In the final season one of the plots was to have Blair (Lisa Whelchel) get pregnant but the actress was so against sending what she considered to be a very non Christian message to young women that she refused to do it. Jo Polniaczek (Nancy McKeon) was added to the group with Natalie Green (Mindy Cohn), Blair Warner (Lisa Whelchel) and Dorothy ‘Tootie’ Ramsey (Kim Fields) rounding out the four who would remain for the rest of the series.Īlthough presented as a comedy the series managed to deal with many pertinent problems facing young women of that age including drug use, sex, eating disorders, parental relationships, and peer pressure. After the first season, the producers decided to drop four characters from the main cast, Molly Parker (Molly Ringwald), Cindy Webster (Julie Anne Haddock), Sue Ann Weaver (Julie Piekarski) and Nancy Olson (Felice Schachter). The plot revolves around 7 young women (in the first season, only 4 in remaining seasons) whose day to day problems become teachable moments as they find moral and proper solutions. Of course she winds up staying on at the school but also keeps close ties to the Drummond’s ( after the pilot Kimberly Drummond mysteriously no longer attends Eastland School.). Edna Garrett was asked to help out with a play the girls were doing because the students former house mother had quit. In the pilot episode Kimberly Drummond (Dana Plato) was attending Eastland School, an all girls private school in New York. The Facts of Life was a spin-off series from Diff’rent Strokes featuring Charlotte Rae as Edna Garrett who was previously the Drummond’s housekeeper.
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