Saved by the Bell: The College Years:

The Wedding in Las Vegas TV Movie:

Last updated: December 1, 1997.

The Wedding in Las Vegas TV movie first aired on NBC at 8:00 pm EDT on October 7, 1994.

 Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas, TV Movie cast: 
   Zack Morris            -Mark-Paul Gosselaar
   Kelly Kapowski         -Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
   A.C. Slater            -Mario Lopez
   Screech Powers         -Dustin Diamond
   Lisa Turtle            -Lark Voorhies
   Carla                  -Liz Vassey         [Guested on many 
                                                 things on TV; starred 
                                                 in UPN's "Pig Sty".]
   Kurt Martin            -Spencer Rochfort   [From Acapulco HEAT]
   Freddy Silver          -Mark De Carlo
   Mrs. Melanie Morris    -Melody Rogers      [From SbtB, tOS]
   Mr. Dereck Morris      -John Sanderford    [From SbtB, tOS]

 Special Guest Stars: 
  (WiLV) Bayside Principal
           Richard Belding-Dennis Haskins
  (WiLV) Jessie Spano     -Elizabeth Berkley
  (WiLV) Mr. "Mike" Michael
            Rogers        -Bob Golic
  (WiLV) Alex Taber       -Keirsten Warren

 and,
  (WiLV) Bert Banner      -Gilbert Gottfried  [The famous comic]
  (WiLV) Sheriff Myron 
            Thorpe        -Pat Corley         [Guested on a many 
                                                 things on TV]

 Guest stars of note: 
  (WiLV) red team guy #1  -Clay Greenbush
  (WiLV) red team guy #2  -Joel Berti
  (WiLV) Deputy Dano      -Richard Schiff
  (WiLV) Ray              -Mickey Jones
  (WiLV) Herb             -Michael Chieffo
  (WiLV) Steve            -Steven Dilbourn
  (WiLV) Jim              -John Brandon
  (WiLV) Al               -Lou Felder
  (WiLV) short thug       -Bob Gould
  (WiLV) tall thug        -Herschel Sparder
  (WiLV) Diana Beaujolais -Marianne 
                           Muellerleile       [From ep. 2.2 of 
                                                 SbtB-tNC.]
  (WiLV) Katrina Voluptnov-Marina Maximova
  (WiLV) museum manager   -Douglas Fischer
  (WiLV) Mr. Frank 
            Kapowski      -John Mansfield     [From SbtB, tOS]
  (WiLV) Mrs. Carol 
            Kapowski      -Sandra Francis
  (WiLV) minister         -Edmund L. Shaff
  (WiLV) Susan Keller     -Mary Donnelly-Haskel

The scene opens with Zack, Slater and Screech in fatigues in what appears to be some sort of military training mission, acting as members of "the Blue team". After ambushing a soldier from "the Red team", the guys believe they have won the game and prepare to head home. But they themselves are ambushed by the three remaining members of the Red team. So Zack, Slater and Screech resort to the famous Three Stooges gag: Zack and Slater begin to fight pushing Screech between them, until the push Screech out of the way. As Zack and Slater prepare to trade blows, the Red team intercedes, allowing Screech to shot them with paint pellets.

The guys then drive home (as the credits roll by), but on their way, they stop one last time at Bayside high for a trip down memory lane. (NOTE: Two things about this scene. 1) This is the first, and only time we see the exterior of Bayside High; the real location is Palisades High School, in Pacific Palisades, CA. 2) No mention is made of Screech's working at Bayside.) Zack is then dropped at home, where he and his father have a huge fight over dinner about Zack and Kelly's marriage. Dereck announces that he cannot support their marriage, and Zack storms out.

Melanie Morris then comes up to see Zack in his room. (NOTE: The room shown here in the movie is different from Zack's room in the TV show. Perhaps the Morris family moved after high school!) Melanie comforts Zack, but she too announces that she can't go to the wedding either, if Dereck doesn't. Zack says that he can pull of the wedding with the $1200 he has.

The next day (presumably), Zack, Slater, Screech, Kelly and Lisa are packing their cars for the trip to Las Vegas. Lisa takes Kelly in her car, and the guys head out in Slater's truck. After almost losing the girls on the freeway, the guys bet the girls that they can make it to Las Vegas first. The girls accept the bet, and the troubles begin.

As they race down a back road, the boys are pulled over by the local sheriff. He asks for the truck's registration, which Slater doesn't have. The sheriff then runs a background check on them, and determines that the guys' descriptions match those of three suspects in a truck theft. So the boys are arrested.

Meanwhile, the girls burn out their radiator after their fan belt breaks. Finally, a man by the name of Kurt Martin walks down the road. He says he was teaching at the Indian reservation, and is also on his way to Las Vegas. He fixes the fan belt by using Lisa's expensive belt, and replenishes the radiator with the girls' "yuppie water", and in return Kelly offers to take Kurt to Las Vegas. The girls get to Las Vegas, where they run into Kurt again, working as a bell boy.

