Blair and tomboyish Cindy are nominated for the title of Harvest Queen. Also, the Drummond's make a visit to Eastland to see about her imminent return to their home.
Blair is upset when her mother comes for a visit and is more interested in dating men than spending time with her own daughter,
Mrs. Garrett is surprised by the sudden arrival of her ex-husband and even more by his proposal. But all falls apart when she learns he has been teaching Tootie how to play poker.
A list of I.Q. test results is shown to the girls by Tootie, creating unexpected results.
Tootie's father is blaming Mrs. Garrett for holding her back when she decides she wants to open a beauty salon instead of being a lawyer, like he is.
Blair plagiarizes a poem from Emily Dickinson, in order to complete a school assignment, unaware that the headmaster has entered it in a national poetry contest.
Sue Ann puts her health in danger when she goes on a crash diet in hopes of impressing a blind date.
Blair accepts a date with a delivery boy believing she can handle the situation after attending Mrs. Garrett's sex education class.
Blair falls for Mr. Bradley after a flash flood puts the school and the lives of some of the girl's animals.
When Natalie discovers she is adopted, Blair offers to help her find her true birth parents, despite Mrs. Garrett's objection.
Mr. Bradley wants to win the state track championships so badly that he would sacrifice a close friendship when he places Sue Ann against Cindy.
The girls plan a reconciliation for Molly's parents when they learn of their pending divorce. But all does not go well when her father arrives with a new girlfriend.
Blair and Sue Ann enter a whole new world when they join an exclusive club on campus and discover their favorite past time is smoking pot.
Mrs. Garrett has been named the new nutritional expert for Eastland school. But she has more problems than food when a new street tough girl, Jo, is named roommates with Blair and the girls.
The girls get expelled from Eastland after a ridiculous bet between Jo and Blair lands them all in jail.
Blair is devastated when Jo is asked to a country club cotillion by a childhood friend, Harrison.
Tootie is unsure of herself when her new boyfriend claims she hangs out with only white girls.
Blair learns a lesson when her handicapped cousin, Geri, arrives at Eastland for the school's award banquet.
Mrs. Garrett is arrested for shoplifting after returning a birthday present that was given by Jo, Natalie and Tootie.
The girls hope to persuade Jo, that a marriage to Eddie will be a huge mistake.
Mrs. Garrett hopes to delay Jo and Eddie's marriage plans until her mother can be contacted, but that idea is squashed when they decide to elope.
Feeling a need to be one of the girls, Tootie spreads a rumor that she saw Mrs. Garrett drinking, which quickly spreads to being in a drunken state.
Although Blair puts winning the school's student council presidential race as the most important event in her life, she learns there are more dire needs when the winner has a personal breakdown.
Natalie gets a rash of phone calls for dates after her first date with a Bates Academy student.
Jo is afraid the girls will learn that her father is an ex-con if he attends an honors ceremony.
Blair uses Natalie as a model when she decides to become a sales representative for Countess Calvert's cosmetics.
A high profile fashion photographer is visiting Eastland in search for a fresh face for the 80's, and has set his sight on Tootie.
Mrs. Garrett is upset to learn her free spirited, musician son is occupying Natalie's time while she should be studying for an important test.
Natalie and Tootie arrive in Buffalo for a visit with Tootie's aunt Sylvia and uncle Brian. Unexpectedly, the girls are caught in the middle of an argument.
Tootie gets herself drunk after the girls leave her out of their wine party they have planned while Mrs. Garrett is away.
Natalie is afraid to leave the school after she is attacked while on her way home from a costume party.
Mrs. Garrett and the girls are left in charge of a former student's baby when she comes for a visit to Eastland and then disappears.
Blair is shocked when she learns her mother went into a hospital for a breast biopsy, and not for a face lift as she had told her.
Jo's attempt to get back at her journalism teacher backfires when she writes about his arrest at a party where cocaine was present, but fails to get all the facts straight.
Mrs. Garrett feels she is may need to leave Eastland after learning she is not earning enough money to survive on.
