The Facts of Life: Season 9

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Episode 11: Golden Oldies 1988-01-02 Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Episode 17: Let's Face the Music 1988-02-13 | 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. Episode 18: Less Than Perfect 1988-02-20 | 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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.