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The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life logo (Eastland was used as a backdrop from 1979 to 1983; afterwards Edna's Edibles and Over Our Heads provided the background)
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon
Developed by	Howard Leeds, Ben Starr and Jerry Mayer
Starring	Charlotte Rae ('79-'86) John Lawlor ('79-'80) Jenny O'Hara ('79) Lisa Whelchel Kim Fields Mindy Cohn Molly Ringwald ('79-'80) Felice Schachter ('79-'80) Julie Piekarski ('79-'80) Julie Anne Haddock ('79-'80) Nancy McKeon ('80-'88) Pamela Segall ('83-'84) Mackenzie Astin ('85-'88) George Clooney ('85-'86) Cloris Leachman ('86-'88) Sherrie Krenn ('87-'88)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	209
Production
Running time	30 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	August 24, 1979 – May 7, 1988
Chronology
Preceded by	Diff'rent Strokes (1978-1986)
Followed by	The Facts of Life Reunion (2001)
Related shows	The Facts of Life Goes to Paris, The Facts of Life Down Under
External links
IMDb profile

The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' original premise focused on the character, Edna Garrett (played by Charlotte Rae), as she becomes housemother (and later, dietician as well) to seven young girls at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious all-girls' school in Peekskill, New York.

Contents 1 Production 2 Premise 3 Ratings 3.1 Pilot 3.2 First Season 3.3 Second Season & Beyond 3.3.1 Departure of Mrs. Garrett 3.3.2 Cancellation 4 Attempted Spin-Offs 5 Controversy 5.1 Geri Jewell 5.2 Weight 6 Syndication, and VHS availability 7 DVD Releases 8 Made-for-television movies related to the series 9 Awards & Nominations 10 Pop culture references 11 Legacy 12 External links

It was produced first by TAT Communications, then Embassy Television, followed by Embassy Communications (Norman Lear's production companies) and Columbia Pictures Television (through ELP Communications). Today, Sony Pictures Television still distributes the rights to the sitcom.

From 1979 to 1982, the series was produced at Metromedia Square, and from 1982 to 1987 at Universal City Studios in Hollywood. From 1987 to 1988, the series was videotaped and produced at the NBC Studios in Burbank, California.

Originally a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes, the series featured the Drummonds' housekeeper, Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae), as the housemother of a dormitory at Eastland, a private all-girls school.

The Facts of Life was a success on the Nielsen Ratings.

• 1980-1981: #26
• 1981-1982: #24

The Pilot for the show originally aired as the last episode of Diff'rent Strokes first season, which was called "The Girls' School". The plotline for the Pilot had Kimberly Drummond requesting that Mrs. Garrett help her sew costumes for a student play at East Lake School for Girls, the school Kimberly attended in upstate New York, as her dorm's housemother had recently quit. Mrs. Garrett agrees to help, and we meet Tootie, Blair, Molly, Nancy, Sue Ann, Jennifer, Laura, and Mr. Crocker, the school's headmaster. Mrs. Garrett helps put on a successful play, while also solving a problem for Nancy, and is asked to stay on as the new housemother.

While Mrs. Garrett states she would rather remain working for the Drummonds at the end of the Pilot, it can be assumed that she later changed her mind. Following the Pilot, the name of the school was changed to Eastland and the characters of Jennifer, Laura and Mr. Crocker were replaced with Natalie, Cindy and Mr. Bradley. This episode also features a much larger number of girls living in the dorm, as opposed to what is seen during the first season of the show. Further, Kimberly is featured as a student at East Lake, however, her character did not crossover with Mrs. Garrett. Instead, she remained with Diff'rent Strokes, though occasionally, cast members from the Facts of Life would "visit" her.

In the show's first season, the show focused on the troubles of seven girls, and the action was usually set in a large, wood-paneled common room of a girls' dormitory. Also appearing was the school's headmaster, Mr. Stephen Bradley and his assistant, Miss Emily Mahoney. The show was originally meant to be a summer series in 1979, but the head of programming decided to bring it back in early 1980. Miss Mahoney only appeared in the first few episodes of the show, and the character was dropped prior to the show returning in 1980.

