Product: The Facts of Life - The Complete Third Season (1979)
Rating: 5.0
The Best Season Without Question!
This is the best season of this show. The episode alone with Tootie's (Kim Fields) obsession with Jermaine Jackson is worth it alone. A cynical ending, but a great lesson to us all. The epsiode with Jo (Nancy McKeon) writing the crooked article on her teacher is a classic, which should remind young viewers that the media, the paper and TV, is not always cracked up to what it is meant to be. The irony of the episode of Tootie getting drunk is remembrance when Kim Fields played a leading role in a TV film a year before called Children of Divorce. Fields hit the bottle then to get away from the problems of her mother and father. What people really have to remember about this show is that it is so must better than the show it spun off from, Diff'rent Strokes. It always had a serious topic in it that not only girls/women could appreciate, but also boys/men. It took over a week for this season to come in the mail, and I just got it today. I would grab it ASAP. Strange to say, this show seemed nostalgic when I first watched it on NBC, as well as the re-runs on Fox in 1980s, and it is still nostalgic. It brings you to the home we had at one time with things not always being peaches and cream.