The Facts of Life Season 9, Episode 24: The Beginning of the Beginning

Down and Out in Malibu (1)

Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.

Down and Out in Malibu (2)

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.

Rumor Has It

Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.

Before the Fall

Natalie jumps at the chance to do an inside story on ROTC and then learns she'll also have to jump from a plane.

Sweet Charity

Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.

Up from Down Under

A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.

The More the Marrier

Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.

A Rose by Any Other Age

Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.

Adventures in Baileysitting

Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.

It's a Wonderful Christmas

It's holiday time, and Beverly Ann feels unneeded, until a mysterious Santa shows her what Christmas in Peekskill would be like without her.

Golden Oldies

Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.

A Thousand Frowns

Andy latches on to a "big brother," who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.

Something in Common

It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.

Peekskill Law

Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.

A House Divided

The fat hits the fire when Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends meet, and Jo blows a gasket over the repair job on her bike.

The First Time

Natalie deals firsthand with facts of life as she overnights with her boyfriend Snake, and faces the reactions of her friends and Snake.

Let's Face the Music

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.

30 min

Less Than Perfect

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.

30 min

Till Marriage Do Us Part

Rick proposes to Jo in his own crazy way, and everyone anticipates a wedding. Everyone, that is, except Jo – who still hasn't accepted.

Present Imperfect

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.

On the Edge

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.

Big Apple Blues

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."

The Beginning of the End

Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.