Jo's boyfriend Eddie, appears unexpectedly when he fears that they are growing apart. Seeing her spending time with a boy from Bates Academy cements his expectations.
Natalie feels embarrassed when her old-fashioned grandmother pays her a visit for the weekend and treats her like a child.
Tootie makes up an imaginary boyfriend to fend off the other girls for teasing her about her reluctance to start dating a boy from the Bates Academy.
Blair is upset when a young teacher asks her cousin Geri out for a date, fearing that she will get her heart broken.
Blair learns a dark and troubling family secret just as the school is set to dedicate a library to her grandfather.
Natalie becomes jealous after losing out for the lead role in a school production of South Pacific to Tootie.
A new student from Japan shows a rebellious side when her strict "old-fashion" father announces that she should return to Tokyo.
The girls try to prompt a man who Mrs. Garrett has known for fifteen years now to propose marriage.
Mrs. Garrett is worried when Tootie becomes a fanatic over singer Jermaine Jackson.
Now that the girls probation period has ended, they have the option of going back to the dorms away from each other. With the way they have been arguing lately, Mrs. Garrett feels she already knows their decision.
The girls and Mrs. Garrett catch Natalie's father eating dinner in a restaurant with his mistress.
Tootie runs off to New York City to catch up with the girls and Mrs. Garrett, and catch the Broadway show. But when she heads into a diner to warm up, she meets a young prostitute who's pimp wants to recruit Tootie.
Blair and Jo realize how much Eastland has changed them when they both return to New York City for a weekend with their old friends.
Natalie gets back at Blair for revealing she has a crush on the boy's school campus stud, by setting her up with the school nerd at a box lunch auction.
The girls find that living so cramped together can cause problems when Blair breaches Natalie's privacy by reading her diary.
Jo sets her friend Buzz up with Blair when his military academy holds a big dance.
Jo is caught in some family drama when a trip to visit her uncle finds him upset that his tomboy daughter is suddenly interested in boys.
Natalie loses her job as the school's newspaper editor after she writes and prints and article about book banning at Eastland.
Jo would rather leave Eastland than accept a scholarship from the Warner Industries, a company owned by Blair's father.
When Jo feels pressured to find a topic for the school newspaper, she invents a story about teen pregnancy which makes the school board insist she reveals her source. Although the story was fake, a student at Eastland apparently fits in with the facts.
Tootie makes Natalie swear to keep her secret when she discovers that she is having trouble with her hearing.
An interview by Jo, with the school's oldest alumnus causes her to suddenly rescind her donation to Eastland.
Blair in unsure how to act when she befriends a young man named Leo, who is revealed to be mildly retarded.
An argument with her mother leads Natalie to search for her birth parents after the name is blurted out in the heat of the battle.
Jo's hard work as a part time mechanic gets her promoted to the weekend service manager, but frustrates her boyfriend Doug, now that she is his superior.
Blair is heartbroken when she learns that she has been used as a tax shelter by her father, after the IRS questions her tax form.
Alfred, a boy from the Bates Military Academy, joins the boxing team as a way to impress his father. But when he learns that his father won't be attending, he now wants to back out.
The girls decide to skip a Sadie Hawkins Dance which delights Natalie, who planned on going until the boy she wanted to dance with begins ignoring her. But one by one the girls each get a date, leaving Natalie alone.
The girls become nursemaids when the man that Mrs. Garrett is engaged to suddenly hurts his back, and shows a side of himself that turns Mrs. Garrett off.
Tootie becomes suspicious when a new girl arrives at Eastland claiming to be a princess, yet breaks the rules by having an uninvited boy over to the school.
Blair's obsession with a new boyfriend named Chad, becomes unhealthy when she is in denial after he is seen with another woman.
The girls attempt at easing Mrs. Garrett's worries backfires when she finds out that Mr. Parker no longer needs her services for planning a party and her car is missing.
Jo has become close to a teacher at Eastland, Gail, and has inspired her to become a teacher herself. But things change when Gail informs Jo she is leaving Eastland, which she believes is for a higher paying job, unaware of the true reason.
