Episode
The Facts of Life: Where's Poppa?
Overview
A disconsolate Blair locks herself in the bedroom after her father pleads guilty to charges of insider trading.
Details
- Series
- The Facts of Life
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1986-12-06
Episode context
Where's Poppa? is Episode 10 in Season 8 of The Facts of Life. It aired on 1986-12-06.
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Episode 9: Fast Food
Natalie gets Blair a job at a Mexican restaurant where Natalie works. However, Blair snobby attitude gets her fired when she inadvertently insults the boss.
Episode 11: Write and Wrong
A furious Natalie is determined to identify and sue the plagiarist who sold her short story to a magazine.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: The Wedding Day
Jo offers to marry an illegal alien in order to keep the man from being deported.
Episode 12: Seven Little Indians
In this fantasy episode, a cross between ""The Twilight Zone"" and a horror film, the crew finds themselves being murdered, one by one, until only Tootie is left to confront the killer. The episode is narrated by a Rod Serling lookalike.
Episode 7: The Ratings Game
Blair's computerized date-rating system is the focus when she makes a bet with Jo dealing with whether or not the system really works. However, when Beverly Ann accidentally erases a disk, Jo tampers with some of the ratings.
Episode 13: The Greek Connection
Assigned by the paper to get the inside dirt on Pledge Week at Langley, Natalie crashes the rush party of the sorority Tootie wants to join.
Episode 6: The Little Chill
Blair, Tootie and Natalie organize a reunion with the girls from Eastland. This brings Nancy, Cindy and Sue Ann back to town each with successful lives. Cindy has become a model, Nancy is engaged and Sue Ann a vice president for a company. However, each also has a distinct downside to their success. Meanwhile, Jo feels left out of the reunion.
Episode 14: Post-Christmas Card
As a post-Christmas gift, Natalie gets her first credit card, and promptly goes on a spending spree.
Episode 5: Off-Broadway Baby
Beverly Ann and the girls head for New York, when Tootie decides to audition for her first Broadway show. However, when she arrives, she quickly learns that she has plenty of competition working against her.
Episode 15: A Star is Torn
Cinnamon, who bested Tootie in the audition for a Broadway rock musical, shows up claiming she's been replaced but that's not the real story.
Episode 4: Another Room
Fed up with having no privacy, Jo considers moving out, until Beverly Ann suggests remodeling the attic into a room. However, the construction costs divided by the four girls cause Jo to make a sacrifice when she can't come up with her share.
Episode 16: A Winter's Tale
The girls are snowed in at a ski cabin with three guys preparing a bachelor party, but the groom is ready to call off the wedding when he gets a look at Blair.