The Facts of Life — Season 9

Aired 26 September 1987

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

Aired 3 October 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.

Aired 17 October 1987

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

Aired 24 October 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.

Aired 7 November 1987

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

Aired 14 November 1987

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

Aired 21 November 1987

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

Aired 28 November 1987

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

Aired 5 December 1987

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

Aired 12 December 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.

Aired 2 January 1988

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

Aired 9 January 1988

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

Aired 16 January 1988

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

Aired 23 January 1988

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

Aired 30 January 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.

Aired 6 February 1988

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

Aired 13 February 1988 • 30 min

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.

Aired 20 February 1988 • 30 min

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

Aired 27 February 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.

Aired 5 March 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.

Aired 12 March 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.

Aired 19 March 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."

Aired 30 April 1988

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

Aired 7 May 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.