Picks and Pans Review: The Facts of Life

UPDATED 08/27/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 08/27/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (8:30 p.m. ET)

Charlotte Rae, the housekeeper on Diff'rent Strokes, becomes a housemother at a girls' school in this four-week trial series. Sound similar to CBS' Dorothy? Yep, and, like its video sibling, Facts will return next semester only if it gets passing Nielsen marks.

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