The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
It's from 1990, before you were born.
- Network
- NBC
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Star
- Will Smith
- Premiered
- 1990
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About
As of 2026, it's 36 years old.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air took a charismatic young rapper named Will Smith, gave him a theme song everyone on Earth can still rap word-for-word, and launched one of the biggest careers in entertainment. The fish-out-of-water premise — a West Philadelphia kid sent to live with his rich Bel-Air relatives — was breezy and hilarious.
But it also slipped in moments of genuine emotional weight (the 'how come he don't want me?' scene still wrecks people), proving the show was deeper than its bounce.
Funny, warm, and impossibly quotable, The Fresh Prince is the sitcom that turned a theme-song origin story into a launchpad for a megastar.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air season by season
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ran for 6 seasons (1990–1995) across 148 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
