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The Facts of Life

1979–1988 · 9 seasons

A gentle, lesson-of-the-week sitcom where friends bicker and bond in a cozy dorm, making growing up feel manageable.

Tagline
You take the good, you take the bad...
Overview
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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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • identity
  • class
Places
  • school
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Created by
Jenna McMahon, Dick Clair, Norman Lear
Written by
Jake Weinberger, Mitch Markowitz, Jerry Mayer, Margie Peters
Starring
Charlotte Rae, Cloris Leachman, Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields, Mindy Cohn, Jenny O'Hara, Nancy McKeon, John Lawlor
Length
9 seasons, 201 episodes, 30 min each
Network
NBC
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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