The Nanny

Fran Fine, a whiny, nasal-voiced Jewish woman from Flushing, New York, has just been fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. She ends up selling cosmetics in Manhattan. This takes her to the home of Maxwell Sheffield, a rich, widowed English Broadway producer. She is mistaken to be applying for the job of nanny to Maxwell's three children and is hired for that purpose. She becomes quite attached to the children, Maggie, Brighton, and Grace, and becomes great friends with the butler, Niles. There is sexual tension between her and Mr. Sheffield, which is complicated by the fact that his partner, C.C. Babcock, likes him.

Cast

• Charles Shaughnessy
• Daniel Davis
• Lauren Lane
• Benjamin Salisbury
• Madeline Zima
• Nicholle Tom
• Fran Drescher
• Renée Taylor
• Ann Morgan Guilbert
• Rachel Chagall
• Chester Drescher
• Andrew Levitas
• Ray Charles
• Fred Stoller
• Spalding Gray
• Daniel Eric Fishbach
• Harry Van Gorkum
• Lainie Kazan
• Nora Dunn

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Smoke Gets in Your Lies
  [the doorbell rings at the Sheffield mansion]::Fran Fine: Oh, that's Val. You know, it's her first t...
• Episode 2: My Fair Nanny
  [Fran is helping Brighton study for an exam]::Brighton Sheffield: I don't need to be a genius. I'm g...
• Episode 3: The Nuchslep
  Maggie Sheffield: [about her first ever date] It was terrible. I didn't have anything to say. I sat ...
• Episode 4: Here Comes the Brood
  [Fran and Sylvia were getting ready to go to a wedding. Fran is helping Sylvia with a tight new dres...
• Episode 5: The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother
  [Niles is trying to get into the Professional Butler's Association]::Niles: [about the association] ...
• Episode 6: Imaginary Friend
  The people in the waiting room are 'Fran Drescher' (qv)'s parents....
• Episode 7: Christmas Episode
  Fran Fine: Niles, you old Scrooge. Get into the Christmas spirit.::Niles: Spoken by one who doesn't ...
• Episode 8: Personal Business
  Val Toriello: [about Fran's walk-in closet] Ah, what a walk-in! If it had a bathroom, you could subl...
• Episode 9: The Nanny-In-Law
  [the doorbell rings]::Maxwell Sheffield: Niles, that's the doorbell.::Niles: Oh sir, I would be lost...
• Episode 10: A Plot for Nanny
  Steve Mintz: [to Fran] Did your husband make other arrangements?::Sylvia Fine: [rushing to answer] S...
• Episode 11: The Show Must Go On
  Andrea: My mother says my voice is a gift.::Maxwell Sheffield: Well, return it....
• Episode 12: Maggie the Model
  [Niles hands C.C. a glass of tomato juice]::Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Just plain tomato juice?...
• Episode 13: The Family Plumbing
  Maxwell Sheffield: Oh Miss Fine, there's nothing to be ashamed of. The human body is a beautiful thi...
• Episode 14: Deep Throat
  Doctor Link: I'm afraid I'm going to have to take those tonsils out.::Fran Fine: Well, unless you're...
• Episode 15: Schlepped Away
  [the entire Sheffield household has descended on Sylvia's apartment unexpectedly]::Sylvia Fine: [to ...
• Episode 16: Stop the Wedding, I Want to Get Off
  Maxwell Sheffield: Miss Fine, where's Jocelyn? It's time to give her away.::Fran Fine: Too late, she...
• Episode 17: Sunday in the Park with Fran
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [on the telephone] Hello. Is this Mr. Bradley? We haven't met, but y...
• Episode 18: The Gym Teacher
  Maggie continually feigns illness to get out of gym class, this term the class focusing on gymnastic...
• Episode 19: Ode to Barbra Joan
  C.C.: Nanny Fine, I need something at your mother's.::Fran: Oh, really. What?::C.C.: You!...
