The Facts of Life
TV-PG
6.8
1979
Drama
, Comedy
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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- Cast:
- Cloris Leachman , Lisa Whelchel , Kim Fields , Mindy Cohn , Nancy McKeon , Mackenzie Astin , Sherrié Austin
Episode 24 : The Beginning of the Beginning
May. 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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Episode 23 : The Beginning of the End
April. 30,1988
Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.
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Episode 22 : Big Apple Blues
March. 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.""
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Episode 21 : On the Edge
March. 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.
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Episode 20 : Present Imperfect
March. 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.
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Episode 19 : Till Marriage Do Us Part
February. 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.
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Episode 18 : Less Than Perfect
February. 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.
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Episode 17 : Let's Face the Music
February. 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.
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Episode 16 : The First Time
February. 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.
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Episode 15 : A House Divided
January. 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.
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Episode 14 : Peekskill Law
January. 23,1988
Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
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Episode 13 : Something in Common
January. 16,1988
It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.
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Episode 12 : A Thousand Frowns
January. 09,1988
Andy latches on to a ""big brother,"" who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
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Episode 11 : Golden Oldies
January. 02,1988
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
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Episode 10 : It's a Wonderful Christmas
December. 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.
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Episode 9 : Adventures in Baileysitting
December. 05,1987
Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.
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Episode 8 : A Rose by Any Other Age
November. 28,1987
Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.
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Episode 7 : The More the Marrier
November. 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.
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Episode 6 : Up from Down Under
November. 14,1987
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
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Episode 5 : Sweet Charity
November. 07,1987
Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.
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Episode 4 : Before the Fall
October. 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.
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Episode 3 : Rumor Has It
October. 17,1987
Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.
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Episode 2 : Down and Out in Malibu (2)
October. 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.
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Episode 1 : Down and Out in Malibu (1)
September. 26,1987
Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
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