Season 9

1987-09-26

Jo is jobless and apartmentless in Malibu, where Richard Moll just happens to need a house sitter.

1987-10-03

Richard Moll returns to the home he left in Jo's care to find it's been flooded: someone left the water running in the hot tub.

1987-10-17

Blair's after-hours visit with a professor reputed to be a womanizer stirs up a storm of vicious rumors on campus.

1987-10-24

Natalie jumps at the chance to do an inside story on ROTC and then learns she'll also have to jump from a plane.

1987-11-07

Jo takes a job in social work at a community center that, she learns, has no funds to pay her salary.

1987-11-14

A new girl arrives at Eastland in the wee hours, claiming to be an Australian exchange student.

1987-11-21

Tootie's boyfriend says he can't make it to town for the Winter Carnival so Tootie decides to go with someone else.

1987-11-28

Blair is dumbfounded when an honor student she invited over ostensibly to study takes a shine to Beverly Ann instead of her.

1987-12-05

Babysitter Blair leaves her sister with the others while she attends a tea, and returns to find they somehow misplaced her.

1987-12-12

It's holiday time, and Beverly Ann feels unneeded, until a mysterious Santa shows her what Christmas in Peekskill would be like without her.

1988-01-02

Imagine the whole gang the same people the same place, 40 years from now.

1988-01-09

Andy latches on to a "big brother," who's living for today because tomorrow may never come.

1988-01-16

It's not music to his ears when Jo's dad learns that her boyfriend plays piano at a dinner joint.

1988-01-23

Blair interns at a law firm that's defending an accused murderer, who seems to be guilty until proven innocent.

1988-01-30

The fat hits the fire when Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends meet, and Jo blows a gasket over the repair job on her bike.

1988-02-06

Natalie deals firsthand with facts of life as she overnights with her boyfriend Snake, and faces the reactions of her friends and Snake.

1988-02-13

A sponsor of a musical benefit invites Jo and Blair to visit his beauty spa, where they are transformed but not in the way they expected.

1988-02-20

One evening, a tired Blair falls asleep at the wheel and has a car accident landing her in the hospital with a gash on her forehead. This leads her to begin worrying about how her once "perfect" self will recover from this tragedy.

1988-02-27

Rick proposes to Jo in his own crazy way, and everyone anticipates a wedding. Everyone, that is, except Jo – who still hasn't accepted.

1988-03-05

Tootie recieves a hideous pendant as an engagement present from Jeff's formidable grandmother, and it's pulverized at Andy and Pippa's wild party just before the woman arrives.

1988-03-12

Jo's job at the social services center gets a bit hairy when her supervisor, a suicide prevention counselor, threatens to leap off a building.

1988-03-19

Natalie's first bite of the Big Apple is hard to digest: she overnights in a Soho loft with "the four weirdest people I've ever met."

1988-04-30

Blair buys Eastland to save it from bankruptcy, and then must find a new headmaster and lots of new students.

1988-05-07

As the new headmistress, Blair starts whipping Eastland students into shape, and she's particularly challenged by one who seems determined to get expelled.