Product Details

• Actors: Dennis Haskins, Dustin Diamond, Jonathan Angel
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: October 18, 2005
• Run Time: 540 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AYEIFY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,525 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Bayside High gang gets really busy this season with an outdoor survival expedition an exciting trip to Paris and jobs at the mall! In between dating and scheming they confront social issues like prejudice and drug use in these 26 ever-educational always entertaining episodes. Liz Miller the new sensation of the Bayside champion swim team joins the group and when he?s not getting on Mr. Belding?s nerves Screech falls in love!System Requirements:Running Time 534 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 014381236927 Manufacturer No: ID2369NCDVD

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you're a collector..., March 9, 2006

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BMW Fan (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saved by the Bell - The New Class: Season 5 (DVD)

If you're a collector of the SBTB series, you'll get this DVD just to fill the collection. But if you're deciding whether or not this is a show worth watching, this probably isn't the season that is going to help.

One of the biggest pros for this season was the introduction of the new character Liz Miller, who replaced Rachel adequately. While it was a shame to see Rachel go, in this series Liz is often the conscience of the group and you quickly learn to like her character. Personally I find her character a lot more tolerable over Maria, who in this season often seems to need a conscience, and Katie, who in this season has too many personalities too keep up with.

I found that there were two big downfalls to this season of SBTB. The first are the characters of Screech and Mr Belding. Mr Belding used to be the wise principal who was always ready to offer an ear and some advice. However in this season he's flat out stupid most of the time and is more like trying to be part of 'the gang' as opposed to a mentor who is loved and respected. Screech also seems to have been 'dumbed down' a lot this season, his voice has become incredibly more nasal and he's more of a clown then he's ever been before- both in the original TV show as well as the new class.

The second downfall of this season is that there are real inconsistancies in the screening of the episodes. It's almost like the entire season was filmed and then the tv show people decided to randomly screen them to the public and mix up the order. Liz has already become part of the gang before she is introduced as a character. The Habitat house that the gang is working on is finished before it actually starts, there is a lot of mix between the regular school episodes and the working at the mall/French trip/camping episodes.

It seems that the script writers were getting a little stuck for ideas here, so a lot of old storylines from the original series were recycled with a new location. However to keep positive, SBTB in general was a great tv show. This season covered a few real world issues including love, addictions and competitiveness that make up for the corny parts.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best New Class Season, December 21, 2005

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Jay - See all my reviews

This review is from: Saved by the Bell - The New Class: Season 5 (DVD)

This is the best season of the new class period. This season took on a much more serious tone than the previous four seasons of the new class i.e. the Ryan, Nicky, Liz love triangle. Speaking of Liz, she was a wonderful replacement for Rachael and the show, in my opinion, did much better with the Liz character than with the Rachael character(although Rachael was great). The only downside to this season was the moronic duo of Mr. Belding and Screech. By now they are such a joke it's not funny anymore. However the gang in this season overshadows the faults of Mr. B and Screech on all fronts. I highly recommend this season to anyone who is a fan of the original series, new class, or any Saturday morning TNBC shows.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Extension Of And Improvement Upon The Fourth Season, December 9, 2011

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ONENEO (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Saved by the Bell - The New Class: Season 5 (DVD)

When you stop to consider the Saved By The Bell franchise spans 15-seasons across multiple spin-offs (Good Morning Miss Bliss, The College Years, The New Class and so on), it can be a bit confusing to put a sense of order into the many releases.

That said, The New Class Season 5 is, as the name suggests, the fifth season of The New Class and the eleventh season of Saved By The Bell if you're using 1988's Good Morning Miss Bliss as a starting point.

TNC Season 5 originally aired between 1997-1998 Saturday mornings on NBC and is typically regarded as a slight improvement over the fourth, which had been a slight improvement over the third and so on. When the original gang moved on, NBC had contracted just two seasons of The New Class as well as two seasons of The College Years for prime time. By the time Season 5 of the New Class had come about, The College Years had already been history.

Season 5 broke the tradition of replacing half the main cast and instead made only a single character swap: Rachel Meyers (Sarah Lancaster) was replaced by new blonde beauty Liz Miller (Ashley Lyn Cafagna). Perhaps credited to the fact that the cast was so similar to the season preceding it, it's apparent that the writers had reached a point where they were able to capitalize on the dynamic of this particular group.

The Liz Miller character feels slightly out of place in the initial episode but quickly falls into rhythm in the episodes following. Taking a cue from the old Zack/ Slater rivalry for Kelly's attention, Liz actually finds herself the target of both Ryan and Nicky's affection. The series of episodes centered on her having to chose between the stepbrothers actually attempts a slight serial vibe; with low scale cliffhanger endings.

The rest of the cast shows signs of maturing as a group as well, with the Katie Peterson and Maria Lopez characters coming into pretty unique identities. The Eric Little character really starts to show some moments of brilliance this season as well. We are spoon fed his musical abilities on multiple occasions but his is some of the most genuine humor to be found here (particularly when playing opposite Nicky).

Perhaps most notable is the show's creative staff finally (after 4 seasons of floundering) seemed to have figured out how to make the Screech/ Belding duo a bit less annoying and more comedic. One particular sequence where Screech imagines Belding running away with the French teacher is nearly worth the price of admission in and of itself!

As always the case with The New Class, prepare for a multitude of out-of-school episodes/ sequences. This time around it's the part time jobs at the mall (again), a class trip to Paris, a Habitat for Humanity construction site, and strangely enough, a season conclusion that takes place in the woods as part of a wilderness survival training (with some moments that nearly undoes the praise I just heaped on to the Screech/ Belding tag team).

In all it's pretty safe to say Season 5 manages to improved upon the formula of the three seasons preceding it by coming up with some fresh situations/ dilemmas and a cast that was clearly becoming quite comfortable with each other. The humor is a bit more genuine and certainly the heavy-handed lessons of the prior seasons were toned down.

One odd fact worth mentioning is that while this DVD release contains 26-episodes just like all of the others before and after it, it is the only one of the lot spread across four discs (opposed to three). The reason for this is never made clear as transfer appears identical and is presented in its original 1:33:1 aspect ratio just like the other sets.