The Facts of Life

  • : 1979
  • : 201
  • : 27
  • NBC
  • 20
  • Comedy Family

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9
9x1
Down and Out in Malibu (1)
Episode overview
26, 1987
Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
9x2
Down and Out in Malibu (2)
Episode overview
03, 1987
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.
9x3
Rumor Has It
Episode overview
17, 1987
Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.
9x4
Before the Fall
Episode overview
24, 1987
Natalie jumps at the chance to do an inside story on ROTC and then learns she'll also have to jump from a plane.
9x5
Sweet Charity
Episode overview
07, 1987
Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.
9x6
Up from Down Under
Episode overview
14, 1987
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
9x7
The More the Marrier
Episode overview
21, 1987
Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.
9x8
A Rose by Any Other Age
Episode overview
28, 1987
Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.
9x9
Adventures in Baileysitting
Episode overview
05, 1987
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
Episode overview
12, 1987
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
Episode overview
02, 1988
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
9x12
A Thousand Frowns
Episode overview
09, 1988
Andy latches on to a "big brother," who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
9x13
Something in Common
Episode overview
16, 1988
It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.
9x14
Peekskill Law
Episode overview
23, 1988
Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
9x15
A House Divided
Episode overview
30, 1988
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
Episode overview
06, 1988
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
Episode overview
13, 1988
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
Episode overview
20, 1988
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
Episode overview
27, 1988
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
Episode overview
05, 1988
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
Episode overview
12, 1988
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
Episode overview
19, 1988
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
Episode overview
30, 1988
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
Episode overview
07, 1988
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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