A group of girls attending a boarding school experience the joys and the trials of adolescence under the guiding hand of housemother Edna Garrett. Later in the series, Mrs. Garrett is promoted to school dietician, and four of the girls move into new quarters above the cafeteria. Eventually she leaves the school and opens her own business, with help from her girls.
The Harvest Fair festivities are dampened by a misunderstanding over a tomboy's affections for the other girls.
Blair's mother runs into an old high-school boyfriend during Parents Night.
Mrs. Garrett's ex-husband proposes again.
Tootie discloses her friends' I.Q. scores.
Tootie's father wants to remove her from Mrs. Garrett's care.
Blair's solution to a problem puts the honor of the school at stake.
Sue Ann goes on a dangerous crash diet.
Blair decides to put a sex-education lesson to use.
Mr. Bradley attempts to rescue Blair and Tootie from a flood.
Adopted Natalie wants to find her natural mother.
Mr. Bradley sets out to keep the school's championship track title.
The girls plan to reconcile Molly's divorcing folks.
Blair and Sue Ann's new friends use marijuana.
Mrs. Garrett assigns a streetwise student to be Blair's roommate.
Mrs. Garrett's plan gets the girls expelled.
Jo attends a country club cotillion with Blair's suave childhood friend.
Tootie is tired of being treated like a little girl.
Natalie is attacked while returning from a party.
A former Eastland student, now a teenage wife and mother, stops by for a visit.
Jo's future at Eastland is in jeopardy when she learns her scholarship funds are drying up.
Natalie could be suspended from Eastland when she refuses to reveal her source for a controversial article in the school paper.
Geri tries to give Tootie sound advice when she learns that Tootie is losing her hearing.
Mrs. Garrett is angry; Jo faces expulsion.
Mrs. Garrett's move causes new problems.
Blair fires sorority-party caterer Mrs. Garrett.
Summer exploits are the topic of discussion when the gang returns from vacation.
Jo's pizza business does better than she planned.
Natalie takes a risk when she chooses computer dating as the subject of her term paper.
The girls and Mrs. Garrett return from their summer vacations to find that Edna's Edibles has been destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Garrett and the girls hire a contractor to build a new business on the former site of Edna's Edibles.
The girls and Mrs. Garrett encounter some difficulties on opening day at their new boutique.
Mrs. Garrett must choose between staying in Peekskill or following her boyfriend to Africa.
When Mrs. Garrett decides to marry and move to Africa, her sister moves in with the girls.
The girls fear that Tootie and her boyfriend are becoming too serious.
Jo, homeless and unemployed in California, fortuitously meets up with "Night Court" co-star Richard Moll.
Upon his return home, actor Richard Moll finds a group of "trespassers" and has them arrested.
Blair decides to quit law school after a rumor circulates about her and a womanizing professor.
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Tootie's new boyfriend questions the real motives of her white friends.
A visit by Blair's handicapped cousin brings back a lifelong conflict.
Jo "picks up" an expensive gift for Mrs. Garrett's birthday.
Jo's old boyfriend proposes marriage.
Mrs. Garrett and the girls try to delay Jo's marriage.
Tootie's gossiping jeopardizes Mrs. Garrett's job.
Blair learns her opponent in the student council race is suffering through a crisis.
Natalie's first date has unexpected consequences.
Jo fears her classmates will find out about her father's disreputable past.
A top fashion photographer arrives on campus to search for the new face of the '80s.
Cosmetics saleswoman Blair gives Tootie a new look.
Mrs. Garrett's son pays a visit to Eastland and captures Natalie's attention.
Tootie and Natalie visit Tootie's aunt in Buffalo, N.Y., and end up in the middle of a marital flare-up. (A failed backdoor pilot for a spinoff series centered on Tootie's aunt and uncle.)
Blair inadvertently discovers her mother has a serious illness.
Jo's chance to write a hot news story leads her on a trail of revenge.
Mrs. Garrett faces serious financial troubles.
Jo's relationship with her boyfriend is in jeopardy when she falls for another guy.
Natalie's plans for a private weekend fall through when her grandmother arrives.
Tootie is apprehensive about going on a camping trip with boys from Bates Academy.
Blair is afraid her cousin is being set up for a disappointing romance.
Blair's decision to donate part of her inheritance to Eastland brings unexpected family news.
Natalie will do anything for the school-play lead.
Jo is caught in an international conflict when she meets a new Japanese student.
Blair is curious about Mrs. Garrett's new beau.
Tootie is obsessed with singer Jermaine Jackson.
The girls must decide if they want to continue living together.
Natalie is devastated when she sees her father with a strange woman.
Tootie decides to go to New York unchaperoned.
Trips home seem to make the Blair/Jo feud worse.
Natalie's revenge harms an innocent bystander.
Blair begins a war over the right to privacy.
Blair's cadet date is really a delinquent. The first of two failed attempts at a backdoor pilot for a series set at a boys academy.
Jo's 14-year-old cousin wants her overprotective father and brothers to recognize her femininity.
The issue of book banning arises at Eastland.
