Saved by the Bell, The College Years - Season 1

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Summary: This is a great spin-off and it's coming to DVD!!!
Review: I love Saved by the Bell: The College Years!!!! It is definitely just as funny (if not funnier at times) than the original hit show Saved by the Bell. The show follows Zack, Slater, Screech, and Kelly through their first year at California University. Although there was only one season of this show each episode is great and it ends in the best way it ever could-Zack and Kelly getting engaged (and married in the movie Saved by the Bell Wedding in Las Vegas)!!There are a lot of great episodes though and I am sure that any fan of SBTB will love the college years on DVD.

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Summary: Whoaaa..
Review: iM ThriLLeD CoLLege Years WiLL Be ouT On DvD iN August Which I WiLL Get!! BUT ? iz WhaT abouT The REST oF The Series That HeLp Create THE CoLLeGe YeArS..SAVED BY THE BELL..I HoPe They WiLL Finish That aN Bring iT to DvD..Torrie an The Gang Graduating aN SoOoO oN..Kinda Weird They WouLd SkiP That aN Go to The CoLLege Years..Dont Ya Think Finish SAVED BY THE BeLL Thennn GoOoO To The CoLLeGe YeArS..Ohh WeLL we'LL HaVe 2 waiT aN SeE..iM StiLL happy!!

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Summary: Underrated effort
Review: With the benefit of age, I now cringe at most of the STB empire (and wonder what we were on in the 1980's for throwing our time and money at it) but still like the short-lived college years. It is a shame the uneducated will continue lumping in the earlier efforts with this product, because it is vastly superior.

Finally graduated from Bayside, Zack, Kelly, Slater, and Screech all end up going to the fictional California University. Residing together in the world's cleanest dorm (sorry, these buildings are not actually that spotless) they meet new friends Leslie Burke (Anne Tremko) and Alex Taber (Kiersten Warren) and their goofy 'non traditional' RA Mike Rogers (Bob Golic) who is always around to dispense advice and the mild rebuke because Zack has not grown out of his scheming ways.

Gosslear and Diamond especially look genuinely happy to have worked on this series. Having been in all of the incarnations of the STB empire, they've definently worked through cheese in the past. The now relaxed presentation of both actors makes each episode very enjoyable and akin to really soothing lip balm.

Overall, I like this series much better than other teen shows 'college' efforts (oh....90210 comes to mind!) because the students actually go to classes, study, and are stressed about the above activities while trying to juggle a social life. Plus, even though they came from fairly posh homes, the rigors of college life quickly encourage these same students to adopt very casual oulfits.

Again, the only concern is that each scene looks too spotless to actually take place in a 'big name' university. The students would not have time to keep their dorm that spotless if they were actually experiencing the frazzled nerves in the season.