Saved by the Bell (1989) Cast: Then & Now – What Happened to Screech?

What happened to the Saved by the Bell (1989) cast after the show ended? In this video we explore the Saved by the Bell Cast: Then & Now (2026) and reveal the real stories behind the six teenagers who became household names across America — and what the bell couldn't save them from. From Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Tiffani Thiessen, Lark Voorhies, and Dustin Diamond — we look at their careers, their struggles, and where they are today. Saved by the Bell ran for 86 episodes across four seasons. Millions of kids watched it every Saturday morning. Bayside High felt like the safest place on television. But behind the lockers and the laugh track, the people who made that show were heading toward lives that looked nothing like Zack Morris's hallways. 👉 Dustin Diamond — checked into a Florida hospital in January 2021 complaining of pain he couldn't explain, was diagnosed with stage 4 small cell carcinoma, and was dead three weeks later at 44 — his former castmates were not by his side 👉 Lark Voorhies — spent years stopping mid-sentence in interviews, eyes suddenly elsewhere, voice dropping to nothing, while her castmates quietly stopped inviting her to things — she finally named it herself: schizoaffective thought disorder 👉 Elizabeth Berkley — was cast as the lead in the most critically savaged film of the 1990s, watched it destroy the career that was supposed to come next, and spent twenty years waiting for the world to catch up and call it a cult classic 👉 Mark-Paul Gosselaar — went straight from Bayside to NYPD Blue, became a licensed pilot and competitive cyclist, and has spent thirty years methodically building a career that has almost nothing to do with Zack Morris 👉 Tiffani Thiessen — walked straight from Kelly Kapowski onto Beverly Hills 90210 as the bad girl, lost a boyfriend to suicide in 1999, and has been quietly one of the most consistently working actresses of her generation ever since 👉 Mario Lopez — has had zero difficult decades, which in the context of this cast, is almost statistically improbable Watch to see how the Saved by the Bell cast changed from 1989 to 2026. 🔔 Subscribe for more cast retrospectives, Hollywood history, and the real stories behind the most iconic TV shows ever made.