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The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life

Season 9

1987

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  • E1

    Down and Out in Malibu (1)

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

  • E2

    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.

  • E3

    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.

  • E4

    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.

  • E5

    Sweet Charity

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

  • E6

    Up from Down Under

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

  • E7

    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.

  • E8

    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.

  • E9

    Adventures in Baileysitting

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

  • E10

    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.

  • E11

    Golden Oldies

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

  • E12

    A Thousand Frowns

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

  • E13

    Something in Common

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

  • E14

    Peekskill Law

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

  • E15

    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.

  • E16

    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.

  • E17 · 30 min

    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.

  • E18 · 30 min

    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 on her forehead. This leads her to begin worrying about how her once "perfect" self will recover from this tragedy.

  • E19

    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.

  • E20

    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.

  • E21

    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.

  • E22

    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."

  • E23

    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.

  • E24

    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.