Vintage StarTracks: This Time in 1990, See the Cast of 'Saved by the Bell,' Plus Madonna & More Big Stars (2024)

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Are any of the Saved by the Bell cast still friends? ›

The trio joked about how they were saved by not having social media as teens and revealed who they think played their character the best in the original series. These days, they still talk from time to time as Berkley called the cast “friends forever.”

Saved by the Bell is an American television teen sitcom created by Sam Bobrick for NBC. The series premiered, in prime time, on August 20, 1989, a Sunday night. Targeted at kids and teens, Saved by the Bell was broadcast in the United States on Saturday mornings, later as the flagship series in NBC's TNBC lineup.

Saved by the Bell, a romance series starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani Thiessen, and Mario López is available to stream now. Watch it on Apple TV or Prime Video on your Roku device.

Like Gosselaar and Thiessen, Lark Voorhies was 19 years old in the Saved by the Bell series finale, just one year older than Lisa. Also like Gosselaar and Thiessen, Voorhies made an appearance in the revival series before it was canceled. She and Lisa would have been about 45 for the appearance.

If you thought the Saved By the Bell characters were romantically cliquish on-screen, it was nothing compared to all of the relationship drama going on behind-the-scenes. "All of us dated at one point or another—it was incestuous!" Gosselaar told People in 2009. "Sometimes the girls would gang up on the guys.

The cast of “Saved By the Bell” wants everyone to know they really did stay friends forever. Four of the six main cast members from the beloved '90s teen show staged a casual reunion over the weekend, meeting up for dinner at a French restaurant in Sherman Oaks, CA.

What would the early 90's have been without the coolest teens on Saturday morning cruising the halls of Bayside High. Zack, Slater, Kelly, Jesse, Lisa, Screech and Mr. Belding taught us young teens what it was like to be cool in High School.

The implication is that Saved by the Bell, which saw most of its positive buzz after season 1, wouldn't appeal to a broad number of subscribers in a significant way to justify its continuation.

So why did Jessie and Kelly leave Saved by the Bell? Unfortunately, neither Berkeley nor Thiessen were able to reach new terms. This seeded the misplaced ideas around the Tori Saved by the Bell addition, forcing the show in a direction it otherwise wouldn't have gone.

Most of the scenes were filmed in Los Angeles, California, at the backlot of Universal Studios in Universal City. This busy movie studio with many different sets was the perfect setting for Zack Morris and his friends' high school adventures. The Burbank area of California was also used for a lot of shooting.

When did Save by the Bell end? ›

The following is a list of episodes for the NBC teen sitcom Saved by the Bell. The series premiered on August 20, 1989, and ended on May 22, 1993, with 86 episodes produced spanning four seasons.

Saved by the Bell aired for four seasons on NBC between 1989 to 1993. It launched as a retooled version of the Disney Channel series Good Morning, Miss Bliss, and starred Gosselaar, Lark Voorhies, Dustin Diamond, Dennis Haskins and Hayley Mills.

He shot 'Saved by the Bell' over summer break

Mario was just 15 years old when he started his run as A.C. Slater on the NBC hit “Saved by the Bell.” (Yes, he was an actual teenager playing a teenager!)

The former co-stars shared some throwbacks to their time on the NBC series, both behind the scenes and from random episodes. While Kelly and Slater weren't endgame, it's clear that the friendship between their portrayers was (and remains) strong. The Saved by the Bell reboot brought much of the original cast together.

Good Morning, Miss Bliss, also retroactively known as Saved by the Bell: The Junior High Years, is an American teen sitcom that originally aired on the Disney Channel from November 30, 1988, until March 18, 1989 (and later also in syndication as part of the Saved by the Bell rerun package).

While promoting a partnership with Nutri-Grain, Thiessen said she and Gosselaar “live totally close together” and that their families have “a lot of fun” hanging out together. Thiessen claimed she and her husband, Brady Smith, even double-dated with Gosselaar and his wife, Catriona McGinn.

“It really speaks to the character of everyone on the show,” he said. “We were just a good bunch of kids at the time and still to this day I think we're doing pretty good.” Lopez, 50, and Gosselaar, 49, have remained friends since “Saved by the Bell” signed off.

Off-Screen Relationships Became "Incestuous"

However, it went much further than randomly pairing off. According to Diamond's book, Behind the Bell, both Mario Lopez and Mark-Paul Gosselaar allegedly hooked up with all three girls of the Bell cast members - Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley, and Lark Voorhies.

The addition of Tori Scott in the final season of Saved by the Bell was a result of contract issues with Kelly and Jessie's actors, causing a jarring shift in the dynamic of the show.