Norman Lear
Director
The Facts of Life (1979)
Season 9
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.
Released Aug. 24, 1979
Episode 29 min
11+
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Watch Providers: Tubi TV, The Roku Channel
Production Companies: TAT Communications Company, Embassy Television
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S9E1 - Down and Out in Malibu (1)
Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
Sept. 26, 1987, midnight
S9E2 - Down and Out in Malibu (2)
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.
Oct. 3, 1987, midnight
S9E3 - Rumor Has It
Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.
Oct. 17, 1987, midnight
S9E4 - Before the Fall
Natalie jumps at the chance to do an inside story on ROTC and then learns she'll also have to jump from a plane.
Oct. 24, 1987, midnight
S9E5 - Sweet Charity
Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.
Nov. 7, 1987, midnight
S9E6 - Up from Down Under
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
Nov. 14, 1987, midnight
S9E7 - The More the Marrier
Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.
Nov. 21, 1987, midnight
S9E8 - A Rose by Any Other Age
Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.
Nov. 28, 1987, midnight
S9E9 - Adventures in Baileysitting
Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.
Dec. 5, 1987, midnight
S9E10 - It's a Wonderful Christmas
It's holiday time, and Beverly Ann feels unneeded, until a mysterious Santa shows her what Christmas in Peekskill would be like without her.
Dec. 12, 1987, midnight
S9E11 - Golden Oldies
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
Jan. 2, 1988, midnight
S9E12 - A Thousand Frowns
Andy latches on to a ""big brother,"" who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
Jan. 9, 1988, midnight
S9E13 - Something in Common
It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.
Jan. 16, 1988, midnight
S9E14 - Peekskill Law
Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
Jan. 23, 1988, midnight
S9E15 - A House Divided
The fat hits the fire when Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends meet, and Jo blows a gasket over the repair job on her bike.
Jan. 30, 1988, midnight
S9E16 - The First Time
Natalie deals firsthand with facts of life as she overnights with her boyfriend Snake, and faces the reactions of her friends and Snake.
Feb. 6, 1988, midnight
S9E17 - Let's Face the Music
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.
Feb. 13, 1988, midnight
S9E18 - Less Than Perfect
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.
Feb. 20, 1988, midnight
S9E19 - Till Marriage Do Us Part
Rick proposes to Jo in his own crazy way, and everyone anticipates a wedding everyone, that is, except Jo, who still hasn't accepted.
Feb. 27, 1988, midnight
S9E20 - Present Imperfect
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.
March 5, 1988, midnight
S9E21 - On the Edge
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.
March 12, 1988, midnight
S9E22 - Big Apple Blues
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.""
March 19, 1988, midnight
S9E23 - The Beginning of the End
Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.
April 30, 1988, midnight
S9E24 - The Beginning of the Beginning
As the new headmistress, Blair starts whipping Eastland students into shape, and she's particularly challenged by one who seems determined to get expelled.
May 7, 1988, midnight
NBC
29 min/ep
5829 min
Aug. 24, 1979
May 7, 1988, midnight
Ended
TV-PG
11+
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