charlie “Crater Face” Coburn (Scott Fults), they begin to market around school as Zit-Off, much to the chagrin of Mr. Belding. Kelly gets a small zit on her nose, and begs Zack for some of the cream. Later however Screech shows up to school with a maroon face, an after-affect of Zit-Off that lasts one day. When Zack tells Kelly, she is furious that this will spoil her chances in the Homecoming Queen competition. Zack admonishes her for worrying so much about how she looks, but gets the rest of the class to paint their faces maroon as warriors to show their team spirit. Kelly is voted Homecoming Queen and apologizes to Zack, and the warrior paint on the players helps Bayside beat Valley for the first time in 23 years. 6/16/16
• 009. Pinned to the Mat – 10/14/1989
  • Zack has bet a dirt bike that he doesn’t actually have with wrestler Marvin Nedick (Gino De Mauro) that Slater will beat him in wrestling. Meanwhile it is Career Week at school and Slater is concerned that he has no vocation outside of wrestling. When he seeks help from Mr. Belding, Slater ends up daydreaming about the future where Zack is a game show host, Kelly is a model and Zack’s wife, Lisa is a fashion designer, Jessie is a judge, Screech is a space explorer, and he is a broken down has-been wrestler. Consequently he quits wrestling to try and advance in other areas. Zack tries to scheme to get him to wrestle by posing as a guidance counselor and telling Slater’s father that he needs to get in another activity, and then talks Slater into joining cooking club under hyperactive teacher Mrs. Cummings (Bunny Summers). It backfires when Slater makes a terrific cake and becomes interested in cooking. Slater then has Screech pretend that he is going to wrestle Nedick, but Slater doesn’t bite… until Nedick is getting ready to destroy Screech. Slater steps in and quickly wins the match and the dirt bike… but Belding overhears the bet and calls it off, giving Zack detention. 9/7/16
• 010. Beauty and the Screech – 10/21/1989
  • Science teacher Dr. Mertz (Avery Schreiber) gives Kelly an F on her exam, causing her to fear that her parents won’t let her go to the George Michael concert that she won tickets to. Zack wants to go to the concert with her, so he enlists Screech to tutor for the next exam to bring her grade up. After he successfully teaches her, she starts to develop a crush on Screech, much to the bemusement of their friends. After more studying, Kelly plants a kiss on Kelly’s face, and soon the word spreads that Kelly and Screech are together, causing all of the girls to fawn all over him. Zack and Slater envision a future where they are both nerds and Screech is a James Bond-type who is dating Kelly. Mike Lavelle is the voice of Kevin the robot. 9/7/16
• 011. The Friendship Business – 11/4/1989
  • The gang’s assignment in their Economics class is to start a business, and the only idea they have is to sell Friendship Bracelets that Lisa had made in her Fashion Club. Zack daydreams about how rich he can get by thinking of ‘Robin Screech’ hosting Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless. Everyone is on board, until Zack declares him president of their company, which causes Jessie, Slater, and Kelly to break off into their own group. The new group creates a promo dance video for their product Buddy Bands, a headband similar to the bracelet. After the success of the Buddy Bands, Lisa and Screech defect to the other group, causing Zack to close down and purchase a Buddy Band…which he promptly gives to Mr. Belding. Jessie and Slater over-produce the Buddy Bands, which now everyone deems uncool and demands refunds. Max helps them all realize that their friendship is more important so they all re-group and invent ‘Love Cuffs’, which breaks them even, and they give their inventory to the Nerds-Are-Us team, who turn them into book straps. Their teacher Mr. Tuttle (Jack Angeles) gives them an A for their lesson in friendship. 11/29/16
• 012. The Mamas and the Papas – 11/11/1989
  • Mr. Belding fills in for the Home Economics teacher, and guides the kids through a pretend marriage, with Jessie and Slater, Zack and Kelly, and Screech and Lisa paired off. Jessie and Slater bicker because Jessie is big on women’s rights while Slater wants a more traditional marriage, while Zack is accommodating to Kelly’s every whim, instead opting for romance. Lisa develops an allergic reaction to being with Screech so they end up ‘divorcing’ and Belding assigns them to act as the children of the other two couples. Slater plots to get his ‘son’ Slater a date with Lisa, if Screech will work on breaking up Zack and Kelly’s marriage. It does in fact cause a rift between Zack and Kelly when Zack wants Screech their son leave them alone, and he worries that it will actually impact their future. With Belding disappointed and threatening to fail the boys, they undertake their final assignment: dinner at the Max with their mock spouses and kids. Screech appears under the dinner platter lid, and Zack is more tolerant of their ‘child’… although Kelly acknowledges alone time is important too. Slater and Jessie determine that they don’t belong together and they can’t get their marriage to work. Belding considers that they’ve learned lessons and passes them all. 11/29/16
• 013. The Election – 11/18/1989
  • Faculty Election Advisor Mr. Dewey (Patrick Thomas O’Brien) announces that Jessie is the only candidate to run for class president, but when Zack overhears Mr. Belding talking about a trip to Washington D.C. for the winner, he throws his hat into the ring as well. While Jessie runs on a platform that encourages good grades and nutrition, Zack’s is much more carefree and he produces a video to indicate this. When Slater finds out why Zack is running, he lets Belding in on it and Belding tells Zack that the trip has been cancelled. Zack remains in the election, but changes his platform so that he will lose. Somehow he managed to still edge out Jessie by one single vote. When Zack realizes how much the election meant to Jessie, he decides to resign for the sake of their life-long friendship. 3/12/17
• 014. The Zack Tapes – 12/2/1989
  • With the sweetheart dance coming up at the Max, Zack and Slater are once again competing to give Kelly the heart they wear on their neck indicating they will go as dates. Slater thinks he is a shoe-in since Mr. Belding is planning a meeting with Zack’s mother that will surely cause him to get grounded. Zack gets an idea from Miss Wentworth’s (Carol Lawrence) class on subliminal advertising, and plants messages into Belding’s Beach Boys tape. It works like a charm and Belding now believes that Zack is the son he never hard. Then he further gets the idea to plant messages in various pretty girls tapes’ which will promote some of the nerds like Edgar, Wendell, and the short chubby Alan Fairbanks (Dion Zamora), who scores a date with the voluptuous Buffy (Aimee Brooks). This leads to Screech giving Lisa a tape, and Zack giving one to Kelly, who immediately dumps Slater and pledges herself to Zack. Kelly starts to become suspicious when Jessie also starts to fall for Zack, and soon they realize they’ve been brainwashed. To get revenge on Zack, Belding plays the song on the intercom and soon every girl in school – plus Belding and Slater – all fall for Zack. Eventually they admit that Belding has not played the tampered-with tape, and they had all just been getting revenge on him.