Early episodes of the show almost always revolved around a central morality-based or "lesson teaching" theme. The debut episode of the show was extremely controversial in that the character of Blair Warner insinuated that her schoolmate Cindy Webster was a lesbian because she was a tomboy who frequently showed affection for other girls. Though the show never said the word outright, instead using terms like "strange" and "not normal," it was one of the first times a teen questioning his or her sexual orientation had been shown on television. Other first season episodes dealt with drug use, sex, extreme diet, parental relationships and peer pressure. An oddity of the first season was that despite the fact that some of the girls were clearly older than the others, the plotlines would have all the characters taking classes together.

During the first season, Tootie was often seen on roller skates because while the character was supposed to be 12, Kim Fields was in reality, only 10. The skates were added to give her height. Ironically, however, she failed to get the role of Arnold Jackson's girlfriend on Diff'rent Strokes because she was taller than Gary Coleman.

A noticeable guest star during the first season was future Academy Award winner Helen Hunt.

After a thirteen-episode run, the show was retooled extensively. The producers felt there were too many characters given the limitations of the half-hour sitcom format, and that the plot lines should be more focused to give the remaining girls more distinct personalities. Four of the original actresses – Felice Schachter (Nancy), Julie Piekarski (Sue Ann), Julie Anne Haddock (Cindy), and Molly Ringwald (Molly) – were written out of the show (although the four did make periodic appearances in the second and third seasons, and one "reunion" in the eighth season). Coincidentally, Felice Schachter was the first actress hired when the show was in its initial stages, and was the first actress to be let go following the retooling. Further, the character of Mr. Bradley was also dropped, and replaced with an only occasionally seen headmaster.

In addition to being den mother to the girls – wealthy, spoiled Blair Warner (Lisa Whelchel), chubby, fun-loving Natalie Green (Mindy Cohn), and nosey, gossipy Tootie Ramsey (Kim Fields) – Mrs. Garrett became the school dietitian as the second season began, and a new student, street-wise, rough-around-the-edges, Jo Polniaczek (Nancy McKeon), arrived at Eastland on scholarship, originally from the Bronx. A turn of events led the four to be separated from the other girls, and forced to work in the cafeteria and live together in a spare room next to Mrs. Garrett's bedroom. The focus of the show shifted to the four itinerant girls, and the action shifted to the school cafeteria and lounge.

The series was given a berth on the 1980-81 American network television schedule, and the show was a constant Top 30 hit for most of the early and mid-1980s. Memorable episodes included Tootie's meeting with Jermaine Jackson; an all-night study session; Tootie's encounter with a teen prostitute; and Jo and Blair's trip to New York, where spending time with old friends led them to assess how Eastland has changed them. The series tackled many touchy topics: suicide, book banning, attempted rape on Natalie, attempted date rape on Jo, alcoholism, drug abuse, breast cancer, abortion, etc. In 1983, Jo and Blair graduated Eastland Academy while Natalie and Tootie were still attending school there. To keep the four girls under one roof, the plot involved Raymond, Mrs. Garrett's son, buying a bakery for her and convincing her to go into business for herself; she named it Edna's Edibles. The four girls came to work for her and lived in one of the rooms at the attached house.

The show became part of NBC's much-watched Saturday night lineup in 1985, but by this time, the girls were now in their late teens and early twenties, and public interest was starting to wane. In an attempt to increase ratings, Mrs. Garrett's store, Edna's Edibles, was burned to the ground and was replaced with a pop culture-influenced gift shop that the girls ran together, called Over Our Heads. This phase of the show is notable for including a then-unknown George Clooney as a supporting actor.

In addition to inflatable palm trees, the gift shop sold a few records, and this offshoot business was the springboard for many appearances by popular groups and singers, such as El DeBarge, Michael Damian, and Stacey Q.

The ratings continued to fall in 1986. At first, Charlotte Rae cut back on her role and then later decided to leave the series completely. In the season premiere for the eighth season, Mrs. Garrett announces she has met the man of her dreams, and is getting married. She also says that she will be joining her new husband for two years while he works for the Peace Corps in Africa. During the episode, we meet Mrs. Garrett's sister, Beverly Ann Stickle, played by Cloris Leachman, whom Mrs. Garrett convinces to take over the shop and look after the girls. Beverly Ann was never seen prior to this episode, but was mentioned as far back as when Mrs. Garrett was on "Different Strokes". (Incidentally, Charlotte Rae named the character Beverly Ann after her own sister.)

