Episode
The Facts of Life: The Candidate
Overview
Natalie is furious with the mayor during an election when she learns he plans to build an amusement park. This prompts Natalie to consider running for mayor herself.
Details
- Series
- The Facts of Life
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1986-03-01
Episode context
The Candidate is Episode 21 in Season 7 of The Facts of Life. It aired on 1986-03-01.
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Episode 22: Big Time Charlie
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Episode 19: Atlantic City
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Episode 23: The Graduate
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Episode 18: Concentration
On the day Blair is to accept an award, she encounters two burdens. First, she's stuck babysitting her baby brother and second she becomes trapped in an elevator, where she learns an important lesson from a concentration camp survivor.
Episode 24: The Apartment
Natalie and Tootie find that privacy is at a premium in their one-room apartment, which doubles as a roach resort.
Episode 17: The Reunion
George gets Blair to pose as his fiancee at his high school reunion in order to make an ex-classmate jealous that she never gave him the light of day. However, the unexpected prompts Jo to go in Blair's place.
Episode 16: The Agent
Tootie and Blair give an aspiring comic a career boost by staging a performance attended by Jim McCawley, talent coordinator of ""The Tonight Show.""
Episode 15: Stake-Out Blues
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Episode 14: Tootie Drives
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Episode 13: Christmas Baby
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Episode 12: Ballroom Dance
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