
The Nanny
Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three children....
The Nanny
Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three children. But soon Fran, with her offbeat nurturing and no-nonsense honesty, touches Maxwell as well as the kids.
The Nanny
Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three children....

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Episode 1: The Making of The Nanny
This brief "Making Of The Nanny" retrospective includes interviews with a few of the cast and crew m...

Episode 2: Oy to the World - An Animated Christmas Special
Brighton is acting very selfishly, and Fran wishes he could learn that Christmas is not about what y...

Episode 3: The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember
The Nanny gang comes back to say hi and catch up on old times, and watch bloopers.
Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling cosmetics, and quickly stumbled upon the opportunity to become The Nanny for his three children. But soon Fran, with her offbeat nurturing and no-nonsense honesty, touches Maxwell as well as the kids.

Episode 1: The Nanny
Fran has just been dumped by her fiancé and employer, and is selling cosmetics door-to-door, when sh...

Episode 2: Smoke Gets in Your Lies
When Brighton is caught smoking at school, Fran thinks it might be her fault.

Episode 3: My Fair Nanny
Fran agrees to be made over by Niles and Maxwell in order to host a social.

Episode 4: The Nuchslep
Fran chaperones Maggie and her date, who ends up being attracted to Fran.

Episode 5: Here Comes the Brood
C.C. tells Grace that Fran acts like she loves them only because she's paid to.

Episode 6: The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother
Niles poses as Fran's husband to impress her visiting relatives.

Episode 7: Imaginary Friend
Fran and Maxwell face a sticky situation after Fran eats Grace's imaginary friend.

Episode 8: Christmas Episode
Fran celebrates her first Christmas with the family.

Episode 9: Personal Business
Fran agrees to help Maxwell close a deal by dating a young and restless soap-opera star.

Episode 10: The Nanny-in-Law
Maxwell's beloved Nanny Mueller makes herself at home, but makes Fran feel insecure.

Episode 11: A Plot for Nanny
Fran begins dating a funeral director she meets through her mother.

Episode 12: The Show Must Go On
Fran directs Grace's school production until Maxwell takes over.

Episode 13: Maggie the Model
A former model sets up a photo test for Maggie, but Fran is pushed out of the picture.

Episode 14: The Family Plumbing
Fran catches her young cousin kissing Brighton in the bathtub.

Episode 15: Deep Throat
Fran has to have her tonsils removed, so Maxwell puts C.C.'s reunion on hold to await the outcome of...

Episode 16: Schlepped Away
On the way to catch a flight to the islands, heavy snow maroons the family at Fran's parents' home i...

Episode 17: Stop the Wedding, I Want to Get Off
Fran plans a wedding for Maxwell's sister, but she's in love with her chauffeur, not her fiancé.

Episode 18: Sunday in the Park with Fran
Fran has a run-in with the son of the town's toughest critic, and that could be catastrophic for Max...

Episode 19: The Gym Teacher
Maggie's tyrannical gym teacher turns out to be Fran's former teacher. Maxwell hires an abrasive meg...

Episode 20: Ode to Barbra Joan
C.C. won't warm up to her father's offer of Streisand tickets, but Fran's hot to go in her place.

Episode 21: Frannie's Choice
Fran accepts a proposal from the guy who once dumped her.

Episode 22: I Don't Remember Mama
Fran and Grace enter a mother-daughter pageant at the country club.
It seems that the second season will be full of various comedic events that we are living again, as Yetta moves with the family when her house is evaporated in a new way, but Fran believes it may have a bad effect on children. On the other hand, Fern's anniversary will end as an educator for the Sheffield School, where things seem to be tragic as Maxwell seems to have forgotten everything about her quite unexpectedly.

Episode 1: Fran-Lite
Maxwell dates a woman with a striking resemblance to Fran.

Episode 2: The Playwright
A man whom Fran snubbed in high school has written a play and threatens to jump off a ledge unless M...

Episode 3: Everybody Needs a Bubby Sometimes
Grandma Yetta stays with Fran and the Sheffields while her retirement home is being fumigated.

Episode 4: Material Fran
Fran goes out with a much older rich man.

Episode 5: Curse of the Grandmas
Gracie's Red Robin troop goes to Grandma Yetta's retirement home to "adopt" a grandparent. When Grac...