Jo wins the heart and money of Eastland's oldest living graduate.
Blair tutors a mentally impaired young man.
Natalie embarks on a desperate search for her natural mother after an emotional confrontation with her adoptive mother.
Jo is forced to make a difficult decision when her exceptional ability at her new job gains her a quick promotion.
Blair discovers she's the unsuspecting victim when a tax audit reveals her father has done some questionable accounting.
Natalie has started dating Alfred, a cadet at a nearby Military Academy. When Alfred starts boxing he becomes disheartened over facing a tough boxing opponent, especially in front of his father and Natalie, who's there covering the match for her school newspaper. The second of two failed attempts at a backdoor pilot for a series set at a boys academy.
Natalie may end up the odd woman out when she boycotts a school dance.
When the girls discover Mrs. Garrett's boyfriend is significantly older than her, they try to warn her that their romance won't last. Refusing to listen to their concerns, Mrs. Garrett soon realizes her relationship won't last because of how different their beliefs are.
Tootie discovers that the new student, a young princess, plans to run away.
Blair's behavior toward her new boyfriend could cost her her self-respect and her best friends.
The girls are determined to do everything in their power to spare Mrs. Garrett unnecessary stress.
Jo is furious when she learns that a favorite teacher is planning to leave Eastland.
The girls learn a valuable lesson when they join Tootie's college-aged brother and his roommate for a night on the town.
Blair is stunned by her socialite sister's decision to become a nun and then by a shocking announcement from Jo.
Blair believes that she is the only one capable of keeping her sister and Jo from becoming nuns.
A series of events disrupts Mrs. Garrett's attempts to entertain French visitors.
Tootie feels ignored when Natalie devotes all of her time to her new boyfriend.
Jo returns home for a visit and announces that she has decided to get a job instead of attending college.
Despite Mrs. Garrett's objections, the girls settle in for an all-night study session.
Blair and Jo share a common feeling of disdain toward their graduation from Eastland.
Jo's going out with a new guy. When she learns from Blair that he's the son of a prominent judge and an ambassador the afternoon she gets invited to dinner with them, she goes out of her way to make them feel uncomfortable at dinner.
After Tootie's crush, the star quarterback of Eastland's football team comes into Mrs. Garrett's café, she discovers that he can't read. Tootie's ethics are soon tested when he asks her to help cheat on an upcoming big test. When she decides to not help him do that and offers to help learn how to read. Meanwhile, Blair volunteers her cousin Geri to perform at an upcoming charity show for her sorority and is in a bind when Geri is hesitant to help out.
A customer mysteriously vanishes on Halloween.
Natalie feels superior when she is allowed to take a course at Langley College.
Jo and Blair bring Mrs. Garrett to an exotic dance club for her birthday.
Mrs. Garrett and the girls become victims when they befriend a street punk.
The girls go to war with the shop's competition.
Jo's plan to reunite her parents runs into trouble.
Blair devises a way to get Jo to take a money gift.
The girls' careless work habits could lead to the closing of Mrs. Garrett's gourmet shop by the Board of Health.
A 7-year-old boy refuses to leave his apartment during an evacuation.
Natalie upsets Tootie by dating Tootie's cousin.
Jo learns a lesson in politics when she is elected to the Langley College Board of Regents.
Natalie's father dies unexpectedly.
Blair can't deal with Jo's increasing popularity.
Blair has to compete for her boyfriend's attention when a movie star enrolls at Langley College.
Blair dreams of the future for herself and her friends.
Sparks fly when Tootie and her mother find it difficult to communicate.
Blair takes away all her cousin Geri's responsibilities in planning a charity auction.
Jo's Brooklyn boyfriend returns unexpectedly.
Garrett's son may spell trouble for Edna's Edibles.
As the school year ends, the girls look back at the good times.
Natalie and Tootie try to bring a feuding Blair and Jo back together.
Tootie faces an important decision as she tries to gain her boyfriend's acceptance.
The girls cruise the streets of downtown Peekskill with hopes of spotting "Mr. Right".
Rumors spread across the campus when Jo is seen with her photography professor.
Jo's relationship with her professor grows more serious.
Mrs. Garrett hits the books again when she takes a Shakespeare class with Jo and Blair.
The school computer spurts out advice when Blair and Jo become embroiled in a fight.
Jo is handed the tough assignment of hosting a five-hour radio program.
Natalie has the opportunity to break into journalism, but she may lose her boyfriend in the process.
Blair seeks payment after Jo breaks her watch.
Mrs. Garrett and the girls stage a Christmas show at an orphanage.
Tootie wants Natalie's opinion on her writing.
Mrs. Garrett and the girls express concern over Blair's obsessive dating and irrational behavior.
Tootie and Natalie recall the summer they met a memorable jazz singer.
Mrs. Garrett's high-school beau reappears.
Jo fears Blair's boyfriend is using drugs.
The girls head to Florida for spring break.
Jo falls for a singer; Blair's new love is unusual.
Mrs. Garrett offers Kevin a room in the attic.
