Series

The Facts of Life 1979

Created by Dick Clair, Norman Lear, Jenna McMahon

  • Drama, Comedy
  • 30 min episodes
  • 9 seasons
  • 201 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-PG

You take the good, you take the bad...

Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.

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