The Best Episodes of The Facts of Life Season 9

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

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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.

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

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Writer: Michael Poryes

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

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Writer: Bob Colleary

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

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

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

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Writer: Lawrence H. Levy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Writer: Michael Poryes

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Writer: Bob Colleary

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.""

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

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

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