The Facts of Life (1979)
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.
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Episode 1 - Down and Out in Malibu (1)
Release Date: 1987-09-26Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
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Episode 2 - Down and Out in Malibu (2)
Release Date: 1987-10-03Richard 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 3 - Rumor Has It
Release Date: 1987-10-17Blair'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 4 - Before the Fall
Release Date: 1987-10-24Natalie 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 5 - Sweet Charity
Release Date: 1987-11-07Jo 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 6 - Up from Down Under
Release Date: 1987-11-14A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
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Episode 7 - The More the Marrier
Release Date: 1987-11-21Tootie'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 8 - A Rose by Any Other Age
Release Date: 1987-11-28Blair 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 9 - Adventures in Baileysitting
Release Date: 1987-12-05Babysitter 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 10 - It's a Wonderful Christmas
Release Date: 1987-12-12It'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 11 - Golden Oldies
Release Date: 1988-01-02Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
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Episode 12 - A Thousand Frowns
Release Date: 1988-01-09Andy latches on to a ""big brother,"" who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
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Episode 13 - Something in Common
Release Date: 1988-01-16It'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 14 - Peekskill Law
Release Date: 1988-01-23Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
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Episode 15 - A House Divided
Release Date: 1988-01-30The 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 16 - The First Time
Release Date: 1988-02-06Natalie 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 17 - Let's Face the Music
Release Date: 1988-02-13A 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 18 - Less Than Perfect
Release Date: 1988-02-20One 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 19 - Till Marriage Do Us Part
Release Date: 1988-02-27Rick 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 20 - Present Imperfect
Release Date: 1988-03-05Tootie 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 21 - On the Edge
Release Date: 1988-03-12Jo'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 22 - Big Apple Blues
Release Date: 1988-03-19Natalie'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 23 - The Beginning of the End
Release Date: 1988-04-30Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.
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Episode 24 - The Beginning of the Beginning
Release Date: 1988-05-07As the new headmistress, Blair starts whipping Eastland students into shape, and she's particularly challenged by one who seems determined to get expelled.