The boys get booked, photoed and thrown in jail with a murderer (named Herb?) and a biker (and poet!) named Ray. Finally, the sheriff determines that the guys aren't the suspects, but he extorts the $1200 from Zack to let them go.

As the girls admire "the Considine Diamond" (NOTE: This is almost certainly a joke: Gary Considine was the Executive In Charge of Production for SbtB in the TV show's later years.), they decide to treat themselves to a manicure and the works while they wait for the guys to arrive. As the guys arrive at the hotel, Slater spies a pretty girl, and the girls see the guys and are reunited.

To attempt to earn back the money, the guys first try to get work as caddies at a golf course, where Slater once again runs into the pretty girl whose name is Carla. The guys get fired and earn no money. So back at the hotel, the guys and girls play around the pool, where Slater again runs into Carla who this time agrees to go out with him. But two mysterious thugs oversee this. In the restaurant, Zack and Screech run into Bert Banner who offer them jobs as male escorts. At first Zack refuses, but realizing that he can earn fast money that way, he and Screech agree. As Bert trains them as escorts, Zack is late for a meeting with a wedding coordinator, which angers Kelly.

That evening, "Sami" Screech Powers gets his escort assignment, a woman named Diana who paws Screech the whole evening, and tangos him to death. But Zack is forced to dine with Kelly at the same time as he dines his escort, a Russian woman named Katrina. Kelly soon figures out that Zack has another woman and the restaurant, and she announces that the wedding is off and storms out. Meanwhile, Slater has his date with Carla.

Zack goes to Kelly's room, but she and Lisa refuse to let him in. So he climbs out on the balcony in his room to try and climb over to Kelly's balcony. Meanwhile, Slater's date is interrupted when Carla's ex-boyfriend Freddy Silver, a mobster comes in. When Slater hits Freddy, he and Carla are forced to run away from Freddy's thugs and back to their room. But when they go out on the balcony, they surprise Zack who almost slips and falls. Zack explains all to Kelly, and finally they all get into Kelly and Lisa's room. Carla explains that Freddy is in Las Vegas to steal the Considine Diamond.

So Lisa gets Kurt to help smuggle Carla and Slater out of the hotel. But as they get to the hotel main doors, Screech returns from his escort with Diana and as he struggles to escape from Diana, he exposes Screech and Carla. So Zack grabs Screech, and they and Slater and Carla escape in their truck. Freddy's thugs commandeer at taxi, and take off in pursuit, followed by Lisa, Kelly and Kurt who follow after in Lisa's car.

A car chase across town ensues. The guys abandon their car and hide in a wax museum. But on the street, they are spotted again by Freddy's thugs, who chase them into a casino. So the guys and Carla sneak into a Las Vegas dance show. But backstage, they are all finally captured by Freddy's thugs and brought to Freddy's room.

In Freddy's room, the gang fails to talk their way to freedom. But Kurt admits that he is the son of the Stardust casino owner, and he tells Freddy that he can get Freddy to the diamond. Freddy still refuses to let any of them go, and he forces Kurt to take them to the safe where the diamond is. Kurt opens the safe, and as Freddy and one of the thugs are in the safe, the guys once again pulls the "Three Stooges" routine, and trick the thug guarding them. They push him into the safe, and the gang locks Freddy and the two thugs into the safe.

Everything resolved, the gang all travels to a Las Vegas chapel to get married. But just as Bert Banner! is about to marry them, Dereck and Melanie Morris burst in. They say that Slater called them, and they've had a change of heart: they now support Zack and Kelly's marriage.

So we next see the guys in a field standing next to the minister. The wedding march begins, and we see Kelly being led down the aisle by Mr. Frank Kapowski. As she travels down the aisle, we see C.U. R.A. Mike Rogers, Alex Taber and Prin. Richard Belding in the audience. As the ceremony begins, Jessie Spano burst in (a la the Palm Springs wedding of her father), saying that she could miss the wedding. A brief retrospective of Zack and Kelly's relationship, from Grade 9 at Bayside to the College Years is then shown. Zack and Kelly recite the vows, and the minister names them husband and wife.

After the ceremony, Zack and Kelly are congratulated, one by one by Alex, Mike Rogers, Mr. Belding, and finally Kelly gets a tearful congrats from Jessie. Slater gives the toast to all assembled (which includes Kurt and Carla). Frank and Carol Kapowski congratulate Kelly. And Melanie, and then Dereck congratulate Zack in a poignant moment.

In the end, Lisa and Kurt are at the front of the hotel. Lisa says good-bye to Zack and Kelly who are packing their stuff in a limo. Screech then gives them a tearful good-bye. Finally, Slater with Carla says good-bye to Zack. As Slater says, "It's the end of an era." Kelly throws the bouquet which Screech catches, just as Diana appears and chases him away. Kelly and Zack drive off in the limo. THE END.