Last updated: May 22, 1998.
The Nanny Players:
The Nanny: Fran Fine -Fran Drescher
Maxwell Sheffield -Charles Shaughnessy
Niles -Daniel Davis
C.C. Babcock -Lauren Lane
Maggie Sheffield -Nicholle Tom
Brighton Sheffield -Benjamin Salisbury
Grace Sheffield -Madeline Zima
The Semi-Reguars:
Mrs. Sylvia Fine,
Fran's Mom -Renee Taylor
Grandma Yetta -Ann Guilbert
Val Toriello,
Fran's best friend -Rachel Chagall
Fran Fine is fired from her job at a bridal boutique after her boyfriend (the owner) dumps her. So Fran takes a job selling make-up door to door, where she stumbles across the home of Maxwell Sheffield, the "famous" Broadway producer. Maxwell is desparately trying to find a nanny for his three children who have recently lost their mother, and who have gone through their share of nannies. But after a hesitant start, Maxwell decides to test Fran out as the answer to his problems.
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val, Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother, Sylvia Fine, and Jonathan Penner guest stars as Danny, Fran's (former) fiancee.
Fran boo-boos when she talks about her "good old" rebellious high school days, and Brighton reads that as a green light to try smoking, which infuriates Maxwell when he finds out. So Fran tries to redeem herself by showing Brighton a real life example of a smoker: her chain-smoking Grandma Yetta.
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Val. Ann Guilbert guest stars as Fran's Grandma Yetta.
Fran gets etiquette lessons from Niles and Maxwell so she can hold a mother-daughter tea for Maggie.
Guest stars include Dorothy Lyman, Nikki Cox (of WBN's "Unhappily Ever After" fame), Heather Lynne Allen, and Maga Harout.
Tensions arise after Fran chaperones Maggie on a date and the young man (Jimmy Marsden) seems to be more interested in Fran.
C.C. tries her hand at taking the children to the zoo, but when the whole affair is a dismal failure, C.C. tells the children that Fran only spends time with them because she is paid to. So Grace runs away to find Nanny Fine at her parents' house, and ends up at the wedding of a friend of the Fine's.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother.
Niles is worried because the Butler's association is coming to evaluate him. Meanwhile, Fran's mother tells some friends that Fran is married to Maxwell. Well, when one thing leads to another, Fran is impersonating the lady of the house, Niles is impersonating her husband "Maxwell", and Maxwell is impersonating Niles!
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother, and Dan Aykroyd has a cameo.
Fran is in big trouble when she accidently eats Grace's imaginary friend, prompting a scolding from Maxwell, and a trip to the shrink for Grace, Maxwell and Fran.
Cristine Rose guest stars as Dr. Bort.
Fran spends her first Christmas at the Sheffields, but she is appalled when she finds out that Maxwell hires a professional "gift buyer" to get the children's gifts. So she scolds him into getting a "gift from the heart", which he does for the children, and for Fran, which costs her a Christmas cash bonus!
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val; other guest-stars include Allan Rich, Richard Roat.
Fran figures she only has one life to live, so she agrees to help Maxwell close a casting deal by dating a young and restless soap-opera star (Stephen Nichols), whom she sends to "another world".
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val.
When Maxwell's childhood nanny (Chloris Leachman) visits, she is appalled by Fran's unique child care methods.
Guest-stars include Lu Leonard, Peggy Blow, Irene Olga Lopez.
Fran's mother has a surprise gift for her: a cemetary plot. And it's not exactly a grave undertaking for Fran when she begins dating the gorgeous funeral director (Matt McCoy).
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother.
The spotlight is on Fran when Maxwell volunteers her to direct Grace's school production, but he soon upstages her by taking over.
Guest-stars include Maree Cheatham, Marianne Muellerleile, Tina Hart, Thomas Dekker, Susan Goodman, Kellen Hathaway, and Steve Posner.
Maxwell's supermodel old flame (Lesley-Anne Down) returns, prompting Maggie to try to become a model.
Guest-stars include Anthony Cistaro, Andy Dick (of NBC's "NewsRadio"), and Victoria Hulett.
Fran's doddering Uncle Irving shows up to fix the plumbing, and he's asssisted by Fran's young cousin Tiffany, whom Fran catches kissing Brighton... in the bathtub!
Guest-stars include Louis Guss, Jaclyn Tohn, Melanie Good and Laurelyn Scharkey.
Fran is the one who requires TLC when she has to have her tonsils removed, and Maxwell puts C.C.'s reunion on hold to await the outcome of Fran's surgery.
It's the Holidays, and the Sheffields are heading off to the tropics, so Nanny Fine gets herself invited. All seems to be going well, until everyone gets snowed in at Fran's parents' house, including all of the Sheffields, Niles, and C.C., who is crushed at missing her vacation off with the "Senator". So Sylvia and Fran try and make everyone at home in their small Flushing abode.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother.
Maxwell is ecstatic that he's going to get see his sister (Twiggy Lawson) who is coming to New York to get married, but it doesn't take Fran long to figure out that Maxwell's sister only has eyes for her chauffeur.
Twiggy Lawson (Fran Drescher's colleague on "Princesses") guest stars as Maxwell's sister Jocelyn. Other guests include Leigh J. Lawson, Lance Davies, and Gregg Rogell.
When Grace is getting bullied by the son of an influencial theater critic (Eric Braeden), C.C. convinces Maxwell that Grace should invite the child over to smooth things over. But when the boy is a beast, and Fran hits him with a bagette, it's all Maxwell can do to convince the critic that no harm was done and that C.C. and Maxwell's play should still get a good review.
Eric Braeden guest stars as the critic, and Carol Channing has a cameo. Other guests include Dorothy Lyman, Nikki Cox (of WBN's "Unhappily Ever After" fame), Heather Lynne Allen, and Maga Herout.
Maggie's has a new gym teacher: the same tough-as-a-drill- sergeant gym teacher who terrorized Fran in high school. So Fran rides to the rescue and challanges the teacher for Maggie.
Rita Moreno guest stars as the gym teacher. Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val. Other guests include Joseph Bologna, Tracy Kerestes, Bryan Clark, and Christopher Carroll.
C.C.'s dad (Robert Culp) is in town, but he and C.C. don't get along, so when he says he has tickets to a Streisand concert and C.C. says she can't stand Streisand, her dad invites Fran instead, causing C.C. to go into a emotional tail-spin!
Robert Culp guest stars as C.C.'s dad; Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother. Loren Michaels has a cameo.
Danny, the guy who originally dumpted Fran, gets dumped by his girlfreind, so he proposes to Fran, who says yes. But no one is happy about this, including Niles, her mother or the Sheffield family, and Fran is left to decide whether leaving the Sheffields is the right thing to do.
Jonathan Penner guest stars as Danny, and Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother.
Fran encourages Maxwell, who doesn't want the children to dwell on unpleasant memories, to abandon his attempt to take the kids' minds off Mother's Day, so Maxwell takes them to the country club, where Fran promptly enters herself and Grace in a "Mother-Daughter Beauty Pagent".
Patti LaBelle has a cameo. Other guests include Leann Hunley, Miriam Flynn, Madison J. Wright (of "Earth 2"), and Kimberly Ali.
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