Season 1 Fresh Prince Of Bel Air
Next → The first season of premiered on September 10, 1990, and concluded on May 6, 1991. In the, is revealed to be a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia, who is sent to live with his wealthy relatives in their Bel Air mansion. His relatives include, Will's strict and gruff uncle, and, Will's no-nonsense, forthright, and career-minded aunt. Other members of the Banks family include, Will's preppy and arrogant cousin, Will's attractive but dumb, eldest cousin, Will's youngest cousin, and, the family's cynical English Butler. Will's lifestyle often clashes with that of his relatives there, and frequently got him or other members of the family into trouble as well. Episodes.
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See also: No. In season Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production code 1 1 'Pilot (The Fresh Prince Project)' & Susan Borowitz September 10, 1990 ( 1990-09-10) 446801 The pilot picks up where it left off after the opening credits, where arrives in a taxi and knocks on the Banks' door. Will meets the Banks family and clashes with nearly all of them. He doesn't get along with his uncle Philip, his aunt Vivian defends him, his big cousin Hilary looks down on him, his cousin Carlton, who is of similar age; wants to bond with him, and his little cousin, Ashley looks up to him. However, things come to a clash when Ashley raps the dinner prayer during an elegant party, shocking her father, as well as Will. 2 2 'Bang the Drum, Ashley' Debbie Allen Shannon Gaughan September 17, 1990 ( 1990-09-17) 446802 After Ashley reveals to Will that she does not enjoy playing the violin, he takes her to a pawn shop in and swaps her violin in for a drum kit.
He tries to ease the blow to Philip and Vivian by also getting them gifts before revealing Ashley's new music teacher, his friend Jazz. But the constant drumming angers everyone. 3 3 'Clubba Hubba' September 24, 1990 ( 1990-09-24) 446805 Will tries to impress Dr. Mumford , so he can date his daughter Mimi. Philip, Carlton and Geoffrey each try to teach Will how to be a gentleman. While he impresses Dr.
Mumford as 'Kipp Smithers', Will finds out that Mimi prefers bad boys 'from the hood'. Will spends the night alternating between his images before realizing being himself is more important than impressing others. 4 4 'Not with My Pig, You Don't' Jeff Melman Lisa Rosenthal October 1, 1990 ( 1990-10-01) 446806 Philip's parents, Hattie and Joe ( and ) come to visit for the weekend when he wins a prestigious award who inadvertently reveal his embarrassing country roots growing up in North Carolina.
Susan Klein , a journalist comes to the Banks' house to interview Philip about his life, but plans to kill the story because she finds him boring. Will, overhearing, tells her embarrassing stories about Philip's past 'barnyard life' he heard from Philip's parents. This goes down well with the newspaper editors and Philip's parents, but Philip seems ashamed until he makes his acceptance speech where he shows renewed pride in his roots and gratitude for being raised by two devoted parents.
5 5 'Homeboy, Sweet Homeboy' Jeff Melman October 8, 1990 ( 1990-10-08) 446804 Will gets a visit from an old friend named 'Ice Tray' , who, to Vivian and Philip's dismay, warms up to Hilary. Philip and Vivian try and discourage Hilary from falling in love with him by finding great warmth to the idea until she jokingly says she just married him to gauge their reaction, which is outrage. Will confides to Vivian just how good a friend Ice Tray had been to him when he was the only studious kid from a class of dropouts in Philadelphia. Vivian says that it is commendable Ice Tray stuck up for Will, but rehtorically asks how concerned was Ice Tray for Ice Tray's welfare? 6 6 'Mistaken Identity' Jeff Melman Susan Borowitz & Andy Borowitz October 15, 1990 ( 1990-10-15) 446807 While Philip and Vivian go on a trip to Palm Springs in Mr.
Furth's helicopter, Will and Carlton drive Furth's there as well. They get pulled over by a police officer for 'stealing' the car. Luckily, Will was able to get Philip's attention by telling a phony confession on TV and he and Carlton are acquitted. This turns into an argument with Will about racial profiling, but when Philip recounts a similar experience, Carlton thinks it over with himself.
Meanwhile, Hilary babysits Ashley and proves to be an unhealthy influence on the young girl when she gives her too much coffee. 7 7 'Def Poet's Society' Jeff Melman John Bowman October 22, 1990 ( 1990-10-22) 446808 The family pressures Will to join an after school club. Following the girls into a poetry class, he spontaneously recites a poem on the spot to impress them and claims it was written by a poet named 'Raphael de la Ghetto', a name he made up there and then.
Impressed, Christina asks to bring him to Poetry Night and after Jazz doesn't come through with an impostor, Will turns to Geoffrey to masquerade. 8 8 'Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect' (Part 1) Jeff Melman Story by: Bennie Richburg, Jr. Teleplay by: Cheryl Gard & Shannon Gaughan October 29, 1990 ( 1990-10-29) 446810A The family heads to the mall to pick up costumes for Hilary's Halloween party, while Will and Carlton place a bet to see who can find a date for the party. Philip gets held up at a gadget store.