• Episode 20: Franny's Choice
  Maxwell Sheffield: [about Fran quitting her nanny job] Would you like me to be there when you tell t...
• Episode 21: I Don't Remember Mama
  The title is based on the movie _I Remember Mama (1948)_ (qv)....
• Episode : The Nanny
  Maxwell Sheffield: Sweetheart, how was therapy today, hm? Any, uh, any breakthroughs?::Grace 'Gracie...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: Fran-Lite
  [Fran and Val borrow a film line when discussing Maxwell.]::Fran: He's handsome. He's young. Alright...
• Episode 2: The Playwright
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [in a desperate tone] Maxwell, please, I'm begging you. It'll only t...
• Episode 3: Everybody Needs a Bubby
  While Grandma Yetta's rest home is being fumigated, she decides to stay with Fran and the Sheffield'...
• Episode 4: Material Fran
  [Fran is reading personal ads to Niles]::Fran Fine: Oh, look, here's a gem. "Young bi-couple, digs s...
• Episode 5: Curse of the Grandmas
  [C.C. mocks Fran attempt to make seniors lives happier by bringing Grace's Red Robin troop for a vis...
• Episode 6: The Nanny Napper
  Fran Fine: Alright kids, everybody grab onto me! [a man places his hands on her waste]::Fran Fine: N...
• Episode 7: A Star Is Unborn
  Betty: I just don't get how she got the part::Romeo Actor: She must be sleeping with him.::Betty: I ...
• Episode 8: Pinske Business
  Fran Fine: Oh, Mr. Sheffield, look at you. You seem like a virgin on your wedding night, not that I ...
• Episode 9: Stock Tip
  Fran: ["analyzing" Corbin Bernsen, the former star of L.A. Law] Well... I can tell you're not a lawy...
• Episode 10: The Whine Cellar
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Tonight, there's a full moon.::[C.C. leaves the room]::Fran Fine: We...
• Episode 11: When You Pish Upon a Star
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [about an actor] You see Maxwell, if we've got Jack, we've got a suc...
• Episode 12: Take Back Your Mink
  The title is based on a song from the musical 'Guys and Dolls', music and lyrics written by 'Frank L...
• Episode 13: The Strike
  Maxwell Sheffield: Well, look, it was a very important night for me. You're very important to me. Er...
• Episode 14: I've Got a Secret
  Maxwell Sheffield: [to Fran] Before you came into my life, I never had the need for an emergency tra...
• Episode 15: Kindervelt Days
  C.C. Babcock: "Ooh, Niles, what's the occasion?"::Niles: It's for you. Congratulations on quitting s...
• Episode 16: Canasta Masta
  Fran Fine: Cousin Marty was an idiot.::Sylvia Fine: Although, he could look up in the sky and tell y...
• Episode 17: The Will
  C.C.: Well, if Doug is coming over tonight, I better go change!::Niles: [after C.C. leaves] And I th...
• Episode 18: The Nanny Behind the Man
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: C'est la vie.::Fran Fine: La vie!...
• Episode 19: A Fine Friendship
  Niles: [Max and Fran look like they are making love] If you let me tell Miss Babcock about his, I'll...
• Episode 20: Lamb Chop's on the Menu
  Lambchop: [regarding Mr. Sheffield] Nice tush!...
• Episode 21: Close Shave
  Maxwell Sheffield: [Max is having stomach pains] Niles, Miss Babcock and I... ugh... Miss Babcock......
• Episode 22: What the Butler Sang
  Fran Fine: Niles, who does my sister look like?::Niles: [tentatively, as he doesn't want to be rude]...
• Episode 23: A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Come on, Niles, tell me or I'll just die.::Niles: You say it, but yo...
• Episode 24: Strange Bedfellows
  C.C.: Come on Niles, tell me what Maxwell's getting me for my birthday. I'll give you fifty bucks.::...
• Episode 25: The Chatterbox
  Fran Fine: [about a wig Maggie bought at The Chatterbox and that Fran and Maxwell want to return] Do...
