The Facts of Life
Drama • Series

The Facts of Life

"You take the good, you take the bad..."

7.1/10 1979 9 Seasons 201 Episodes Ended

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 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Season 8 Episodes

E1
Out of Peekskill (1)
1986

Mrs. Garrett must decided between her two loves, the girls or Bruce, a man she falls for and who asks her to go to Afric…

E2
Out of Peekskill (2)
30 min 1986

Conclusion. When Mrs. Garrett goes to Africa with her new husband, her sister moves in with the girls. Blair: Lisa Whelc…

E3
Ready or Not
1986

Beverly Ann is concerned that Tootie is getting much too serious about her new boyfriend.

E4
Another Room
1986

Fed up with having no privacy, Jo considers moving out, until Beverly Ann suggests remodeling the attic into a room. Ho…

E5
Off-Broadway Baby
1986

Beverly Ann and the girls head for New York, when Tootie decides to audition for her first Broadway show. However, when…

E6
The Little Chill
1986

Blair, Tootie and Natalie organize a reunion with the girls from Eastland. This brings Nancy, Cindy and Sue Ann back to…

E7
The Ratings Game
1986

Blair's computerized date-rating system is the focus when she makes a bet with Jo dealing with whether or not the system…

E8
The Wedding Day
1986

Jo offers to marry an illegal alien in order to keep the man from being deported.

E9
Fast Food
25 min 1986

Natalie gets Blair a job at a Mexican restaurant where Natalie works. However, Blair snobby attitude gets her fired whe…

E10
Where's Poppa?
1986

A disconsolate Blair locks herself in the bedroom after her father pleads guilty to charges of insider trading.

E11
Write and Wrong
1986

A furious Natalie is determined to identify and sue the plagiarist who sold her short story to a magazine.

E12
Seven Little Indians
1987

In this fantasy episode, a cross between ""The Twilight Zone"" and a horror film, the crew finds themselves being murder…

E13
The Greek Connection
1987

Assigned by the paper to get the inside dirt on Pledge Week at Langley, Natalie crashes the rush party of the sorority T…

E14
Post-Christmas Card
30 min 1987

As a post-Christmas gift, Natalie gets her first credit card, and promptly goes on a spending spree.

E15
A Star is Torn
1987

Cinnamon, who bested Tootie in the audition for a Broadway rock musical, shows up claiming she's been replaced but that'…

E16
A Winter's Tale
1987

The girls are snowed in at a ski cabin with three guys preparing a bachelor party, but the groom is ready to call off th…

E17
Cupid's Revenge
1987

Cupid can be perverse: all the girls old boyfriends happen to show up just before the Valentine's Day dance.

E18
62 Pick-Up
1987

Fabian and Bobby Rydell visit the girls, and together they recall the look and sound of the 1960s.

E19
Boy About the House
1987

Beverly is sick of seeing Andy shuttled from one foster home to another, so she offers to adopt him.

E20
Ex Marks the Spot
1987

Beverly Ann's ex shows up unexpectedly, hoping for a reconciliation.

E21
Younger Than Springtime
1987

Jo is unhappy that Blair is playing matchmaker for Jo's lonely father, but she's really upset with the final results.

E22
This is Only a Test
1987

Blair discovers that even she can't buy admission to law school if she doesn't pass a four-hour test she hasn't studied …

E23
Rites of Passage (1)
1987

After her commencement speech is rejected, Jo refuses to make a speech at all, but then learns that her grandfather has …

E24
Rites of Passage (2)
1987

Summer offers a variety of options for everyone, especially Jo, who's offered a tempting job in Los Angeles.

Cast

Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman
Beverly Ann Stickle
Lisa Whelchel
Lisa Whelchel
Blair Warner
Kim Fields
Kim Fields
Tootie Ramsey
Mindy Cohn
Mindy Cohn
Natalie Green
Nancy McKeon
Nancy McKeon
Joanne Jo Polniaczek
Mackenzie Astin
Mackenzie Astin
Andy Moffett
Sherrié Austin
Sherrié Austin
Pippa McKenna

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