Episode 6: The Nanny-Napper
On the subway, a Russian immigrant accidentally leaves her baby, and Fran picks it up, believing it...

Episode 7: A Star Is Unborn
A director plans to sabotage his production of "Romeo and Juliet" by casting Fran in the lead role.

Episode 8: Pishke Business
Maxwell has Fran pretend to be C.C. in order to get theatrical backing from a man C.C. attacked to g...

Episode 9: Stock Tip
Fran gives Maxwell a stock tip that turns out to be from a hot dog vendor.

Episode 10: The Whine Cellar
C.C.'s vision for a romantic weekend hit a snag when she and Fran end up locked inside Maxwell's win...

Episode 11: When You Pish Upon a Star
Fran inadvertently persuades an obnoxious child star, who's set to star in Maxwell's revival of "Oli...

Episode 12: Take Back Your Mink
Maggie is upset when Fran inherits a mink coat. Fran decides to give it up to appease Maggie, but Sy...

Episode 13: The Strike
There's a busboy strike going on at the cast party for Maxwell's latest play. When Fran refuses to c...

Episode 14: I've Got a Secret
Maxwell refuses to divulge the identity of the celebrity recuperating from surgery in the Sheffields...

Episode 15: Kindervelt Days
Fran receives a surprise when Sylvia sends in a long-lost "Win a Date With Erik Estrada" contest ent...

Episode 16: Canasta Masta
After Brighton joins Sylvia's canasta team, Fran is dumped from it.

Episode 17: The Will
Maxwell draws up a will which states that Fran will remain nanny in the event of his death. Meanwhil...

Episode 18: The Nanny Behind the Man
In an attempt to score a play by award-winning playwright Dakota Williams, Fran and Maxwell set him...

Episode 19: A Fine Friendship
Fran strikes up a friendship with a male nanny whom she erroneously assumes is gay.

Episode 20: Lamb Chop's on the Menu
C.C. plans to move into feature film production with a star vehicle for Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop. W...

Episode 21: Close Shave
Maggie is a candy striper at the hospital. When she takes off to go on a date, Fran fills in for her...

Episode 22: What the Butler Sang
Maxwell hears Niles singing and asks him to sing for his backers' audition. Meanwhile, Fran clashes...

Episode 23: A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
Maggie is upset when Fran beats her in a kissing contest. The winner is to appear on an album cover...

Episode 24: Strange Bedfellows
Fran worries about her future when Mona, one of her fellow nannies, retires to Florida. The night of...

Episode 25: The Chatterbox
Maggie receives a party invitation so Fran takes her to her favorite beauty salon. Fran gets a job t...

Episode 26: Fran Gets Mugged
An valuable Shakespearian document is taken from Fran when she is mugged in New York's Central Park.
The third season begins with a new series of powerful surprises, as Fran seems to still feel something different about the care of the children who have taken over her life and spent her personal life. Now, Fran seems to be thinking of getting out of the mansion. But a real boost is given by Mr. Sheffield. After a short time, Fran and Val move together to a very small apartment in a building full of gay men, where things seem to be going wrong.

Episode 1: Pen Pal
After many years of exchanging letters, Fran's pen pal Lenny wants to meet her. But Fran is worried...

Episode 2: Franny and the Professor
C.C. makes a bet with her brother that he can't get Fran to play Jeopardy!. But Fran somehow enters...

Episode 3: Dope Diamond
Fran's been going out with a rich, handsome Jewish doctor named Julius Kimble. After only 2 weeks, h...

Episode 4: A Fine Family Feud
Maggie's 16th birthday is approaching and Fran intervenes in her father's plans for her party. Inste...

Episode 5: Val's Apartment
Feeling that taking care of the kids has taken over her life and eliminated her personal life, Fran...

Episode 6: Shopaholic
The news of Danny's marriage to Heather Biblow makes Fran start buying everything she can. After bei...

Episode 7: Oy Vey, You're Gay
Fran tells Mr. Sheffield he should retire his wedding ring, and after C.C. points out that Andrew Ll...

Episode 8: The Party's Over
Mr. Sheffield and C.C. are going to Boston for the weekend, but what originally started as a romanti...

Episode 9: The Two Mrs. Sheffields
When Maxwell's mother wants him to get rid of Fran, Maxwell reacts by proposing to Fran who makes hi...

