Good Morning, Miss Bliss

Season

1987

6.8

TV-G

Recently-widowed Miss Carrie Bliss teaches at a middle school in Indianapolis, where she helps her students tackle life lessons.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

On the first day of school, Miss Carrie Bliss intervenes on behalf of a troubled new student and tries to balance her personal and professional lives. Meanwhile, her new husband Charlie struggles to accept her devotion to her career.

S1 • E1

Summer Love

During the first day back of the school year at J.F.K. Junior High, preppy and pathological liar Zack Morris runs into a 9th-grade student, Karen, to whom he had lied about his age earlier that summer to get to know her better. He persuades classmates Mikey, Screech, Tina, and Nikki to help with his charade. Meanwhile, Miss Bliss tries to squeeze a dinner date with her new doctor boyfriend Brian into her new schedule.

S1 • E2

Love Letters

Screech asks Zack to write a love note for him to give to Lisa in exchange for writing his term paper. Miss Bliss inadvertently discovers the note and general chaos ensues when she thinks Zach wrote it for her. Then, Mr. Belding finds it and thinks Miss Bliss wrote it for him, then Tina finds it, and so on leading to general chaos.

S1 • E3

Wall Street

After Zack breaks his Dad's $300 video camera, he asks Mikey to help him scam enough money to buy a new one before his father finds out. When Miss Bliss current history topic is the stock market, Zack sees a chance to making it big and deceives Miss Bliss into investing a high-risk stock involving potatoes and when the stock drops, it costs Miss Bliss a lot of pocket money.

S1 • E4

Leaping to Conclusions

Nikki refuses to do Mr. Morton's science class which includes dissecting frogs. So she, aided by Zach, Lisa, Mikey, and Screech releases them, which makes things worse instead of better. Meanwhile, Mr. Belding tries to be friendly to Miss Bliss after mistakenly thinking that she has received an offer for a teaching position at another school.

S1 • E5

Parents and Teachers

During Student-Teacher week, Zack's divorced father, Peter Morris, is rekindling his old flame who happens to be Miss Bliss, much to Zack's chagrin.

S1 • E6

Showdown

Zack and the gang encourage Screech to stand up to 9th-grade bully Deke Simmons, unaware what causes the guy's rough exterior, and Miss Bliss learns that he's illiterate. Meanwhile, Lisa and Nikki are arguing over how to perform in Nikki's school play while Tina and Mylo argue over the use of the school stage.

S1 • E7

Save the Last Dance for Me

Zack and Mikey's friendship threatens to come to an end over a girl whom Mikey likes, but who asks Zack to the school dance. Meanwhile, Mr. Belding is wary about holding the school dance because of the threat of violence from the students while Miss Bliss crashes it with her latest dancing beau.

S1 • E8

The Boy Who Cried Rat

Zack releases Screech's pet rats in the school to avoid taking a midterm, but the situation turns bad for Miss Bliss, who is up for the Teacher of the Year award.

S1 • E9

Let's Get Together

Zack and Nikki are fighting when then they're partnered for a class project making things worse for both of them. Meanwhile, Tina moves in with Miss Bliss after her boyfriend dumps her and she quickly drives Miss Bliss crazy.

S1 • E10

Practical Jokes

Screech is "put on trial" for pulling a prank on Miss Bliss.

S1 • E11

Stevie

Zack bets Nikki that he can kiss 17-year-old pop singer Stevie, who is giving her final performance at J.F.K. Zack pretends that he's dying to get it and fools nearly everyone... except Miss Bliss, who knows Zack's reputation as a compulsive and pathological liar. Meanwhile, Stevie stays with her favorite former teacher: Miss Bliss.

S1 • E12

Clubs and Cliques

Zack is invited into joining a "cool club," by two high school guys, unaware that he is the victim of a prank, which nearly costs him his friends when he's forced to bully and humiliate them. Meanwhile, Miss Bliss becomes principal for the week and Mr. Belding gets to teach her class.

S1 • E13

The Mentor

The unorthodox teaching methods of Miss Bliss' former history teacher comes to conflict with Mr. Belding when he is brought in to substitute for her. Meanwhile, Nikki is the star pitcher for the JFK's softball team, but has second thoughts when Lisa tells her to get in touch with her "domestic side."