What country is listed as the country of origin for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is listed as originating in the United States.

The series was an American sitcom produced for NBC and filmed in the Los Angeles area. Its story followed Will Smith, a teenager from West Philadelphia, after he moved in with the affluent Banks family in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Although the fictional story moves between Philadelphia and California, those settings do not change the program’s country of origin. The show was developed and produced within the American television industry, with American creators, performers, production companies, and network distribution.

Viewers sometimes confuse the show’s setting with its origin. Bel-Air is a Los Angeles community, while Philadelphia supplies the protagonist’s backstory; neither is a separate country or production origin. The sitcom aired on NBC from 1990 through 1996 and became one of the defining American television comedies of the decade.