The Facts of Life

- Season 6

(1984)

Mrs. Garrett and the girls return home to tell each other about their respective summer vacations.

Jo begins a pizza business, but when demand begins running Jo and her assistants, Natalie and Tootie, ragged, Jo must make a business decision on how to make pizzas faster and more cheaply.

Natalie secretly signs Blair and Jo up in a computer dating service, hoping to get information she can use in a term paper.

Tootie's boyfriend, Jeff, comes to visit her after several months and she learns that things between them have changed.

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 hide out in their car at closed gas station.

Jo meets a guy named Sam Hall. They date, and after a while, he reveals that he has a 7 year old son named Robbie that will live with him. Robbie asks Jo to come to parents night at his school and she says 'yes'. Jo bonds with the Sam and Robbie.

Jo continues dating Sam and becomes more involved in the life of his son Robbie. Blair warns Jo the effects on a child if she doesn't see herself as part of their futures.

Mrs. Garrett enrolled in a Shakespeare class, but worries that she might neglect her business and have trouble fitting in with the college crowd.

When Jo and Blair have been a each other's throats because of a misunderstanding. Jo who's working on the computer activates it to converse with her. So she talks about what happened between her and Blair and what should she do.

The girls fill in as disk jockeys at the Langley College radio station.

Natalie is nervous after an interview for a job with the town newspaper. However, after she learns she didn't get the job, her strange behavior threatens her relationship with her boyfriend.

Blair takes Jo to small claims court over a broken wristwatch.

Blair plans a charity event at what she believes is an orphanage but is really a prison.

Tootie portrays Eleanor Roosevelt in a play.

Mrs. Garrett worries about Blair's constant dating.

When they find an obituary for a man they worked with one summer at a resort in the Poconos, Natalie and Tootie recount the experience to Andy.

When her high school sweetheart from Appleton, Wisconsin arrives in town, Mrs. Garrett apologizes for dumping him years before. They begin to rekindle their romance, but the girls fear they are moving too fast when they announce a wedding.

Blair's plans for a date with her boyfriend keep getting delayed by excuses that he has to wait for a "friend" who Jo fears is the campus drug dealer.

The girls spend spring break in Florida when a hurricane hits.

While in Florida on spring break, Blair falls in love. She is headed for a 2-year job in Alaska and she needs to decide what to do.

Kevin moves into the attic and quickly becomes a nuisance to the girls.

The girls write a petition to save a dilapidated drive-in movie theater but find little interest from anyone else.

Blair's mother and Jo's father go out on a date.

While Mrs. Garrett is away, Blair takes charge of the shop, but the other girls desert her when she decides to stay open late to compete with another eatery.

When Natalie graduates from Eastland, she shocks her mother and her friends by deciding not to go to college.

Mrs. Garrett and the girls are interviewed for a documentary about Eastland Academy.