Vivian sings in a recording booth, where she receives positive feedback and a large audience standing outside listening to her. When Hilary forgets to take a hat off of Ashley and walks out of the store with it, they are accused of shoplifting. 9 9 'Someday Your Prince Will Be in Effect' (Part 2) Jeff Melman Story by: Bennie Richburg, Jr. Teleplay by: Cheryl Gard & Shannon Gaughan October 29, 1990 ( 1990-10-29) 446810B Will and Carlton both try to win Melinda over by making up stories about themselves. Guest appearances by, and. 10 10 'Kiss My Butler' Rita Rogers Blye Sandy Frank November 5, 1990 ( 1990-11-05) 446809 It is Geoffrey's birthday and Will decides to set him up on a blind date with an English woman named Helen as a gift.
Will, thinking she is better for him, figuring she will be turned off by his stodgy attitude. However, Geoffrey ends up having a great time with her. Geoffrey also gives Will an insight about prejudging others and that some men view birthdays as a time to reflect on one's life, not party. 11 11 'Courting Disaster' Jeff Melman Sandy Frank & Lisa Rosenthal November 12, 1990 ( 1990-11-12) 446811 Will joins the school basketball team of which Carlton is already a member. Will becomes the star player of the team, causing Carlton to become jealous and Will to take practices lightly and treat games as forums for tricks.
At the peak of his jealousy, Carlton decides to steal the ball from Will and take the game's winning shot; though he misses, costing the team the game. Both Will and Carlton learn their lessons back at the house.
12 12 'Talking Turkey' Jeff Melman Cheryl Gard November 19, 1990 ( 1990-11-19) 446812 Will's mom, Vy , comes to the Banks household for Thanksgiving. She gets angry that the kids leave all of the work to Geoffrey and criticizes her sister that she wanted Will to be in a safe environment, but a pampered one. Vivian then decides to make the kids cook Thanksgiving dinner to show how hard other people work to provide for them. Carlton also invites his English teacher to the dinner.
However, when the kids make multiple errors, Vy laughs maybe that lesson was not ideal. 13 13 'Knowledge is Power' Jeff Melman Rob Edwards November 26, 1990 ( 1990-11-26) 446813 In order to get the family car instead of Will, Hilary tells Phil that Will has been disobeying curfew, subcontracting his chores to Ashley and renting out the family car. He is consequently grounded for a month. Will plans revenge; while going to find out where Hilary is shopping, he learns that she dropped out of college three months ago. Will uses this in order to get Hilary to slave for him during his punishment. Hilary tries to get Carlton to go against Will, but instead he blackmails her too.
Carlton and Will both have lists of embarrassing tasks that Hilary must do at the dinner table. When this proves too much pressure for Hilary, she admits she dropped out. Her parents have a long talk with her about her path in life, but also come down on Will and Carlton for their blackmail, giving Will another month of confinement. 14 14 'Day Damn One' Jeff Melman Cheryl Gard December 3, 1990 ( 1990-12-03) 446803 Ashley and her friends ask Will to tell a scary story at their slumber party before they go to sleep. Will tells the tale of his first day at Bel-Air Academy and how he carved his name into a desk that the first students of the school carved into.
15 15 'Deck the Halls' Jeff Melman Shannon Gaughan December 10, 1990 ( 1990-12-10) 446814 Will realizes that Ashley has never experienced a real Christmas before (since back in Philadelphia, there would be carolers, lights and neat decorations, while in Bel-Air there are only a few decorations, no carolers, and hardly anything in the Christmas spirit) and goes out of his way to let her have one. He decorates the inside of the house and also the outside with hundreds of lights, decor, and colors; upsetting some of the neighbors, to include Evander Holyfield. 16 16 'Lucky Charm' Jeff Melman Samm-Art Williams January 7, 1991 ( 1991-01-07) 446816 Due to a couple of coincidences, one of Philip's clients, a very superstitious businessman, thinks Will is his good luck charm.
He befriends Will, who is allowed to decide on some of his major decisions in the stock market. Will does not seem to mind, especially when given corporate perks, but Philip warns this could take a turn for the worse.
17 17 'The Ethnic Tip' Jeff Melman & January 14, 1991 ( 1991-01-14) 446815 Will proposes a black history class be instituted at Bel-Air Academy, and expects an easy A when Vivian volunteers to teach it. Many of the students enjoy her ways of teaching, except Will and Carlton when she gives them extra homework to do. At the end of the course, Vivian explains that she gave the two extra homework because as the only two black students in class she thought they'd get more from the course.
