Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVMario Lopez and Dustin Diamond first met on the set of Saturday morning sitcom “Saved by the Bell” in the late 1980s and worked together for four years on that show, plus another on the “College Years” spinoff.
Lopez was a cool jock named A.C. Slater, while Diamond played the school geek, Samuel “Screech” Powers,” but the characters were part of the same friend group and off-screen, Lopez tells Variety, Diamond “was like a fun, goofy little brother.News of Diamond’s death from cancer on Feb.
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