The Facts of Life
"You take the good, you take the bad..."
Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.
Season 1 Episodes
The series opens with the Drummonds (from Diff'rent Strokes) visiting Eastland to see Mrs. Garrett (their ex-housekeeper…
It's Parent's Night at Eastland and Blair's sophisticated mother arrives bringing with her, her flirtatious tendancies w…
Mrs. Garrett is surprised by a visit from her ex-husband, Roger, who wants the two of them to remarry. However, his gam…
Tootie accidentally comes across a paper which lists the I.Q. scores of each one of the girls. Nancy received the highe…
E5
Tootie's father comes for a visit and doesn't like the activities that Tootie is being exposed to. Believing that Mrs. …
Blair is so caught up with her latest boyfriend that she forgets about an English assignment in which she has to write a…
Blair and Sue Ann kid each other about their weight and Sue Ann takes Blair's comments a little too seriously. However,…
Mrs. Garrett begins teaching a sex-education class at Eastland and her tactics are against the more prudish suggestions …
A flood hits Peekskill which prompts Blair and Tootie to race out to the stables to save some animals from being washed …
Mr. Bradley gives the girls an assignment having to do with their family trees. However, Natalie is reluctant to show h…
Mr. Bradley's need to have Eastland win prompts him to manipulate Sue Ann into competing in a running competition. Sue …
E12
Molly is down in the dumps due to her parents getting a divorce. So she gets some help from the girls who plan to reuni…
Blair and Sue Ann befriend two new girls. All seems to go okay with them until they learn that their friends use drugs.
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