When Will says he has read, to which Vivian retorts there is more and unless he learns the full history behind the struggle for equal rights, then he all he has done is trivialize it. The show closes with a Malcolm X quote which reads: 'Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs for those who prepare for it today.' 18 18 'The Young and the Restless' Jeff Melman Lisa Rosenthal January 21, 1991 ( 1991-01-21) 446817 Philip's mother joins the family for the weekend after recovering from a cold. Philip wants her to relax for the weekend but she has other ideas. Will exposes her to some rap music by Heavy D, which she really likes.
She and Will then sneak out to go to a Heavy D concert, which the family tracks them down and aren't too happy about it. 19 19 'It Had to Be You' Jeff Melman Cheryl Gard February 4, 1991 ( 1991-02-04) 446818 Jazz asks Will the favor of taking his sister out on a date after she moves into town.
Will does so reluctantly, until Jazz introduces the two. Will takes her on a date, but learns that she's extremely bossy and has her whole life planned out for the pair already. She tells Will what to do, where to go and how to look, and criticizes Will for every little thing. Jazz recommends that if Will doesn't like her he should introduce her to someone else. He does so to Carlton at a club. When she displays her rudeness, Carlton sternly tells her he expects his dates to be courteous and respectful to others, which surprisingly causes her and Carlton to become a nice couple.
20 20 'Nice Lady' Jeff Melman Sandy Frank February 11, 1991 ( 1991-02-11) 446819 Geoffrey's old employer Lord Fowler and his daughter Lady Penelope come to the Banks' house for the weekend. Will wants to use the car to go to a concert in Nevada, but Philip and Vivian make it conditional on the basis he not cause any trouble while they are hosting their guests. Will is going to have his hands full when Penelope sneaks out to a rough club in L.A.
And cavorts with bikers. 21 21 'Love at First Fight' Jeff Melman Lisa Rosenthal & Samm-Art Williams February 18, 1991 ( 1991-02-18) 446820 One of Vivian's students, Kayla Samuels comes over for dinner and Will tries to impress her but fails.
Eventually, Will wins her over and inadvertently starts taking time away from her studies so Vivian tells him to cut back on their relationship so Kayla can have a good future. Vivian winds up lecturing Kayla and revealing things about her own struggles to be successful. 22 22 'Banks Shot' Jeff Melman Bennie Richburg, Jr. February 25, 1991 ( 1991-02-25) 446821 Vivian goes away to Berkeley for the weekend, leaving Hilary in charge. When Will steals the car keys to go to the pool hall, and winds up losing his money and the car to a hustler, Philip must go down to rescue him.
There he acts like he never played pool before and lets the hustlers win. They then plays again with Geoffrey's cue for $100 a ball.
He then greatly wins over the hustlers (Which totals to $900) and gets the car back. Hilary acts as a tyrant to Carlton and Ashley when she is left in charge. 23 23 '72 Hours' Rea Kraus Rob Edwards March 11, 1991 ( 1991-03-11) 446822 Will makes a bet that Carlton wouldn't last a weekend in Jazz's neighborhood, because of the way he is. Carlton takes the bet too far by becoming very thug-like and wears, colorful clothing, shades, bandanas (like Will) and Will has to find a way to stop him from going to at night. He then rats him on the parents where they go to rescue him before going to the park.
At the house, Carlton wins the bet and the reason he won is because Will cared about him and didn't want him to possibly die at the park that night. 24 24 'Just Infatuation' Jeff Melman Jeff Pollack & Benny Medina April 29, 1991 ( 1991-04-29) 446824 Ashley's birthday is nearing and when the family asks her what she would like for her birthday, she shows them a picture of Little T , the popular teen singer. Hilary knows T's agent so she has him come to Ashley's birthday party to perform a song for her.
They hit it off and set up a date for the next day. Will and Carlton disagree with the date, so they decide to follow them on their date.
They find out that all the things they heard about him were false and let them continue on with their date. At the house, as Ashley is adjusting her hair, Will thinks back to the time he taught her how to rap and how she is already growing up fast. 25 25 'Working It Out' Rita Rogers Blye Shannon Gaughan May 6, 1991 ( 1991-05-06) 446823 Hilary lands a new job as an assistant to an actress, Marissa Redman who turns out to be completely disrespectful. Will surprises Hilary with Jazz in the office and Marissa takes a liking to Will, wanting to bring him to a restaurant opening and threatens Hilary with being fired in order to set up the date. Will agrees, but only if Hilary goes on a date with Jazz. Marissa gets mad at Hilary for not giving someone champagne when Jazz acts up and gets mad at Marissa for talking to Hilary like that, Hilary kisses him at the home.
