Although Blair insists she doesn't smoke, Sue Ann is pressured into trying. She and the girls devise a scheme to bring them back together, but Molly's father visits, bringing his new girlfriend with him.īlair gets Sue Ann into a clique known as "The Group", whose members are marijuana smokers. Molly finds out her parents are getting divorced. NBC moved the series to Wednesday nights for the final two episodes of the season and during the retooling for the second season. Note: This is the final episode to air on a Friday night. Unfortunately, it's causing a lot of conflicts for the rest of the girls, including Blair receiving a black eye. Bradley pits Cindy and Sue Ann against each other in a track competition. Blair then noses into Natalie's business when she arranges for her to talk to her birth mother by phone. The girls get an assignment to make a family tree, but Natalie ( Mindy Cohn) doesn't want to do it as she is adopted. Bradley rescues the girls, Blair develops a crush on him. Garrett holds a sex education class and Blair gets into a compromising situation with a boy and has to make a tough decision.īlair and Tootie rush to the stables to protect the animals when a flood hits Peekskill. Sue Ann goes on a crash diet after hearing Blair imply that a boy won't like her because of her weight. Bradley submits the poem to a competition and it wins third prize. Jenny O'Hara has left the show.īlair plagiarizes an Emily Dickinson poem about beauty, but must come clean when Mr. To help the show gain an audience, this episode was immediately preceded by an episode of Diff'rent Strokes ("The Slumber Party") that featured several of the student characters who would be featured on The Facts of Life. Note: After a six-month absence, the series was essentially relaunched. Garrett's influence over his daughter is holding her back as Tootie ( Kim Fields) has aspired to open a beauty salon. Tootie's father ( Robert Hooks) thinks Mrs. After this episode, the show was put on a six-month hiatus. Note: Jenny O'Hara makes her final appearance on the show and as a main cast regular. tests Nancy ( Felice Schachter) and Sue Ann ( Julie Piekarski) are not happy with the results. Garrett accepts her ex-husband's ( Robert Alda) proposal of remarriage, but changes her mind when she discovers he has been teaching the girls how to gamble. In 1981, as the show airs its third season, Marj Dusay replaces Huntington in a recurring role as Monica. Pam Huntington played Monica Warner (Blair's mother) in this episode only. Notes: This episode features the third and final verse of the season's theme. This episode features the first two verses of the season's theme.īlair is upset that she might get a reputation for being easy when her multiple-divorcée mother visits for Parents Night and flirts with the headmaster, Steven Bradley ( John Lawlor). The actual pilot episode, used to sell the show to NBC, was the Diff'rent Strokes first season finale, "The Girls' School (aka) Garrett's Girls". The cast of Diff'rent Strokes guest star only for this episode. Note: This was the show's first episode, but is not the pilot. Cindy (Julie Anne Haddock) decides not to attend the Harvest Ball, until Mrs. Garrett ( Charlotte Rae) at Eastland School and during the Harvest Queen competition, Blair ( Lisa Whelchel) makes a comment about tomboyish competitor Cindy not being feminine enough and even tries to insinuate that she's a lesbian. (The initial episode was a special presentation on Wednesday night after Diff'rent Strokes the show then moved to Fridays.) After a month off, the series moved back to Wednesday nights for the season's two final episodes in June. Then the show was off the air for six months, returning in March through early May for a run of seven episodes. The show aired four weekly episodes on Wednesday nights in August and September, technically before the 1979/80 TV season actually began. Though counted as a single season, the show aired in discrete blocks of episodes. O'Hara's character was dropped after the fourth episode. The first season begins with ten main characters: housemother Edna Garrett ( Charlotte Rae), headmaster Steven Bradley ( John Lawlor), teacher Emily Mahoney ( Jenny O'Hara), and seven students: Blair Warner ( Lisa Whelchel), Cindy Webster ( Julie Anne Haddock), Molly Parker ( Molly Ringwald), Nancy Olsen ( Felice Schachter), Natalie Green ( Mindy Cohn), Sue Ann Weaver ( Julie Piekarski), and Tootie Ramsey ( Kim Fields). Garrett helps out the girls of the chaotic dormitory at Eastland. Story by : Dick Clair & Jenna McMahon and Howard Leeds & Ben Starr The Diff'rent Strokes season 1 finale served as the backdoor pilot for The Facts of Life. See also: List of Diff'rent Strokes episodes § Season 1 (1978-1979)
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