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The Best Episodes of The Facts of Life

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...

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  1. Background image for Take My Finals, Please
    8.4/10(98 votes)

    #1 - Take My Finals, Please

    S4:E22

    It's finals week at Eastland and the girls are planning an all night study session. They soon find out that studying is going to be hard with so many distractions, including Blair and Jo's fears of the future in college and Natalie's fear of an upcoming Chemistry exam in which she must memorize the atomic symbols.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for The New Girl (2)
    8.3/10(129 votes)

    #2 - The New Girl (2)

    S2:E2

    Mrs. Garrett bails the girls out of jail and announces that they all have been expelled from Eastland. However, they can stay if they move in with Mrs. Garrett and work in the cafeteria. This prompts Jo's want to leave to become even stronger.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Graduation  (2)
    8.3/10(76 votes)

    #3 - Graduation (2)

    S4:E24

    As graduation day arrives, Monica is furious that Blair's father won't attend, Rose is furious at Charlie due to his sudden tranformation into a big spender and Natalie and Tootie are scared that they will lose Blair and Jo as friends when they leave for college.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
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  4. Background image for Graduation  (1)
    8.2/10(76 votes)

    #4 - Graduation (1)

    S4:E23

    Graduation has everyone rushing around and Natalie and Tootie are worried that their isn't going to be enough time for Jo and Blair to say goodbye, especially since Blair and Jo are at each other's throats, as usual.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Less Than Perfect
    8.2/10(74 votes)

    #5 - Less Than Perfect

    S9:E18

    One evening, a tired Blair falls asleep at the wheel and has a car accident landing her in the hospital with a gash in her for-head. This leads her to begin worrying about how her once ""perfect"" self will recover from this tragedy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Breaking Point
    8.1/10(125 votes)

    #6 - Breaking Point

    S2:E10

    Blair is running for class president but things get out of hand when one of the candidates commits suicide.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Rumor Has It
    8.1/10(64 votes)

    #7 - Rumor Has It

    S9:E3

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

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for The Source
    8.0/10(79 votes)

    #8 - The Source

    S4:E2

    Natalie makes up a source for the topic of her newspaper article on abortion and if she doesn't reveal who the source is, she could be kicked out of school. However, little does she know, that their is someone at Eastland who could fill the shoes of the ""made up source""

    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Peter Noah
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  10. Background image for Before the Fall
    8.0/10(53 votes)

    #9 - Before the Fall

    S9:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Double Standard
    7.9/10(106 votes)

    #10 - Double Standard

    S2:E3

    Blair is sure that an old friend of hers', Harrison Andrews is going to invite her to a cotillion, however she is thrown for a loop when he invites Jo.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
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  12. Background image for The Secret
    7.9/10(90 votes)

    #11 - The Secret

    S2:E12

    Shortly after winning an award, Jo learns that her jailbird father, is getting paroled and that he would like to attend the awards ceremony. However, an ashamed Jo, tries to keep her father from attending as well as tries to keep secret the fact that her dad is in prison.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Pretty Babies
    7.9/10(91 votes)

    #12 - Pretty Babies

    S2:E13

    Tootie is selected to do a photo shoot for a fashion photographer, but Mrs. Garrett becomes increasingly concerned at the dark underbelly of the business.

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  14. Background image for Teacher's Pet
    7.9/10(79 votes)

    #13 - Teacher's Pet

    S4:E15

    Jo has become close friends with her English teacher, Gail, even inspiring Jo to think about becoming a teacher herself. However, Jo is disappointed to learn that Gail is leaving Eastland presumably for a job that pays more but the real reason she's leaving is nothing Jo ever expected.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Sweet Charity
    7.9/10(59 votes)

    #14 - Sweet Charity

    S9:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Flash Flood
    7.8/10(101 votes)

    #15 - Flash Flood

    S1:E9

    A flood hits Peekskill which prompts Blair and Tootie to race out to the stables to save some animals from being washed away. However the damn breaks and Blair and Tootie become in danger of being washed away.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Shoplifting
    7.8/10(102 votes)

    #16 - Shoplifting

    S2:E6

    It's Edna's birthday and the girls want to buy her a gift. Blair told them that she would buy the gift but Jo, Natalie, and Tootie decide to buy their own gift. They decide to buy a cool Hawaiian shirt for Mrs. Garrett because it's on sale. When they go to the store they find the sale has ended. Jo decided to steal the shirt. Later, Mrs. Garrett decides to return the shirt and discovers it was stolen.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Sex Symbol
    7.8/10(96 votes)

    #17 - Sex Symbol

    S2:E11

    Natalie hits it off with Neil, a boy she meets at a dance and they later begin studying together. However, rumors are spread that Natalie and Neil did more than just study which brings on calls from a number of boys who want to study with Natalie. Natalie encourages these rumors when she goes out with the boys due to the fact that Blair, Jo and Tootie laughed at the notion that Natalie could be a sex symbol.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Daddy's Girl
    7.8/10(80 votes)

    #18 - Daddy's Girl

    S4:E8

    The IRS invades Blair's life when they question her tax return. Little does Blair know that the title her dad has placed on her is a cover to get out of paying income tax. Blair is even more heartbroken when she discovers that all the personal vacations she has taken with her dad have been written off as business trips.

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  20. Background image for Magnificent Obsession
    7.8/10(88 votes)

    #19 - Magnificent Obsession

    S4:E13

    Blair's latest boyfriend, Chad, means everything to her and she goes all out trying to please him. However, one evening when he takes her out to a dance, he leaves with another woman. This leads Blair to contemplate breaking off this ""controlling"" relationship with a man she claims to ""love"".

    Director:Asaad Kelada
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  21. Background image for Help from Home
    7.8/10(67 votes)

    #20 - Help from Home

    S4:E21

    Jo has been accepted at Langley College along with Blair but doesn't tell anyone that she has since she doesn't plan on going due to her and her parents financial situation. However, when she takes a trip home for the weekend, she learns that her entire family found out the truth and are now counting on her to do well.

    Director:Asaad Kelada
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  22. Background image for A Rose by Any Other Age
    7.8/10(58 votes)

    #21 - A Rose by Any Other Age

    S9:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Peekskill Law
    7.8/10(56 votes)

    #22 - Peekskill Law

    S9:E14

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Till Marriage Do Us Part
    7.8/10(65 votes)

    #23 - Till Marriage Do Us Part

    S9:E19

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Emily Dickinson
    7.7/10(99 votes)

    #24 - Emily Dickinson

    S1:E6

    Blair 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for The New Girl (1)
    7.7/10(138 votes)

    #25 - The New Girl (1)

    S2:E1

    Streetsmart Bronx native, Jo Polniaczeck arrives at Eastland.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Take My Finals, Please" is the best rated episode of "The Facts of Life". It scored 8.4/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Asaad Kelada and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/27/1983. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The New Girl (2)".