• 015. King of the Hill – 12/9/1989
  • Recalling the first day of the school when Zack first met Slater, Zack arrives at school hellbent on finally getting his chance to date Kelly. Right away he tries to get the locker next to her, but he is stymied by a new student named Slater, who also ruins his chance to sit next to Kelly in Mr. Dewey’s class. When Slater also interrupts his flirting with Kelly at the Max, Zack schemes to have get Kelly get detention for being late to class while saving Screech for choking on a bone. Then he tries to get detention from the senile Mrs. Simpson, who keeps missing the point, but finally delivers him one when he accidentally drops a book. Slater also gets himself a detention, but the joke is on both of them when Kelly gets out of the punishment when Mr. Belding finds out that Kelly had saved Screech’s life. Zack and Slater are at each throats, but when Slater confesses that his father’s position in the Army requires he moves schools a lot, Zack offers to form an alliance so they can rule the school together… only to be turned down and vow to fight another day. NOTE: This was actually the pilot to the series, post Good Morning Miss Bliss, explained by Zack to be a flashback. 9/1/17
• 016. Save That Tiger – 12/16/1989
  • A rivalry of pranks has existed at Bayside with Valley High ever since Belding and Valley’s principal Elliot “Stinky” Stingwell (Ronnie Schell) were students. However after some minor pranks surrounding the annual cheerleading competition, both principals decide to call off the pranks. Zack and his friends steal the Valley mascot bulldog anyway, and the Valley cousins Stan (Mark Clayman) and Dan Clegg (C.W. Hemingway) retaliate by stealing the Bayside mascot Screech in a tiger suit. Meanwhile the cheerleaders are short a cheerleader and Jessie agrees to fill in if she can modify their cheers, and she comes up with one that relies on Screech in his tiger outfit. On orders from the principals, all parties return the mascots, but Valley actually returns Dan Clegg in Screech’s outfit, who plans to ruin the Bayside cheer. Zack and the gang fill the tiger outfit with ants, which leads to a stellar performance by the itchy tiger and a Bayside victory. 3/12/17

SEASON 2

• 017. The Prom – 9/8/1990
  • With the prom coming up, both Zack and Slater demand that Kelly choose which the one she wants to take her. After having a dream in which Screech hosts an investigative show in the guise of Geraldo Rivera, and that she chooses to go with Slater, and then overhearing Zack just say that he wants to her be happy, she wakes up the next morning and ultimately chooses to with Zack. Meanwhile the combative Slater and Jessie find that they dance well together and agree to go to the dance with each other. Screech pursues Lisa, and she agrees to let him take her to the movies to see how a date would go. Unfortunately she talks so much during the movie that Screech dumps her. Kelly’s father Frank (John Mansfield) informs Kelly that he lost his job in the defense industry, so she returns the money he had given her to buy a prom dress, and regretfully has to tell Zack she can longer go. Zack is angry at first, then finds out from Slater the real reason, so he arranges to take her on a picnic outside the prom dance, and they share a kiss. Slater and Jessie are a hit on the dance floor. Dion Zamora is the chubby Alan Fairbanks. 4/3/18
• 018. Zack’s War – 9/15/1990
  • Lieutenant Chet Adams (Cylk Cozart) comes to Bayside to recruit students for the California Cadet Corp, and Zack facing nearly a year of detention for being a smart alec during his presentation, agrees to join the corp and act as recruiter to get out of his punishment. Meanwhile Screech pursues a girl named Molly, but is constantly stymied by her bully boyfriend Butch (Dylan Tucker). Zack is able to convince his friends, along with Alan, Butch, and a nerdy girl named Louise (Lara Lyon) to join as well, then finally recruits Screech, telling him that it will impress Molly. Once the Corp sessions begin, the all find that Lt. Adams isn’t as friendly as he appeared, and when Zack is forced to do 100 push-ups, he threatens to quit. Adams tells him that if he can lead a team to victory in an athletic competition, he will let him resign, and offers to let him pick the teams. Naturally Zack picks the most athletic team and leaves Slater, the other team leader, with the weakest of the Corp. Adams then switches the team so that Zack has the rejects. Frustrated by their lack of coordination, Zack quits altogether, but when Screech tells Zack that he no longer looks up to him for being a quitter, Zack reconsiders, begs their forgiveness and re-joins the team. The competition is dead even and when the rope breaks during the final tug-of-war competition, Screech faces off against Butch in a Super Obstacle Course. With Zack’s encouragement, Screech is the victor, and wins Molly’s affection. Zack, with a new respect for the Corp, decides not to quit after all. 4/4/18
• 019. Save the Max – 9/22/1990
  • Zack and Screech discover that Bayside used to operate student radio station KKTY out of the school and the equipment still exists. By appealing to Mr. Belding’s nostalgia for when he used to be a DJ for the station, Zack and friends are able to convince him to allow them to start it back up again. Each of the friends gets their own segment, but all of them feel that Slater is terrible delivering sports news. No one wants to tell him, but when he gets a horrible newspaper review, he gets upset that he didn’t hear it from his friends, and quits the station. Meanwhile the Max, which is funded by the Bayside school board, is about to go under unless it can pay $10,000 in back mortgage. Again by appealing to Belding’s rebel hippy days, they convince him to allow them to host an all-night telethon on KKTY at the Max. They have a strong start reaching over $8000 but then the pledges peter out as it approaches night time. Everyone at he Max falls asleep, but when Slater comes with his pledge, he is able to revive everyone and convince callers to donate enough to get them over their goal. 12/1/18
• 020. Driver’s Education – 9/29/1990
  • Zack gives Kelly a friendship ring, hoping it will come closer to sealing their status as a couple. He becomes worried though when he realizes that Slater buys a car that the group helps fix up, and that he will turn 16 first and be able to drive Kelly around. Hoping to get Slater kicked out of driving school, Zack confides in the instructor Mr. Tuttle that Slater thinks he would make a better teacher than Tuttle. This nearly works, but when Slater impresses Tuttle by maneuvering a golf cart through some cones in the class, Slater again becomes the teacher’s pet. Zack then plots to have Mr. Belding catch Slater driving the car through the halls of the school, and sets it up so that Belding will discover him after Zack brings the car out of the class. Things go awry when Kelly jumps in the car as well and hits her head when Slater has an accident. They all escape without Belding discovering who was driving the car, but Belding threatens to shut down the class if the guilty party doesn’t come forward. Screech gives it away that Zack was behind the setup, so Kelly teaches him a lesson by pretending she has amnesia and acts as if she is repulsed by the notion of being Zack’s girlfriend, even returning his ring to him. Zack feels guilty and confesses his crime to Belding, and although Belding kicks him out of the class, Kelly is proud that Zack did the right thing and asks for the ring back. 12/1/18
• 021. House Party – 10/6/1990
  • Screech’s mother (Ruth Buzzi) and father head off to Graceland and leave Screech and Zack to house sit for four days, but leaves explicit rules that they aren’t to have any parties. Screech has a crush on the nerdy Violet Bickerstaff (Tori Spelling), and when she wakes up with her cruel nerdy boyfriend Maxwell Nardstrom (Jeff Asch), she and the girls all decide to crash the all-male sleepover at Screech’s house.  While there Violet accidentally breaks Screech’s mother’s Elvis statue. Screech has nightmares that it kills his mother and she and Elvis – played by Mr. Belding – visit him. Zack challenges Maxwell to a game of poker in order to raise the money to buy a replacement statue. However Maxwell ends up winning all of Zack’s money and Screech’s mother’s dog Hound Dog.  Maxwell offers to give the dog back if Zack and Slater can get him a date with Jessie. Zack also has the idea to raise the money by having a house party at Screech’s house. When Maxwell demands a goodnight kiss from Jessie, Zack substitutes Hound Dog, then Screech throws him out of the house when he insults Violet, who them becomes his girl. Screech’s parents come home early, but Zack passes the party off as an anniversary party. Slater is able to take the money and purchase the replacement Elvis before Screech’s mother ever knows it was gone. 10/3/19
