Seasons 1
1: The Fresh Prince Project
Original Air Date: 10 September 1990
Will comes to live with his aunt and
uncle in Bel-Air. Phillip isn't too
impressed by Will's behavior, especially
teaching Ashley to rap and ruining his
image to his members of the law firm.
Vivian tries to remain neutral in all
this. Carlton and Hillary look at Will
with disdain.
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2: Bang the Drum, Ashley
Original
Air Date: 17 September 1990
After Ashley reveals to him that she
does not enjoy playing the violin he
takes her to and trades her violin in
for a drum set. Then reveals that he has
already hired Ashley a teacher. Jazz.
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3: Clubba Hubba
Original
Air Date: 24 September 1990
Will tries to impress a girl's father so
he can date her. Mr. Banks, Carlton, and
Geoffrey try to teach him how to be a
gentleman in a My Fair Lady way.
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4: Not with My Pig, You Don't
Original
Air Date: 1 October 1990
Philip's parents come to visit for the
weekend when he wins a prestigious
award. After finding the rehearsed lines
of the Banks' to be boring and deciding
to kill the story, Will talks to the
interviewer telling her embarrassing
stories about Philip's past "barnyard
life" he heard from Philip's parents.
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5: Homeboy, Sweet Homeboy
Original
Air Date: 8 October 1990
Will gets a visit from an old pal named
Ice Tray, who, to Vivian's and Philip's
dismay, warms up to Hilary.
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6: Mistaken Identity
Original
Air Date: 15 October 1990
While Philip and Vivian go on a trip to
Palm Springs in Mr. Furth's helicopter,
Will and Carlton drive Furth's car there
as well. They get pulled over for
"stealing" the car. Hilary babysits
Ashley as Geoffrey has the weekend off.
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7: Def Poet's Society
Original
Air Date: 22 October 1990
Will enters into an after school
program, following the girls into a
Poetry class he makes up a poem on the
spot to impress the girls. After
creating a poet, Christina asks to bring
the made up poet to Poetry Night. After
Jazz doesn't come through with an
impostor, Will uses Geoffrey as the fake
poet.
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8: Someday Your Prince Will Be
in Effect: Part 1
Original
Air Date: 29 October 1990
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 sing in a Record-A-Song booth.
Hilary forgets to take a hat off Ashley
and walks out of the store with it, they
get accused of theft.
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9: Someday Your Prince Will Be
in Effect: Part 2
Original
Air Date: 29 October 1990
Will and Carlton both try to win Melinda
over by making up stories about
themselves. She ultimately chooses
Carlton over Will, though she hides a
secret.
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10: Kiss My Butler
Original
Air Date: 5 November 1990
It is Geoffrey's birthday and Will
decides to set him up on a blind date as
a gift. Will winds up thinking she is
perfect and breaks up the two dancing at
a nightclub. Later when Geoffrey comes
home, he gives Will Helen's phone number
stating she would be more fit for Will.
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11: Courting Disaster
Original
Air Date: 12 November 1990
Will joins the school basketball with
Carlton already on it. Will becomes the
star of the team and Carlton becomes
jealous and the competition between the
two starts. Carlton decides to steal the
ball from Will and take the game winning
shot.
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12: Talking Turkey
Original
Air Date: 19 November 1990
Will's mom comes to the Banks' for
Thanksgiving. She gets angry that the
kids of the house leave all of the work
to Geoffrey. After Vy criticizes Vivian
for being to easy on the kids, she
decides to make them cook Thanksgiving
dinner. Carlton also invites his English
teacher to the dinner.
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13: Knowledge Is Power
Original
Air Date: 26 November 1990
Hilary rats Will out for several things
including getting in at 3 in the morning
the previous day in order to get the
family car instead of Will. 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 while he is punished.
Hilary tries to get Carlton to go
against Will, but he also uses it
against her.
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14: Day Damn One
Original
Air Date: 3 December 1990
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.
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15: Deck the Halls
Original
Air Date: 10 December 1990
Will realizes that Ashley has never
experienced a real Christmas before and
goes out of his way to let her have one.
He decorates the inside of the mansion
and also the outside fully, upsetting
some of the neighbors.
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16: The Lucky Charm
Original
Air Date: 7 January 1991
One of Philip's clients is very
superstitious and befriends Will because
of a couple of coincidences, he thinks
Will is his good luck charm and let's
Will decide on some major decisions.
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17: The Ethnic Tip
Original
Air Date: 14 January 1991
Will proposes a black history class be
instituted at Bel-Air Academy, and gets
a surprise when Aunt Viv arrives to
teach it.
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18: Young and the Restless
Original Air Date: 21 January 1991
Philip's mother joins the family for the
weekend after recovering from a cold,
Philip wants her to relax for the
weekend but she wants to be more active.
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19: It Had to Be You
Original
Air Date: 4 February 1991
Jazz asks Will the favor of taking his
sister out on a date after she moves
into town, Will turns it down until Jazz
introduces the two. Will takes her on a
date and learns that she has her whole
life planned out for the two already.
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20: Nice Lady
Original
Air Date: 11 February 1991
Geoffrey's old employer Lord Fowler and
his daughter come to the Banks' house
for the weekend. Will wants to use the
car to go to a Ziggy Marley concert in
Nevada, Philip and Viv won't let him so
he makes a proposition to be on his best
behavior for the week. Lady Penelope
winds up not being what Will thought she
was.
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21: Love at First Fight
Original
Air Date: 18 February 1991
One of Vivian's students, Kayla Samuels
comes over for dinner and Will tries to
impress her but fails. It upsets Will
that he fails so they next day they have
an argument but wind up liking each
other. Will starts taking time away from
her studies and Aunt Viv tells him to
cut back on seeing her so she can have a
good future ahead of her. Vivian winds
up lecturing Kayla and revealing things
about her struggle to be successful.
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22: Banks Shot
Original
Air Date: 25 February 1991
Vivian goes away to Berkeley for the
weekend, leaving Hilary in charge of the
house while Philip is at the office.
Will steals the car keys to go to the
pool hall he winds up losing his money
and the car to a hustler. Philip goes
down to the pool hall to claim the money
back, playing the hustler.
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23: 72 Hours
Original
Air Date: 11 March 1991
Will makes a bet that Carlton wouldn't
last a weekend in Jazz' neighborhood,
Compton. Carlton starts to fulfill the
bet and Will has to find a way to stop
him from going to MacArthur Park at
night.
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24: Just Infatuation
Original
Air Date: 29 April 1991
Ashley's birthday is nearing and when
the family ask's her what she would like
for her birthday shows a picture of a
boy, Little T. 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.