The Facts of Life

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

7.1(103)|1979-08-24|9 seasons, 201 episodes

DramaComedy

Overview

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.

Episodes

Season 1(13)Season 2(16)Season 3(24)Season 4(24)Season 5(26)Season 6(26)Season 7(24)Season 8(24)Season 9(24)

S9E1 · 1987-09-26

Down and Out in Malibu (1)

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

S9E2 · 1987-10-03

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.

S9E3 · 1987-10-17

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.

S9E4 · 1987-10-24

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.

S9E5 · 1987-11-07

Sweet Charity

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

S9E6 · 1987-11-14

Up from Down Under

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

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Cloris Leachman

Beverly Ann Stickle

Lisa Whelchel

Blair Warner

Kim Fields

Tootie Ramsey

Mindy Cohn

Natalie Green

Nancy McKeon

Joanne Jo Polniaczek

Mackenzie Astin

Andy Moffett

Sherrié Austin

Pippa McKenna