The essential episodes of The Nanny
Watch these 15 in order and you've got The Nanny — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Door-to-door cosmetics sales lady Fran Fine inadvertently becomes the nanny to the three children of a widowed Broadway producer.
- 02
A blizzard paralyzes the city and forces Fran and the Sheffields to move their Bermuda vacation to her mother's apartment in Queens.
- 03
A play-date between Gracie and the child of a Broadway critic does not go well.
- 04
Mother's Day is approaching, and as usual, Maxwell is trying to preoccupy the children so that they won't think about their mother, Sara. Fran, on the other hand, thinks it a good idea to talk to the kids about their mother.
- 05
Fran pushes Maxwell to date again, and he ends up dating a woman very much like Fran. Brighton has a problem being smaller than everyone else in school.
- 06
Yetta moves in with the family when her home is fumigated, but Fran thinks she might be a bad influence for the children.
- 07
Fran strikes up a friendship with a male nanny whom she erroneously assumes is gay.
- 08
Maggie is a candy striper at the hospital. When she takes off to go on a date, Fran fills in for her and must shave Maxwell for an appendectomy.
- 09
Fran worries about her future when Mona, one of her fellow nannies, retires to Florida. The night of Mona's goodbye party, Fran gets drunk and staggers into Maxwell's bed.
- 10
Mr. Sheffield pushes Fran to accept a date from her long time pen-pal who she has never met.
- 11
Nigel Sheffield (Harry Van Gorkum), rather than Maxwell, pops the question to Fran (Fran Drescher), who agrees to join him in London.
- 12
The woman who stole Fran's job and fiance now has a job on "The Young and the Restless." Fran steals that job from her and she takes Fran's nanny job instead.
- 13
Mr. Sheffield wants to buy himself some time before his relationship with Fran grows, so he asks Fran to redecorate the kitchen. Fran invites her cousin Sheila over to help her, and Sheila proposes a special aphrodisiac decoration to give Fran a little push in conquering Maxwell's heart.
- 14
Maxwell uses Yetta's letters as the basis for a play on Broadway beating out Andrew Lloyd Webber who also wanted to use them.
- 15
After her fortune telling hair dresser sees Maxwell in bed with a blonde while in California Fran flies out to check on him. Fran Fine Sheffield also runs into actress Fran Drescher and there is a bit of a resemblance.
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