The BEST episodes directed by John Bowab
#1 - The Bully
Small Wonder - Season 1 - Episode 8
When a bully begins extorting money from Jamie and his friends, Ted attempts to teach Jamie how to fight.
#2 - Just Friends
Benson - Season 1 - Episode 14
The governor woos a powerful businessman whose wife is Benson's old flame.
#3 - The Ratings Game
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 7
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.
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#4 - Out of the Fire...
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 1
After returning from their summer vacation, the girls discover that Edna's Edibles has burned down. This leads the girls to discuss rebuilding and opening up a new business.
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#5 - Christmas in the Big House
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 13
For the Christmas season, Blair and some of her snobby friends plan on putting on a Christmas show at a home for boys. Her Christmas spirit quickly changes when she discovers that the home for boys is really a home for convicts.
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#6 - Me and Eleanor
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 14
A no-win situation: Tootie asks Natalie for an honest opinion of her dreadful one-woman play about Eleanor Roosevelt.
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#7 - With a Little Help From My Friends
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 18
Blair is concerned when she discovers her date is doing cocaine.
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#8 - The Last Drive-In
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 22
The local drive-in theatre is closing and the girls decide to pay it one last visit on the final night it's open. However, chaos reigns when people begin to loot the theatre and Blair gets into a cat fight.
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#9 - It's Lonely at the Top
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 24
With Mrs. Garrett out of town, Blair wants to be in charge of the shop so a reluctant Jo, Natalie and Tootie step aside and let her. Quickly Blair's handling of a competitor food shop goes awry.
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#10 - 3, 2, 1
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 10
Blair and Jo argue over stories and editorials that are to be presented as a news report which is also going to include a behind the scenes look at the girls' shop, Over Our Heads.
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#11 - The Interview Show
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 26
A former Eastland girl, now an author, interviews the girls for her latest book she's writing. In the interviews the girls each open up about their friendships and school life.
#12 - Talk, Talk, Talk
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 10
While working at the campus radio station, Jo finds herself needing to fill 5 hours of air time. Things start off on a bad note, when she can't find a key to the record cabinet, which leads, Natalie, Tootie, Blair and Mrs. Garrett to come to her rescue.
#13 - Boy About the House
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 19
Beverly is sick of seeing Andy shuttled from one foster home to another, so she offers to adopt him.
#14 - E.G.O.C. (Edna Garrett on Campus)
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 8
Mrs. Garrett enrolls in a Shakespeare class, but worries that she might neglect her business and have trouble fitting in with the college crowd.
#15 - Younger Than Springtime
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 21
Jo is unhappy that Blair is playing matchmaker for Jo's lonely father, but she's really upset with the final results.
#16 - A New Life
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 6
Needing advice on her love life, Blair asks her mother to visit, only to learn that mom needs advice even more than Blair does.
#17 - Born Too Late
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 9
Tootie tutors seventh grader Andy for a role in "West Side Story," which turns him on to her more than to acting.
#18 - Theo and the Kids (1)
The Cosby Show - Season 7 - Episode 25
Theo, who is majoring in pediatric psychology, begins an internship as a junior counselor at the community center; he soon suspects that one of the children there is dyslexic. First appearances of Merlin Santana as Stanley and Eugene Byrd as Eugene.
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#19 - Theo and the Kids (2)
The Cosby Show - Season 7 - Episode 26
Theo continues his attempts to help Stanley and the other children at the community center.
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#20 - Into the Frying Pan
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 2
The girls try to hire a contractor to rebuild Edna's Edibles into their new business. After interviewing a string, they hire George Burnett, who's inexpensive, but he soon proves to be easily sidetracked from his work.
#21 - Doo-Wah
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 7
Andy enters the girls in a contest through a teen magazine that if they win, they could sing backup to El DeBarge. First, however, they must produce a demo tape of their singing talent.
#22 - Two Guys From Appleton
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 17
Mrs. Garrett receives a visit from the high-school sweetheart she ran out on, and she's swept off her feet all over again.
#23 - Teacher, Teacher
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 4
Jo is offered a job at a major company which is tempting but this causes her to reevaluate her dream of becoming a teacher.
#24 - The Rich Aren't Different
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 12
Jo borrows one of Blair's watches and later breaks it. Jo's lack of remorse is what sends Blair to some serious action, she hauls Jo into small claims court. Meanwhile, Mrs. Garrett is having a hard time studying for her algebra class.
#25 - The Wedding Day
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 8
Jo offers to marry an illegal alien in order to keep the man from being deported.
#26 - Guess Who's Coming Forever?
Who's the Boss? - Season 1 - Episode 14
Mona has been evicted from her apartment and begins looking for a new home. She takes Tony's suggestion to convert the loft above Angela's garage into an apartment. Angela is not happy about the new arrangements.