• Episode 26: Fran Gets Mugged
  Fran Fine: You know, I've got half a mind...::Maxwell Sheffield: You've got no argument here!...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: Pen Pals
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [C.C. is waiting for Max to come back for a romantic evening in his ...
• Episode 2: Franny and the Professor
  Brighton Sheffield: [testing Fran's TV knowledge] Channel 29, what follows "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir"?:...
• Episode 3: Dope Diamond
  Yetta Rosenberg: [to Sylvia about Fran, while they're collectively at a therapy session] Don't nag t...
• Episode 4: A Fine Family Feud
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [bragging about her influence with the Guggenheim Museum] The curato...
• Episode 5: Val's Apartment
  Sylvia Fine: Do I smell banana fritters with fresh fruit compote?::Niles: No.::Sylvia Fine: Could I?...
• Episode 6: Shopaholic
  Val gives Fran some devastating news: Fran's ex-fiancé, Danny Imperiali, is getting married. What's ...
• Episode 7: Oy Vey, You're Gay
  Fran Fine: When you fill out your taxes, what do you put in Marital Status: S or M?::Maxwell Sheffie...
• Episode 8: The Party's Over
  Maxwell Sheffield: [about a party Fran threw] I specifically said no parties.::Fran Fine: Well, tech...
• Episode 9: The Two Mrs. Sheffields
  Maxwell Sheffield: Will you marry me?::Fran Fine: I'm really gonna have to think about... okay....
• Episode 10: Having His Baby
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [Trying to get Niles to leave the room] Don't you have something to ...
• Episode 11: The Unkindest Gift
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Maxwell, I can't believe you won't let me read your first novel. I'v...
• Episode 12: The Kibbutz
  Maxwell Sheffield: Miss Fine. I've made a decision.::Fran Fine: Yeah.::Maxwell Sheffield: I simply c...
• Episode 13: An Offer She Can't Refuse
  Maxwell Sheffield: C.C., are you insane?! How could you tell our star she could be replaced?!::Chast...
• Episode 14: Oy to the World
  The title came from the Christmas carol 'Joy To The World'....
• Episode 15: Fashion Show
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [talking about a disease for which there was a charity event they at...
• Episode 16: Where's Fran?
  Maxwell Sheffield: Do you know who you are speaking to?::Fran Fine: Yeah, I'm speaking to the guy th...
• Episode 17: The Grandmas
  Niles: [to Maxwell, about Fran] Well, if I were you sir, I'd do something before she wakes up in the...
• Episode 18: Val's Boyfriend
  Fran Fine: [Fran has eaten an outrageous amount of spicy wasabe and is now speaking in a low, non-na...
• Episode 19: Love Is a Many Blundered Thing
  The title comes from the song "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" by 'Sammy Fain' (qv) and 'Paul Franc...
• Episode 20: Your Feets Are Too Big
  After accompanying Sylvia to the plastic surgeon's office, Fran learns that human parts get larger w...
• Episode 21: Where's the Pearls?
  The title is a reference to the popular Burger King fast food restaurant ad campaign: Where's the be...
• Episode 22: The Hockey Show
  Fran starts dating New York Ranger Mike LaVoe. Maxwell is almost more excited than Fran is. Like man...
• Episode 23: That's Midlife
  Young Jewish Woman: [Maxwell has arrvied in front of Sylvia's building in a new Porsche and is immed...
• Episode 24: The Cantor Show
  Brighton Sheffield: [to Fran and Niles] Dad and I are going to go see the Padres play the Mets. OK, ...
• Episode 25: Green Card
  [Philippe is tutoring Brighton in French]::Philippe: [to Brighton] Say it as though you were speakin...
• Episode 26: Ship of Fran's
  The title refers to the movie _Ship of Fools (1965)_ (qv)....
• Episode 27: A Pup in Paris
  When Maxwell takes the wrong bag for his flight to Paris (he has taken a bag containing C.C.'s dog, ...
• Season 4
• Episode 1: The Tart with Heart
  Nicholle Tom does not appear in this episode, although she is credited....