The girls are involved in an accident when Tootie's brother Marshall, invites them to a college party where he gets drunk.
Blair's sister Meg arrives for an unexpected visit to Eastman and surprise her by announcing she wants to become a nun. When Jo comes back to school early from a weekend alone with her new boyfriend at Yale, she has a religious experience herself after hearing of the life for a nun and believes she too would like to follow that path.
Having been shocked by Jo's announcement to become a nun, Blair accuses her sister Meg of recruiting her friend. But the reason Blair is really upset is revealed when Jo shows off a violent streak while in an argument with her.
Mrs. Garrett and the girls are left to cook a dinner for a group of French relatives of a chef who Mrs. Garrett had once studied under.
Tootie feels left out and neglected when Natalie starts dating her first real boyfriend.
Blair and Jo have been accepted to Langley College, but Jo fears she will never be able to afford the tuition. A visit back home unveils a surprise for Jo when they hear of her achievement.
Finals week at Eastland causes many emotions as the girls are each distracted while undertaking an all-night study session.
Blair and Jo find themselves at each others throat while preparing for their graduation from Eastman. Meanwhile, Tootie and Natalie fear that their busy schedules won't leave them time to say farewell.
Graduation day has finally arrived and it proves to be a hectic and nerve racking afternoon. Blair's mom is frantic when she discovers that her father will not attend the ceremonies, while Jo's mother is upset that Charlie is spending too much money.
The new adjustments seem harder than expected when Jo and Blair begin college life and Mrs. Garrett receives Mr. Parker's new demands.
Mrs. Garrett decides to leave Eastman when the opportunity arises where she could buy an Armenian deli and create her own business.
Blair is so eager to join an exclusive sorority that she fires Mrs. Garrett for making a Mexican meal for a party she is hosting before learning that Blair must have Chinese food.
Jo becomes angry when she learns an average guy she is dating is really the son of a wealthy family.
Tootie discovers her new boyfriend, Jeff, a star on the football team, is really an illiterate who has been getting some other students to write his papers for him.
The girls are convinced that Mrs. Garrett has been possessed by the spirit of a man who was rumored to be killed in her store many years ago when they see her walking around at night, carrying a large knife.
Natalie lets a chance to enroll at Langley for a college course come between herself and friends when she gets a bloated ego.
Blair is shocked when she sees a character from her past while at a club of male exotic dancers for Mrs. Garrett's birthday.
Jo gets involved when a streetwise kid believes that the damage at Edna's Edibles shop was caused by a gang.
Natalie hacks into a rivals computer and changes their recipes around in hopes of stopping Edna's Edibles recent trend of losing business.
A recent spark between Jo's parents gives her hope that they may soon reconcile. But that dream is dashed when he reveals his engagement to another woman.
Blair and Tootie run a phony raffle to get Jo a plane ticket to Miami to spend Christmas with her mother.
A bad inspection from the Board of Health has Mrs. Garrett on edge. But when the girls pass over their work to answer a chain letter, Mrs. G feels that maybe she made a mistake in giving the girls so much responsibility.
Tootie fears a young boy neighbor who stays alone during the day, might be in trouble when there is a gas leak in the area.
When Natalie decides not to continue dating a black guy, Tootie feels that it is due to his race.
Jo gets into school politics when she is elected a board member at Langley, but feels disillusioned when a vote comes up to cut scholarships for a new scoreboard which they don't need.
The girls are unsure how to deal with Natalie when her father dies unexpectedly and they attend his funeral.
Blair brushes off Jo's offer to help with her party when she learns that Jo is now more popular in school than she is.
Having pushed Cliff away just as he felt their relationship was getting serious, Blair finds herself competing with a visiting actress for his attention.
Blair has a dream about her future when Cliff asks her to get married to him.
Tootie's mother decides she wants a closer relationship with her daughter after a visit reveals that she doesn't know very much about what is going on in her life.
Geri fires Blair when she makes her an assistant in organizing a charity auction, but then goes behind her back to set up deals. But can Geri handle this big job all by herself?
