Most people don’t remember that Zack Morris, Lisa Turtle, Mr. Belding and Screech were created not for Saved By the Bell but Good Morning, Miss Bliss, a short-lived sitcom about a junior high school teacher starring Hayley Mills. In the 1986 pilot for Good Morning, Miss Bliss — ordered by NBC president Brandon Tartikoff, who longed to pay homage to an inspirational teacher from his own childhood — Carrie Bliss teaches a sixth grade class of future ‘90s TV stars. Don't MissThat’s not the only way the episode is surprisingly different from the incarnation of Good Morning, Miss Bliss that eventually aired. AdvertisementUnfortunately, along with the rest of the heavy hitters on the cast list, he got punted when NBC passed on the series after all. It’s hard to say whether producers took away the right lessons from feedback to the original Good Morning, Miss Bliss pilot.