• Episode 2: The Cradle Robbers
  Fran: - I'm glad you're here because I really need a woman to talk to.::C.C.: [Niles is silent. C.C....
• Episode 3: The Bird's Nest
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: They're fumigating my apartment.::Niles: They've tried that before. ...
• Episode 4: The Rosie Show
  Rosie O'Donnell: [reading a letter] I choose not to breast feed but my husband says I should. What d...
• Episode 5: Freida Needa Man
  Fran asks her Aunt Freida to stay at the house when Freida is looking for a place to stay while her ...
• Episode 6: Me and Mrs. Joan
  Mr. James Sheffield: Thanks for inviting me over son. It takes a big man to do that.::Maxwell Sheffi...
• Episode 7: The Taxman Cometh
  IRS Appeals Officer: George Burns.::Fran Fine: Oh, great!::IRS Appeals Officer: You know, I got into...
• Episode 8: An Affair to Dismember
  The title comes from the movie _An Affair to Remember (1957)_ (qv) starring 'Cary Grant (I)' (qv) an...
• Episode 9: Tattoo
  Val Toriello: Fran, I remember the tattoo being a lot higher on your tush.::Fran Fine: It was, Val!...
• Episode 10: The Car Show
  Maggie talks Fran into entering the Miss Trans Am beauty pageant to win a car for Maggie's seventeen...
• Episode 11: Hurricane Fran
  Fran Fine: [their hotel room is ransacked by the storm] Oh my God, Val, we're gonna die!::Val Toriel...
• Episode 12: Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will?
  [after she dropped her sandwich in the coffin]::Fran Fine: My watch is caught on his zipper. Cover f...
• Episode 13: Kissing Cousins
  The title comes from the 'Elvis Presley' (qv) movie _Kissin' Cousins (1964)_ (qv)....
• Episode 14: The Fifth Wheel
  The title is based upon the expression "the fifth wheel" meaning a useless extra item on a four whee...
• Episode 15: The Nose Knows
  Yetta Rosenberg: [about seeing Dr. Miller pick his nose] What's your shrink trying to do - pick his ...
• Episode 16: The Bank Robbery
  Niles: Happy Valentine's Day, sir. Did you decide what to get for Miss Fine?::Maxwell Sheffield: Yes...
• Episode 17: Samson, He Denied Her
  Juror #1: You like a sensitive guy?::Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Yes. I used to be one....
• Episode 18: The Facts of Lice
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [about Fran] She thinks you're a killer. She even thought you were t...
• Episode 19: Fran's Roots
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: [to Maxwell] I have a friend at CBS who wants to buy our show and tu...
• Episode 20: The Nanny & the Hunk Producer
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Nanny Fine, I need something at your mother's house.::Fran Fine: Wha...
• Episode 21: The Passed-Over Story
  Maxwell Sheffield: If Barbra Streisand and your mother were drowning, who would you save?::Fran Fine...
• Episode 22: No Muse Is Good Muse
  Margaret 'Maggie' Sheffield: I don't know, Fran, Tasha's stuff is pretty edgy.::Fran Fine: Edgier th...
• Episode 23: You Bette Your Life
  Maxwell Sheffield: [about a charity auction they're organizing] Good idea, C.C., putting Tom at our ...
• Episode 24: The Heather Biblow Story
  Maxwell Sheffield: Miss Fine, how do you propose to pay for your trip to Alaska when you told me to ...
• Episode 25: The Boca Story
  Alicia Machado: Hi, I'm Alicia Machado::Fran Fine: The one from Who's The Boss?::Alicia Machado: Oh,...
• Episode 26: Fran's Gotta Have It
  Val Toriello: It's spring, Fran. Everyone gets a little hot and bothered. You know, the Discovery Ch...
• Season 5
• Episode 1: The Morning After
  Sylvia Fine: [upon entering the Sheffield kitchen] Surprise! I got a pecan coffee cake.::Fran Fine: ...
