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The Facts of Life

1979 · 9 seasons · 30m per episode · Drama, Comedy

You take the good, you take the bad...

Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.

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Seasons

• Season 1 — 13 episodes (August 24, 1979)
• Season 2 — 16 episodes (November 19, 1980)
• Season 3 — 24 episodes (October 28, 1981)
• Season 4 — 24 episodes (September 29, 1982)
• Season 5 — 26 episodes (September 21, 1983)
• Season 6 — 26 episodes (September 26, 1984)
• Season 7 — 24 episodes (September 14, 1985)
• Season 8 — 24 episodes (September 27, 1986)
• Season 9 — 24 episodes (September 26, 1987)

Cast

• Cloris Leachman as Beverly Ann Stickle
• Lisa Whelchel as Blair Warner
• Kim Fields as Tootie Ramsey
• Mindy Cohn as Natalie Green
• Nancy McKeon as Joanne Jo Polniaczek
• Mackenzie Astin as Andy Moffett
• Sherrié Austin as Pippa McKenna

Details

Created by

Dick Clair, Norman Lear and Jenna McMahon

First aired

August 24, 1979

Episodes

201

Genres

Drama, Comedy

Network

NBC

Status

Ended

TMDB score

7.1 / 10 from 108 votes