The Facts of Life | Blair Becomes The Headmistress Of Eastland

The Facts of Life | Blair Becomes The Headmistress Of Eastland | The Norman Lear Effect

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Upon hearing that the school might close, Blair (Lisa Whelchel) uses her trust fund money to buy Eastland and automatically becomes the headmistress.
From Season 9, Episode 23 'The Beginning of the End' - When Blair discovers that Eastland Academy is in dire financial straits, she decides not to go to law school but buy it and save it from closing.
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About The Facts of Life: At the Eastland School in Peekskill, New York, Edna Garrett (Charlotte Rae) oversees the day-to-day lives of students who come from all walks of life. Under the care of this slightly nutty but always caring housemother is the beautiful, rich and spoiled Blair Warner (Lisa Whelchel); the witty, plump and impressionable Natalie Green (Mindy Cohn); Dorothy “Tootie” Ramsey (Kim Fields), the young and persistent campus gossip; and Joanna “Jo” Polniaczek (Nancy McKeon), a Bronx-born and bred streetwise kid whose tough exterior masks the brains and compassion she's hiding underneath. Whether it's the challenges posed by Eastland's academic and social scenes, the rise, fall and rebirth of the businesses they start and run together, or the comings and goings of new faces in school and town, including Edna's replacement (and sister) Beverly Ann Stickle (Cloris Leachman), the girls are always ready for a new challenge, and perceptive enough to learn from each new situation.
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@thenormanleareffect Жыл бұрын

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@ritagreenlaw8923 Жыл бұрын

I love this episode with Myaim Bialik from Blossom and Juliet Lewis.

@nibsvkh Жыл бұрын

Mayim

@johnta17 Жыл бұрын

who is the girl on the left though?

@kizmetlogistics421 Жыл бұрын

@@johnta17 She's an awesome actress @MeredithScottLynn, she's played in alot but was amazing in Days of Our Lives for YEARS.

@AnansitheSpider8 4 ай бұрын

Six was probably Blossom's roommate in this episode. And instead of talking super fast, maybe Six walked in and out of the scene so fast we never saw her onscreen. LOL

@justmeiniowa Жыл бұрын

It's too bad this spin off never happened. Would have been interesting to see how they would update with the times.

@EphemeralProductions Жыл бұрын

Yeah. But mayim got Blossom and Juliette got several other acting jobs thereafter. But i agree, it would have been cool to see a spinoff! They tried it a few times on FOL actually, and for some reason people never seemed to go for any of em.

@larryellison5001 7 ай бұрын

I agree. It had potential.

@kellymcfalls1458 7 ай бұрын

@@EphemeralProductionsI didn’t like it the first season was my favorite

@EphemeralProductions 7 ай бұрын

@@kellymcfalls1458 lots of others seem to share your likes and views lol

@beautifulpastusa 5 ай бұрын

@@kellymcfalls1458 Expand your thinking! In my objective opinion, the first season and season 7 are the best! I know that you like originality, but every movie has new developments! The plot of the movie changed simply from the reviews of the audience at that time!

@Daddy-O2024 Жыл бұрын

This was a sad end to a long-running classic sitcom from the 1980s.

@garycollins7750 Жыл бұрын

It’s not too often the spin-off out performs the parent series. They lasted 9 seasons, two TV movies a trip to Paris and Australia and 7 back door pilots.

@nassauguy48 Жыл бұрын

@@garycollins7750 And all the pilots failed.

@nassauguy48 Жыл бұрын

At this point, the viewing public had been "FOLed out". The plots in the final two seasons, definitely the last one, were, for the most part, inane.

@maxusarcadia777 11 ай бұрын

Facts of life is the spin-off of Different Strokes

@carriewestham4352 11 ай бұрын

I think Blair was burned out with acting and Hollywood in general. She ended up marrying a pastor and never worked in the industry again.

@goku20015 Жыл бұрын

God Blair was gorgeous!!!!😍😍😍😍😍

@jaygee6738 Жыл бұрын

she still is

@goku20015 Жыл бұрын

@@jaygee6738 yes!!

