Picks and Pans Review: The Facts of Life

UPDATED 03/17/1980 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 03/17/1980 at 01:00 AM EST

NBC (8:30-9 p.m. ET)

Charlotte Rae, the housekeeper on Diff'rent Strokes, becomes housemother at a girls' school—but there's no zip in this spin-off, which tried out as a "limited series" last summer. The girls are stereotyped, the plot is thin and the final bell is as welcome to the audience as to the students.