Episode 10: Having His Baby
Fran wants to have a baby, husband or not.

Episode 11: The Unkindest Cut
Brighton faints while filming Fran's cousin's bris and Fran sends it to Hollywood. Everybody visits...

Episode 12: The Kibbutz
Fran suggests that Maggie might go to a kibbutz in Israel for the summer instead of a convent.

Episode 13: An Offer She Can't Refuse
Fran gets a date with a guy named Tony Tattori, who later she discovers to be on the mob. Scared to...

Episode 14: Fashion Show
Mr. Sheffield rushes Fran to get ready because they're late for a premiere. Fran worries about her p...

Episode 15: Where's Fran?
When Fran catches Maggie smoking, she herself pretends to smoke so that Mr. Sheffield can teach her...

Episode 16: The Grandmas
When her mother throws her father out of the house, Fran seeks advice from her grandmothers. She als...

Episode 17: Val's Boyfriend
Val's new boyfriend starts to move in on Fran.

Episode 18: Love Is a Many Blundered Thing
Thinking Mr. Sheffield wants her to be her valentine, she puts up a billboard in Times Square.

Episode 19: Your Feets Too Big
When Sylvia decides to have plastic surgery on her arms, the doctor tells her it's normal at a certa...

Episode 20: Where's the Pearls?
Mr. Sheffield has Elizabeth Taylor over, and like with all celebrities, Fran can't control herself u...

Episode 21: The Hockey Show
Fran starts to date Michael LaVoe, a famous hockey player for the NY Rangers. Mike is very superstit...

Episode 22: That's Midlife
After Fran beats him in tennis, Maxwell is feeling old and goes out and buys a younger image and a s...

Episode 23: The Cantor Show
Fran goes out with the new temple cantor, Gary. When Mr. Sheffield listens him singing, he hires him...

Episode 24: Green Card
Brighton is failing French in school so Mr. Sheffield hires a tutor for him. His tutor is incredibly...

Episode 25: Ship of Fran's
Fran decides to take a cruise to meet guys and Mr. Sheffield and family join her.

Episode 26: A Pup in Paris
Fran runs onto Mr. Sheffield's plane with his bag and ends up having to go to Paris with him. On the...
We return during the fourth season through a variety of comedy events, where Fran Gressi is escorted to a station in Lehman and he has to fight on a green jacket in a different manner through another woman. In the meantime, upon returning to the palace, Brighton faces some problems in his scientific degree. Max seems to be telling him that he will be sent to the military school if his grades are not high. On the other hand, he seems to be asking Fran not to help him in his scientific project and perhaps Fran will be completely uninterested.

Episode 1: The Tart with Heart
Fran and Maxwell return from their trip to Paris, and Fran couldn't be happier. Just as they are abo...

Episode 2: The Cradle Robbers
Mr. Sheffield is furious when he finds out Maggie is seeing a 25 year-old boy. He wants Fran to make...

Episode 3: The Bird's Nest
Fran takes Gracie to the Loehmann's Semi Annual Red Star Clearance and has to fight over a green swe...

Episode 4: The Rosie Show
Fran and Val go to The Rosie O'Donnell Show and Fran is picked out of the audience to talk to Rosie....

Episode 5: Freida Needa Man
Fran's aunt Freida has gone broke and moves into the Sheffield residence. The only way Fran can turn...

Episode 6: Me and Mrs. Joan
Maxwell's father is in town and Fran decides to help end the Sheffield family feud inviting James Sh...

Episode 7: The Taxman Cometh
Jay Leno leaves his dog under the cares of Mr. Sheffield. Meanwhile, Fran is being audited for her t...

Episode 8: An Affair to Dismember
Nigel Sheffield arrives in New York, but since Maxwell is too busy to spend time with him he has Fra...

Episode 9: Tattoo
While Fran is trying to convince Maggie not to get a tattoo, Val slips in front of everybody that Fr...

Episode 10: The Car Show
Maggie wants a new car, but since her father won't give her one she convinces Fran to enter a beauty...

Episode 11: Hurricane Fran
Fran decides to spend her holidays away with Val, but this time just the two of them, no Mr. Sheffie...

Episode 12: Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will?
Danny Imperiali, Fran's former fiance, is dead. At his funeral (while comforting Danny's widow Heath...