• Episode 2: First Date
  Maxwell Sheffield: YOU? You're the yoo-hoo lady?...
• Episode 3: The Bobbi Flekman Story
  Brighton Sheffield: [about a favor Fran helped him with] Oh, by the way, how can I thank you for get...
• Episode 4: Fransom
  Fran Fine: [to Val, while trying to determine the whereabouts of the missing Chester] Where in New Y...
• Episode 5: The Ex-Niles
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Well, it's been five days, and I haven't lost a single pound on this...
• Episode 6: A Decent Proposal
  Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Maxwell, I have found the perfect subject for our one person play.::...
• Episode 7: Mommy and Mai
  Fran Fine: [excitedly about a letter Fran just received] Ah, look Val. It's from Mai Ling.::Yetta Ro...
• Episode 8: Fair Weather Fran
  [Fran is preparing for a screen test to be an on air editorial commentator]::Bryant Gumbel: I'll tel...
• Episode 9: Educating Fran
  Yetta Rosenberg: Read me my horoscope.::Fran Fine: Oh, OK. Ah, "Scorpio. Tomorrow, you will awaken.....
• Episode 10: From Flushing with Love
  Val Toriello: Well Fran, you know what they say...::[there is an extremely long pause]::Fran Fine: [...
• Episode 11: Rash to Judgment
  Grace Sheffield: Fran, I've been wearing a training bra for about three months now, and what exactly...
• Episode 12: One False Mole and You're Dead
  Fran Fine: When you watch your mother fry up your Mr. Potato Head, it scars you....
• Episode 13: Call Me Fran
  Fran Fine: [about her mother and father] One time, she bought this backless dress and he made her re...
• Episode 14: Not Without My Nanny
  Maxwell Sheffield: Ah, good afternoon, Miss Fine.::Fran Fine: Good afternoon, Mr. Sheffield. You kno...
• Episode 15: The Engagement
  [Fran and Maxwell have just finished kissing]::Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock: Maxwell, we have busi...
• Episode 16: The Dinner Party
  Sylvia Fine: Darling, do you remember when we went to the Doral Hotel in Miami Beach...::Fran Fine: ...
• Episode 17: Homie-Work
  Fran Fine: [to the wedding coordinator] Now Dirk, I just wanted to tell you, ours is a mixed marriag...
• Episode 18: The Reunion Show
  Though not really a spin off from The Nanny, 'Ray Romano (I)' (qv) (from _"Everybody Loves Raymond" ...
• Episode 19: Immaculate Concepcion
  The Sheffields receive news that Maxwell's father has passed away. What's equally painful to hear, i...
• Episode 20: The Pre-Nup
  Maxwell Sheffield: I'm going to ask Fran to sign a pre-nuptial agreement.::Niles: Why don't you just...
• Episode 21: The Best Man
  Sylvia Fine: If you leave, I'm going to throw myself in the Hudson River.::Fran Fine: Ma, flooding N...
• Episode 22: The Wedding
  Maxwell Sheffield: Where is she - where's Mother?::Jocelyn Sheffield: [about Maxwell and Fran's wedd...
• Season 6
• Episode 1: The Honeymoon's Overboard
  On Fran and Maxwell's honeymoon aboard the yacht, Fran falls overboard and Maxwell jumps in to rescu...
• Episode 2: Fran Gets Shushed
  Fran Sheffield: OK, it's true. Your father and I had a little tiff. But I don't want you kids to wor...
• Episode 3: Once a Secretary, Always a Secretary
  Sylvia Fine: I gotta go now. I got a very important thing to take care of before dinner.::Fran Sheff...
• Episode 4: Sara's Parents
  Fran Sheffield: [about Sara's parents] I just want everything to be so right. I mean, while they're ...
• Episode 5: Maggie's Boyfriend
  Maxwell Sheffield: When we're in the middle of an argument, why do you always walk out when it's my ...
• Episode 6: I'm Pregnant
  Sylvia Fine: Men who marry the Fine women tend to die young.::Fran Sheffield: Why is that?::Yetta Ro...
