The Facts of Life (1979)
TVG
Sitcom
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women through teenage challenges at an all-female boarding school.
Cast & Crew
Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Monday, March 10
Adventures in Baileysitting
Season 9 • Episode 9
Blair learns a lesson about motherhood when she agrees to baby-sit her little sister.
Monday, March 10
Golden Oldies
Season 9 • Episode 11
It is 40 years into the future and the girls are back together in the same house.
Monday, March 10
The First Time
Season 9 • Episode 16
Natalie and Snake become intimate.
Monday, March 10
Less Than Perfect
Season 9 • Episode 18
A scar received in a car accident mars Blair's personality as well as her face.
Monday, March 10
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Season 9 • Episode 19
Jo and Blair both receive interesting, if unexpected, proposals from their boyfriends.
Monday, March 10
The Beginning of the End
Season 9 • Episode 23
Blair puts up her grandmother's trust fund to save Eastland School from bankruptcy.
Monday, March 10
The Beginning of the Beginning
Season 9 • Episode 24
Blair becomes headmistress of Eastland School.
Monday, March 10
Rough Housing
Season 1 • Episode 1
Cindy must compete with Blair to be Harvest Queen.
Monday, March 10
I.Q.
Season 1 • Episode 4
Tootie discloses her friends' I.Q. scores.
Monday, March 10
Overachieving
Season 1 • Episode 5
Tootie's father wants to remove her from Mrs. Garrett's care.
Monday, March 10
Less Than Perfect
Season 9 • Episode 18
A scar received in a car accident mars Blair's personality as well as her face.
Monday, March 10
Present Imperfect
Season 9 • Episode 20
Tootie is afraid she may lose Jeff when a gift from his grandmother ends up in the blender.
Monday, March 10
The Facts of Love
Season 1 • Episode 8
Blair decides to put a sex-education lesson to use.
Monday, March 10
Flash Flood
Season 1 • Episode 9
A serious flood hits Peekskill; Blair and Tootie are trapped; Mr. Bradley attempts to rescue them.
Monday, March 10
Adoption
Season 1 • Episode 10
Adopted Natalie wants to find her natural mother.
Monday, March 10
Running
Season 1 • Episode 11
Mr. Bradley sets out to keep the school's championship track title.
Tuesday, March 11
Molly's Holliday
Season 1 • Episode 12
The girls plan to reconcile Molly's divorcing folks.
Tuesday, March 11
Dope
Season 1 • Episode 13
Blair and Sue Ann decide to join an exclusive group of girls whose favorite pastime is marijuana.
Tuesday, March 11
The New Girl
Season 2 • Episode 1
Mrs. Garrett assigns a streetwise student to be Blair's roommate.
Tuesday, March 11
The New Girl
Season 2 • Episode 2
Mrs. Garrett's plan gets the girls expelled.
Tuesday, March 11
Double Standard
Season 2 • Episode 3
Jo attends a country club cotillion with Blair's suave childhood friend.
Tuesday, March 11
Who Am I?
Season 2 • Episode 4
Tootie's new boyfriend questions the real motives of her white friends.
Tuesday, March 11
Cousin Geri
Season 2 • Episode 5
A visit by Blair's handicapped cousin brings back a lifelong conflict.
Tuesday, March 11
Shoplifting
Season 2 • Episode 6
Jo "picks up" an expensive gift for Mrs. Garrett's birthday.
Tuesday, March 11
Teenage Marriage
Season 2 • Episode 7
Jo's old boyfriend proposes marriage.
Tuesday, March 11
Teenage Marriage
Season 2 • Episode 8
Mrs. Garrett and the girls try to delay Jo's marriage.
Tuesday, March 11
On the Edge
Season 9 • Episode 21
A co-worker of Jo's suffers career burnout and threatens to commit suicide.
Tuesday, March 11
Big Apple Blues
Season 9 • Episode 22
A weekend trip to New York sets Natalie on a new life course.
Tuesday, March 11
Sex Symbol
Season 2 • Episode 11
Natalie's first date has unexpected consequences.
Tuesday, March 11
The Secret
Season 2 • Episode 12
Jo fears her classmates will find out about her father's disreputable past.
Tuesday, March 11
Bought and Sold
Season 2 • Episode 13
Cosmetics saleswoman Blair gives Tootie a new look.
Tuesday, March 11
Pretty Babies
Season 2 • Episode 14
A top fashion photographer arrives on campus to search for the new face of the '80s.
Wednesday, March 12
Free Spirit
Season 2 • Episode 15
Mrs. Garrett's son, Alex, pays a visit to Eastland and captures Natalie's attention.
Wednesday, March 12
Brian and Sylvia
Season 2 • Episode 16
Tootie and Natalie visit Tootie's aunt Sylvia; they end up in the middle of a marital flare-up.
Wednesday, March 12
Growing Pains
Season 3 • Episode 1
Blair brings home two bottles of fine European wine, and Tootie drinks some to show she is an adult.
Wednesday, March 12
Fear Strikes Back
Season 3 • Episode 2
Natalie is sexually assaulted while retuning home from a campus party.
Wednesday, March 12
A Baby in the House
Season 3 • Episode 3
A former Eastland student, now a teenage wife and mother, stops by for a visit.
