The Real Reason These Popular '90s Teen Shows Were Canceled

Here are the stories of some of the most popular shows about cool teenagers that aired in the 1990s — and the reasons they had to grow up, move on, and leave the airwaves.

Good Morning, Miss Bliss, a short-lived Disney Channel vehicle for former child star Hayley Mills about an Indiana teacher was revamped by NBC into Saved by the Bell, a show about supercool Bayside, California, teen Zack Morris. The fourth-wall-breaking, Ferris Bueller-like character was supported in his schemes by his inner circle: mega-nerd Screech, jock A.C. Slater, fashionista Lisa Turtle, overachiever Jessie Spano, and sometimes-girlfriend Kelly Kapowski. They also had a band called the Zack Attack and hung out in a diner called the Max, run by a magician. Saved by the Bell was kind of weird, but it was a smash hit on NBC's Saturday morning schedule from 1989 to 1993. So why did it have to end?

The characters on the show aged in real time, and four years is as long as high school lasts. Not only were they scheduled to move on from Bayside High, but Tiffani Thiessen and Elizabeth Berkley left the show midway through the 1992/1993 season. NBC wasn't ready to say goodbye, so it launched the primetime continuation Saved by the Bell: The College Years, which found Zack out of his element as a freshman at California University, along with most of his high school friends.

Viewers apparently weren't interested in a non-Bayside High Bell, and the show bombed, ranking at #88 in the ratings for the 1993-'94 season… which was its only season. Undaunted, the studio launched yet another spinoff, Saved by the Bell: The New Class, which actually ended up outlasting every other iteration of the show during its seven-season run. Proving your high school years are always a part of you, members of the original cast reunited for a Saved by the Bell revival in 2020, streaming on NBC's Peacock platform.

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