Review of Saved by the Bell: The College Years

This inception of Saved By The Bell focuses on some of our favorite Bayside teenagers now graduated from highschool and starting their freshman year at Cal. U. The show centers around Zach Morris, AC Slater, and Samuel Screech Powers, who dorm together with three new female cast members. There is also a new Dorm monitor, student advisor, and serves in the role much like Mr. Belding from the old show, named Mike Rogers. Mike is a former professional football player potrayed by Bob Golic was actually a former professional football player. He serves as an antagonist to Zach Morris played by Mark Paul Gosseler. The show focuses on the six of them adjusting to college life and the responsibilities of being young adults. The show did replace one of the girls that was cast in the original pilot episode with Saved By The Bell alumnus Tiffany Amber Thiessen, reprising her role as Kelly Kapowski, the love interest of Zach. The show also introduced other new adult characters like professor Jermiah Lasky played by veteran character actor Patrick Fabien and Holland Taylor who played Dean Mcmann. With the new cast in place the show focused on the same comedic interactions with the group much like the old show while covering some serious subject matters as well. Sadly the show just could not seem to catch on mainly because instead of being aired on Saturday afternoons admist the saturday morning cartoon era, it was aired in the adult prime time slot with fierce competition from the other tv sitcoms of that era. The show struggled and was switched and aired in various time slots and eventually was moved to Sunday. The show was not that bad and we even had cameo appearances from Lark Voorhees, and Elisebeth Berkley reprising their characters from the original show. Of course we also got to see the beloved Mr. Belding show up in an episode. Despite the early potential of this show it just seemed to miss the mark with viewers, and was cancelled after the first season. Now the show did spawn a television movie Saved by the Bell Wedding in Las Vegas, that finally gave the loyal fans of the show the long awaited wedding between Zach and Kelly. Overall I think the show was not that bad it had its funny moments, but I think the show would have faired better in its original time slot, instead of trying to make it a prime time series. Regardless, this show for all of the SBTB fans gave us our fix and we got a conclusion for the character arcs of Zach and Kelly. If you are a fan of the original SBTB then give this one a watch you will be glad you did.