Very nice reunion of "The Facts of Life" cast except for Nancy McKeon (Jo Polniaczek), whom I understand that she had to film the new season of the Lifetime Television police drama "The Division" at the time of filming the reunion movie, and George Clooney and Molly Ringwald were already movie stars, but I wish that three of the original "Facts of Life" girls Felice Schachter (Nancy), Julie Pierkarski (Sue Ann) and Julie Anne Haddock (Cindy) were invited back for the reunion, along with Cloris Leachman (Beverly Ann), Mackenzie Astin (Andy), Pamela Segall Adlon (Kelly), who was then working as a voice actress playing Bobby Hill on the Fox animated series "King of the Hill," and Sherrie Krenn (Pippa). Also, I wish that any one or more of the people who wrote and produced for the series such as Martha Williamson, who was the show runner for "Touched by an Angel" on CBS, Sara V. Finney and Vida Spears, who helmed "The Parkers" on the now defunct UPN network, or the writing-producing team who did turn the show around by changing it from senseless to focusing on real life topics that teenagers face for most of the episodes from Season 2 to midway through Season 6 -- Linda Marsh (retired) and Margie Peters (a professor of screen writing at a southern California university, maybe UCLA), did the teleplay instead of hiring three writers who never did work on the weekly series. Otherwise, it was not such a bad reunion movie.
Review of The Facts of Life Reunion
