Episode
The Facts of Life: The Ratings Game
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Facts of Life
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1986-11-15
Episode context
The Ratings Game is Episode 7 in Season 8 of The Facts of Life. It aired on 1986-11-15.
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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 8: The Wedding Day
Jo offers to marry an illegal alien in order to keep the man from being deported.
More episodes from this season
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 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 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 10: Where's Poppa?
A disconsolate Blair locks herself in the bedroom after her father pleads guilty to charges of insider trading.
Episode 3: Ready or Not
Beverly Ann is concerned that Tootie is getting much too serious about her new boyfriend.
Episode 11: Write and Wrong
A furious Natalie is determined to identify and sue the plagiarist who sold her short story to a magazine.
Episode 2: Out of Peekskill (2)
Conclusion. When Mrs. Garrett goes to Africa with her new husband, her sister moves in with the girls. Blair: Lisa Whelchel. Andy: Mackenzie Astin. Jo: Nancy McKeon.
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 1: Out of Peekskill (1)
Mrs. Garrett must decided between her two loves, the girls or Bruce, a man she falls for and who asks her to go to Africa with him.
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.