• 022. Blind Dates – 10/13/1990
  • Zack is gloating because he has a date with Kelly for her birthday party, while Mr. Belding is looking for a date for his niece Penny (Jodi Peterson). Everyone is afraid she will look like Belding, so everyone except Screech runs when Belding mentions it. When Zack gets his tenth detention slip for passing notes in Mr. Hudson’s (I.M. Hobson) class, it will mean suspension… unless Zack agrees to go out with Penny. It becomes an even bigger disaster when Kelly moves her party to Friday, the same night he’s supposed to take Penny out. Meanwhile Jessie agrees to a blind date named Brett (Timothy Williams), who seems ideal until he stands up and she sees how short he is. Zack schemes to substitute Screech on his date with Penny. Slater finds out about Zack’s ruse and talks Screech into bringing Penny to the party. Kelly and Lisa convince Jessie that she’s being cruel by worrying about Brett’s height, so she agrees to go with him… yet she refuses to dance with him. Lisa gets her out onto the dance floor, and she apologizes to Brett. Screech shows up dressed as Zack to the party, and Slater sends Penny to introduce herself to Kelly as ‘Zack’s’ date. Zack has a hard time explaining it to Kelly, but after a moment of being angry she realizes that Zack went to a lot of trouble to make her happy. 10/3/19
• 023. Rent-a-Pop – 10/20/1990
  • The Bayside kids are getting ready for the class ski trip, but most of them don’t have enough money to pay for it. Zack comes up with the idea to host a ski carnival at the school and Mr. Belding gives them permission to move forward. He also tells Zack that his grades are failing and demands to see his father Derek (John Sanderford) to discuss it, or otherwise he will not be permitted to go on the trip. Zack feels out his father, and although he seems preoccupied with taking business calls on his cell phone, he makes it pretty clear that if Zack’s theoretical ‘friend’ was failing school, he wouldn’t let him go on the ski trip and rather would ground him for life, causing Zack to imagine what it would be like to get a visit from his friends after being grounded for 75 years. Zack gets a new waiter at the Max named James (Mark Blankfield), a struggling actor, to pose as his father for Mr. Belding. He oversells his strictness, and causes Belding to ease up on Zack and promote him attending the ski trip. He also calls and leaves him a message to see if they can meet about the possibility of him chaperoning the ski trip. Zack then has James pose as Mr. Belding when his father comes in to see him. They nearly get caught when Mr. Belding gets suspicious of Screech telling him that the Chess Club has food poisoning, but Zack manages to shuffle his father out in time for James to pose as Mr. Morris again. It all comes to a head though when the real Derek Morris gets into a spat with with the real Mr. Belding at the dunking booth. Mr. Morris makes it clear to Zack that he can’t go on the ski trip, and asks him why he didn’t just come to him with the fact that he was failing school. Zack points out that he is never off his cell phone long enough to chad with him. Derek proves that Zack is more important by declining a major weekend meeting in order to take Zack fishing. 3/24/20
• 024. Miss Bayside – 10/27/1990
  • Mr. Belding announce the upcoming Miss Bayside beauty pageant, the winner of which will advance to the Miss High School California pageant. Jessie is furious at the notion and gets Kelly to boycott it with her, while Lisa joins the competition. Zack offers to help Lisa but she shuns him, and an insult from Slater leads to a $50 bet that Zack can lead anyone to victor in the competition. Slater is allowed to pick the contestant, and he picks Screech. With a man now in the contest, Slater talks Jessie into re-joining the competition followed by Slater, which evolves into a three-way argument between Jessie, Kelly, and Lisa. In the talent competition Screech does a great magic show with his robot Kevin, while all of the girls’ routines are mediocre at best. This prompts Slater to join the contest as well and play the drums in the competition. Later that night Screech is accidentally given a black eye by Kevin the robot. Zack then starts a rumor that Slater gave him the injury, which like a game of Telephone, becomes worse and worse. During the bathing suit competition the next day, Slater doesn’t get a single bit of applause when he come out in his. When the question and answer competition rolls around, Screech gets the lion’s share of applause, but pleads with the audience not to vote for him as it would eliminate Bayside from the state pageant. Nevertheless, Screech is voted in as the winner. Slater is ready to pay off the bet to Zack, but Zack declines to take it, considering he cheated by spreading the rumor about Slater. 3/24/20
• 025. Jessie’s Song – 11/3/1990
  • Jessie is knocking herself out studying for her Geometry test, while panicked that if she doesn’t keep her grades up, she won’t get into Stanford. Lisa and Kelly prompt her to sing I’m So Excited together at the Max, and when Zack hears this, he thinks they could pitch their sound to a record producer. He has Screech dress up as a cleaning lady named Sinead O’Connor and record them singing in the locker room and pitches the demo tape to record producers. He manages their act which they call Hot Sundae and helps them produce a video for their song Go for It! Jessie is disappointed to get a C on her Geometry exam and also finds that coffee isn’t enough to keep her going and awake to study, so she starts taking Stay Alert caffeine pills. When Slater finds this out, he warns her to stop and she says she will, but he later finds more pills in her book bag. This time when he confronts her, she gets angry at his interference. Slater tries to involve Zack, but he refuses to believe him. On the night that Hot Sundae are going to be auditioning at the Max in front of the producers, Zack goes to pick her up and finds her asleep and disoriented. When he sees her go for the pills, suddenly he realizes she is addicted, and she breaks down in his arms. Screech substitutes for her at the audition, and Slater tells them that they might need to re-schedule since one of the girls is ill. Everyone goes to visit Jessie who apologizes for getting out of control, especially with Slater, and says that her parents are taking her to get counseling so she doesn’t feel like she needs to be the best at everything. Zack says he became aware of this every time his report card arrives. 7/5/20
• 026. Model Students – 11/10/1990
  • Kelly has been working in the student store, but since it is being managed by geeks Norman Hattenbak (David Marcus), Ronald Geekman (Richard Israel), and Herbert, and the only sell geeky things, the place is about ready to go out of business. Zack has ideas to get them back on their feet so Belding agrees to give him one week to turn it around. He send Screech in to take photos of the eleven girls on the school swim team without their knowledge and then designs a Girls of Bayside calendar. The plan works like a charm and the store does more business than ever, but provokes the wrath of the girls. However when they are visited by photographer Adam Trask (Greg Kean) who wants to shoot the three girls for Teen Fashion magazine, they have a change of heart about the calendar. The magazine is a big success, and Adam has chosen Kelly to be the next cover model, which includes a month-long trip to Paris. Zack then realizes that Kelly might forget about him, so he starts mentioning how Kelly will miss the swim meet, Screech’s birthday, and the Science lab test with her partner Slater. He also tells everyone that she says it will be unprofessional to show up at her promo photo shoot, and then tells Kelly that they’re all mad at her, causing her to back out of the going to Paris. Adam recognizes what Zack is doing, and cautions him that if he really cared for her, he’d let her chart her own course. He realizes this is true, so he encourages Kelly to go to Paris… and brings everyone over for a going-away party. 2/9/21
