This follow-up to Saved by the Bell is awful. It has less humour and worse acting. The main characters are university students, yet there's no mention of sex - let alone any depiction of it. It should be raunchy fun, including casual sex - instead it's dull and lifeless.

"Saved By The Bell" was a ridiculously wacky and zany affair, what with its occasional science-fiction oriented episodes (I recall one episode where Screech developed the ability to read minds!) and the acting was atrocious. The sets were horribly plastic and you could tell that you were watching a TV show. It never felt real."Saved By The Bell: The College Years" is quite a sophisticated situation comedy that doesn't always follow the same formula, as the original mostly did. Unlike the original, the characters develop throughout the series, and their strengths and weaknesses are drawn out more consistently. Also, the 'girlfriend of the week' plot tool is completely thrown out. Zach is never seen with a girlfriend who has been dumped by the following episode.My theory for the cancellation of this above-average show is that unlike the kiddy-oriented original, this series was far more sophisticated and probably had a hard time finding its audience, which led to its cancellation.The result was one final crack: a TV movie. Heinous at best, crap at worst.Nevertheless, this series is definitely worth watching.

I was not a fan of the College Years, even though I religiously watched Saved By the Bell. Here, Zach, Slater, and Screech (and soon, Kelly) joined forces in a fictitious California college. Initially, the guys shared a dorm section with three girls: a drama major, a stuffy brain (the Jessie replacement, I suppose), and Kelly. While Zach and Slater appeared to be slightly more arrogant and altogether, too hung up on the "what a college student is supposed to look like and act like" conventions, and Screech became even more hopelessly doofus than he was in high school (and so willingly so), I did like the brawny fellow, Mike, who was the floor monitor. He was a genuinely amusing character in a show that often tried too hard to be funny (although the drama major girl was often pretty funny because she was so neurotic).For your Saved By the Bell viewing pleasure, skip all the post show remnants, and stick with the original series (even the Good Morning Ms. Bliss series).

When The College Years aired on prime time that was a major step for this third installment in the SBTB series. The success of SBTB helped this show make it to primetime but the storylines didn't seem to make the switch. The Zack/Kelly romance was alright but the storylines were too silly for a primetime show. This was their big opportunity to tackle big issue but they didn't take it. Well, the show was entertaining but didn't have what it takes to manage on primetime.