The BEST episodes of The Facts of Life
Every episode of The Facts of Life ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Facts of Life!
Charlotte Rae stars as a dietician and house mother at a private girls' boarding school, watching over students Blair, Tootie, Natalie and Jo.
#1 - The Christmas Show
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1983
The holidays bring joy to the girls when they all plan on going home for Christmas but when Jo's mother temporarily moves to Miami, Jo is stuck in Peekskill.
#2 - Out of the Fire...
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1985
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.
#3 - The Last Drive-In
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/13/1985
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.
#4 - With a Little Help From My Friends
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1985
Blair is concerned when she discovers her date is doing cocaine.
#5 - Christmas in the Big House
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1984
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.
#6 - A Death in the Family
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1984
The girls are shaken by the sudden death of Natalie's father and wonder how to ease her pain.
#7 - Next Door
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1984
A young boy enters Edna's Edibles and Tootie befriends him and learns that he lives next door. She also learns that his mother works all day and leaves him home alone and tells him never to leave their apartment and when a gas leak is detected on the block the young boy won't budge.
#8 - Small but Dangerous
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1983
Streetwise Kelly alleges that the vandalism of Edna's Edibles was the work of a local gang, but Jo decides to investigate.
#9 - Let's Party!
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1983
Tootie is excited about the impending visit of her brother Marshall, however is stay becomes one of fear when he invites the girls to a college party where beer is being served. After the party, a drunk Marshall, insisting that he isn't drunk, offers to drive Blair, Natalie and Tootie home. However, their trip home is interrupted by an accident.
#10 - Brave New World (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1983
Jo and Blair have a hard time adjusting to college.
#11 - Cruisin'
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1984
On a dateless Saturday night, the girls cruise downtown Peekskill in hopes of finding Mr. Right. However, a string of bizarre events leads the girls to hideout in their car at a closed gas station.
#12 - Taking a Chance on Love (2)
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1984
Jo and Sam's relationship grows more serious despite the fact that he has a young son from a previous marriage.
#13 - The Chain Letter
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1983
While Mrs. Garrett frets over an inspection by the Board of Health, the girls get involved with a chain letter and ignore their responsibilities.
#14 - Talk, Talk, Talk
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1984
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.
#15 - Graduation (1)
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/1983
Blair and Jo share a common feeling of disdain toward their graduation from Eastland.
#16 - The Halloween Show
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1983
A strange man tells the girls that years ago a murder occurred in the shop. Later, when the girls see Mrs. Garret with a knife they assume that she's possessed by the murderer's spirit and is out to get them.
#17 - Seems Like Old Times
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/1984
Jo is surprised when her ex-boyfriend, Eddie, who just got out of the Navy, makes a surprise visit. However, Jo isn't the only one who's in for a surprise when Tootie discovers a shocking secret that Eddie's been keeping.
#18 - A Royal Pain
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1983
A new student arrives at Eastland claiming to be a royal princess. All seems to go okay, but then Tootie catches her with a boy. Since it is against the rules to have an uninvited guest, Tootie starts to become suspicious.
#19 - The Second Time Around
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1983
Jo begins seeing sparks between her divorced parents and immediately hopes they get back together. However, her hopes quickly become dashed when she learns that her father is planning to marry another woman.
#20 - What Price Glory?
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1983
Tootie's new boyfriend, Jeff, is the star football player on the football team at Eastland. However, she learns a startling secret that he's been keeping, he's illiterate. She now must decide whether or not to encourage his behavior of having other kids do his work for him.
#21 - Advanced Placement
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1983
Natalie is allowed to enroll in a college course at Langley College and she quickly gets an overblown ego which quickly threatens her friendships with Blair, Jo and Tootie. Things get even worse when she learns that if she can keep her grade point average up she will be allowed to graduate early and enroll at Langley in the fall.
#22 - Me and Eleanor
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1985
A no-win situation: Tootie asks Natalie for an honest opinion of her dreadful one-woman play about Eleanor Roosevelt.
#23 - Two Guys From Appleton
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1985
Mrs. Garrett receives a visit from the high-school sweetheart she ran out on, and she's swept off her feet all over again.
#25 - The Americanization of Miko
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1982
The strict father of new Japanese student Miko comes down hard on her for sneaking out to see a rock concert and causing $400 in damage with Jo's motorcycle.