What Happened on the Final Episode of ‘The Facts of Life’ and How Did It End?

We took the good. We took the bad. We took them both, and there we had one of the greatest TV series of all time about growing up: The Facts of Life. One of the longest-running sitcoms of the eighties (airing for nine seasons from 1979 to 1988), the show was a spinoff of the already popular Diff’rent Strokes. It centered on Drummond family housekeeper Edna Garrett (zestfully played by Charlotte Rae) moving on to a new life as housemother at Eastland, an all-girls boarding school in Peekskill, NY.