• 027. 1-900-CRUSHED – 11/17/1990
  • Zack gets the idea to start a 1-900 hotline where he can earn $2 per call. When he realize that Lisa’s advice always corresponds with that of a magazine advice columnist, he hires her to assist with dispensing advice. Zack also faces an issue when Kelly’s 13-year old sister Nicki (Laura Mooney) decides she is in love with him and daydreams about being rescued by Prince Zack the rapper when she fits the ‘golden sneaker’. During their first day of dispensing advice, Zack tells Nicki to go after the boy she loves, not knowing that it is him. He tires to let her down easy, but can’t do it before being spotted by Jessie who sees them hugging. When she tells Kelly, it arouses suspicion from her. Zack thinks that Lisa has given too good advice since no more calls are coming in, so he fires her, and he and Screech spend the day intentionally giving out bad advice so that the kids will keep coming back for more. He ends up breaking up Moose (Mark Clayman) and Louise, as well as deepening a rift between Slater and Jessie, who is upset that Slater hasn’t asked her out again since the prom. Eventually this all culminates in the class getting into a Silly String fight in Mr. Manfredi’s (Michael McManus) art class. Mr. Belding figures out that Zack and Screech are behind the Teen Line and orders them to restore order and make all of the students happy again. Zack begs Lisa to help and has to promise her all of the profits from the teen line. She handles most of the student herself in person at the school, restoring all of the relationships including Slater and Jessie. She assists Zack with Kelly and Nicki, but Zack mixes the phone lines up and nearly breaks it off with Kelly, while telling Nicki that she is the only Kapowski for him. Lisa gets Kelly to come to the Max in disguise and listen in as Zack tries to get rid of Nicki by acting like a nerd to turn her off. When that doesn’t work, he tells her the truth, and she storms out. Kelly however makes a play at him in disguise, and Zack, knowing full well it is Kelly, tells her that he already has a girlfriend he loves. 7/5/20
• 028. Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind – 11/23/1990
  • Zack is directing a student film called Alien Invasion of Bayside using the school’s expensive new video camera. Screech is playing the alien and when he gets his tooth chipped during the production, Zack calls to cut and accidentally knocks the camera out of Slater’s hands and breaks it. Trying to figure out who to pay for a new camera, they enter a contest in the tabloid The National Babbler to take a picture of an alien, and use Screech in his costume. Jessie, who borrowed the camera tries to elude Mr. Belding by posing as foreign exchange student Maria Tortilla. They are able to buy a new camera with the winnings. A clumsy reporter named Thompson (Sean Masterson) from the tabloid comes to see them and offers $10,000 if he can meet the alien. Zack and Slater decide to go for it and dress Screech up as an alien. Thompson meets the actual Screech before they get the chance and hear that the fillings in his mouth are picking up radio stations. Then when he meets the ‘alien’, he recognizes Screech from his radio sounds. However the kids have doubly fooled him, because after Screech is unmasked, he unmasks himself again and claims to be an actual alien… and looks the part. Thompson reveals himself to be an Air Force Lieutenant from the U.F.O. division and demands that Mr. Belding present Screech to him so that they can take him for observation. When Screech shows up, he comes with dozens of other kids all wearing Screech masks. Screech then shows Thompson the actual mask he used to trick him. Belding suggests that he and Zack team up more often… but then they both quickly nix the idea. 2/9/21
• 029. Running Zack – 11/24/1990
  • The class is assigned a report on their ancestors by Mrs. Wentworth (Carol Lawrence). Lisa learns that her ancestors were slaves and then worked on the Underground Railroad. Slater learns he comes from a line of bullfighters, and Jessie is aghast to find out that her ancestors were slave traders. She feels so guilty that she keeps offering to do things for Lisa to make it up to her. Lisa keeps refusing, and finally she gets so sick of being asked, that she tells Jessie to buy her a car. The suggestion makes her see how ridiculous it is, so they hug it out and forget it. Screech does a report on his Italian heritage, and then assists Zack, who has found a picture of his Indian grandfather, but makes a mockery of the report by dressing Screech in makeup. Mrs. Wentworth says she will fail him if he doesn’t come up with something better by the end of the week. Zack says his track team is counting on him and he needs to practice. Even Mr. Belding is unable to convince the teacher to give him an extension. Mrs. Wentworth gives Zack an Indian friend’s contact info, so Zack goes to see Chief Henry (Dehl Berti), who gives him a stack of books to read. Zack discovers that his great great great great grandfather was a very famous Chief named Whispering Wind among the Prince Nez tribe. Zack gives a serious and reverent report dressed in Indian headgear and receives an A. He is ready to participate in the pep rally, but then he gets word that Chief Henry has passed away. Zack considers skipping the rally, but the Chief comes to him in a dream and convinces him to enter the race. Zack surprises everyone at school and arrives ready to participate… running in the Chief’s honor. 10/21/20
• 030. The Babysitters – 12/1/1990
  • Kelly calls her friends together because she has been put in charge of her baby brother Billy while her parents are snowed in on a ski trip. Since the school is having their yearbook pictures taken by Max, she has to get her picture with her cheerleading squad. Everyone agrees to watch the baby, but Zack winds up with Billy first, and has to hide him in his bag during French class. He is able to fool his teacher Madame Oeuf (Mary Pat Gleason) into thinking the baby cooing is Zack speaking French. Zack and Slater also struggle with changing Billy’s diaper, and he ends up wearing one of Slater’s shirts when they rip his last diaper. Zack imagines his life raising his son at three different ages… the last one even older than he is. The kids then finds out that Kelly has broken her arm on the cheerleading pyramid, so they will have to watch Billy all afternoon. Jessie and Lisa take him to their Home Ec class, where he is easily hidden amongst the fake babies. When Screech comes to take Billy, he accidentally takes a doll, so the real baby is temporarily lost. When Kelly finally comes back, no one can find Billy… until they hear Mr. Belding cooing on the intercom. They visit the office where he is watching Billy, and kids give him unanimous credit for helping watch the baby during the photos. He doesn’t understand why Billy is at Bayside in the first place, until they convince him he has memory loss, so he suddenly claims he remembers. Patrika Darbo is Home Ec teacher Mrs. Hatcher. Tom Williams provides the baby voices. NOTE: This episode was filmed during the first season, but did not air until the second season. 6/6/21
• 031. The Fabulous Belding Boys – 12/9/1990
  • Mid-terms are coming up, and in order to participate in the class trip, the kids have to pass. Unfortunately, their History teacher Mr. Dickerson (Raf Mauro) is hellbent on failing everyone. Eventually Mr. Belding sees that Dickerson has gone crazy when he threatens to fail everyone in the teacher’s lounge, so he brings in his brother Rod (Edward Blatchford) to take over for Dickerson. Rod is the complete opposite of Mr. Belding, free-spirited with long flowing hair, and the willingness to just give everyone in the class the grade they feel they deserve. Meanwhile, Mr. Belding comes up with an idea for the class trip: to go camping under the stars in Yosemite National Park. While Rod allows the kids to watch the Dodgers game in his brother’s office while Mr. Belding is at a teacher’s conference, he also talks them into asking to go on a whitewater rafting trip instead of Yosemite, and offers to lead the expedition. The kids try and gently break it to Mr. Belding, and he agrees since it is what they all want. However when he finds them practicing on a raft in the gym, and also practicing giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the girls, he blows his top and sends Rod and the kids back to their history class. On the morning of the class trip. Zack overhears Rod telling his brother that he’s going to cancel out on the kids because he has the opportunity to spend the weekend with a hot stewardess he met, causing Mr. Belding to throw Rod out of his school. Mr. Belding has to deliver the bad news, but tells the kids that his brother has the flu, and then offers to take them on the rafting trip himself. Zack tells Mr. Belding that Rod be more exciting, but they got the better Belding. 6/6/21