Eddie, Jo's ex-fiancee, returns for a visit to Peekskill after his hitch was finished in the Navy. But all are in for an even bigger surprise when Tootie discovers his hidden secret.
Mrs. Garrett worries about the shop's future when her son, Raymond, and his wife stop by for a visit and reveal they are having marital problems.
Another year of school has passed and Summer vacation is on its way, as the girls reminisce about their past years together. But they may not all leave as friends when Jo and Blair are involved in a car accident.
More flashbacks continue as the girls reminisce about their past together. But the friendships may be tested when Blair and Jo argue over an accident and Tootie and Natalie have a feud of their own.
The girls gather back at Edna's Edibles where the explain what they did on their Summer vacations.
Jo's new business idea of creating pizzas from her mother's special recipe is all a rage when sampled at a college frat party. But when the need to make the pizzas faster runs Natalie and Tootie ragged, they decide it is time to quit.
Natalie uses Jo and Blair as her test subjects for a dating service paper she is writing, by finding them their "ideal" dates. Meanwhile, Mrs. Garrett enlists Tootie as her new bridge partner when her usual mate moves away from Peekskill.
Tootie is feeling pressure to sleep with her boyfriend Jeff, now that they are in college.
The girls end up hiding out in their car at a closed gas station after a string of events from a night of cruising around for Mr. Right.
A rumor about Jo and her professor may become a truth when a spark is lit between the two.
Jo discovers that Sam has a young son from a previous relationship, yet continues on with her budding romance.
When Edna enrolls in a Shakespeare class at the college, she worries that things may disintegrate back at Edna's Edibles.
Jo dictates her love/hate relationship with Blair to a home computer.
Mrs. Garrett and the girls come to Jo's aid when she has to fill in five hours at the campus radio station and has lost the key to the cabinet which holds the records.
Natalie starts acting in a bizarre behavior towards her boyfriend after missing out on a job at the local newspaper she has applied to.
Blair takes Jo to small claims court after she breaks one of her watches, and has little remorse for her loss. Meanwhile, Mrs. Garrett is having trouble with her algebra class.
Mrs Garrett and the girls put on a Christmas show for the prisoners at a halfway house after Blair mistakenly believed the Nickleby House was an orphanage.
Natalie has written a one-act play about Eleanor Roosevelt and wants Tootie's opinion about the script. When her answer is less than enthusiastic, Natalie takes it personally.
After Blair's breakup with Cliff, she begins to exhibit a bizarre behavior such as endless dating and skipping her classes.
Natalie and Tootie reminisce when a famous jazz musician they knew as a waiter in a resort hotel passes away.
Mrs. Garrett is swept off her feet again by the man she had run out on as her high school sweetheart.
Cocaine comes between Blaire and her date when she discovers he is a user.
Natalie brings the girls to Fort Lauderdale for spring break when she discovers that her grandmother's condominium will be free for the week.
Blair falls in love with a lowly building manager while on spring break in Fort Lauderdale.
Edna's Edibles gets a guest when Kevin is forced out of his apartment and is allowed to stay in the shop's attic, and also falls in love with Jo.
A wild night ensues when the girls attend the final night of a local drive-in theater, where Blair gets into a brawl and people start tearing up the movie house.
Blair and Jo are terrified when their mother and father seem to be hitting it off while visiting the girls at school.
Blair takes on the competing neighborhood food store when she puts herself in charge while Mrs. Garrett is away.
Natalie shocks everyone when she announces her post high school plans to her friends and family, who have gathered for her graduation.
The girls tell their stories of life at Eastland when a former student returns as an author, researching for her next book.
The joy of Summer vacation is overshadowed when the girls return to find that Edna's Edibles has burned down in a fire. Mrs. Garrett and the girls discuss plans to open a new type of business.
A handsome and cheap contractor, George Burnett, is hired to rebuild the new business, but has a habit of being sidetracked.
The new trendy shop named Over Our Heads makes its debut without the flow of business that they had expected.
Jo's dream of becoming a teacher may be put on hold when she receives a great offer to work for a major corporation.
