Facts of Life on NBC

[1979, TV Show]

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A long-running `Diff'rent Strokes' spin-off set at a girls boarding school, with the Drummond's former housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett, now a housemother. The venues for her charges' escapades moved off-campus in later years when Mrs. Garrett opened a series of eateries in town, but her core group of young women remained largely unchanged.

Mrs. Garrett Does What with Adam Sandler?! | Movie News | 5/7/2008
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have Mrs. Garrett and Adam Sandler gettin' it on.Charlotte Rae, famous for her role as a girls' boarding school headmistress on the '80s sitcom The Facts of Life, has a cameo in Sandler's upcoming comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan.Rae, 82, tells the Associated Press she and Sandler's character make love in the movie, in which he plays an undercover Israeli commando who goes disguised as a hair stylist. Asked how Sandler was in the sack, Rae replies, "On a table from one to 10, I rate him 'not bad'". — J.R. Whalen read more
Honey, I Shrunk T.J. Hooker and Blair Warner! | Today's News: Our Take | 5/1/2007
Sony is retooling episodes from its classic television library into 3-1/2 to 5-minute "minisodes" which will initially be available on the company's web-based Minisode Network launching this summer on MySpace. Thus far, Reuters reports, more than 300 minisodes — each one condensing but covering a complete story arc from within the full-length episode — have been produced from such shows as T.J. Hooker, Charlie's Angels, Facts of Life and Fantasy Island (as if Tattoo could get much smaller). read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/22/2007
It takes Diff'rent Strokes to move the world, and nobody knows that better than Todd Bridges. Tonight, he begins a recur read more
Nancy McKeon's Disastrous Career | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/17/2004
When Las Vegas took a beating and storms blacked out Chicago in part one of Category 6: Day of Destruction, Nancy McKeon thought of it as "a fun ride." Of course, it helps that she's only making believe in the CBS disaster miniseries, part two of which airs tonight at 8 pm/ET. Here, the 38-year-old actress tells TV Guide Online about stormy weather, the sapphic appeal of The Facts of Life's Jo Polniaczek, and her butt-kickin' role on Lifetime's The Division.TV Guide Online: What's the worst ... read more
The Watercooler | 11/15/2004
SUNDAY American Music Awards Red Carpet Coverage My colleagues at the TV Guide Channel are paid to be nice to the ce read more

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Premiered: August 01, 1979, on NBC

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Premise: A long-running `Diff'rent Strokes' spin-off set at a girls boarding school, with the Drummond's former housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett, now a housemother. The venues for her charges' escapades moved off-campus in later years when Mrs. Garrett opened a series of eateries in town, but her core group of young women remained largely unchanged.

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