• 032. From Nurse to Worse – 12/15/1990
  • After a date with Kelly, Zack finally asks Kelly to go steady with him. She tells him that she’ll think about it and give him an answer. The next day at school, Zack meets a new girl Jennifer (Nancy Valen) who is a nurse who has come to the school to help perform check-ups and distribute flu shots, and he falls head over heels for her. By the time Kelly tells him that she accepts his offer to go steady, Zack is already in love with Jennifer. Meanwhile Jessie gets the horrible news that she needs glasses, while Slater is scared to death to get the shot. Zack confesses to Jessie that he is in love with Jennifer, and she promises to keep it a secret. The next day, Zack feigns illness to go see her, but Slater sneaks in behind the curtain and pretends to be Jennifer. When Zack confesses his love to ‘her’, Slater blackmails to take his flu shot when Nurse Butcher (Justine Lenore) comes in. Zack turns to Screech to help find Kelly a date to keep her busy while they see other people, so he sets her up with his chess friend Melvin Nerdley. When Zack tells Kelly the news, she is furious, but Zack promises that he is not interested in any other students. Lisa talks Jessie and Slater to tell their secret to Jennifer, and when she learns how shabby Zack has treated Kelly, she goes into overdrive with Zack hitting on him, and then tells Zack that she is dating a huge wrestler… which quickly drives him back to Kelly. Jessie also learns from Jennifer that her eyesight is fine and it is Nurse Butcher is blind as a bat. Zack goes to Kelly’s house to ask her to come back to him, and finds Melvin Nerdley there, and he is a stud, who not only plays chess but other sports. Kelly turns down Zack and says they can’t go steady as long as they both are dating other people. To add insult to injury, Kelly’s brother Kyle (voice of Mark Neal) drops a bucket of water on him. Miss Simpson experiments with a new hearing aid. 10/21/20
• 033. Breaking Up Is Hard to Undo – 12/16/1990
  • Zack and Kelly and still going strong as a couple, and Slater and Jessie finally decide to make their relationship official. They decide to go out on perfect date to celebrate, so they each mull over where they want to go. Slater comes back with Raiders football tickets, and Jessie buys tickets to the ballet. Meanwhile Zack wants to take out Kelly to celebrate their 10-year anniversary, but Kelly is busy because her ex-boyfriend Todd Winfield is coming into town and she promised to have dinner with him. This leads to major fights with both couples. Zack makes a demand that she either cancel the date, or they break it off. The kids start bickering in student council, so Mr. Belding gets involved and tries to coach them in relationships, but he winds up getting into his own domestic dispute with his wife when she tries to bring her mother to stay with them instead of a motel. Belding then bonds with the boys, since they’re all single now. The girls think about caving in because they miss the boys so much. Lisa acts as the interlocuter and tells the boys that the girls will make up, but Belding advises the boys to turn them down so that the girls won’t think they can rule them. Zack starts seeing Kelly everywhere, and Slater thinks everyone is Jessie. Belding has moved into a new bachelor pad: the school. In order to get Belding out of their hair, Zack sends the Beldings flowers so they think they’ve been sent by each other. Zack and Slater send Kelly and Jessie notes to meet them at the Max, to the “What I Should Have Said” Theater. They put on an act with Lisa playing Jessie, and Screech playing Kelly, and they recreate their fights, with the guys each giving in to the girls. Slater even does a ballet dance for Jessie. Zack supports Kelly’s decision to go to dinner with Todd. They all kiss and makeup… except for Screech, who has no idea which bathroom he should use since he’s dressed in a cheerleader outfit. 10/4/21
• 034. The Glee Club – 12/23/1990
  • Screech is seeing Violet Bickerstaff again, and she has talked Screech and his friends to join the Glee Club. Screech jumps at the chance to be with Violet, but the others only take an interest when they find out that the finals are going to be held in Hawaii. When Mr. Belding stops in and checks on the progress of the music teacher Mr. Tuttle has been making with the group. When the boys and girls aren’t even singing the same song, Belding threatens to pull the plug on their next performance. Violet gets tickets to a concert performance at Cal State, and Zack jumps at the chance to go… so he can record their Glee Club and the play it and lip synch to the music, fooling Mr. Belding into believing that they’ve improved dramatically. They realize that this won’t work at the competition, so they look to find their best soloist and then use them to cover up the shortcomings of the others in the group. Not many can sing, but Jessie is one of the best. However it turns out that Violet is quite good, so they talk into her being the soloist. However when Violet invites Screech over for dinner at her house, he makes a mess of the dinner, causing Violet’s parents to tell her that she can’t see Screech any more. As a result, she quits the Glee Club because it would be too difficult to be around him. Jessie can’t stand in for her because she has caught Lisa’s cold. When Screech finds out that she still likes him, he offers to quit the club so she can lead the group. Violet’s parents show up at the concert and see that Screech is there to support her. After they yell at her, she hides in the bathroom, so Zack has Screech put in a tape of When the Saints Go Marching In. He plays it too fast, and then too slow, so the kids have to lip synch to the distorted song. Zack saves the day by say it was their impression of a glee club warming up. Kelly gets Violet from the restroom, and brings her onstage, but she is too scared to sing… until Screech joins her onstage and they duet Beautiful Dreamer. Having saved her from embarrassment, Screech is now granted permission to see Violet again. Katie Layman is Mrs. Bickerstaff. 10/5/21

SEASON 3

• 035. The Last Dance – 9/14/1991
  • With the Bayside Costume Ball coming up, Zack is hoping that he and Kelly can go as Romeo and Juliet, but Kelly is concerned about the cost of the costume. Lisa tells her about a job opening at the Max, so she decides to apply, and Zack tells her that he’ll buy her costume. The new boss at the Max, Jeffrey Hunter (Patrick Muldoon) is reluctant to hire her because she has no experience. Kelly makes her case of how she’s taken care of her family meals for years, so Jeff gives her a probationary test. Meanwhile, funds at the school are low for the decorations, so Zack suggests that their band Zack Attack play the music so the band money can go for decorations. Kelly and Jeff start getting closer as they are working, and Kelly starts to behave awkwardly when Zack and their friends come into the Max. Eventually, their flirtation turns into a kiss between them. Both Lisa and Jessie pick up on the fact that Kelly is talking a lot about Jeff, and they start to suspect that she likes him. Zack brings Kelly her half of the costume as promised, but Kelly says she can’t ask off of work because she just got hired. At their band practice, Zack can’t concentrate while thinking about her, so Slater suggests that Zack ask Jeff directly if she can have that Saturday night off. Although it is obvious he likes Kelly too, he agrees to let her off. The next time the entire group comes into the Max, Kelly is more nervous and awkward than ever around Zack. On the night of the dance, Zack Attacks performs Make My Day. Between their band playing songs at the dance, Zack and Kelly are awarded the King and Queen, but when he tells her how beautiful she looks, she accidentally calls him Jeff. The two go outside to talk, and Kelly finally admits to him that she likes Jeff. Both are crestfallen and shocked since they thought they’d always be together. Zack tells her they will always be friends and asks for one last dance with her. They dance to Slater and Jessie singing How Am I Supposed to Live Without You? Tom Bliss is the rude customer Sid. NOTE: This is the first of a two-part episode along with The Aftermath.. 4/1/22
