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Seasons:
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Release Date:
24 August 1979 (USA) more
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Tagline:
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life...
Plot:
A group of girls attending a boarding school experience the joys and the trials of adolescence under the guiding hand of housemother Edna Garrett... more
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 6 wins & 14 nominations more
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(13 articles)
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a great show for kids growing up more (32 total)

Cast

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Lisa Whelchel ... Blair Warner (200 episodes, 1979-1988)
Kim Fields ... Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey (200 episodes, 1979-1988)
Mindy Cohn ... Natalie Green (200 episodes, 1979-1988)
Nancy McKeon ... Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek / ... (186 episodes, 1980-1988)
Charlotte Rae ... Edna Garrett (145 episodes, 1979-1986)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Garrett's Girls (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
30 min (209 episodes)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Originally, the premise of the series was that Edna Garrett, the housekeeper on "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978), became the headmistress at the school that Kimberly Drummond (Dana Plato) attended. But after the pilot episode, the producers decided to keep Plato on "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978) and there was never any mention of Kimberly being a student at Eastland again. more
Quotes:
Blair Warner: Do you know what Jo's real name is? Joanna Marie!
Jo Polniaczek: Only my mother calls me Joanna Marie.
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a great show for kids growing up, 7 October 1999
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Author: gerry-russell-139 from United States

I watched "The Facts of Life" Saturday nights on NBC while I was growing up and I looked forward to each and every episode. When the show ended I cried and thought "How will I ever get along without them?" Well, I had totally forgotten the reruns that had been playing in the afternoons for the past four years. So I was happy re-watching the old shows. In 1994 I heard about the "Facts" marathon on USA network and I had to tape it. It was commemorating the 15th anniversary of the shows original starting date (back in 1979-the year I was born). The marathon was hosted by Mindy Cohn (Natalie), Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Garrett) and Lisa Welchel (Blair). All three of them shared memories of what it was like working on the set and what each of them had been doing since the show had ended. It was great seeing how well all three of them had gotten on with their lives. It was too bad that Nancy McKeon (Jo), Kim Fields (Tootie), Sherrie Krenn (Pippa), Cloris Leachman (Beverly Ann), Pamela Segall (Kelly), George Clooney (George) and MacKenzie Astin (Andy) didn't come on the show too. I still watch that video recording every once and a while (about once or twice a year; especially around the holiday season) and I'm so glad that I taped it. My favorite episode (which, unfortunately, wasn't included in the marathon) was the one where they were running a pizza take-out service which was a total disaster...especially when Natalie lost control and got flour all over the room and on everyone else. I am hoping that USA will start re-running the show again soon. They were last year. What happened?

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