Ben Vereen plays Will's long-lost father, who breezes into town and promises Will the moon, which angers an unforgiving Philip.

The Banks move out. The Jeffersons are about to move in. And Will turns out the lights.

Jailed, Will and Carlton stage a media stunt.

Aunt Vivian tries to mediate between her husband Philip and the newly arrived Will.

Will learns a sobering lesson after Carlton pops the wrong pills from Will's locker, mistaking amphetamines for vitamins, and winds up in hospital.

A planned camping trip is cut short for Carlton and Will when a robber approaches them at an automated bank-teller machine - and fires a gun.

Will and Carlton lose their shirts investing on a tip - then take jobs as strippers to recoup their losses and get Vivian's bracelet out of hock.

Hilary becomes Will's personal maid when he threatens to disclose she's dropped out of UCLA.

Philip may lose a superstitious client whom he advises not to make decisions based on Will's spontaneous remarks.

A holiday visit from Will's taskmaster mother puts the kibosh on conspicuous consumption and puts the kids to work preparing Thanksgiving dinner.

Will joins his prep school's poetry club.

Will tries to smooth things between Philip and his very rural parents when they visit to see him receive an award.

Will persuades Ashley to pawn her violin for a drum set.

Will proposes a black history class be instituted at Bel-Air Academy, and gets a surprise when Aunt Viv arrives to teach it.

The Bankses appear on Oprah's show and fail to invite Will on-stage, which may cause Philip to lose the election.

Will challenges Carlton to spend time in a tough neighborhood, trying to survive by masquerading as a financial consultant.

Will crawls to Philip for help after sneaking out on the town and getting hustled by sleazy pool sharks.

Carlton feels overshadowed by Will, who's become a basketball star at school.

The mansion's for sale and everybody's in the fast lane... except Will, who's stuck on life's soft shoulder.

Will gets a visit from an old pal named Ice Tray, who, to Vivian and Philip's dismay, warms up to Hilary.

Vy anticipates Will's graduation with enthusiasm, but there may be discord when she learns Will is failing music. To pass his music class, Will must sing at the graduation ceremony - with a class of eight-year-olds.

Will returns to the City of Brotherly Love and discovers he's the butt of old friends' jokes, prompting him to go into training to settle an old score and clear his reputation as a chicken.

A bro with dough? Carlton's upper-class upbringing may make him unwelcome at a black fraternity.

Will pays for putting off studying for a midterm until the last minute, and Ashley pays for staying out late on her first date.

Will has girl problems after a date with Jazz's domineering sister, who's ready to pick out a china pattern before the night is over.

A pompous lawyer who's dating Hilary is no fan of Will's after he's sideswiped by Will's roadster.

Philip is quick to judge an ex-con Will urged him to hire as a handyman and temporary assistant after the house is robbed.

Bell Biv DeVoe shoots a video at the Bankses, courtesy of Carlton, who rents the house while his parents are away.

Depressed and suicidal over having ruined his chances of attending Princeton University, Carlton is visited by his Guardian Angel, who shows him how awful the Banks family would be if he weren't alive.

It's double trouble for Will when Philip's old flame visits with her daughter, who's attracted to Will.

Will and Carlton begin their first year of college by moving into their own apartment, while Philip and Vivian enjoy their newborn son. Hilary learns that Trevor plans to propose marriage to her during an elaborate stunt on his TV news show.

When Phillip sues Will and Carlton for unpaid rent, two different versions of the dispute are aired - neither entirely truthful.

Philip takes Will and Carlton on a camping trip that turns out to be a disaster when snow traps the unhappy campers.

After winning at the country club's Monte Carlo night fund-raiser, Will learns that he's expected to donate the money to charity.

Will sneaks Philip's elderly mother out of the house for a night on the town.

Will and Carlton arrive as reinforcements when a bully challenges Ashley to a rumble, but there's real trouble when Philip and Vivian intervene.

Geoffrey humiliates himself by insulting the Banks family and quitting his job when Will and Carlton trick him into thinking he has won millions of dollars in the lottery.

Enrolled at the newly coed Bel-Air Prep, Ashley begins dressing to entice guys, using Will's preferences in women as her examples.

Hilary must work for a caterer after her credit cards are cancelled.

Will tries to juggle school and a new job in order to earn money for the homecoming party, at the same time Ashley's classmate Tina becomes interested in Carlton. Will starts becoming paranoid when he constantly is getting confused with Carlton.

Registration day finds Will signing up for no-brainer classes, plus one that might truly challenge him - a philosophy course he takes to meet a girl.

Ashley cringes when the family oohs and aahs over her relationship with Kevin , but Will chokes when she asks him about sex - and her curiosity about reproduction sends Will to a pregnancy counseling center.

Happy birthday Geoffrey! For a gift, Will tries matchmaking, then falls for Geoffrey's date himself.

On a family ski trip, the Banks find that they must come up with Christmas gifts from the heart after their belongings are stolen.

Stuck and out of luck, Will spends his bachelor party trapped in an elevator with a feuding Carlton and Jazz.