• 036. Zack’s Birthday – 9/14/1991
  • During their Summer break, Zack, Slater, Kelly, Jessie, and Screech get jobs at the Malibu Sands Beach Club, thanks to Lisa’s parents, who are members at the club and recommend them to the manager Leon Carosi (Ernie Sabella). Zack expects it traco be a fun Summer where he will have fun and meet girls while making money. Carosi, however, has other plans to work them all to the bone, and assigns Slater and Kelly to be lifeguards, Screech to be in the food services, Jessie to be the receptionist, and Zack to be in public relations… but without fraternizing with the female guests. Although Screech bumbles through his job, he makes more money than Zack, so Zack requests being made a waiter. As if Carosi himself weren’t bad enough, his daughter Stacey (Leah Remini) comes back from school in New York and is instantly made Assistant Manager and will oversee all of the help. Although Zack starts off with a crush on her, she proves to be as much of a tyrant as her father. Kelly is yelled out by Carosi for flirting with the guest Norman Schmeltzer (David Donah) when it is really him bothering her. Later Norman ignores Kelly when she tries to call him in before he gets caught by the undertow, and then ends up having to rescue her. Although Carosi takes credit by saying if he had to hire a female, he at least managed to hire the best… but still berates her from not calling him in. Meanwhile, the kids are planning a surprise birthday party for Zack for the night before his birthday. Lisa’s family has a house on the beach where Kelly and Jessie are staying. Lisa offers to have the party there, but then find out that her parents have already planned a party. Although living together has caused the girls to start bickering with each other, they are able to work together to plan to host the party in the beach club’s clubhouse. Zack starts to rethink working at the club because of the treatment he gets from Stacey, and he finally berates her and calls her a power-hungry spoiled brat and storms out. Later that night he is surprised by the party, but the fun is short-lived when Carosi is informed about the party by security. He shows up at the clubhouse and fires everyone there, but Stacey then shows up and tells him that she had authorized the party as a gesture of goodwill to the new workers. Zack realizes that she isn’t as bad as he initially thought. Carolyn Chiodini is Courtney. Tiffany Glass is a waitress. NOTE: The six Summer break episodes aired in tandem with the school year episodes, with the beach storyline following the airing of the other school storyline on the same day. However, the beach episodes were filmed later than the school episodes. 4/1/22
• 037. The Aftermath – 9/21/1991
  • Following Zack’s breakup with Kelly, his friends go the extra mile to make sure he is feeling okay. Lisa is getting ready to have her sweet 16th party and invites both Kelly and Zack, but is taken aback when she tells Lisa she wants to bring Jeff along. Things get awkward when Mrs. Simpson has Kelly and Zack do a romantic poetry reading in class, and even more so when Slater and Screech take Zack to the movies, and Kelly and Jeff show up. Kelly and Lucy criticize Kelly for not being sensitive to Zack’s feelings. Zack gets more depressed and angry and stays in his room at home, until his friends come and convince him that it is time he starts dating again. They set her up with a girl named Sue who talks to much, and a girl named Cassie who eats too much. Finally Zack hits it off with Screech’s cousin Kimberly, so he decides to take her to the Max to show her off to Kelly. He even dances with her to his and Kelly’s old song, which makes Kelly quite upset. Kimberly figures out she’s being used, and throws a milkshake at Zack. The tide then turns, and their friends start to take Kelly’s side since Zack is purposely trying to hurt her feelings. Zack throws a tantrum and tells Lisa he won’t be at her party unless she uninvites Kelly, then rids his locker of everything that belongs to Kelly, much to Mr. Belding’s annoyance. Screech tries to pick up Zack to go to Lisa’s party, but he refuses to leave, realizing that he’s been acting like a jerk and thinking no one wants him there. However, after the lights go off at the party and everyone sings Happy Birthday to Lisa, Zack appears. He clears the air with Kelly and apologizes for being a jerk, and even congratulates Jeff on winning a special girlfriend, telling him to take good care of her. He tells the audience how hard it is to lose a first love, but also admits he believes in love at first sight when a redhead starts to flirt with him. NOTE: This is the second of a two-part episode with Zack’s Birthday. 7/30/22
• 038. The Game – 9/21/1991
  • Zack spots a 1966 Mustang convertible for sale that he desperately wants, but is surprised that when he calls the owner, it turns out to be Mr. Carosi who is selling. Carosi won’t take any less that the $2000 he is asking, no matter how much Zack pleads. Meanwhile, Monty, the manager of the North Beach resort stops by to drop his annual challenge for a volleyball tournament, but Carosi is tired of their constant losing, especially at a $500 bet per game. Zack overhears the conversation and tells Carosi that between him, Jessie, Kelly, and Slater, they can win the game. Zack thinks this is the perfect way to make Carosi treat them nicely. Zack also makes the demand that if Carosi wins the bet, he lets Zack have the Mustang for $1500. Stacey doesn’t have any confidence that Zack can win, and when Tad (Eric Dane) and Ted Pogue, players for North Beach, stop by and challenge them to a scrimmage, they knock Screech out with one of their hits right away. She tells Zack and the team that they have just a couple days to get it together before she tells her father that there’s no way they’ll win. By coincidence, Zack meets a guy named Gary Lucas (Dark Sevier), who is 6’10” and wants a date with Kelly. Zack says he’ll set them up if he will play on their team. He has no problem getting Carosi to hire him so he can play in the game, and once they practice, it becomes obvious they have a winning team, causing Carosi to triple the bet. Unfortunately Screech drops a jug of water on Gary’s foot and break it into two places. Carosi warns them that if they don’t win the game now, they’ll all be fired. Screech scours the area, looking for replacement players, and brings home a pre-schooler named Ava (Tiffany Taubman), an old lady named Ida May, and nerd Big Pete Stonebreaker (Bryan Cooper). Pete joins the team, but is terrible, so they are almost ready to just give up, when Zack shows them a telegram that the North Beach sent them, insulting them and calling them losers… even if it is Zack who actually created the telegram. This rallies them to get ready for the game that they enthusiastically now are hungry to win. Big Pete drops out because his feet hurt, and Stacey steps in as the sixth player. They have a good showing at the game, and when it is all tied up, Malibu Sands scores the final point and winds. Zack and Stacey embrace, and Mr. Carosi presents Zack with the keys to the Mustang. 7/31/22
• 039. Operation Zack aka The Surgery– 9/28/1991
  • Zack is struggling to complete his take-home Algebra homework before the basketball game, so he sends Screech in as his substitute at the basketball rally. He finally shows up just before the game, and after an incredibly wimpy pep talk from the tiny coach, Mr. Belding adds more to it. As they head out onto the court, Mr. Belding accidentally bumps into Zack and twists his knee. When he can barely walk, they take him to the hospital where Lisa is volunteering as a candy-striper, and Lisa’s mother (Susan Beaubian) is Zack’s doctor. Screech won’t stop making Mr. Belding feel bad and threatening him with a lawsuit. Belding agrees to do Zack’s homework while he is out. Slater reports to Zack that their team lost by one point, but Zack is enjoying his stay at the hospital and being tended to by a nurse named Monique and the other nurses. Dr. Turtle tells Zack that his knee will be fine, but he needs some surgery to repair his torn Cartlidge. As Belding struggles with Zack’s Algebra, Lisa tells him and the others that he is going to have to have surgery. Screech keep talking about death, causing Zack to have a bad dream that he dies and goes to heaven, along with his guardian angel named Skipp, who looks just like Screech. Zack attends his memorial service at his locker, where the nerds, the cheerleaders, and the basketball players pay tribute to him. When Zack wakes up, he decides he’s going to skip the surgery and tries to escape the hospital. He is found by Dr. Turtle, and Lisa scolds him and tells him that he could have hurt himself. She also gives him a comforting talk about how she will be with him, just like they were together when they both had to go to the hospital when they were children and went ice skating together and got injured. Lisa shows up very early the morning of the surgery and stays with Zack during it. After the successful surgery, Zack has his friends sign his cast, while Screech tells Mr. Belding he can sign a big fat check to Zack. Belding also apologizes when he gets a C-minus on Zack’s Algebra test. Zack thanks Lisa for everything she did for him. 11/25/22
