L'albero delle mele

Un gruppo di raggazze che frequenta un collegio affronte le gioie e le difficoltà dell'adolescenza sotto la guida vigile di Edna Garrett.
Creato da: Norman Lear | Dick Clair | Jenna McMahon |
Genere: Dramma | Commedia |

Numero di stagioni: 9
Numero di episodi: 201
Data prima messa in onda: 1979-08-24
Data ultima messa in onda: 1988-05-07

Approfondimenti

Nancy McKeon joined the cast in the second season by proving that she could not only act tough [...]	D
"The Interview Show" is the only episode without a laugh track	D
Harrison brings Jo her shoe in "Double Standard" much like the prince brings Cinderella her sho [...]	D
Head writer Margie Peters and show star Mindy Cohn have said in interviews that a young girl wh [...]	D
At the beginning of the first season, there was always clapping at the end of the first segment [...]	D
Nancy McKeon admits the male characters (Andy, George, Mr. Bradley) were not used very well sin [...]	D
Mrs. Garrett's sister, Beverly Anne, was named after Charlotte Rae's real sister.	D
Originally the school was to be called Eastlake Academy, a take on the name of Westlake Academy [...]	D
Eastland was in the Westchester County town of Peekskill, New York, roughly forty miles north o [...]	D
At the beginning of the second season, the show's plot transitioned from a large boarding house [...]	D
Norman Lear hired Geri Jewell after seeing her stand up comedy routine at a local LA club.	D
NBC had made plans for a tenth season, but Mindy Cohn and Nancy McKeon decided that they did no [...]	D
Producers wanted to avoid the common practice of casting teen/school-aged characters with older [...]	D
No cast member appeared in every episode; Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn and Kim Fields appeared in [...]	D
Actor Mindy Cohn did not audition for the show. However, the producers visited a girls' school [...]	D
In "Dieting," in Season 1, the girls all have a weigh-in. According to Charlotte Rae, the show' [...]	D
Pamela Adlon (Kelly) plays a much younger character than the other girls. But in real life, she [...]	D
Actor Mindy Cohn lamented in a Huffington Post article that she could not audition for Saint El [...]	D
Longest running show to feature an all-female lead cast, although there were several recurring [...]	D
It debuted as a four-episode try-out in the late summer of 1979. Subsequently, the show was on [...]	D
Doug Savant (Melrose Place and Desperate Housewives) makes a cameo as Blair's would-be boyfrien [...]	D
As a result of their controversial subject matter, the episode "Dope," where Sue Ann experiment [...]	D
Lisa Whelchel said her favorite episodes were at the end of the show's run when they were doing [...]	D
Mindy Cohn has said in interviews that she got a letter from a girl who was suicidal, who then [...]	D
Edna and Beverly Ann were from Appleton, Wisconsin. Wisconsin is Charlotte Rae's native state, [...]	D
Over the course of the series, Eastland had four Headmasters, Mr. Bradley, Mr. Harris, Mr. Park [...]	D
Although Lisa Whelchel and Nancy Mckeon were the same age on the show, Nancy in real life is th [...]	D
Kim Fields is younger than Gary Coleman, even though Tootie is older than Arnold.	D
In Biography's "Facts of Life: Cast Confessions" documentary, Felice Schachter said she was ini [...]	D
Charlotte Rae (Edna Garrett) and Cloris Leachman (Beverly Anne Stickle) would later appear in t [...]	D
Various cast members, including Lisa Whelchel and Mindy Cohn, have complained about the show's [...]	D
Andy and Pippa start a rock band in season 9 called "The Witches of Eastland." The name is a sp [...]	D
Lisa was sent to a fat farm during a couple of the hiatuses because, as the "pretty one," she w [...]	D
"The First Time" episode, which featured a storyline having one of the girls lost her virginity [...]	D
After the show moved from Wednesdays to the Saturday Night comedy block, it dropped its serious [...]	D
Nancy McKeon and Alex Rocco developed a lifelong friendship due to playing father and daughter [...]	D
Blair's parents were actors who had long-time soap opera careers, Nicholas Coster and Marj Duss [...]	D
Megan Follows appeared as one of Jo's relatives in Season 3, April 14, 1982 episode Jo's Cousin [...]	D
The opening theme song was performed by Charlotte Rae during the first season. She later appear [...]	D