During this time, Beverly Ann legally adopted Over Our Heads worker Andy (Mackenzie Astin), and Australian exchange student Pippa McKenna (Sherrie Krenn), who attended Eastland Academy.

By the fall of 1987, the show, which had ranked in the Top 30 just two years before, now lagged behind, rarely ranking above #40, and it dragged down the rest of the night's lineup as a result (which, at the time, had Top 20 hits in The Golden Girls and 227). In a last-ditch attempt to raise the ratings, the show's writers created a storyline in which Natalie became the first of the girls to lose her virginity. Originally Lisa Whelchel was offered the storyline but she had become a born-again Christian and premarital sex conflicted with her morals. (Ironically, it also conflicted with an episode from the first season titled "Facts of Love" where Blair wanted to treat sex in a casual manner, while her boyfriend wanted to have a committed relationship with her and not have sex yet).

Three of the girls who were cut from the show after the first season returned in the second-to-last season for a "reunion of friends" in an episode titled, "The Little Chill." Julie Ann Haddock, Julie Piekarski, and Felice Schacter reprised their roles of Cindy, Sue Ann, and Nancy, mentioning that Molly was unable to attend the reunion because she was so busy (a nod to actress Molly Ringwald's successful film career after her departure). The show was eventually cancelled in the spring of 1988. The producers had hoped to keep the show going by using the final episode as a backdoor pilot for a potential new spinoff in which Blair impulsively bought Eastland Academy and made it co-ed.

Recurring guest stars during the shows years, in addition to Cindy, Sue Ann, Nancy and Molly, included the handicapped Geri Warner (Blair's cousin played by Geri Jewell). Other characters, such as the judgment-impaired Miko Wakamatsu (played by Lauren Tom), the snobbish Boots St. Clair (played by Jami Gertz), the royal princess Alexandra (Heather McAdam) were recurring during the show's run. Shoplifter Kelly (Pamela Segall), was billed as a regular during the fourth season. Other guest roles included Jo's and Blair's parents (played by Alex Rocco and Claire Malis, and Nicolas Coster and Marj Dusay, respectively), Natalie's and Tootie's mothers, as well as the boyfriends of the girls. Characters from Diff'rent Strokes also appeared in a few first and second season episodes.

Some quirky episodes took place in the last few seasons, evoking The Golden Girls, The Twilight Zone, and a sixties-ish episode guest-starring Bobby Rydell and Fabian.

Much like what had been done with The Facts of Life parent show, Diff'rent Strokes, NBC attempted to use the popularity of The Facts of Life to launch a successful spin-off show, but none of the proposed shows ever made it past the pilot stage.

The various attempts at spin-offs were backdoor pilots, which were shown as episodes of The Facts of Life. These episodes include:

• "Brian & Sylvia" - A second season episode where Tootie and Natalie go to Buffalo, New York to visit Tootie's Aunt Sylvia, a black woman who has recently married a white man. Richard Dean Anderson, the future star of MacGyver and Stargate SG-1, played the white husband.
• "The Academy" - A third season episode, set at Bates, an all boys private school that was near Eastland. In this episode, the girls at Eastland were having a dance with the boys school.
• "Jo's Cousin" - Another third season episode. In this episode, Jo visits her family in the Bronx, and we meet her cousin, a fourteen year old girl going through adolescence in a family full of men.
• "The Big Fight" - A fourth season episode, set at Stone Academy, a boys military school. Natalie comes to visit a boy who tries to impress her by boxing.
• "Big Apple Blues" - A ninth season episode, where Natalie spends the night with a group of eccentric young people living in a Soho loft. Two of the tenants in the loft were played by David Spade and Richard Grieco.
• "The Beginning of the End/Beginning of the Beginning" - The two part series finale had Blair buying Eastland to prevent its closing. Blair finds that the school is in such dire financial straits that she is forced to make the school co-ed. Blair then essentially adopts the Mrs. Garrett role as she presides over the school, and is forced to deal with the troublemaking students in a plotline that is highly reminiscent of the second season premiere. The new Eastland students included Seth Green, Mayim Bialik and future Oscar-nominee Juliette Lewis.

