The Facts of Life - Season 9
1 - Down and Out in Malibu (1)
Air Date: September 26, 1987
Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
2 - Down and Out in Malibu (2)
Air Date: October 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.
3 - Rumor Has It
Air Date: October 17, 1987
Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.
4 - Before the Fall
Air Date: October 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.
5 - Sweet Charity
Air Date: November 7, 1987
Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.
6 - Up from Down Under
Air Date: November 14, 1987
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
7 - The More the Marrier
Air Date: November 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.
8 - A Rose by Any Other Age
Air Date: November 28, 1987
Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.
9 - Adventures in Baileysitting
Air Date: December 5, 1987
Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.
10 - It's a Wonderful Christmas
Air Date: December 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.
11 - Golden Oldies
Air Date: January 2, 1988
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
12 - A Thousand Frowns
Air Date: January 9, 1988
Andy latches on to a ""big brother,"" who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
13 - Something in Common
Air Date: January 16, 1988
It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.
14 - Peekskill Law
Air Date: January 23, 1988
Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
15 - A House Divided
Air Date: January 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.
16 - The First Time
Air Date: February 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.
17 - Let's Face the Music
Air Date: February 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.
18 - Less Than Perfect
Air Date: February 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.
19 - Till Marriage Do Us Part
Air Date: February 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.
20 - Present Imperfect
Air Date: March 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.
21 - On the Edge
Air Date: March 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.
22 - Big Apple Blues
Air Date: March 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.""
23 - The Beginning of the End
Air Date: April 30, 1988
Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.
24 - The Beginning of the Beginning
Air Date: 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.