Then-NBC Chief Fred Silverman suggested the character, Jo, after he had seen the film "Little D [...]	D
In a recent E.T. interview, Charlotte Rae said there was a scale on the set of The Facts of Lif [...]	D
Mindy Cohn didn't audition for the show. She met Charlotte Rae and the Tandem producers at West [...]	D
Although Kimberly Drummond never ended up at Eastland like the original plot of the series had [...]	D
After leaving the show in the seventh season, Charlotte Rae recommended Cloris Leachman replace [...]	D
The series core cast from 1980-1986 was Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields, Mindy Cohn, a [...]	D
Kelly appeared because the writers wanted to "soften" Jo make her more mainstream and feminine, [...]	D
As the popularity of the series skyrocketed over nine seasons, producers made multiple attempts [...]	D
McKenzie Astin first came to the producer's attention when he visited the set during his father [...]	D
At the show's beginning, Blair is portrayed as the "bad girl" of the series. However, when the [...]	D
The role of Tootie was not specifically written for a black actress. Kim Fields was simply the [...]	D
Although the drastic plot change between seasons one and two are the most well known, during it [...]	D
Charlotte Rae returns to Different Strokes several years after leaving for Facts of Life in Sea [...]	D
Actor 'Felice Schacter' was the first cast for the series. However, she was also the first to b [...]	D
"All By Herself," in Season 5, aired in March of 1984, marks the final appearance of Geri Jewel [...]	D
Eastland was loosely based on LA's Westlake School. Westlake had an all-boys companion Harvard [...]	D
According to an Entertainment Weekly article on The Facts of Life, there was at one point an an [...]	D
As soon as Diff'rent Strokes became an instant hit, it was also at the time one of NBC's few vi [...]	D
Geri Jewell was the first actress on television with a physical disability: cerebral palsy.	D
Actor David Spade was in a backdoor pilot that was supposed to turn into a spin-off series call [...]	D
Charlotte Rae said John Lawlor was her best friend on the set.	D
George Clooney was fired from the show in the eighth season after the "A Star Is Torn" episode. [...]	D
At the beginning of the first season of Facts of Life, Tootie was twelve years old, since ten y [...]	D
Actors Gary Coleman and Nancy McKeon were spokespeople for Hallmark Cards during this period. T [...]	D
Although The Facts of Life was a Norman Lear production and a popular and successful show, the [...]	D
Nancy McKeon originally met with the ABC's The Facts of Life reunion's producers early on and o [...]	D
Jo's name was inspired by the protagonist of Little Women.	D
At the beginning of the first season, seven students were in the main cast. However, after the [...]	D
During the second season's episode, "Sex Symbol," we see Tootie's roller skates pop up on her b [...]	D
In the Season 7 episode, "The Agent," Jeff Joseph (credited as Jeffrey Joseph) portrays a comic [...]	D
In an episode, Blair admits that she's an atheist due to her parents' divorce. In real life, Li [...]	D
Mentioned in Sposati con figli: If I Could See Me Now (1991).	D
Originally this was going to be called "Garrett's Girls," and it would be a female version of " [...]	D
The Diff'rent Strokes gang pays Mrs. Garrett a visit in the pilot episode "Rough Housing." As t [...]	D
At different times throughout the show, we learn that Mrs. Garrett and Beverly Ann hailed from [...]	D
Jo was portrayed as a type of tom-boy, often wearing jeans, cargo pants, and avoiding feminine [...]	D
During season 7 in the opening credits, there are two different types of fonts used. Half of th [...]	D
All the cast members sang a song on the show. They all performed numbers in "Christmas in the B [...]	D
At the beginning of the series, Jo wears tomboyish type clothing, when not wearing her Eastland [...]	D
Nancy McKeon appeared in a Hallmark commercial where she had to cry on cue in 1979-1980 when pr [...]	D
Welcome Back Kotter was the inspiration and prototype for Facts of Life, which was supposed to [...]	D
Originally, the premise of the series was that Edna Garrett, the housekeeper on Il mio amico Ar [...]	D
The character of Natalie was named after a childhood friend of Rae's.	D
One of the biggest questions asked of the cast over the years was how they could avoid the cont [...]	D