Episode 13: Kissing Cousins
Fran meets an incredible man at a singles bar. He's Jewish, he's a doctor, he's rich, he's everythin...

Episode 14: The Fifth Wheel
Fran decides to stop chasing men like Dr. Miller told her. Sylvia doesn't like that at all and blame...

Episode 15: The Nose Knows
Fran freaks out on Mr. Sheffield after he brings home a model and makes out with her in the living r...

Episode 16: The Bank Robbery
It's Valentine's Day, and Maxwell decides to diffuse the whole "love" situation with Fran by giving...

Episode 17: Samson, He Denied Her
Mr. Sheffield calls from the limo saying he has to make up to Fran a mistake he made 6 months ago. S...

Episode 18: The Facts of Lice
After Niles is depressed about his life as a butler, he begins to act strange and while he is cleani...

Episode 19: Fran's Roots
A woman calls Fran saying she might be her mother due to a mix up that happened in the hospital the...

Episode 20: The Nanny and the Hunk Producer
After winning the Tony Award for play of the year - for "The Widower", beating his lifetime rival, A...

Episode 21: The Passed-Over Story
Fran's high school classmate, Morgan Faulkner, is hired by Mr. Sheffield as the star of his upcoming...

Episode 22: No Muse is Good Muse
After watching Tasha's (a new female rock star) video on MTV, Fran decides to write lyrics of her ow...

Episode 23: You Bette Your Life
Fran offers herself for the charity auction Mr. Sheffield is putting together with Bette Midler. A g...

Episode 24: The Heather Biblow Story
Fran is shocked to learn that her biggest rival, Heather Biblow (who stole her fiancé and her job) i...

Episode 25: The Boca Story
Sylvia decides to invest in a condo in Boca. This much anticipated fact that should come as a blessi...

Episode 26: Fran's Gotta Have It
Mr. Sheffield is going to London to convince Celine Dion into doing Broadway. Fran decides to go aft...
We return again during the fifth season through more comedy that complements the events of the previous season. The season begins with Brighton, who unexpectedly won a radio contest and the prize is that the film crew will come home to get a music video. On the other hand, when the crew of film producers comes, things seem to change completely as a duplicate version of Fran appears, and Maxwell begins to waive them unexpectedly.

Episode 1: The Morning After
Mr. Sheffield wants to buy himself some time before his relationship with Fran grows, so he asks Fra...

Episode 2: First Date
Maxwell invites Fran to be his date at the very exclusive dinner party given by Elton John to celebr...

Episode 3: The Bobbie Fleckman Story
Fran screwed up with Elton John, and Brighton won a radio contest and the prize is that a film crew...

Episode 4: Fransom
Needing extra money for Yetta's bridal shower, Fran is hired by to be Chester's dog walker. As Fran...

Episode 5: The Ex-Niles
Fran and C.C. agree to let Dr. Joyce Brothers decide who's the better woman for Maxwell; Niles quits...

Episode 6: A Decent Proposal
The Sheffields, Niles, Fran, and C.C are going to Atlantic City for a project, and are staying at Tr...

Episode 7: Mommy and Mai
Mai Ling, the Cambodian girl Fran and Val "adopted" in high school for 17 cents a day, is coming to...

Episode 8: Fair Weather Fran
Upset about Yetta's upcoming wedding, Fran is advised by Dr. Miller to focus her energy on new life...

Episode 9: Educating Fran
Fran goes to Maggie's school to have a word with her Philosophy teacher and ends up developing a cru...

Episode 10: From Flushing with Love
Fran and Niles fight over who gets to ask Mr. Sheffield for the weekend off. Fran wins, and Niles ac...

Episode 11: Rash to Judgment
Val has two tickets for Michael Bolton's album premiere party, so Fran asks Mr. Sheffield on a roman...

Episode 12: One False Mole and You're Dead
Margo Lange, the famous actress, is starring in one of Maxwell's plays, and Ms. Fine disguises as a...

Episode 13: Call Me Fran
Fran decides to take her father to a basketball game, but he refuses to go knowing the tickets came...

Episode 14: Not Without My Nanny
Gracie is invited by a school friend to fly to his palace in Koorestan. Fran tries to convince Maxwe...

Episode 15: The Engagement
Fran is thrilled to tell the family that Maxwell has told her he loved her, and this time he didn't...