Series clips illustrate family recollections as the kids put together a scrapbook for Vivian and Philip, who want to renew their vows on their anniversary.

A stranger makes a generous offer for the Banks estate, which prompts the family to reminisce about their good times there.

Shafted! The engaged couple opts for flashy Vegas vows, complete with costumes. The tasteful theme: Shaft.

Will vows Philip with his sound investment advice to buy Jazz's apartment building - but the tenants scream slumlord after Philip acts on Will's moneymaking tip.

Dinner date. The Banks host a gorgeous girl from Philly who tries to lure Will away from Lisa.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Will pops the question from his hospital room. And Lisa's answer is...

As Vivian's delivery date approaches, the family fantasizes about what the baby will mean to each of them: Ashley feels all but invisible, Geoffrey feels overwhelmed by the family's demands, and Vivian feels like she's having triplets.

It's no laughing matter when a bomb-toting clown holds Philip hostage in the courtroom on the day of the showbiz madam's sentencing.

Husband-to-be Will has the bride, the ring, the date...and second thoughts about the whole idea.

Will inadvertently finds himself in the right place at the right time and lands a part in a daytime soap opera.

In competition with Carlton, Will sets out to prove he's the best man for the job on Hilary's TV show by escorting a famous comedian's sister out on the town.

Will loses points as a role model for Nicky while visiting an ever-positive kiddie hero who brings joy to youngsters - but not to Will.

Hilary's show has its national premiere. What more could she possibly want? How about a baby?

Philip expects Ashley to decline an offer for what he considers a degrading role in an ad by a director who could also give her a recommendation to a top New York school.

Will finds himself stranded in a mountain forest with his new girlfriend's disagreeable father after they parachute out of his disabled plane.

After learning a little something about initiative, Will jumps to Hilary's aid prior to a key business meeting at the station, meanwhile an unemployed Carlton subs for Philip on career day at Ashley's school.

Say, homie, could you do me a favor? Just-married Jazz makes a surprising request of Will.

The party's over. Will and Lisa tell each other lies so they can sneak off to the (uh-oh) same party.

Will and Carlton's double date ends unromantically when a big bruiser shows up looking for his squeeze.

Thanks to relationship counseling, Will and Lisa hop to move on up to a new understanding in preparation for marriage. Meanwhile Hillary wants Geoffrey to work at her new home.

Geoffrey's life changes overnight when a man claiming to be his long-lost son shows up and charms everyone - except Will, who discovers the guy's not what he seems. Meanwhile, Hilary starts writing her autobiography, and an early childhood photo reveals a shocking secret.

Will tries his hand at journalism to prove something to Lisa, but his efforts get him sued for libel - by Jay Leno.

After being accepted at Princeton, a worried Carlton changes his life plans and retreats to a place where everybody knows his name - the bowling alley.

The thrill is gone for "runaway yuppie" Carlton, who can't handle another disappointment, let alone his long-awaited Princeton interview.

Will's pride is on the ropes when a gorgeous boxing instructor KOs him at the gym.

A dream job for Will with a businessman friend of Philip's turns into a nightmare when the man offers him a bonus to help bribe a councilman.

Put into a trance by a stage hypnotist, Will behaves like a 4-year-old just as the family gears up for an interview with the admissions head of a private school.

To understand Philip's battle with the scale, Will dons a fat suit and gets a big fat lesson in empathy.

Carlton and Will, babe magnets. Who will be first to get a date for Hilary's Halloween party?

When Hillary is ordered to do community service at a free clinic, the doctor in charge becomes the antidote for her marriage-mindedness.

On academic probation, Will schemes to improve his grades by fixing up a newly divorced English professor with Hilary, who soon finds fault with the man, further jeopardizing Will's academic future.

Carlton and Will, babe magnets. Who will be first to get a date for Hilary's Halloween party?

Mortified over spying his mother kiss the handyman, Philip can't bear to think of her having a new man in her life.

Will gets roped into a weekend ski trip with Carlton that quickly turns to disaster when their party arrives; meanwhile, back home, Hilary prepares to leave the nest.

Will decides to book a juror dismissed from Philip's big show-biz madam sex-scandal case for Hilary's show, which results in embarrassment for Judge Banks and some annoying apologies from Will and Hilary.

Will breaks a date with Jackie to accompany Hilary to a Playboy Mansion reception for weather reporters being photographed for the magazine.

Bird is the word when Carlton, ULA's peacock mascot, is kidnapped by a rival school before the big game.

War breaks out when the girl Will likes plants a big one on Carlton.

Heavyweight boxing champ Riddick Brown wreaks havoc with Carlton's mind and Will's face at a funky cafe-casino in Nevada, where the cousins have stopped on their way to check out a college for Will.

Lisa humiliates Will by knocking out a guy with her self-defense moves.

Will works so hard to impress Lisa's dad that he spends all his free time with his new best buddy.

The church's widowed reverend is a man of esteemed reputation, but not in the eyes of Will - who spies him making a play for Aunt Vivian.

When Monique refuses to have sex until she's married, Will stages a mock wedding ceremony with D.J. Jazzy Jeff as the preacher.