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Episode 1: Down and Out in Malibu (1)
1987-09-26
Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
Season guide
The Facts of Life Season 9 — Episodes and Where to Watch
24 episodes · first aired 1987-09-26
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Episode 2: Down and Out in Malibu (2)
1987-10-03
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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Episode 3: Rumor Has It
1987-10-17
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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Episode 4: Before the Fall
1987-10-24
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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Episode 5: Sweet Charity
1987-11-07
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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Episode 6: Up from Down Under
1987-11-14
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
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Episode 7: The More the Marrier
1987-11-21
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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Episode 8: A Rose by Any Other Age
1987-11-28
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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Episode 9: Adventures in Baileysitting
1987-12-05
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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Episode 10: It's a Wonderful Christmas
1987-12-12
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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Episode 11: Golden Oldies
1988-01-02
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
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Episode 12: A Thousand Frowns
1988-01-09
Andy latches on to a "big brother," who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
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Episode 13: Something in Common
1988-01-16
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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Episode 14: Peekskill Law
1988-01-23
Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
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Episode 15: A House Divided
1988-01-30
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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Episode 16: The First Time
1988-02-06
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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Episode 17: Let's Face the Music
1988-02-1330 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.
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Episode 18: Less Than Perfect
1988-02-2030 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.
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Episode 19: Till Marriage Do Us Part
1988-02-27
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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Episode 20: Present Imperfect
1988-03-05
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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Episode 21: On the Edge
1988-03-12
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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Episode 22: Big Apple Blues
1988-03-19
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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Episode 23: The Beginning of the End
1988-04-30
Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.
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Episode 24: The Beginning of the Beginning
1988-05-07
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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