The Langley College board of regents is upset when a 'beefcake' calender is released with revealing pictures of some campus students, including Natalie's boyfriend.
Blair need for advice takes a back seat when she invites her mother for a weekend visit and learns that she has problems of her own.
The girls need to record a demo tape after they are entered in a contest to sing back up for El DeBarge.
Natalie writes a wild story involving the girls while sitting in a diner, waiting for the next bus.
Andy develops a crush on Tootie when she helps him study for a part in a school version of "West Side Story."
When the shop is schedules to be highlighted on a news report, Blair and Jo argue over how it should be presented.
Mrs. Garrett has an old friend, Gwen, visiting, but her real concern is to ask about a possible affair she is rumored to have had with Gwen's husband.
Jo is determined to learn how to do ballroom dancing. But she has a handicap when she is assigned a partner with "two-left feet."
Blair fears she will fail when she becomes a birthing coach for her mother when she goes into labor six weeks early, on Christmas Eve.
Tootie's driving lessons may drive each of the girls crazy.
The girls allow a pair of cops to use the shop for a stakeout as long as they do not let Mrs. Garrett know what is going on.
An aspiring comic gets a career boost when Tootie and Blair set him up for a performance in front of a talent agent from ''The Tonight Show."
Blair agrees to go as George's date for his high school reunion to make a former classmate jealous for ignoring him while they were students. But unforeseen circumstances finds Jo as a last minute replacement for Blair.
Blair learns an important lesson about life when she becomes trapped in an elevator with a concentration camp survivor on the day she is scheduled to receive an award.
Blair gets gambling fever when the girls take a trip to Atlantic City for the weekend, and Jo hopes to reunite with a musician she met in Fort Lauderdale.
A female singer is brought in to surprise Blair on her birthday. But it is the girls who are surprised when she sticks around after the performance as a replacement for Mrs. Garrett.
Natalie thinks about running for the mayoral job when she becomes disenchanted with the current candidate, who wants to waste money on an amusement park.
Jo's father looks to make up for lost time after winning a large sum of money in the publishers giveaway contest.
Tootie and Natalie announce their post graduation plans to the girls. Tootie plans on going on the road with a traveling acting troupe, while Natalie wants to move into her own apartment and become a serious writer.
Natalie and Tootie move into their own apartment and soon find they have a lack of privacy and a bunch of cockroaches.
Mrs. Garrett falls in love with a man named Bruce, and is asked to run off to Africa with him. But doing so would mean leaving her girls behind.
Mrs. Garrett's air brained sister, Beverly Ann, has agreed to come to Peekskill and stay with the girls while she goes to Africa with Bruce.
Beverly Ann feels Tootie is taking it to fast with her boyfriend.
When Jo decides to move out, Beverly Ann suggests make a new apartment out of the attic. But when the cost seems too high for Jo, she makes other plans.
Tootie gets a taste of reality when she decides to audition for a Broadway show when the girls head to New York City.
The girls of Eastland reunite as Blair, Tootie and Natalie create a reunion party. Among the returnees is Cindy, now a model, Nancy, who is engaged to marry and Sue Ann, who is a vice president of a company. But all is not cheery as it seems since each are keeping a secret of unhappiness. Also, Jo feels left out since she didn't know the girls as well as the others did.
Blair and Jo make a bet on whether the computerized dating program Blair runs is really successful. But an accident causes Beverly Ann to erase the computer disk as Jo takes advantage by fudging with the test results.
When Jo befriends an illegal alien, she agrees to marry him in order to keep him from being deported.
Blair joins Natalie at working in a Mexican restaurant, but is quickly fired when she insults the owner with her snobbish attitude.
When Blair's father pleads guilty to insider trading of stocks, she locks herself inside her bedroom.
Natalie is incensed when someone plagiarizes a short story she wrote and had it printed in a magazine.
In a parody of The Twilight Zone, one by one, each member of the show is murdered until only Tootie remains, along with the killer.
Natalie crashes a rush party for a sorority that Tootie is trying to join, when she is sent out to write an article the school newspaper.
