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First Aired: August 24th, 1979

Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Summary: 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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Season 9

Episode 1: Down and Out in Malibu (1)

Air Date: September 26th, 1987

Summary: Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.

Episode 2: Down and Out in Malibu (2)

Air Date: October 3rd, 1987

Summary: 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.

Episode 3: Rumor Has It

Air Date: October 17th, 1987

Summary: Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.

Episode 4: Before the Fall

Air Date: October 24th, 1987

Summary: Natalie jumps at the chance to do an inside story on ROTC and then learns she'll also have to jump from a plane.

Episode 5: Sweet Charity

Air Date: November 7th, 1987

Summary: Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.

Episode 6: Up from Down Under

Air Date: November 14th, 1987

Summary: A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.

Episode 7: The More the Marrier

Air Date: November 21st, 1987

Summary: Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.

Episode 8: A Rose by Any Other Age

Air Date: November 28th, 1987

Summary: Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.

Episode 9: Adventures in Baileysitting

Air Date: December 5th, 1987

Summary: Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.

Episode 10: It's a Wonderful Christmas

Air Date: December 12nd, 1987

Summary: It's holiday time, and Beverly Ann feels unneeded, until a mysterious Santa shows her what Christmas in Peekskill would be like without her.

Episode 11: Golden Oldies

Air Date: January 2nd, 1988

Summary: Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.

Episode 12: A Thousand Frowns

Air Date: January 9th, 1988

Summary: Andy latches on to a ""big brother,"" who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.

Episode 13: Something in Common

Air Date: January 16th, 1988

Summary: It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.

Episode 14: Peekskill Law

Air Date: January 23rd, 1988

Summary: Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.

Episode 15: A House Divided

Air Date: January 30th, 1988

Summary: The fat hits the fire when Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends meet, and Jo blows a gasket over the repair job on her bike.

Episode 16: The First Time

Air Date: February 6th, 1988

Summary: Natalie deals firsthand with facts of life as she overnights with her boyfriend Snake, and faces the reactions of her friends and Snake.

Episode 17: Let's Face the Music

Air Date: February 13rd, 1988

Summary: 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.

Episode 18: Less Than Perfect

Air Date: February 20th, 1988

Summary: 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.

Episode 19: Till Marriage Do Us Part

Air Date: February 27th, 1988

Summary: Rick proposes to Jo in his own crazy way, and everyone anticipates a wedding everyone, that is, except Jo, who still hasn't accepted.

Episode 20: Present Imperfect

Air Date: March 5th, 1988

Summary: 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.

Episode 21: On the Edge

Air Date: March 12nd, 1988

Summary: 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.

Episode 22: Big Apple Blues

Air Date: March 19th, 1988

Summary: 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.""

Episode 23: The Beginning of the End

Air Date: April 30th, 1988

Summary: Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.

Episode 24: The Beginning of the Beginning

Air Date: May 7th, 1988

Summary: 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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