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The Best Episodes of The Facts of Life Season 9

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The Best Episodes of The Facts of Life Season 9

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 Down and Out in Malibu  (1)
    7.3/10(58 votes)

    #1 - Down and Out in Malibu (1)

    S9:E1

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Down and Out in Malibu  (2)
    7.1/10(58 votes)

    #2 - Down and Out in Malibu (2)

    S9:E2

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Rumor Has It
    8.1/10(61 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  4. Background image for Before the Fall
    8.0/10(50 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  5. Background image for Sweet Charity
    7.9/10(56 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Up from Down Under
    6.5/10(58 votes)

    #6 - Up from Down Under

    S9:E6

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The More the Marrier
    7.6/10(49 votes)

    #7 - The More the Marrier

    S9:E7

    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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    Director:Unknown
  9. Background image for A Rose by Any Other Age
    7.8/10(55 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Adventures in Baileysitting
    7.0/10(64 votes)

    #9 - Adventures in Baileysitting

    S9:E9

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for It's a Wonderful Christmas
    7.4/10(66 votes)

    #10 - It's a Wonderful Christmas

    S9:E10

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Golden Oldies
    7.0/10(65 votes)

    #11 - Golden Oldies

    S9:E11

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for A Thousand Frowns
    7.5/10(47 votes)

    #12 - A Thousand Frowns

    S9:E12

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Something in Common
    7.6/10(51 votes)

    #13 - Something in Common

    S9:E13

    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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    Director:Unknown
  15. Background image for Peekskill Law
    7.9/10(53 votes)

    #14 - Peekskill Law

    S9:E14

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for A House Divided
    7.6/10(51 votes)

    #15 - A House Divided

    S9:E15

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The First Time
    7.6/10(78 votes)

    #16 - The First Time

    S9:E16

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Let's Face the Music
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    #17 - Let's Face the Music

    S9:E17

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.2/10(71 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Till Marriage Do Us Part
    7.8/10(62 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.6/10(52 votes)

    #20 - Present Imperfect

    S9:E20

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for On the Edge
    7.1/10(55 votes)

    #21 - On the Edge

    S9:E21

    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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    7.1/10(71 votes)

    #22 - Big Apple Blues

    S9:E22

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Beginning of the End
    7.7/10(71 votes)

    #23 - The Beginning of the End

    S9:E23

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Beginning of the Beginning
    7.3/10(103 votes)

    #24 - The Beginning of the Beginning

    S9:E24

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Season 9 Ratings Summary

"Down and Out in Malibu (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Facts of Life" season 9. It scored 7.3/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/26/1987. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Down and Out in Malibu (2)".