The Facts of Life

1Down and Out in Malibu (1)

Sep 26, 1987

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

2Down and Out in Malibu (2)

Oct 3, 1987

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.

3Rumor Has It

Oct 17, 1987

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

4Before the Fall

Oct 24, 1987

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

5Sweet Charity

Nov 7, 1987

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

6Up from Down Under

Nov 14, 1987

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

7The More the Marrier

Nov 21, 1987

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

8A Rose by Any Other Age

Nov 28, 1987

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

9Adventures in Baileysitting

Dec 5, 1987

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

10It's a Wonderful Christmas

Dec 12, 1987

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

11Golden Oldies

Jan 2, 1988

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

12A Thousand Frowns

Jan 9, 1988

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

13Something in Common

Jan 16, 1988

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

14Peekskill Law

Jan 23, 1988

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

15A House Divided

Jan 30, 1988

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

16The First Time

Feb 6, 1988

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

17Let's Face the Music

30 minFeb 13, 1988

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.

18Less Than Perfect

30 minFeb 20, 1988

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.

19Till Marriage Do Us Part

Feb 27, 1988

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

20Present Imperfect

Mar 5, 1988

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.

21On the Edge

Mar 12, 1988

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.

22Big Apple Blues

Mar 19, 1988

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."

23The Beginning of the End

Apr 30, 1988

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

24The Beginning of the Beginning

May 7, 1988

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