@MikeLutton 8 ай бұрын

i wish her Blonde hair would of got soaked n wet in a episode

@74Spirit1 6 ай бұрын

Aww. Pre Blossom, probably around the time Mayim Balik was probably playing little Bette Midler on "Beaches".

@pika23 Жыл бұрын

Mayim bialik next to Juliette Lewis!!

@TheSickNeeds 14 күн бұрын

Its really a shame that this and Natalies series didn't get made. Both were a lot better and made a lot more sense than many of the later season Facts of Life episodes.

@misstee101 Жыл бұрын

Mayim appeared on the Facts of Life? I don't believe it!

@SuperMarioBrosIII Жыл бұрын

@misstee101 not to mention Seth Green and Juliette Lewis.

@misstee101 Жыл бұрын

@@SuperMarioBrosIII whoa!

@kekwayblaze3176 7 ай бұрын

Molly Ringwald and George Clooney had regular roles on the show at one time too.

@bostonbean Жыл бұрын

The staircase is much grander in this version of Eastland.

@nassauguy48 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if this was the same set used in Season 1.

@robinorlowski2449 9 ай бұрын

@@nassauguy48 it vaugely looks like it. Of course the technology for tv production improved since 1979. So even if they did skimp on other things, the set looked 'better'

@rhondalong152 Жыл бұрын

Blaire was still the Headmistress in the movie years later, Tootie's daughter was starting at Eastland and Natalie had two boyfriends, both wanting to marry her. No Jo,though.

@robinorlowski2449 9 ай бұрын

Actually Blair sold Eastland and now owned a hotel. After all of that work she gave up on the school. Disappointing.

@paulad.patterson4732 3 ай бұрын

Jo became a cop.

@ritagreenlaw8923 Жыл бұрын

Ashley Payne is Jan the nurse on Days Our Lives.

@zutalors960 Жыл бұрын

Wow, a couple of familiar faces in that clip!

@maximusprime3459 Жыл бұрын

Lisa/Blair still looks this good.

@TMC1982Part2 11 ай бұрын

I always thought that Lisa Whelchel looked her best towards the very end of the series, with the long straight hair and the side-part bangs.

@robinorlowski2449 8 ай бұрын

@@TMC1982Part2 yeah. I like this hairdo much better.

@belkyhernandez8281 Жыл бұрын

This episode never made sense to me. Eastland being a run down school seemed very random.

@LBF522 Жыл бұрын

I agree with the wealthy sending their daughters there and all.

@nassauguy48 Жыл бұрын

In real life, any school that faces closing down forever loses its reputation even if it somehow manages to survive. Didn't Eastland, if it was so prestigious, have a large endowment? At any rate, if it had truly been an elite school, it would never have faced closing down.

@kellymcfalls1458 7 ай бұрын

@@nassauguy48Not every school facing closure looses their reputation even if it doesn’t close!

@jessicasmith5728 9 ай бұрын

I just saw this two part series finale of the Facts of Life the other day on the tubi app. Afterwards, I deleted my account for that site. I think this was a good send off for the show. Mayim Bialik also made a guest appearance on Webster.

@saveriodefazio4658 Жыл бұрын

This was gonna be the Spinoff

@kallen868 Жыл бұрын

Lisa!💖😍

@carrieheffernan1685 Жыл бұрын

Blair Warner gave up on law school for this mess?

@belkyhernandez8281 Жыл бұрын

Makes no sense.

@xrrrismickey Жыл бұрын

Not even remotely possible.

@Diostillrocks Жыл бұрын

would you want Blair to be your lawyer? She was way too much of an airhead to be one.

@belkyhernandez8281 Жыл бұрын

@@Diostillrocks Blair was never an air head in the show. She had excellent grades all the way through and had a sharp legal mind.

@garycollins7750 Жыл бұрын

@@belkyhernandez8281 in the later seasons she was a bit, once the show stopped focusing on “issues” Blair was written to be less of a snob.

@dominickdirienzo8266 Жыл бұрын

2:48, Sam Behrens who would later portray the role of Danny Waleska in Knots Landing.

@toadwar9300 5 ай бұрын

Omgosh so many early stars in this one!

