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JO Sweet Heart · 01-02-2022, 08:28 PM

1992 is around the time that I started getting into the show and I turned ten that year. I remember flipping back and forth from TBS and WGN because the show was on them two stations at the same time.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

schmave · 01-06-2022, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by TMC

I think that Dennis Haskins said on The E! True Hollywood Story that Saved by the Bell really didn't become "popular" (or this iconic teen show if you will) until TBS started rerunning it around 1992.

He might have said that, but having watched the entire original run, I don't agree. SBTB was a hit almost immediately, at least among people my age and I was 11 at the time it debuted in the late summer of 1989. Virtually everybody I knew watched, and I remember many of us being disappointed that there were so few episodes in the first few seasons.

TMC · 03-23-2026, 08:24 PM

Saved by the Bell only had four seasons and produced about 86 episodes. And yet, they were able to stretch it out to six seasons by adding Good Morning, Miss Bliss (after those episodes were retrofitted to air in syndication) and Saved by the Bell: The College Years to the syndication package. Not to mention the movies (Hawaiian Style and Wedding in Las Vegas and then, The New Class.

None of the stars like Tiffani-Amber Thiessen apparently, made any real money on SBTB, despite how popular as it was. Otherwise, the cast would have to be paid bonuses once they reached 100 episodes. Instead, GMMB and TCY were like I said, repurposed into the entire SBTB package to meet the 100 episode minimum and sell the show into syndication without having to pay the actors.

01-02-2022, 08:28 PM	#16
JO Sweet Heart Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Mar 11, 2012 Location: East Tennessee Posts: 7,834	1992 is around the time that I started getting into the show and I turned ten that year. I remember flipping back and forth from TBS and WGN because the show was on them two stations at the same time. God bless you always!!! Holly
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03-23-2026, 08:24 PM	#18
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,493	Saved by the Bell only had four seasons and produced about 86 episodes. And yet, they were able to stretch it out to six seasons by adding Good Morning, Miss Bliss (after those episodes were retrofitted to air in syndication) and Saved by the Bell: The College Years to the syndication package. Not to mention the movies (Hawaiian Style and Wedding in Las Vegas and then, The New Class. None of the stars like Tiffani-Amber Thiessen apparently, made any real money on SBTB, despite how popular as it was. Otherwise, the cast would have to be paid bonuses once they reached 100 episodes. Instead, GMMB and TCY were like I said, repurposed into the entire SBTB package to meet the 100 episode minimum and sell the show into syndication without having to pay the actors.