The Facts of Life

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

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9x1
Down and Out in Malibu (1)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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14, 1987
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
9x7
The More the Marrier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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02, 1988
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
9x12
A Thousand Frowns
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09, 1988
Andy latches on to a "big brother," who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
9x13
Something in Common
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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