7.3/1057 votes#1 - Down and Out in Malibu (1)
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1987
Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1058 votes
#2 - Down and Out in Malibu (2)
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1987
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1060 votes
#3 - Rumor Has It
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1987
Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Poryes
- 7.7/1048 votes
#4 - Before the Fall
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1987
Natalie jumps at the chance to do an inside story on ROTC and then learns she'll also have to jump from a plane.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Colleary
- 7.8/1053 votes
#5 - Sweet Charity
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1987
Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1056 votes
#6 - Up from Down Under
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1987
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1049 votes
#7 - The More the Marrier
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/1987
Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lawrence H. Levy
- 7.5/1053 votes
#8 - A Rose by Any Other Age
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/1987
Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1061 votes
#9 - Adventures in Baileysitting
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1987
Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1064 votes
#10 - It's a Wonderful Christmas
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1987
It's holiday time, and Beverly Ann feels unneeded, until a mysterious Santa shows her what Christmas in Peekskill would be like without her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1065 votes
#11 - Golden Oldies
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/1988
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1046 votes
#12 - A Thousand Frowns
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1988
Andy latches on to a ""big brother,"" who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1051 votes
#13 - Something in Common
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1988
It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Poryes
- 7.8/1052 votes
#14 - Peekskill Law
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1988
Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1049 votes
#15 - A House Divided
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1988
The fat hits the fire when Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends meet, and Jo blows a gasket over the repair job on her bike.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1076 votes
#16 - The First Time
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1988
Natalie deals firsthand with facts of life as she overnights with her boyfriend Snake, and faces the reactions of her friends and Snake.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1055 votes
#17 - Let's Face the Music
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 2/13/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1070 votes
#18 - Less Than Perfect
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 2/20/1988
One evening, a tired Blair falls asleep at the wheel and has a car accident landing her in the hospital with a gash in her for-head. This leads her to begin worrying about how her once ""perfect"" self will recover from this tragedy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1060 votes
#19 - Till Marriage Do Us Part
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 2/27/1988
Rick proposes to Jo in his own crazy way, and everyone anticipates a wedding everyone, that is, except Jo, who still hasn't accepted.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1050 votes
#20 - Present Imperfect
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 3/5/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1054 votes
#21 - On the Edge
Season 9 Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Colleary
- 6.9/1070 votes
#22 - Big Apple Blues
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 3/19/1988
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.""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1071 votes
#23 - The Beginning of the End
Season 9 Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/1988
Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10102 votes
#24 - The Beginning of the Beginning
Season 9 Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1988
As the new headmistress, Blair starts whipping Eastland students into shape, and she's particularly challenged by one who seems determined to get expelled.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Facts of Life Season 9
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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 57 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/26/1987. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Down and Out in Malibu (2)".