@xrrrismickey Жыл бұрын

Loved this show but this is really when it jumped the shark. They had no planned ending and it just petered out into this.

@stephenholloway6893 Жыл бұрын

The plan was to give the series another season but after Mindy and Nancy declined, NBC practically rushed the series into cancellation.

@SuperMarioBrosIII Жыл бұрын

@@stephenholloway6893 Sad but true!🤔🙄😔📺

@robinorlowski2449 Жыл бұрын

@@stephenholloway6893 yeah if they left I can see why there would be a really quick cancellation.

@robinorlowski2449 9 ай бұрын

But if Blair is running an entire school, it would be difficult for Mindy and Nancy to have roles. Natalie was supposed to be a writer and Jo wanted to be a teacher/social worker.

@travisjames3517 8 ай бұрын

@@stephenholloway6893Cohn declined because she wanted a spinoff series and they did no. McKeon actually wanted out a lot earlier than Season 09.

@SlMONSAYS Жыл бұрын

H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E casting is why this never went anywhere...it never stood a chance. With the exception of Lisa, this clip alone was painful to watch.

@nassauguy48 Жыл бұрын

The writing was bad, and the acting even worse.

@sassyg9133 Жыл бұрын

good lord I remember this

@RoyalMasterpiece 10 ай бұрын

Ashley )synergy is the same actress in Legally Blonde. She is at Harvard and rejects Elle.

@annettelanham9897 9 ай бұрын

I thought that was her - she has a lovely raspy voice.

@millenniumman75 3 ай бұрын

Yes! The "ove-ester" lady. Anthony Perkins' son Osgood played "Dorky David" in Lrgally Blonde, too.

@aussieburn777 3 ай бұрын

Yep she played a butch lezo in legally blonde

@MrCraigblaze 5 ай бұрын

I think Blair bring the head mistress of Eastland was just too much to Take..And maybe that was the reason why the "Spinoff " Was canned !! Thanks for the the upload !! Lost of Future talent on this show..

@nassauguy48 2 ай бұрын

A headmistress in her early 20s and with no background in education was simply not realistic.

@ddbjg Жыл бұрын

she plays amy on the big bany

@stacystoltz8722 8 ай бұрын

Nice

@amitalati5741 9 ай бұрын

Blossom !!!! Hi !!!!

@jaygee6738 Жыл бұрын

wow.. a very young Juliette Lewis!! totally forgot that she was in this

@ricofresh22 2 ай бұрын

I love Blair cuz she never backed down

@IndieAnnieJones1 8 ай бұрын

Wait how come I never saw this episode - Mayim Balik, Juliette Lewis, Seth Green????

@travisjames3517 8 ай бұрын

Why would Ashley be at a school that was financially collapsing if she had so much money?

@robinorlowski2449 7 ай бұрын

tradition? Her mom etc had graduated from there. So even though it's now financially a mess, she still has to attend.

@nomadicolours 2 ай бұрын

Woman family faces here. I never even knew this existed. Sam Bremen's (Jake) General Hospital & Juliet Lewis.

@3dartistguy Жыл бұрын

the original set from the first year did not have a double staircase.

@Diostillrocks Жыл бұрын

That set was probably long gone and they needed to build a new one.

@3dartistguy Жыл бұрын

@@Diostillrocks all they had to do was look at the first season episodes if they wanted to replicate the set accurately.

@maximusprime3459 Жыл бұрын

It was a new set for a potentially new show...why would they keep the old set?

@3dartistguy Жыл бұрын

@@maximusprime3459 continuity?

@kellymcfalls1458 7 ай бұрын

@@maximusprime3459Because it was the SAME school?

@PaulJackson729 8 ай бұрын

The final episode of The Facts Of Life, and a teaser for a purposed spin off that didn't get picked up.

@theresasmalls1129 Жыл бұрын

❤ for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life and has passed from death into life ❤

@wisperrrr 11 ай бұрын

Blossom and The Facts Of Life are my favorite shows and Mayim and Blair are so slayyyyyyyyy

@jonthomas8569 Жыл бұрын

This was a misguided attempt to keep the show going. It didn't work the first time when they had a large cast of characters running in and out of every scene. Keeping the focus smaller is what made them successful. It was time to give them a real sendoff at this point.

