Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Saturtainment: Mystery Weekend (Saved by The Bell, 1991)

Apparently, they're counting the reruns of Good Morning, Miss Bliss as season 1 of Saved by The Bell. That being said, 1991's "Mystery Weekend" is the season 4 finale, and one of the better entries in the series.

Lisa (Lark Voorhies) wins a radio contest, and brings the gang along for a murder mystery weekend. Truth be told, they should've left ham-brained Screech (Dustin Diamond) behind, as he does an injustice to Sherlock Holmes and other great detectives by wearing the deerstalker cap for comic effect.

I think I had this up before, but because most episodes of the series are no longer available on YouTube or Dailymotion, unless you're willing to spend $2 per episode on YouTube, which would go into NBC-Universal's bank account, all we can do is this screen grab.



Up until his current series, mixed-ish, Mark-Paul Gosselar has played cops and lawyers for most of his post-Bell career, including a lengthy stint on NYPD Blue. Mario Lopez spent some time as a bicycle cop on Pacific Blue near the end of the 90's, which lent itself to USA Network having him appear on Monday Night Raw for promotional purps.

Episodes are now available for streaming on Peacock, but there are no embed codes, obviously.

Rating: A-.

2 comments:

magicdog said...

SBTB was ok for what it was, but the majority of the cast proved themselves quite apt as actors post Bell.

MPG was great both in NYPD BLUE and especially in Franklin & Bash with Breckin Meyer.

Tiffany Amber Theissen was great in White Collar.

Lopez is like Ryan Seacrest lite - always hosting something.

hobbyfan said...

Lopez, at last check, was still on Extra. To think that SBTB also helped introduce America to Tori Spelling and Leah Remini.......