Wednesday, March 12
A Friend in Deed
Season 3 • Episode 4
Blair inadvertently discovers her mother has a serious illness; her mother has breast cancer.
Wednesday, March 12
Front Page
Season 3 • Episode 5
Jo's chance to write a hot news story leads her on a trail of revenge.
Wednesday, March 12
Give and Take
Season 3 • Episode 6
Mrs. Garrett must take a second job at the Howard Johnson's when she loses her pension.
Wednesday, March 12
Sweet Sorrow
Season 3 • Episode 7
Jo's relationship with her boyfriend is in jeopardy when she falls for another guy.
Wednesday, March 12
From Russia With Love
Season 3 • Episode 8
Natalie's plans for a private weekend fall through when her grandmother arrives.
Wednesday, March 12
The Beginning of the End
Season 9 • Episode 23
Blair puts up her grandmother's trust fund to save Eastland School from bankruptcy.
Wednesday, March 12
The Beginning of the Beginning
Season 9 • Episode 24
Blair becomes headmistress of Eastland School.
Wednesday, March 12
Legacy
Season 3 • Episode 11
Blair's decision to donate part of her inheritance to Eastland brings unexpected family news.
Wednesday, March 12
Green-Eyed Monster
Season 3 • Episode 12
When Tootie beats Natalie for the lead role in the school play, a rift grows between them.
Wednesday, March 12
The Americanization of Miko
Season 3 • Episode 13
Jo is caught in an international conflict when she meets a new Japanese student.
Wednesday, March 12
The Marriage Brokers
Season 3 • Episode 14
Blair is curious about Mrs. Garrett's new beau.
Thursday, March 13
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Season 1 • Episode 2
Blair's mother runs into an old high-school boyfriend during Parents Night.
Thursday, March 13
The Return of Mr. Garrett
Season 1 • Episode 3
Mrs. Garrett's ex-husband proposes again.
Friday, March 14
Starstruck
Season 3 • Episode 15
Tootie is obsessed with singer Jermaine Jackson.
Friday, March 14
The Four Musketeers
Season 3 • Episode 16
The girls must decide if they want to continue living together.
Friday, March 14
The Affair
Season 3 • Episode 17
Natalie is devastated when she sees her father with a strange woman.
Friday, March 14
Runaway
Season 3 • Episode 18
Tootie decides to go to New York unchaperoned.
Friday, March 14
New York, New York
Season 3 • Episode 19
Trips home seem to make the Blair/Jo feud worse.
Friday, March 14
Kids Can Be Cruel
Season 3 • Episode 20
Natalie's revenge harms an innocent bystander.
Friday, March 14
Mind Your Own Business
Season 3 • Episode 21
Blair begins a war over the right to privacy.
Friday, March 14
The Academy
Season 3 • Episode 22
Blair's cadet date is really a delinquent.
Friday, March 14
Jo's Cousin
Season 3 • Episode 23
Jo's 14-year-old cousin wants her overprotective father and brothers to recognize her femininity.
Friday, March 14
Read No Evil
Season 3 • Episode 24
The issue of book banning arises at Eastland.
Friday, March 14
I.Q.
Season 1 • Episode 4
Tootie discloses her friends' I.Q. scores.
Friday, March 14
Overachieving
Season 1 • Episode 5
Tootie's father wants to remove her from Mrs. Garrett's care.
Saturday, March 15
September Song
Season 4 • Episode 11
Mrs. Garrett receives a marriage proposal.
Saturday, March 15
A Royal Pain
Season 4 • Episode 12
Tootie discovers that the new student, a young princess, plans to run away.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
Emily Dickinson
Season 1 • Episode 6
Blair's solution to a problem puts the honor of the school at stake.
Monday, March 17
Dieting
Season 1 • Episode 7
Sue Ann goes on a crash diet after the pressure of everyone's body-consciousness.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 17
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
The Facts of Love
Season 1 • Episode 8
Blair decides to put a sex-education lesson to use.
Tuesday, March 18
Flash Flood
Season 1 • Episode 9
A serious flood hits Peekskill; Blair and Tootie are trapped; Mr. Bradley attempts to rescue them.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 18
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
Adoption
Season 1 • Episode 10
Adopted Natalie wants to find her natural mother.
Wednesday, March 19
Running
Season 1 • Episode 11
Mr. Bradley sets out to keep the school's championship track title.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 19
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Thursday, March 20
Molly's Holliday
Season 1 • Episode 12
The girls plan to reconcile Molly's divorcing folks.
Thursday, March 20
Dope
Season 1 • Episode 13
Blair and Sue Ann decide to join an exclusive group of girls whose favorite pastime is marijuana.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Friday, March 21
The New Girl
Season 2 • Episode 1
Mrs. Garrett assigns a streetwise student to be Blair's roommate.
Friday, March 21
The New Girl
Season 2 • Episode 2
Mrs. Garrett's plan gets the girls expelled.
Saturday, March 22
Magnificent Obsession
Season 4 • Episode 13
Blair's behavior toward her new boyfriend could cost her her self-respect and her best friends.
Saturday, March 22
Under Pressure
Season 4 • Episode 14
The girls are determined to do everything in their power to spare Mrs. Garrett unnecessary stress.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Monday, March 24
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Tuesday, March 25
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 26
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 26
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 26
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 26
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
Wednesday, March 26
A housemother guides four girls at a school for young women.
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