The Facts of Life

7.0TV-PG

SeriesDrama, Comedy19799 Seasons

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

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.

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1Rough HousingAug 24, 1979 · 30m · ★ 3.5The series opens with the Drummonds (from Diff'rent Strokes) visiting Eastland to see Mrs. Garrett (their ex-housekeeper). They arrive right in the middle of the Harvest Queen competition and Blair is sure she's going to win. So when Cindy considers running, Blair makes some snide comments about Cindy's femininity.
2Like Mother, Like DaughterAug 31, 1979 · 30mIt's Parent's Night at Eastland and Blair's sophisticated mother arrives bringing with her, her flirtatious tendancies which prompt rumors when she becomes ""friendly"" with a married man.
3The Return of Mr. GarrettSep 7, 1979Mrs. Garrett is surprised by a visit from her ex-husband, Roger, who wants the two of them to remarry. However, his gambling ways rub off on the girls who begin gambling on poker games and loosing what little money they have..
4I.Q.Sep 14, 1979Tootie accidentally comes across a paper which lists the I.Q. scores of each one of the girls. Nancy received the highest score and Sue Ann scored the lowest, this puts extra pressure on each one of them just prior to midterm exams.
5OverachievingMar 12, 1980 · 30mTootie's father comes for a visit and doesn't like the activities that Tootie is being exposed to. Believing that Mrs. Garrett is a bad influence, Mr. Ramsey decides to have Tootie transfer out of Eastland.
6Emily DickinsonMar 14, 1980 · 30mBlair is so caught up with her latest boyfriend that she forgets about an English assignment in which she has to write a poem. So, at the last minute she plagiarizes a poem by Emily Dickinson and turns it in as her own. Things get worse when she's the only one who gets an A and Mr. Bradley enters her poem in a contest.

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.

Created by: Dick Clair, Norman Lear, Jenna McMahon
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Status: Ended
First aired: August 24, 1979
Last aired: May 7, 1988
Seasons: 9
Episodes: 201
Episode length: 30m
Language: English
Countries: United States of America
Networks: NBC
Production: TAT Communications Company, Embassy Television

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