The Facts of Life (1979)
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest running sitcom of the 1980s. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focuses on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York.
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9x01 Down and Out in Malibu (1)
27 September, 1987 4:00 am
Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
9x02 Down and Out in Malibu (2)
04 October, 1987 4:00 am
Richard Moll returns to the home he left in Jo's care to find it's been flooded: someone left the water running in the hot tub.
9x03 Rumor Has It
18 October, 1987 4:00 am
Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.
9x04 Before the Fall
25 October, 1987 3:00 am
Natalie jumps at the chance to do an inside story on ROTC and then learns she'll also have to jump from a plane.
9x05 Sweet Charity
08 November, 1987 4:00 am
Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.
9x06 Up from Down Under
15 November, 1987 4:00 am
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
9x07 The More the Marrier
22 November, 1987 4:00 am
Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.
9x08 A Rose by Any Other Age
29 November, 1987 4:00 am
Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.
9x09 Adventures in Baileysitting
06 December, 1987 4:00 am
Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.
9x10 It's a Wonderful Christmas
13 December, 1987 4:00 am
It's holiday time, and Beverly Ann feels unneeded, until a mysterious Santa shows her what Christmas in Peekskill would be like without her.
9x11 Golden Oldies
03 January, 1988 4:00 am
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
9x12 A Thousand Frowns
10 January, 1988 4:00 am
Andy latches on to a "big brother," who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
9x13 Something in Common
17 January, 1988 4:00 am
It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.
9x14 Peekskill Law
24 January, 1988 4:00 am
Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
9x15 A House Divided
31 January, 1988 4:00 am
The fat hits the fire when Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends meet, and Jo blows a gasket over the repair job on her bike.
9x16 The First Time
07 February, 1988 4:00 am
Natalie deals firsthand with facts of life as she overnights with her boyfriend Snake, and faces the reactions of her friends and Snake.
9x17 Let's Face the Music
14 February, 1988 4:00 am
A sponsor of a musical benefit invites Jo and Blair to visit his beauty spa, where they are transformed but not in the way they expected.
9x18 Less Than Perfect
21 February, 1988 4:00 am
One evening, a tired Blair falls asleep at the wheel and has a car accident landing her in the hospital with a gash in her for-head. This leads her to begin worrying about how her once "perfect" self will recover from this tragedy.
9x19 Till Marriage Do Us Part
28 February, 1988 4:00 am
Rick proposes to Jo in his own crazy way, and everyone anticipates a wedding everyone, that is, except Jo, who still hasn't accepted.
9x20 Present Imperfect
06 March, 1988 4:00 am
Tootie recieves a hideous pendant as an engagement present from Jeff's formidable grandmother, and it's pulverized at Andy and Pippa's wild party just before the woman arrives.
9x21 On the Edge
13 March, 1988 4:00 am
Jo's job at the social services center gets a bit hairy when her supervisor, a suicide prevention counselor, threatens to leap off a building.
9x22 Big Apple Blues
20 March, 1988 4:00 am
Natalie's first bite of the Big Apple is hard to digest: she overnights in a Soho loft with "the four weirdest people I've ever met."
9x23 The Beginning of the End
01 May, 1988 4:00 am
Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.
9x24 The Beginning of the Beginning
08 May, 1988 4:00 am
As the new headmistress, Blair starts whipping Eastland students into shape, and she's particularly challenged by one who seems determined to get expelled.
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