Seasons & episodes
S9 · E1Down and Out in Malibu (1) 1987-09-26
Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.
S9 · E2Down and Out in Malibu (2) 1987-10-03
Richard Moll returns to the home he left in Jo's care to find it's been flooded: someone left the water running in the hot tub.
S9 · E3Rumor Has It 1987-10-17
Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.
S9 · E4Before the Fall 1987-10-24
Natalie jumps at the chance to do an inside story on ROTC and then learns she'll also have to jump from a plane.
S9 · E5Sweet Charity 1987-11-07
Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.
S9 · E6Up from Down Under 1987-11-14
A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.
S9 · E7The More the Marrier 1987-11-21
Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.
S9 · E8A Rose by Any Other Age 1987-11-28
Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.
S9 · E9Adventures in Baileysitting 1987-12-05
Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.
S9 · E10It's a Wonderful Christmas 1987-12-12
It's holiday time, and Beverly Ann feels unneeded, until a mysterious Santa shows her what Christmas in Peekskill would be like without her.
S9 · E11Golden Oldies 1988-01-02
Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.
S9 · E12A Thousand Frowns 1988-01-09
Andy latches on to a "big brother," who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.
S9 · E13Something in Common 1988-01-16
It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.
S9 · E14Peekskill Law 1988-01-23
Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.
S9 · E15A House Divided 1988-01-30
The fat hits the fire when Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends meet, and Jo blows a gasket over the repair job on her bike.
S9 · E16The First Time 1988-02-06
Natalie deals firsthand with facts of life as she overnights with her boyfriend Snake, and faces the reactions of her friends and Snake.
S9 · E17Let's Face the Music 1988-02-13 · 30 min
A sponsor of a musical benefit invites Jo and Blair to visit his beauty spa, where they are transformed but not in the way they expected.
S9 · E18Less Than Perfect 1988-02-20 · 30 min
One evening, a tired Blair falls asleep at the wheel and has a car accident landing her in the hospital with a gash on her forehead. This leads her to begin worrying about how her once "perfect" self will recover from this tragedy.
S9 · E19Till Marriage Do Us Part 1988-02-27
Rick proposes to Jo in his own crazy way, and everyone anticipates a wedding. Everyone, that is, except Jo – who still hasn't accepted.
S9 · E20Present Imperfect 1988-03-05
Tootie recieves a hideous pendant as an engagement present from Jeff's formidable grandmother, and it's pulverized at Andy and Pippa's wild party just before the woman arrives.
S9 · E21On the Edge 1988-03-12
Jo's job at the social services center gets a bit hairy when her supervisor, a suicide prevention counselor, threatens to leap off a building.
S9 · E22Big Apple Blues 1988-03-19
Natalie's first bite of the Big Apple is hard to digest: she overnights in a Soho loft with "the four weirdest people I've ever met."
S9 · E23The Beginning of the End 1988-04-30
Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.
S9 · E24The Beginning of the Beginning 1988-05-07
As the new headmistress, Blair starts whipping Eastland students into shape, and she's particularly challenged by one who seems determined to get expelled.