Why The Facts of Life Mattered.

Why The Facts of Life Mattered.
With Tuesday night's installment of Live in Front of a Studio Audience — the series of live specials produced (and hosted) by Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear that resurrect episodes of a classic sitcoms and recasts them with present-day A-list stars — we're getting a pair of inextricably linked sitcoms from NBC's pre-Must See TV Days: Diff'rent Strokes, which ran from 1978 to 1985 on NBC (followed by a final season on ABC), and The Facts of Life, whichaired on NBC from 1979 to 1988.
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Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life are very different beasts compared to previous Live in Front of a Studio Audience shows like All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Good Times.
For one, unlike those earlier three shows, Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life were not created by Lear himself, although they did come from his production company.