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Contents. Series overview Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired Rank Rating 25 September 10, 1990 ( 1990-09-10) May 6, 1991 ( 1991-05-06) N/A N/A 24 September 9, 1991 ( 1991-09-09) May 4, 1992 ( 1992-05-04) 22 14.3 24 September 14, 1992 ( 1992-09-14) May 10, 1993 ( 1993-05-10) 16 14.6 26 September 20, 1993 ( 1993-09-20) May 23, 1994 ( 1994-05-23) 21 13.7 25 September 19, 1994 ( 1994-09-19) May 15, 1995 ( 1995-05-15) N/A N/A 24 September 18, 1995 ( 1995-09-18) May 20, 1996 ( 1996-05-20) N/A N/A Episodes Season 1 (1990–1991). Main article: No. Main article: No. In season Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production code 26 1 'Did the Earth Move for You?' September 9, 1991 ( 1991-09-09) 446901 27 2 'The Mother of All Battles' Ellen Falcon Bryan Winter September 16, 1991 ( 1991-09-16) 446902 28 3 'Will Gets a Job' Ellen Falcon Efrem Seeger September 23, 1991 ( 1991-09-23) 446903 29 4 'PSAT Pstory' Ellen Falcon Marcus Jamal Gaines September 30, 1991 ( 1991-09-30) 446904 30 5 'Granny Gets Busy' Ellen Falcon Cheryl Gard October 7, 1991 ( 1991-10-07) 446906 31 6 'Guess Who's Coming to Marry?' Ellen Falcon October 14, 1991 ( 1991-10-14) 446905 32 7 'The Big Four-Oh' Ellen Falcon Lisa Rosenthal October 21, 1991 ( 1991-10-21) 446907 33 8 'She Ain't Heavy' Ellen Falcon Lisa Rosenthal November 4, 1991 ( 1991-11-04) 446908 34 9 'Cased Up' Ellen Falcon Bennie R.
Richburg, Jr. November 11, 1991 ( 1991-11-11) 446909 35 10 'Hi-Ho Silver' Ellen Falcon Elaine Newman & Ed Burnham November 18, 1991 ( 1991-11-18) 446910 36 11 'The Butler Did It' Ellen Falcon Bryan Winter November 25, 1991 ( 1991-11-25) 446911 37 12 'Something for Nothing' Ellen Falcon December 9, 1991 ( 1991-12-09) 446912 38 13 'Will's Christmas Show' Ellen Falcon Winifred Hervey Stallworth December 16, 1991 ( 1991-12-16) 446913 39 14 'Hilary Gets a Life' Eunetta T. Karen Raper January 6, 1992 ( 1992-01-06) 446914 40 15 'My Brother's Keeper' Ellen Falcon Bennie Richburg, Jr.
Main article: No. In season Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production code 50 1 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation' September 14, 1992 ( 1992-09-14) 446951 51 2 'Will Gets Committed' Shelley Jensen Leslie Ray & David Steven Simon September 21, 1992 ( 1992-09-21) 446952 52 3 'That's No Lady, That's My Cousin' Shelley Jensen Bryan Winter September 28, 1992 ( 1992-09-28) 446953 53 4 'Hilary Gets a Job' Shelley Jensen Efrem Seeger October 5, 1992 ( 1992-10-05) 446954 54 5 'Mama's Baby, Carlton's Maybe' Shelley Jensen Michael Fry October 12, 1992 ( 1992-10-12) 446956 55 6 'P.S. I Love You' Shelley Jensen Linda M. Main article: No. In season Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production code 74 1 'Where There's a Will, There's a Way' (Part 1) Gary H. Miller September 20, 1993 ( 1993-09-20) 60031 75 2 'Where There's a Will, There's a Way' (Part 2) Shelley Jensen Gary H. Main article: No.
In season Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production code 100 1 'What's Will Got to Do with It?' (Part 1) Barry Gurstein & David Pitlik September 19, 1994 ( 1994-09-19) 60064 101 2 'The Client' (Part 2) Shelley Jensen & September 19, 1994 ( 1994-09-19) 60065 102 3 'Reality Bites' Shelley Jensen David Zuckerman September 26, 1994 ( 1994-09-26) 60063 103 4 'Grumpy Young Men' Shelley Jensen Michael Soccio October 3, 1994 ( 1994-10-03) 60066 104 5 'Fresh Prince, the Movie' Shelley Jensen Gary H.
Miller October 10, 1994 ( 1994-10-10) 60062 105 6 'Will's Misery' Shelley Jensen October 17, 1994 ( 1994-10-17) 60067 106 7 'Father Knows Best' Shelley Jensen Andrea Allen October 24, 1994 ( 1994-10-24) 60068 107 8 'Soul Train' Shelley Jensen John Ridley November 7, 1994 ( 1994-11-07) 60069 108 9 'Love Hurts' Shelley Jensen Barry Gurstein & David Pitlik November 14, 1994 ( 1994-11-14) 60070 109 10 'Will's Up the Dirt Road' Shelley Jensen Bennie R. Richburg, Jr. Main article: No.