• 040. Fourth of July – 9/28/1991
  • Mr. Carosi announces the upcoming Fourth of July celebration with staff vs. member games, the Miss Liberty pageant, and the fireworks ball. The winner of the pageant will receive a $500 savings bond, but so far no one has entered. Kelly, Lisa, and Jessie all decide to enter, while Zack is put in charge of recruiting more contestants. He is able to get some more entries by telling them that the prize is a date with him. He also talks Stacey into entering, although she is shy about doing something like this. Zack faces pressure from all three of the Bayside girls, and when Mr. Carosi disqualifies himself as a judge, he pressures Zack to vote for Stacey. Slater and Lisa enter a trash-talk competition about the obstacle course games that they are entering against each other. Screech attempts to tackle the obstacle course tube and winds up rolling into the ocean. As Zack tries to help Stacey prepare for the pageant, he asks her to attend the dance with him. The day of the celebration rolls around, and Screech, who was supposed to dress like Uncle Sam, dresses like his own Uncle Sam. Lisa defeats Slater in the obstacle course, but during the tug-of-war, Slater leads their team to victory and pulls Lisa into the pit of water. When Slater hands her a towel, Lisa pulls him into the water. Slater then asks Lisa to attend the dance with him. Kelly and Jessie get even with Carosi by pulling him into the water, after he knocked them down in the wheelbarrow competition. During the pageant, the three Bayside girls and Stacey are the four finalists. They all give speeches about what the holiday means to them. Kelly gives the most moving speech, so Zack casts the final vote in Kelly’s favor. Stacey is upset that she lost, but when Screech tells her that Kelly and Zack were the hottest couple in school, Stacey cancels her date with Zack. Mr. Carosi then fires him. At the dance, Kelly tells Stacey how well she did, but Stacey responds by accusing her of special treatment since Zack is trying to win her bac. Kelly then tells Stacey that Zack actually likes Stacey and not her. Stacey finds Zack on the beach and apologizes, and then tells her father that she reinstated Zack so he doesn’t sue him. Screech dances with Kelly in order to try to make Lisa, who is enjoying her dance with Slater, jealous. As Zack and Stacey watch the fireworks, they finally kiss. NOTE: Jacquelyn Hyde is credited in the episode but does not appear on the DVD version. 11/26/22
• 041. Check Your Mate – 10/5/1991
  • Zack and Kelly host the radio coverage on KKTY for the school chess games. Screech is the champion of the Bayside team, much to the adoration of his girlfriend Violet, who gave him a lucky beret that he has worn in every winning game. After he wins the semi-finals, Screech prepares to move onto the championship game with Valley. Zack and Slater capitalize on his winning by selling souvenir t-shirts. Two bullies from Valley, Vinnie and Guy-Guy Master (Mat Mindell), come to the Max and challenge Zack and Slater to a bet over the game. The bet gets up to $300 after they introduce their wild car, Russian chess master Peter Breschnev (Matt Kaminsky). Screech thinks he might have trouble beating him, but the realizes he can win any game with his lucky beret. During the chess coach’s workout with the team, a girl named Allison Fox (Hillary Hayes) from Chessboy magazine shows up to interview Screech. It turns out that she is Guy-Guy’s girlfriend and has only come to disrupt Screech’s game by making he and Violet break up, and then stealing his lucky beret. Even though Screech has only pure intentions, seeing Allison flirt with Screech, Violet does in fact get jealous and breaks it off with him. Once Allison manages to steal the beret from Screech’s locker, he becomes inconsolable and says he can never win. Zack and Slater try to get Screech a new beret, which gets his confidence back temporarily, but Violet notices that the beret is a fake. Slater and Zack then grab Peter and tie him up, then send Zack into the championship game disguised as Peter in order to throw the game. However, when Peter escapes, Mr. Belding unmasks Zack. When Belding hears that there was gambling, kidnapping, and theft involved, he disqualifies both schools. They plead with him that Screech and Peter knew nothing about the scheme. Zack and the Master cousins agree to call off the bet if they can play. Screech doesn’t think he can win without his beret, until Violet shows up and tells him she now realizes that Screech was manipulated by outside forces. After she tells him that she loves him, Screech manages to take the victory in the game. Zack laments not winning the bet but is now ready to market his new breakfast of the champs: Screechios. Michael Warwick is chess nerd Franklin Finkley. 9/14/23
• 042. My Boyfriend’s Back – 10/5/1991
  • After seeing a movie, Stacey and Zack come back to the club for a snack. Zack tries to tell her that he loves her, but he chickens out and settles for making out. Meanwhile, Mr. Corosi rents some ATVs to host a big charity race at the club. Anyone can enter as long as they have sponsorship from a club member. Kelly quickly gets a sponsor by bring a little girl to their parents after she got too close to the water. Screech tries the same thing, but the little kid attacks him. Lisa’s family sponsors Zack for the race. Slater and Jessie both get into the race, but Slater makes fun of her horrible driving ability. Zack decides to take Stacey to Paradise Cove to tell her that he loves her, but before he realizes what’s happening, Stacey’s boyfriend Craig Strand (Benjamin King) from Yale comes to see Stacey at the club. She reluctantly has lunch at the club where Zack is serving, and when he sees her, he storms out. He goes to visit the Bayside girls in the middle of the night, and they try to tell Zack that Stacey obviously likes him more but was put in a bind when Craig showed up. Zack winds up being invited into the room where Craig holds a presentation of giving Stacey his fraternity pin. Zack decides to pack up and leave, but Slater and Lisa convince him to stay and beat Craig in the ATV race to win over Stacey. Craig is cocky toward Zack during the race, and then tries to run him off the track in order to beat him. Jessie drives her ATV into the ocean. Craig pulls Stacey away to celebrate before she can talk to Zack. However, she later meets up with Zack, and he confesses that he loves her before telling her to have a good life with Craig. She tells him that she just sent him back to Boston with his fraternity pin. She tells Zack she wants a guy who doesn’t try to control her, likes her for her… and isn’t threatened by Eastern snobs. They kiss and make up on the beach. 9/14/23
• 043. Fake IDs – 10/19/1991