As mentioned above, The Facts of Life was one of the first television shows to feature a person with cerebal palsy as a recurring character. In an interview as part of the E! True Hollywood Story for The Facts of Life, Geri Jewell stated that she believed she was going to continue as a recurring character on the show during the sixth season, but the producers only offered her one episode for the season because viewers would immediately assume that any episode with Cousin Geri would be a very special episode. Jewell stated that she stopped appearing on the show for this reason.

Another issue that came up during the show's early seasons concerned the girls' appearances. Lisa Whelchel has stated in various interviews, including on the E! True Hollywood Story, that the girls spent a lot of time on set doing nothing, so the natural inclination for many of them was to eat, as food was readily available all over the set. This noticeably affected the girls' appearances, leading Joan Rivers to dub them "The Fats of Life" during the cast's appearance at the Emmy Awards,and causing the producers to restrict what the actors could eat while on set.

Mindy Cohn, in the E! True Hollywood Story, stated the situation was the exact opposite for her. She had been losing weight during this period, and the producers asked her to stop because her character was known for being overweight. Cohn said the producers compromised with her regarding her weight by dressing her in baggy clothing to make her appear heavier than she was.

The Facts of Life had aired in the United States on the USA Network and later on Nick at Nite and the Hallmark Channel.

Despite Diff'rent Strokes' popularity in the United Kingdom, The Facts of Life never aired on terrestrial TV there. A few seasons were aired on one of the UK BSB satellite channels and after BSB merged with Sky Television, the entire series was shown on Sky One.

In Italy, a few seasons (1 to 5) were aired in 1983-1986 (dubbed as usual in Italian), on the terrestrial TV Canale 5, the first Italian commercial network, and later on other local commercial TV networks. The Italian version was named L'albero delle mele (it stands for Apple tree, since the apple is a word popularly used as a symbol for teenage girls). In most of the episodes, the original theme was replaced by Italian or English songs: "Scarpe da tennis" (sung by Patrizia Zanetti, seasons 1-3), "Please Please" (sung by Paul Qualley, season 1-3 reprise and season 5), "Amami... pensami" (unknown singer, season 4); all themes were produced by Five Records and sold on 45rpm disc. Kim Fields was dubbed by Ilaria Stagni (now very popular for the Italian Bart Simpson's voice in The Simpsons and Amber's voice in The Bold and The Beautiful ). Mindy Cohn was dubbed by the Italian comedian actress Cinzia Bruno. The Italian dubbed episodes were never sold on VHS.

In 1984 an Italian movie called College was produced for theatre. Its plot slightly reminds The Facts of Life: a "Blair Warner"-like young lady, Arianna, performed by the Italian actress Federica Moro, and a little girl wearing roller-skates (similar to Tootie in the first FOL season), were introduced in the movie.

In 2001, Columbia House released ten "Best of" volumes of the series on VHS (40 episodes in all). Since Sony, the company which now distributes the Columbia library, focuses more on DVDs, the tapes have been discontinued and can only be found on websites such as amazon and eBay at higher prices than they were originally sold.

The Facts of Life episodes (currently Seasons 1 and 2) can be viewed on Comcast's video on demand service in the United States and continues to be seen throughout the world wide in syndication.

The Facts of Life Reunion currently airs sporadically in the U.S. on the ABC Family Channel.

The Facts of Life currently airs in Canada on CTS weeknights at 7:30pm. It will also air weekends at 10:00am and 2:00pm beginning September 15, 2007 on Canwest's digital specialty channel, Dejaview.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing The Facts of Life on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. Seasons 1 and 2 were released together on May 9, 2006 along with new interviews with most of the cast including Season 1 originals Felice Schachter and Julie Anne Haddock (now Julie Anne Becker).

Seasons 1 and 2 proved to be such a success that Season 3 was immediately planned for release on October 24, 2006, just five months after the release of the first set. Seasons 1 and 2 were also released in Australia on Region 4 DVD in March 2007.