@maximusprime3459 Жыл бұрын

Once the show got going they prolly would've cut the cast down a bit like they did the first time. Its clear which ones stand out and which ones don't.

@EphemeralProductions Жыл бұрын

Yeah they tried it two other times besides this with different characters and it failed every time.

@nassauguy48 Жыл бұрын

If anything, it showed how Eastland had become nothing more than a diploma mill for the rich. These kids were STUPID.

@robinorlowski2449 9 ай бұрын

@@EphemeralProductions maybe--maybe not. Differences in production styles. Fox network was also launched in 1986 which changed broadcast. The original show had started when there were only 3 networks. So they'd have to get used to a larger cast.

@kellymcfalls1458 7 ай бұрын

@@maximusprime3459the first season was my favorite

@beefy_thevampslayer Ай бұрын

This is how Yellowjackets started 🐝⚽️🥩

@JunkyardKid 5 ай бұрын

IT'S BLOSSOM!!!

@hhhggg4687 Жыл бұрын

Nope. Blair was supposed to be like the Mrs.Garrett character. Sort of like a den mother. But Blair was only 19 or 20 yrs old herself. Too young for a den mother

@johnfire3194 Жыл бұрын

I think Blair would have been about 24 by this point in the series

@hhhggg4687 Жыл бұрын

@@johnfire3194 maybe.. still not old enough to be a den mother. She would have been more like a big sister.

@maximusprime3459 Жыл бұрын

Wow. My mom had me at age 22. She and I need to have a long talk about motherhood age limits...

@hhhggg4687 Жыл бұрын

@@maximusprime3459you were a newborn baby. Those kids are she's in charge of are teenagers. Shes only about 8 yrs older then them..

@jessicasmith5728 9 ай бұрын

Blair was actually about 23 by the end of the series. She and Jo graduated in 1983. They also graduated college together in 1987.

@stacystoltz8722 3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤😂

@Chapin-pc2kz 11 ай бұрын

Headmistress, huh? Honey, you're living in a dream world. No matter what they say, they never leave their wives.

@loyalhufflepuff8869 7 ай бұрын

I love The Nanny 🤣🫶🏽🫶🏽

@71789399 7 ай бұрын

A headmistress is in charge of a school. Like a principal.

@dickborg452 Жыл бұрын

Juliette Lewis

@Kaboomboo 2 ай бұрын

The girl in the yellow shirt was in Legally Blonde, no?

@dougl945 Ай бұрын

Blair was too rich to work

@rick90604whittier 7 ай бұрын

Mayim!

@JunkyardKid 5 ай бұрын

AND Mallory Knox?!?

@travisjames3517 8 ай бұрын

This series never would have worked. No way. The supporting cast is dreadful.

@jennifer_m.8613 5 ай бұрын

Who is thar Ashley Paine girl?

@kristinazubic9669 Жыл бұрын

I wish this spinoff had happened.

@Asukenick Жыл бұрын

I doubt it would have done well.

@kristinazubic9669 Жыл бұрын

@@Asukenick that’s why they didn’t do it. I would have liked to see it though.

@LBF522 Жыл бұрын

@@kristinazubic9669 Same here. I hate it when some executive makes these decisions. Let the viewers decide.

@stacystoltz8722 Жыл бұрын

Facts life Wasa Cute show in 70and80ontv

@davidgivargidze7465 Жыл бұрын

J Joe Michael the boy wonder ill never forget they episode in titled less then perfect when Blair got her face scraed in n car accident j

@kc0lif 2 ай бұрын

maliam balick.

@CreationsbyRyan 15 күн бұрын

Such a disappointing ending to this series. There was hardly and of the other core 4 members in this finale

@MikeLutton 8 ай бұрын

im sure there could of been a episode where Blair's Hair got Soaked and Wet Easily

@aepacker 15 күн бұрын

Facts Of Life Subscribers: Ay Caramba

@dougl945 Ай бұрын

Juliette Lewis