Episode 16: The Dinner Party
Maxwell decides to shop for a new ring for Fran, and Sylvia asks them to go to their uncle Stanley's...

Episode 17: Homie-Work
Fran decides that even though she's marrying Maxwell, she still wants to work. She decides to help h...

Episode 18: The Reunion Show
Fran attends her high school reunion and is surprised to see that all her old friends are getting di...

Episode 19: Immaculate Concepcion
Maxwell's father unexpectedly passes away, and in his will he leaves everything to Concepcion, a sec...

Episode 20: The Pre-nup
Pressured by his family, Maxwell wants Fran to sign a pre-nup, which upsets her. She thinks he doesn...

Episode 21: The Best Man
Maxwell's brother, Nigel, is back to throw him a bachelor party, and Fran is terrified because Maxwe...

Episode 22: The Wedding, Part 1
Fran moves to her mom's because she doesn't want Maxwell to see her 24 hours before the wedding. Max...

Episode 23: The Wedding, Part 2
Finally, after 5 long years, the wedding day has arrived. Fran spends her last night as a single wom...
The sixth season begins with a series of comics that complement the events of the previous season. Maxwell deals with Fran on her first night together in her bedroom. Now, things look good because they are resolving that position by agreeing that a successful marriage needs a compromise. In the meantime, Fran vows to be more paper while Maxwell is to be less ready for that moment, as they are trying to embrace new personalities differently.

Episode 1: The Honeymoon's Overboard
Fran and Maxwell find themselves on a desert island after falling off their honeymoon yacht.

Episode 2: Fran Gets Shushed
While trying to learn to live together Fran agrees to be less forward if Maxwell will learn to be le...

Episode 3: Once a Secretary, Always a Secretary
Brighton wants to go to Atlantic City and his father is totally against it. Fran finds herself torn...

Episode 4: Sara's Parents
Fran dreads a visit by Sara's parents.

Episode 5: Maggie's Boyfriend
Fran couldn't be happier with Maggie's rich, handsome, Jewish, model boyfriend, but when they decide...

Episode 6: I'm Pregnant
When Maggie thinks that she is pregnant, Fran takes her to the doctor and finds that she is the expe...

Episode 7: Mom's the Word
Fran is excited about the news of her pregnancy though Maxwell doesn't seem to want any more childre...

Episode 8: Making Whoopi
Fran's devastated after hearing from Dr. Reynolds she was never pregnant at all, that it was a false...

Episode 9: Oh, Say, Can You Ski?
On a ski trip to Aspen, the Sheffields accept a dinner invitation from the President. Fran's blood t...

Episode 10: The Hanukkah Story
While excited about celebrating her first Hanukkah with her new husband and family, Maxwell, C.C. an...

Episode 11: The In-Law Who Came Forever
After Aunt Freida buys her parents' condo, the Fines move into the Sheffield mansion.

Episode 12: The Fran in the Mirror
After Fran lends a college buddy of Maxwell's $1 million, she hears that he is broke and has been sw...

Episode 13: The Yummy Mummy
Fran finds out that she and Maxwell are having twins and she is disturbed when Brighton doesn't want...

Episode 14: California, Here We Come
Maxwell is asked to turn one of his plays into a sitcom and the Sheffields might be moving to Califo...

Episode 15: Ma'ternal Affairs
Fran checks into a man that her mother is seeing and coaches her father on spicing up their marriage...

Episode 16: The Producers
Fran tries to produce a play written by a friend of Niles and he confesses his love for C.C.

Episode 17: The Dummy Twins
Fran is coaching Niles in his unappreciated courtship of C.C. Finally Niles calls her pathetic and l...

Episode 18: Yetta's Letters
Maxwell uses Yetta's letters as the basis for a play on Broadway beating out Andrew Lloyd Webber who...

Episode 19: Maggie's Wedding
Fran learns that Michael's cousin is James Brolin and that Barbra Streisand is coming to Maggie and...

Episode 20: The Baby Shower
After her fortune telling hair dresser sees Maxwell in bed with a blonde while in California Fran fl...

Episode 21: The Finale, Part 1
C.C. flees after Niles proposes again. Fran runs after her and gets stuck in an elevator with her an...

Episode 22: The Finale, Part 2
C.C. and Niles get married while Fran is in labor and find out that they are also expectant parents....
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