Charlotte Rae and Nancy McKeon would later reunite on McKeon's short-lived sitcom Can't Hurry L [...]	D
Nancy McKeon boycotted a couple episodes during the 6th season while she was renegotiating her [...]	D
At the beginning of the first couple of seasons, Natalie and Blair had to tape down their devel [...]	D
Edna and Beverly Ann were sisters on the show. In real life, Charlotte Rae was older than Clori [...]	D
After Norman Lear originally asked Charlotte Rae to be on "Diff'rent Strokes," an NBC productio [...]	D
Actors Nancy Mckeon and Lisa Welchel boycotted the production at different points. Lisa boycott [...]	D
Jo was the only of the girls not to make any crossover appearances on parent series Diff'rent S [...]	D
One decision made by the producers was to have one of the girls up lose their virginity during [...]	D
When the show failed to crack the top 30 in the first season, writers Linda Marsh and Margie Pe [...]	D
At the beginning of the show's production, Blair was initially conceived as a down-home charmin [...]	D
"Out of the Fire," "Into the Frying Pan," and "Grand Opening" are the only episodes that start [...]	D
Kim Fields was only ten years old when she started playing Tootie, who was supposed to be 12. H [...]	D
All of the main cast members have birthdays between April and May. Nancy McKeon - April 4; Char [...]	D
At the beginning of the first season, Tootie wore roller skates. Overall, she wore them inside, [...]	D
One of the very few sitcoms to complete redo their sets. Most sitcoms will use the same set, re [...]	D
After Charlotte Rae had missed several episodes during the sixth and seventh seasons due to her [...]	D
Upon the streamlining of characters after season one, Molly was among the four regular girls to [...]	D
There are two main variations of the Eastland uniform (both include a light blue shirt and maro [...]	D
In the spoof of the Facts of Life episode Shoplifting, Gary Coleman played the security guard. [...]	D
The building used as the establishing shot of Eastland is Harewood Court dormitory of Pomona Co [...]	D
The dorm set from season 1 was recycled from Co-Ed Fever's short-lived series, canceled after o [...]	D
Actors Mackenzie Astin, George Clooney, Sherrié Krenn, and Cloris Leachman appeared in the 2 [...]	D
Mindy Cohn met Lucille Ball when she was out to dinner with Cloris Leachman. Miss Ball grabbed [...]	D
Blair gets punched in the face twice on The Facts of Life: once in the "Running" episode by Sue [...]	D
Geri Jewell, George Clooney and Molly Ringwald all played characters named after them.	D
In interviews, both Mindy Cohn and Kim Fields have revealed that Kim saw that inexperienced Min [...]	D
According to Facts of Life star, in her series of parenting books, Lisa Welchel says she endors [...]	D
In an interview with Dish Nation, Kim Fields says she was close friends with Janet Jackson when [...]	D
Jenny O'Hara, who played Eastland teacher Emily Mahoney during the first season, left the show [...]	D
Nancy McKeon's character was originally named "Foxy." until head writers Linda Marsh and Margie [...]	D
Actress Charlotte Rae felt disenfranchised when she noticed the show had started to center almo [...]	D
In the spinoff episode "The Girl's School," one of the main characters is named Jenny, and she [...]	D
Felice Schacter was the first girl cast. The Tandem producers promised her a role after she was turn [...]	D
Twice in the series, Blair says, "Halston has a great line," and then Jo makes a joke out of it, onc [...]	D
At the beginning of seasons one through four, the series was set in Eastland Academy. However, seaso [...]	D

Connessioni

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Errori

The color of Charlotte Rae's hair fluctuates throughout the series. Sometimes it's orange, sometime [...]	D
Though Nancy McKeon's character was penned as Joanna Marie Polniaczek, some called her by the name [...]	D

Frase

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Stagioni

N		Titolo	Soggetto	Data della prima messa in onda	Numero di episodi
0		Speciali		1982	7	D
1		Stagione 1		1979	13	D
2		Stagione 2		1980	16	D
3		Stagione 3		1981	24	D
4		Stagione 4		1982	24	D
5		Stagione 5		1983	26	D
6		Stagione 6		1984	26	D
7		Stagione 7		1985	24	D
8		Stagione 8		1986	24	D
9		Stagione 9		1987	24	D

Cast

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