The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - 'The Complete Series' DVDs Get a USA Release this May All six seasons together in one package, available from Warner's WBshop online store
Posted by David Lambert	4/24/2017
It's the complete six-season classic that gave sitcom street smarts: 147 episodes, nearly 57 hours, in one big box set! Before shooting into the showbiz stratosphere with four Grammy Awards and box-office hits Independence Day, Men in Black and I am Legend, music and movie icon Will Smith first rose to stardom as a West Philadelphia kid who gets the uplift of a lifetime when he's sent to live with his rich relatives on the West Coast. Talk about your culture clashes...and your audience pleasers: Fresh Prince regularly showed a flawed and conflicted African-American household that, despite internal differences, pulled together and made life work - and laughter ring out. Over seven years, "Smith.emerged as something more: a first-rate comedian with a deadpan star...so spontaneous, so much at east in front of the camera, that it's frequently hard to tell which of his lines are scripted and which are ad-libbed" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly). From beginning to end, this Prince gives you the royal comedy treatment! Special Features: Special Features Include: Back to Bel-Air: A Fresh Retrospective Documentary and Two Seasonal Bel-Air Bloopers Reel! In 2015, Warner Home Video of Canada quietly released a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - The Complete Series set north of the border. It was so quiet, in fact, that we didn't know about it until 2016, when we ran across an Amazon.ca listing for the item. That listing is still technically active today, but the item was deactivated a while back, and that particular entry only shows sales from 3rd-party vendors (and the artwork currently on display is from a Dutch-language version of the package, for some reason!). Back in February of this year a new Amazon.ca listing was added, as the title was re-released/re-promoted in Canada, but the entry there tells U.S. residents that "This item does not ship to your selected location." It's available to Canadian residents, though, and currently sells for CA$85.49, with all six seasons slid into one outer slipcase. What about fans who are State-side and want The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - The Complete Series on DVD? Warner Home Video is finally addressing that, it seems...but apparently not with a general release in stores. Rather, they are taking this traditionally-manufactured set (it's not listed as being a manufacture-on-demand item) and selling it via their studio's WBshop.com online store! Price is currently $76.79 to pre-order it (that's discounted hugely from the $139.62 SRP!), and it ships on May 16th. Here's the packaging, and a pre-order button link: