The Banks family, on the other hand, comes from the other end of the spectrum: affluent and successful. His background is tragically the same as that of many African-Americans a single-parent family from a deprived area. The Will Smith of Fresh Prince is young and has just arrived from Philadelphia, who has been sent to live with his rich relatives – the Banks Family – in Bel-Air, as his mother hopes that sending him away will provide him with a far better start in life. A sitcom based around him, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air would become his saviour a show that would catapult him back to super-stardom and his bank balance back into the black. When The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air burst onto television screens in 1990, its Grammy-winning star Will Smith was bankrupt. 30 Years Later: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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