DVD Name	Release Date	Ep #	Additional Information
The Complete First and Second Seasons	May 9, 2006 (Region 1) March 7, 2007 (Region 4)	29	Featurette: Remembering The Facts of Life, Featurette: After Facts.
The Complete Third Season	October 24, 2006	24	Bonus Previews

• The Facts of Life Goes to Paris - A two-hour TV movie, aired September 25, 1982, in which Mrs. Garrett and the girls travel to France. It was added to the U.S. syndication package as four half-hour shows.
• The Facts of Life Down Under - A two-hour TV movie, aired February 15, 1987, in which the characters got involved in adventures in Australia. It also is syndicated as four half hour shows in the U.S. package.
• The Facts of Life Reunion - A two-hour reunion aired on ABC on November 18, 2001, reuniting Rae, Whelchel, Cohn, and Fields showing what their characters had done since the series' end. McKeon did not attend, due to scheduling conflicts with her television series The Division. Although, appropriately, she was mentioned in the movie as becoming a policewoman. Jo's husband and daughter did appear in the movie, however. The plot of the special revolved around the girl's adult conflicts: the main plot was that Natalie had two gorgeous men that she couldn't choose between, with sub-plots involving Blair suspecting her husband of infidelity, and Tootie (now going by the character's official first name, Dorothy) regretting her career choice. The reunion currently airs sporadically in the U.S. on the ABC Family Channel. In Italy, this movie was never aired on TV, but it was sold on VHS (called Quattro amiche, nuovi amori) in 2002.

• Emmy Nomination for Best Actress (1982)--Charlotte Rae
• Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Technical Direction/Electronic Camerawork/Video Control for a Series (1986)--For episode "Come Back to the Truck Stop, Natalie Green, Natalie Green".
• Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series (1987)-- For episode "'62 Pickup".

• On The Simpsons, in the episode Bart Gets Famous, Lisa Simpson imagines that she has cured all disease, ended war, and reunited the cast members of this show, "including long-time holdout Tootie." Also, in the episode Treehouse of Horror XVII, Homer (turned into a giant, human-eating blob after eating alien "goo") eats the show's cast members (now overweight), who are together at a reunion performance on stage.
• On The Golden Girls, in the third season episode Strange Bedfellows, Dorothy gives a sardonic answer to an obvious question by Rose, "No, Rose, I'm upset because they haven't rerun The Facts of Life Goes to Australia." Also, in another third season episode,The Housekeeper, the girls are about to fire a black housekeeper for poor performance, when Blanche nervously interjects, "I just want you to know that Tootie has always been my favorite on "The Facts of Life."
• On Mama's Family, in the fifth season episode Mama's Layaway Plan, Mama is upset when she's the only member of the family to attend Cousin Ludie's funeral. At one point her grandson Bubba mistakenly refers to her as Tootie, and Mama yells at him, "It's Cousin Ludie! Tootie was on The Facts of Life!"
• On Family Guy, the show has been mentioned several times:
  • Peter suggests a line of Transformers based on the characters
  • Peter's campaign speech in running for Quahog school board is made up off the cuff of theme song lyrics, including this one. ("You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have...my opening statement.")
  • In "SuperGriffins," the family commission a statue based on the first season episode in which Blair plagiarizes the Emily Dickinson poem Beauty Crowds Me 'Til I Die. To show the sculptors how he wants it to look, Peter changes into Mrs. Garrett's bosom, which then exclaims, in a Mrs. Garrett falsetto, "Girls, girls, girls!"
  • Mrs. Garrett and Blair are also referenced several times in the dialog of different episodes.
  • In the episode Brian Goes Back to College, Brian watches an episode in which a dual-gendered Jo asks Mrs. Garrett if it's okay that his/her penis touched his/her vagina.

Jo: Hey Mrs. Garrett, can I ask you something?

Garrett: What is it, Jo?

Jo: Is it a problem if your penis and your vagina touch each other?

Garrett: What?!

Jo: Well, I try to keep them separated, but when I woke up this morning, they were sort of together. I just didn't know, is that okay?

Garrett: You have both?!

Jo: Well, yeah. Doesn't everybody?

Garrett: No!

• • In the episode Prick Up Your Ears, Stewie says that he is prepared to fight the Tooth Fairy, just like Geri fought comedy on the Facts of Life.

Cohn: Hey Blair, did you find a purse at the mall?