A late Christmas gift for Natalie sends her on a spending spree when she receives a credit card.
A girl returns from Tootie's past, Cinnamon, who once beat her out for a Broadway musical. She says she has been replaced, but it seems she is not telling the whole story.
The girls cause a stir when they take a ski trip up in the mountains. While there, they meet a group of guys who are preparing a bachelor party. But after seeing Blair, the groom decides to call the wedding off.
It's an odd feeling when all the girl's former boyfriends show up on Valentine's Day at the dame time.
It's a blast from the past when 1960's music icons Bobby Rydell and Fabian pay a visit to the girls.
Beverly Ann feels concern for Andy and the way he is shipped from home to home, and asks to adopt him as her own son.
Beverly Ann's ex husband shows up with the hopes of reconciling with her.
Jo wants Blair to stay out of her father's love life when she tries to find him a girlfriend with her computer dating program. But Jo becomes incensed when she meets his new companion.
Blair's hope of attending law school is threatened when she learns she can not buy her way in, but must pass a entrance test instead.
Jo refuses to make a commencement speech after it is rejected by the school staff members. But with her grandfather planning to come from Poland to attend the proceedings, she may have no choice.
Summer vacation has arrived and each of the girls is offered a new option, including Jo, who has been chosen to take a job in Los Angeles.
Jo is given a job house sitting for actor Richard Moll in Malibu, which is fortunate since she is unemployed and homeless at the moment.
Richard Moll returns home to find that a running bathtub has flooded his place while in Jo's responsibility.
A professor with a reputation as a playboy causes rumors to be spread around school when Blair starts spending time with him.
Natalie is assigned to do a feature story on the school's ROTC program, but she fears the job when it is discovered that she must make a parachute jump from an airplane.
Jo enjoys her new job at the community center doing social work, but soon finds out there is no money left in the budget to pay her salary.
A girl arrives from Australia named Pippa, who claims to be an new exchange student at Eastland.
Tootie goes on a date with another man when her boyfriend says he can't make it to the winter carnival.
Blair is awestruck when the honor student she invites over for a study session, seems more interested in Beverly Ann.
Blair runs off for tea with a friend, leaving her baby sister with the gang, only to return to find out no one is sure where she is.
Beverly Ann has a glimpse of what life would have been like if she had never come to Peekskill. Blair's finances, Tootie's engagement, Natalie's freedom , Pippa's self respect, Andy's home life and Jo's life are all affected.
A look in the future, 40 years ahead to be exact, where the girls are older but still live together in the same place.
Andy's new big brother is hiding a secret, which maybe why his is living each day as if it was his last.
Jo's father isn't to pleased when he hears that her new boyfriend has a job as a piano player at a restaurant.
Blair becomes an intern at a law firm and is assigned a murder case. He appears to be guilty to everyone, except for Blair.
Natalie and Tootie's boyfriends don't exactly see eye-to-eye when they meet for the first time. Meanwhile, Jo is furious over a repair job on her bike.
Natalie and Snake spend their first night together, and she fears the reaction both her friends will give and what Snake is feeling.
A day at the spa does not turn out as expected when Jo and Blair get invited as guests of a musical sponsor.
Blair is worried how she will be perceived after her forehead receives a cut in an automobile accident, ruining her perfect appearance.
Everyone is excited when Rick proposes to Jo, all that is except for Jo, who has yet to say yes or no.
Jeff's grandmother gives Tootie a pendant as an engagement gift, which she feels is too ugly to wear. But when Andy and Pippa throw a wild party, the necklace is battered and causes Tootie to panic.
Jo's job at the social services center puts her into action when the supervisor for suicide prevention threatens to jump from the top of the building.
Natalie's new roommates are not as she had expected when she makes her move into a Soho apartment in New York City.
When Eastland threatens to close due to bankruptcy, Blair comes through and purchases the school in order to keep it open, but needs to interview for a new headmaster and round up students.
Blair makes herself the new headmaster and works on her first task, convincing a young girl to stay in school.