   the facts of life is an american sitcom that originally ran on the nbc television network from august 24, 1979, to may 7, 1988, making it one of the longest running sitcoms of the 1980s. a spin-off of the sitcom diff'rent strokes, the series' premise focuses on edna garrett (charlotte rae) as she becomes a housemother (and after the second season, a dietitian as well) at the fictional eastland school, an all-female boarding school in peekskill, new york.new york times ==premise==  ===season 1=== a spin-off of diff'rent strokes, the series featured the drummonds' housekeeper, edna garrett (charlotte rae) as the housemother of a dormitory at eastland school, a private all-girls school. the girls in her care included spoiled r
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