← The Facts of Life

Season 9

24 episodes · 1987

  1. 1

    Down and Out in Malibu (1)

    Sep 26, 198724 min★ 7.2

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

  2. 2

    Down and Out in Malibu (2)

    Oct 3, 198724 min★ 7.0

    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.

  3. 3

    Rumor Has It

    Oct 17, 198724 min★ 8.0

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

  4. 4

    Before the Fall

    Oct 24, 198724 min★ 7.7

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

  5. 5

    Sweet Charity

    Nov 7, 198724 min★ 7.8

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

  6. 6

    Up from Down Under

    Nov 14, 198724 min★ 6.4

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

  7. 7

    The More the Marrier

    Nov 21, 198724 min★ 7.3

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

  8. 8

    A Rose by Any Other Age

    Nov 28, 198724 min★ 7.6

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

  9. 9

    Adventures in Baileysitting

    Dec 5, 198724 min★ 7.1

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

  10. 10

    It's a Wonderful Christmas

    Dec 12, 198724 min★ 7.2

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

  11. 11

    Golden Oldies

    Jan 2, 198824 min★ 6.9

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

  12. 12

    A Thousand Frowns

    Jan 9, 198824 min★ 7.3

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

  13. 13

    Something in Common

    Jan 16, 198824 min★ 7.5

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

  14. 14

    Peekskill Law

    Jan 23, 198824 min★ 7.6

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

  15. 15

    A House Divided

    Jan 30, 198824 min★ 7.4

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

  16. 16

    The First Time

    Feb 6, 198824 min★ 7.5

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

  17. 17

    Let's Face the Music

    Feb 13, 198830 min★ 7.3

    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.

  18. 18

    Less Than Perfect

    Feb 20, 198830 min★ 8.2

    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.

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    Till Marriage Do Us Part

    Feb 27, 198824 min★ 7.7

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

  20. 20

    Present Imperfect

    Mar 5, 198824 min★ 7.3

    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.

  21. 21

    On the Edge

    Mar 12, 198830 min★ 6.9

    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.

  22. 22

    Big Apple Blues

    Mar 19, 198824 min★ 6.8

    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."

  23. 23

    The Beginning of the End

    Apr 30, 198824 min★ 7.5

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

  24. 24

    The Beginning of the Beginning

    May 7, 198824 min★ 7.2

    As the new headmistress, Blair starts whipping Eastland students into shape, and she's particularly challenged by one who seems determined to get expelled.