• Episode 7: Mom's the Word
  Fran: When did you start smoking again?::C.C.: Somewhere between "I" & "do"...
• Episode 8: Making Whoopi
  Sylvia Fine: Darling, taking hormones is a natural thing. Your Aunt Addie and your Uncle Artie both ...
• Episode 9: Oh, Say, Can You Ski?
  The title is from the first line of the American National Anthem....
• Episode 10: The Hanukkah Story
  It's the December holiday season. Maxwell's sister Jocelyn drops by unexpectedly from London to meet...
• Episode 11: The In-Law Who Came Forever
  [Fran is reading a book on pregnancy]::Fran Sheffield: "What to expect in your eighth month: indiges...
• Episode 12: The Fran in the Mirror
  Fran Sheffield: [to Sylvia] The teacher dropped a word that I didn't understand.::Fran Sheffield: [t...
• Episode 13: The Yummy Mummy
  Fran Sheffield: You know, Miss Babcock, for your information, I just found out: I'm not stupid. I'm ...
• Episode 14: California, Here We Come
  The title is based on 'Al Jolson' (qv)'s song 'California, Here I Come'....
• Episode 15: Ma'ternal Affairs
  Maxwell Sheffield: Darling, "seeing" a doctor does not necessarily mean they're being intimate.::Cha...
• Episode 16: The Producers
  Niles: What is the one thing that separates me from all the successful people in this world?::Fran S...
• Episode 17: The Dummy Twins
  [C.C. has just turned down Niles' proposal]::Fran: Oh no, you turned him down because he's not rich?...
• Episode 18: Yetta's Letters
  Fran and Maxwell are aghast after they find Niles and C.C. in bed together. Luckily Niles and C.C. d...
• Episode 19: Maggie's Wedding
  Dr. Hamilton: Mrs. Sheffield, seeing that you had some usually strong Braxton Hicks contractions - i...
• Episode 20: The Baby Shower
  Maxwell Sheffield: [about Fran and her pregnancy] Ever since she entered her third trimester, her mo...
• Episode 21: The Finale: Part 1
  Margaret 'Maggie' Sheffield: So Sylvia, what did you and Morty do on your first anniversary?::Sylvia...
• Episode 22: The Finale: Part 2
  [Fran is in the middle of giving birth to her daughter. Fran is in excruciating pain.]::Fran Sheffie...
• Episode 23: The Game Show
  Fran gets booked on a game show for her cousin Alex and when Maxwell bets all of his money on Fran t...
• Episode 24: Who Stole Fran's Dress
  Fran thinks someone stole a dress that she borrowed from a store and needs Gracie, Maxwell, Niles an...

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• The Nanny - TV Theme Songs
• The Nanny - Eddie Rabbit

She was working in a bridal shop in Flushing, Queens,
Til her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes.
What was she to do, where was she to go
She was out on her fanny.
So over the bridge from Flushing to the Sheffield's door,
She was there to sell make up but the father saw more,
She had style, she had flair, she was there,
That's how she became the Nanny.
Who would have guessed that the girl we described
was just exactly what the doctor prescribed?
Now, the father finds her beguiling, watch out C.C.,
The kids are actually smiling, such joie de vivre
She's the lady in red when everybody else is wearing tan.
The flashy girl from Flushing, the Nanny named Fran.

She was working in a bridal shop in Flushing Queens,
´til her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes.
What was she to do? Where was she to go? She was out on her fanny...
So over the bridge from Flushing to the Sheffield´s door.
She was there to sell make-up, but father saw more.
She had style! She had flair! She was there! That´s how she became the Nanny!
Who would have guessed that the girl we´ve described, was just exactly what the doctor prescribed?
Now the father finds her beguiling (watch out C.C.!)
and the kids are actually smiling (such joie de vivre!)
She is the lady in red when everybody else is wearing tan...
The flashy girl from Flushing,
the Nanny named Fran!