Blair: Actually, I found seven!

(audience laughs)

Geri: One for every day of the week!

(audience groans)

• During her I'm the One that I Want stand-up routine, comedian Margaret Cho mentions the show - "My hair was so feathered that the back of my head...looked like a butt. My hair [was] more feathered than Blair's on "Facts of Life". She also comments on Jo's hair, likening it to a typical man in heterosexual pornography.
• On the NBC sitcom Scrubs there is a group of hospital administration workers that are a barbershop quartet, The Worthless Peons (played by The Blanks), who practice singing old television and cartoon theme songs late at night. One of the first songs they perform is the "Facts of Life" theme song.
• Comedy Central's Drawn Together parodies Blair and her cousin Geri in an episode entitled "The Other Cousin". In the episode, Princess Clara is first embarrassed by, then overprotective of her mentally handicapped cousin. In a direct homage to The Facts of Life, the cousin is named Bleh, a reference to how Geri tended to pronounce Blair's name.
• The series was parodied on a short-lived NBC summer series called The Rerun Show which took actual scripts from old sitcoms (only ones from within Sony/Columbia's domain) and then recreated them word-for-word using sketch actors who would impersonate each character/actor with great exaggeration. The most notable impersonation being that of comedian Paul Vogt playing Mrs. Garrett. Vogt would later bring that same impersonation to MADtv where he was a regular for a few seasons.
• The Mullets use the lyrics "You take the good, you take the bad" in their song We Give Up.
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland uses "Tootie" and "Blair" as computer server names.
• On Married... with Children, Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) sat in front of the television waiting for "Psycho Dad" to come on, but instead heard the theme song for "The Facts of Life". Also, the rest of the Bundys would refer to the cast of "The Facts of Life" as the "the fat girls on The Facts of Life."
• On The Nanny (TV series), in the episode "Fran's Roots" aired in 1997, Fran has a flashback, where as a little girl, she has a confrontation with her mother and sister, and the mother sarcastically calls her "Tootie Fields."
• On Family Matters, in the episode, "Who's afraid of the Big Black Book?," which originally aired in 1997, Laura Winslow explains her relationship with an old boyfriend to her current boyfriend by saying, "It was so long ago that I was still carrying my "Facts of Life" lunch box."
• On Roseanne in the 8th season episode "Direct To Video", the family is watching an episode of this show. While we hear the Facts Of Life theme song playing, Dan Conner (John Goodman) remarks "You know, this show really was the Friends of the '80's."
• On The Cable Guy (1996), Jim Carrey's character says he learned the facts of life by watching "The Facts of Life".
• In an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Carlton says he had a crush on Tootie as a kid. Coincidentally, Kim Fields later guest starred on the show as a love interest for Will.
• In the film Art School Confidential, two art school students visit Jimmy, a bitterly disillusioned alcoholic who graduated from the same art school many years before. Their visit is cut short when the Facts of Life theme is heard from the television in the other room, prompting Jimmy to say, "Now if you boys will excuse me, I've got to get back to my masturbation."
• On Living Single (which also starred Kim Fields as Regine), two references are given. In one episode, Overton had told someone "Tell that to Tootie." In another episode, Regine asks the girlfriend of Max's former boyfriend where did she attend school. The girlfriend says "I attended a small private school called Eastland." Regine replies, "Hmm - never heard of it," while smiling slyly at the camera.

Although not getting credit for this, the show is the first actual attempt of a teen drama that appears on TV, since the show was the first one to focus almost only on teenagers and feature a lot of episodes dealing with teen issues such as:

• Sexual orientation
• Teen drinking
• Teen marriage
• Child pornography
• Eating disorders
• Cerebral palsy
• Prostitution
• Rape
• Recreational drug use
• Gambling
• Gossip
• Suicide
• Racism
• University
• Striptease
• Sexual intercourse
• Motherhood
• Shoplifting
• Divorce
• Frame
• Cancer
• Dating

• The Facts of Life @ Sitcoms Online
• The Facts of Life @ Tim TV Showcase
• Beyond The Facts of Life
• The Facts of Life Site
• The Facts of Life Reunion Movie Site
• The Facts of Life at the Internet Movie Database
• The Facts of Life at TV.com