The girls plan to spend a quiet night at the movies before the drive-in closes for good.
A budding romance develops between Blair's mother and Jo's father.
Blair manages the shop in Mrs. Garrett's absence.
Natalie makes a shocking announcement about college.
A former Eastland student interviews Mrs. Garrett and the girls for her latest novel.
Jo must make a decision between a teaching job and an offer from a major corporation.
Langley administrators are upset over the publication of a calendar featuring beefcake photos of the boys swim team.
Blair fears the worst when she discovers her mother is pregnant.
The girls hastily form a singing act after Andy enters them in a band contest.
Natalie travels to a truck stop where she involves her friends in an unusual musical fantasy.
Tootie becomes the object of Andy's affections.
Jo and Blair attempt to stage a live newscast from the store.
Mrs. Garrett's former college friend accuses her of once having an affair with her husband.
When Jo decides to take dancing lessons, she attempts to hide the fact from her friends.
Blair is unexpectedly called in as a birthing coach when her mother delivers her baby on Christmas Day.
Mrs. Garrett helps a nervous Tootie prepare for her driving test.
When the police stake out the shop in an effort to catch a group of counterfeiters, the girls decide not to tell Mrs. Garrett.
Tootie discovers a talented campus comic and arranges a meeting for him with a talent scout.
Jo agrees to pose as George's fiancee at his high-school class reunion in an effort to impress his former girlfriend.
Headed for an awards ceremony, Blair is trapped in an elevator with a man who has a very special past.
The girls travel to Atlantic City, N.J., to see Jo's old flame, rock 'n' roll singer "Flyman".
The girls have an unexpected guest when they celebrate Blair's 21st birthday.
Angry Natalie decides to run for mayor of Peekskill.
Jo's father makes a fortune in the stock market, but spends money on her rather than giving her the attention she wants.
Tootie seems more concerned with a theatrical audition than with her upcoming high-school graduation.
Natalie and Tootie make some discoveries when they move into an apartment together.
Jo finds it difficult to pay her share of transforming the attic into a loft.
Tootie undermines the competition when she auditions for her first Broadway show.
Three of the girls who used to live in the dorm with Blair, Tootie, and Natalie return for a reunion. Jo feels left out because she never knew them.
Jo botches up Blair's latest computerized date-rating service.
Jo agrees to marry an illegal alien so he can get his green card.
Blair must work at a taco stand as a requirement for her business degree.
Blair's father is charged with insider trading and when he pleads guilty, she doesn't know how to react.
Someone called "Desiree" plagiarizes Natalie.
Tootie sees a horror movie and then has a nightmare in which her friends are stalked by a killer.
Natalie's article angers sorority pledge Tootie.
Natalie's in trouble after she gets a pre-approved credit card.
A young singer gets support from Tootie and the girls.
On a ski trip, the girls are accidentally double-booked into a room filled with young men.
Old loves reappear in the lives of Beverly Ann and the girls.
Beverly Ann and the girls relive the '60s when pop stars Fabian and Bobby Rydell arrive in Peekskill for a concert.
Beverly Ann initiates proceedings to adopt Andy when his foster parents separate.
Beverly Ann's ex-spouse wants to renew their romance.
Blair unwittingly pairs Charlie with a 23-year-old.
Blair learns that her test score, not the influence of her parents, will decide if she is admitted to law school.
Jo's grandfather travels from Poland to see her graduate from college.
Blair, Tootie, Natalie and Beverly Ann make vacation plans while Jo considers taking a job in Los Angeles.
Natalie goes under cover as an ROTC cadet to get a news story.
Social worker Jo raises funds to save her new job.
A visitor claims to be a new exchange student from Australia.
Tootie forces Jeff to decide about their future.
Blair is stunned when her law school study partner falls for Beverly Ann.
Blair learns a lesson about motherhood when she agrees to baby-sit her little sister.
Stricken with the holiday blues, Beverly Ann has her own "It's a Wonderful Life" experience.
It is 40 years into the future and the girls are back together in the same house.
Jo introduces Andy to a man from the shelter.
Jo's father takes an immediate dislike to his daughter's irresponsible boyfriend.
Blair's first assignment as a law clerk involves her in a scandalous murder trial.
Natalie and Tootie's dinner party doesn't go well when their dates don't get along.
Natalie and Snake plan to mark the anniversary of their first year together with an intimate encounter.
The girls visit a famed beauty salon for make-overs, but their transformations aren't quite what they expected.
A scar received in a car accident mars Blair's personality as well as her face.
Jo and Blair both receive interesting, if unexpected, proposals from their boyfriends.
Tootie is afraid she may lose Jeff when a gift from his grandmother ends up in the blender.
A co-worker of Jo's suffers career burnout and threatens to commit suicide.
A weekend trip to New York sets Natalie on a new life course. A failed backdoor pilot for a spinoff series for Natalie.
Blair puts up her grandmother's trust fund to save Eastland School from bankruptcy.
In the series finale, Blair becomes headmistress of Eastland School. A planned spinoff with Blair in the lead at Eastland never happened.