  • Zack meets a college girl named Danielle Gordon (Julie St. Claire) at the Max, and after he changes her flat tire for her, he passes himself as a college student at USC majoring in photojournalism. She invites him to go to the Attic with her. Since it is an over-18 establishment and Zack is only sixteen, he uses his camera and with Screech’s assistance, makes fake IDs in their Photography class. Zack has Slater and Screech spend the night and then they sneak out to go to the Attic. Zack and Slater get past the bouncer, and Screech, posing as a mustached man named Don, is snapped up by a big girl named Reggie and forced to dance with her all night. While there, they spot Kelly’s boyfriend Jeff with dancing with and kissing another girl. The next day in school, they can barely keep awake in Photography class, much to Mr. Belding’s irritation. The guys tell the girls about Jeff, and they all insist that Zack should be the one who tells Kelly. However, when he does, she accuses him of being jealous and tells him to stay out of her life. When she questions Jeff about going out that weekend, Kelly also begins to suspect something is amiss. Lisa and Jessie both want to go to the Attic, partially for fun and partially to catch Jeff in the act and take his picture. Screech works on making them fake IDs as well, but he is interrupted by Kelly who wants to know his take on the Jeff situation. Back home, Zack says he’s spending the night with Slater and they they head off to the Attic, but Zack is disappointed when Danielle doesn’t show up. She is running late, so she calls Zack’s cell phone to tell him, but it is Zack’s mother (Melody Rogers) who answers the phone. When she finds out from Danielle what Zack is up to, she heads off to the Attic herself. Kelly shows up at the Attic and sees Jeff dancing with another girl and chews him out. He claims that they weren’t exclusive and tells her that he likes her but isn’t ready for a committment. She tells him that she broke up with a great guy for him and doesn’t want to see him anymore. Zack’s mother shows up, and Screech spills the beans about the fake IDs. She escorts them all out and tells them that they should try coming back in a couple of years. 1/15/24
• 044. Boss Lady – 10/19/1991
  • Mr. Carosi goes away for the afternoon and leaves Stacey in charge of the resort the day. At first, she is a stickler for the rules, but quickly realizes that she needs Zack’s help when she finds out that her father overbooked the resort’s dining room for two parties for that evening: a sweet-16 party for Mr. Richter’s (John Welsh) daughter Jenny and an anniversary party for the older couple Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill (Ann Savage). Zack and Stacey try to talk Mr. Richter into switching the date, but he says that there are people flying in for the event. The Thornhills won’t change their date either, even when offered a discount. Zack nearly solves the issue when he talks to Jenny and convinces her that her party should be outdoors on the beach for optimal romance. They run into another issue when Roberto from the kitchen has Slater translate that Mr. Carosi had promised them a raise that they haven’t yet gotten. Stacey thinks they are trying to take advantage of her so her her hardline refusal causes them to move forward with a sit-in strike. Causing more issues, Screech uses a metal detector and finds a gold coin on the beach. When Lisa realizes that the coin is real, the two of them, along with everyone else in earshot, start digging up the beach, making the outdoor party impossible. With the kitchen staff refusing to work, the Bayside kids all pitch in and try to prepare the meals for both parties, but their cooking venture turns into a disaster. Finally the kitchen crew, who has been laughing at them the entire time, takes pity and agrees to pitch in and help make the food. The new plan is to rush the older people at the Thornhill party along, so they quickly feed them their meal and then get them up to dance immediately after. Although Jessie tries to stall the incoming Richter birthday party, they all eventually catch on that there are two different parties in the dining room. Stacey admits her mistakes and calls the entire thing a disaster, but Zack suggests that they can still show them a good time. He had Stacey dance the tango with Mr. Thornhill, and then asks Jenny to dance with him. Slater asks Mrs. Thornhill to dance, as Kelly dances with Mr. Richter. When Mr. Carosi returns, he wonders what is going on and who made the double-booking screw-up. When he finds out that it was him, he tells Stacey that he is going to give her a raise for the nice way she recovered from the situation. She tells him that she will only accept the raise if he also gives one to the kitchen staff. He reluctantly agrees, but then goes to take a walk on the beach to sulk about losing more money. As Zack and Stacey dance together after a job well-done, they realize that her father is walking on the beach, which is now covered in holes. 1/15/24
• 045. Pipe Dreams – 10/26/1991
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• 046. The Last Weekend – 10/26/1991
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• 047. The Wicked Stepbrother: Part 1 – 11/2/1991
  • Zack gets his hands on tickets to the Dodger-Mets game but needs to come up with a way to get out of school to actually see it. When Mr. Sachs (Barnardo Hiller) tells the class he will be off due to the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, Zack decides to tell the school that he is Jewish so that he can take off. Meanwhile, Jessie’s mother gets re-married, and her new stepbrother Eric Tramer (Joshua Hoffman) comes to California from his home in New York. Jessie and her friends try to give him a warm welcome, but he comes off like a jerk right off the bat, telling Jessie that he wants her room and overzealously pursuing Lisa. Once he gets into the school, he comes off cocky to Zack and Slater and cons Screech into carrying his books. While Zack goes to the game, Screech records it on VHS and brings it over to Jesse’s house to watch with Eric in her room, nearly leading to an embarrassing situation when Jessie enters her room dressed only in a towel. When they watch the game, they spot Zack catching a ball, and Eric decides to use the video to blackmail Zaci into giving him his locker, the ball, and ten free lunches. Zack has no choice but to comply. Jessie is so upset, she has Slater over to study but wants his affection even more. Eric has left a tape recorder in her room and threatens to play it over the intercom if she doesn’t give him her room. Slater demands the tape from Eric, but he tells him that he has twenty additional copies. To get him to back off, Slater agrees to let Eric use his car for a date. When Mr. Belding buys his wife a new sports car, he asks Slater to put in a CD player. Zack gets the idea to set up Eric, so he offers Lisa M.C. Hammer tickets to go out on a date with Eric. Much to Lisa’s surprise, she finds Eric charming and funny, and Eric apologizes for coming on too strong with her. Zack attempts to have Screech snap a photo of Eric driving the car so that he can blackmail Eric to get their tapes back. However, it turns out that Eric has let Lisa drive the car, and when Screech fires the flashbulb, it causes Lisa to crash the car into a wall. Note: This is the first of a two-part episode. 5/9/23
• 048. The Wicked Stepbrother: Part 2 – 11/2/1991
  • After assessing the damage to Belding’s car, Zack and Slater estimate it will cost around $600 to repair. With Belding away at a conference, the guys have just a couple of days to get it repaired. They decide to hold a lottery at school in order to raise the money, then plan to have Screech win by setting off the fire alarm and having Screech replace the tickets so that he has the winning one. Lisa offers to take Eric to the M.C. Hammer concert with her. Zack tells Eric that Lisa got those tickets from him to get her to go out with Eric. When he confronts Lisa about this, she admits that it is the truth but that she now actually likes him. He doesn’t believe her and tells her he never wants to see her again, leaving Lisa devastated. Zack and Slater talk Screech out of his lottery winnings, and Slater plans to buy the new parts and fix it in shop class. However, Eric gets to the shop teacher Mr. Sonski (Monty Hoffman) to agree to completely disassembling the car so that the students can see it in all its parts. When Zack and Slater see this, they freak out, and Slater has to admit that he can’t fix it. When Jessie hears what Eric did, she confronts him and winds up punching him and giving him a black eye. Slater and Zack try to come clean to Mr. Belding about the car, but he thinks they are joking. When they go to see the car, they find it completely put back together in all its glory. After Belding leaves, Eric admits that he put it together and returns both blackmail tapes to the guys. He tells them that he is moving back to New York. As he is packing, Jessie and all of the gang come to see him and encourage him to stay. He is shocked when Lisa gives him a kiss and tells him that she would miss him, and he finally agrees to stay. 5/9/23

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