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#27 - Back Story
My Wife and Kids - Season 2 - Episode 24
When the kids tease him about getting old, Michael pretends to have hurt his back in a game of Twister so they will have to cater to his every whim.
#28 - Men for All Seasons
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 5
Natalie's boyfriend appears in a popular beefcake calendar of the Langley swim team, a calendar that is frowned upon by the college board of regents.
#29 - Gone With the Wind (1)
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 19
The girls have no plans for spring break until Natalie learns that her grandmother's condominium is available in Fort Lauderdale, where the boys are.
#30 - Ballroom Dance
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 12
Jo takes up ballroom dance lessons and becomes determined to do a good job at an upcoming recital despite chaotic lessons and a clutzy dance partner.
#31 - Atlantic City
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 19
The girls are in Atlantic City for a long weekend, where Blair gets gambling fever and Jo hopes to be reunited with Flyman, the rock star she met on spring break in Fort Lauderdale.
#32 - Post-Christmas Card
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 14
As a post-Christmas gift, Natalie gets her first credit card, and promptly goes on a spending spree.
#33 - Concentration
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 18
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.
#34 - The Reunion
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 17
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.
#35 - Gone With the Wind (2)
The Facts of Life - Season 6 - Episode 20
On spring break in Fort Lauderdale and to the surprise of everyone, especially herself, Blair falls in love with a mere building manager.
#36 - Teenage Marriage (2)
The Facts of Life - Season 2 - Episode 8
Jo is unsure about Eddie's marriage proposal but finally decides to accept, despite the feelings of Mrs. Garrett, Blair, Natalie and Tootie.
#37 - Breaking Point
The Facts of Life - Season 2 - Episode 10
Blair is running for class president but things get out of hand when one of the candidates commits suicide.
#38 - Our Very First Christmas Show
Full House - Season 2 - Episode 9
Teaser: Having a family photo taken for a Christmas card. Main Synopsis: The family is on a flight to Colorado to spend Christmas with some relatives, and this is a trip that Danny has spent months planning -- but on the way to Colorado, a blizzard forces an emergency landing at an unfamiliar airport. The family is forced to spend Christmas in the baggage claim room, where everyone thinks Christmas is ruined this time around. Among the things that happen here are: Jesse's father Nick tries to get Jesse to kiss Becky under a mistletoe, D.J. is upset that the gifts that the family brought along on the flight with them are missing, and Michelle is afraid of Lionel, a man who made her cry on the airplane. Jesse, becoming ever so frustrated by everyone's sour attitudes, speaks to the people in the baggage claim room about the real meaning of Christmas, then Santa Claus shows up and shows the family where the missing gifts are, and it turns out that Lionel is Santa Claus.
#39 - Cupid's Revenge
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 17
Cupid can be perverse: all the girls old boyfriends happen to show up just before the Valentine's Day dance.
#40 - Grand Opening
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 3
The girls finally open their new shop, which is called, Over Our Heads, which sells a mixture of trendy, nostalgic memorabilia. However, the opening day may be the closing day, when they don't get quite the reception they were hoping for.
#41 - Seven Little Indians
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 12
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.
#42 - Up from Down Under
The Facts of Life - Season 9 - Episode 6
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
#43 - Come Back to the Truck Stop, Natalie Green, Natalie Green
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 8
While waiting for a bus, Natalie thinks she could get some inspiration on something to write about in a diner. Failing to find anything of interest, she begins writing a wild story, that takes place in the diner involving, Blair, Jo, Tootie, Mrs. Garrett and George.
#44 - Out of Peekskill (1)
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 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.
#45 - The Apartment
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 24
Natalie and Tootie find that privacy is at a premium in their one-room apartment, which doubles as a roach resort.
#46 - The Greek Connection
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 13
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.
#47 - We Get Letters
The Facts of Life - Season 7 - Episode 11
Mrs. Garrett's old friend, Gwen comes to town for a visit with her old gossip buddy, but she also comes to town to confront Edna about the affair Gwen thinks she had with her late husband.
#48 - For Men Only
The Cosby Show - Season 8 - Episode 9
Cliff teaches a "for men only" class at the community center.
#49 - Eye on Angela
Who's the Boss? - Season 1 - Episode 17
A local news reporter, Bobbi Barnes, wants to do a story on the daily life of Angela. But when a series of innocent mix-ups leads Tony and Angela to wake up in the same bed, Bobbi's camera crew is waiting in the hall to capture the scene. Bobbi thinks she has a juicy story for her show, but Mona has other ideas.
#50 - Another Room
The Facts of Life - Season 8 - Episode 4
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.