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The Facts of Life

Season 9 1987 - 1988

  • 1987-09-27T00:00:00Z on NBC
  • 25m
  • 10h 15m (24 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
Charlotte Rae stars as a dietician and house mother at a private girls' boarding school, watching over students Blair, Tootie, Natalie and Jo.

24 episodes

Season Premiere

1987-09-27T00:00:00Z

9x01 Down and Out in Malibu (1)

Season Premiere

9x01 Down and Out in Malibu (1)

  • 1987-09-27T00:00:00Z25m

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

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.

1987-10-18T00:00:00Z

9x03 Rumor Has It

9x03 Rumor Has It

  • 1987-10-18T00:00:00Z25m

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

1987-10-25T00:00:00Z

9x04 Before the Fall

9x04 Before the Fall

  • 1987-10-25T00:00:00Z25m

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

1987-11-08T01:00:00Z

9x05 Sweet Charity

9x05 Sweet Charity

  • 1987-11-08T01:00:00Z25m

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

1987-11-15T01:00:00Z

9x06 Up from Down Under

9x06 Up from Down Under

  • 1987-11-15T01:00:00Z25m

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

1987-11-22T01:00:00Z

9x07 The More the Marrier

9x07 The More the Marrier

  • 1987-11-22T01:00:00Z25m

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

1987-11-29T01:00:00Z

9x08 A Rose by Any Other Age

9x08 A Rose by Any Other Age

  • 1987-11-29T01:00:00Z25m

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

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

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

1988-01-03T01:00:00Z

9x11 Golden Oldies

9x11 Golden Oldies

  • 1988-01-03T01:00:00Z25m

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

1988-01-10T01:00:00Z

9x12 A Thousand Frowns

9x12 A Thousand Frowns

  • 1988-01-10T01:00:00Z25m

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

1988-01-17T01:00:00Z

9x13 Something in Common

9x13 Something in Common

  • 1988-01-17T01:00:00Z25m

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

1988-01-24T01:00:00Z

9x14 Peekskill Law

9x14 Peekskill Law

  • 1988-01-24T01:00:00Z25m

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

1988-01-31T01:00:00Z

9x15 A House Divided

9x15 A House Divided

  • 1988-01-31T01:00:00Z25m

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

1988-02-07T01:00:00Z

9x16 The First Time

9x16 The First Time

  • 1988-02-07T01:00:00Z25m

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

1988-02-14T01:00:00Z

9x17 Let's Face the Music

9x17 Let's Face the Music

  • 1988-02-14T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1988-02-21T01:00:00Z

9x18 Less Than Perfect

9x18 Less Than Perfect

  • 1988-02-21T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1988-02-28T01:00:00Z

9x19 Till Marriage Do Us Part

9x19 Till Marriage Do Us Part

  • 1988-02-28T01:00:00Z25m

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

1988-03-06T01:00:00Z

9x20 Present Imperfect

9x20 Present Imperfect

  • 1988-03-06T01:00:00Z25m

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.

1988-03-13T01:00:00Z

9x21 On the Edge

9x21 On the Edge

  • 1988-03-13T01:00:00Z30m

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.

1988-03-20T01:00:00Z

9x22 Big Apple Blues

9x22 Big Apple Blues

  • 1988-03-20T01:00:00Z25m

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."

1988-05-01T00:00:00Z

9x23 The Beginning of the End

9x23 The Beginning of the End

  • 1988-05-01T00:00:00Z25m

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

Season Finale

1988-05-08T00:00:00Z

9x24 The Beginning of the Beginning

Season Finale

9x24 The Beginning of the Beginning

  • 1988-05-08T00:00:00Z25m

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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