In The Nanny, a cosmetics saleswoman stumbles upon the opportunity to become a nanny to the three rambunctious children of rich, widowed Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield. With her off-beat style of nurturing and straightforward honesty, she turns out to be the best thing that has ever happened to the family... whether they realize it or not.
Door-to-door cosmetics sales lady Fran Fine inadvertently becomes the nanny to the three children of a widowed Broadway producer.
As a result of Brighton getting caught smoking, Fran takes him to see her grandma Yetta who has been smoking all her life.
Fran hosts a tea party for Maggie's friends, however Maxwell wonders if Fran has the class to pull it off.
When Fran acts as a chaperon on Maggie's date, Maggie's boyfriend shows an interest in Fran.
C.C.'s attempts to get closer to Maxwell's children results in Gracie running away.
When status-conscious relatives visit from Florida, Fran pretends that Niles is Maxwell and they are married.
Gracie is traumatized when Fran "eats" her imaginary friend.
Much to his children's disappointment as well as Fran's, Maxwell has to be in Washington, D.C. on Christmas day. Meanwhile, Fran has overextended herself in buying gifts.
Maxwell wants to hire popular soap star Brock Storm for his latest show, but he'll only do it if he gets a date with Fran.
Maxwell's old nanny comes to visit and is unimpressed with Fran's unconventional ways and lack of formal training.
Sylvia buys Fran a cemetery plot to get her closer to the cemetery manager.
Fran agrees to direct Grace's school play, but then Maxwell maneuvers his way into her position.
A world-renowned model thinks Maggie would make a good fashion model.
When the water goes out in the house, Maxwell reluctantly agrees to let Fran hire her uncle as a plumber. Meanwhile, Maggie wants to go to a party, but when her father learns there will be boys there he forbids it.
When all the children get sick, Fran takes Grace to the doctor and learns she needs a tonsillectomy.
A blizzard paralyzes the city and forces Fran and the Sheffields to move their Bermuda vacation to her mother's apartment in Queens.
Maxwell's sister comes to visit and she decides then to marry her intended.
A play-date between Gracie and the child of a Broadway critic does not go well.
Fran learns that her old, tyrannical gym teacher is now Maggie's gym teacher.
C.C.'s father comes to visit. When C.C. turns down his offer to see Barbra Streisand in concert, Fran, who adores all things Streisand, gets the opportunity.
Fran must decide between the Sheffields and her old boy friend that proposes.
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.
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.
A man whom Fran snubbed in high school has written a play and threatens to jump off a ledge unless Maxwell reads it.
Yetta moves in with the family when her home is fumigated, but Fran thinks she might be a bad influence for the children.
Mr. Sheffield pushes Fran to accept a date from her long time pen-pal who she has never met.
C.C. makes a bet with her brother than he can't get Fran on Jeopardy. Fran gets on and wins and gets Renaissance Fair tickets from their new next door neighbor Roger Clinton when Maxwell can't.
Going out with the man who asks Fran to marry him, he steals the engagement ring that they were looking at.
Upon returning home from Paris, Fran couldn't be happier when C.C. says Maxwell just hired her for her looks. To find out if this is true, Fran tries dating a blind guy. Meanwhile Maxwell tries to back-peddle after what he told Fran on the plane.
After Maxwell tells Fran to make Maggie break up with a 25 year old, Fran starts dating his same age friend.
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.
Maxwell invites Fran to be his date at the very exclusive dinner party given by Elton John to celebrate Tantrums and Tiaras, the new film he and his partner, David Furnish, are premiering. Unfortunately, Fran's lurid past catches up with her when she appears in the film as the fam who prompted one of John's "Tantrums" by verbally abusing Elton.
Fran and Maxwell find themselves on a desert island after falling off their honeymoon yacht.
While trying to learn to live together Fran agrees to be less forward if Maxwell will learn to be less uptight. They both tryout their new personalities at a business dinner meeting.
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Fran goes out with a much older rich man.
Gracie's Red Robin troop goes to Grandma Yetta's retirement home to "adopt" a grandparent. When Gracie's first and second picks pass away, it sours her on scouting.
On the subway, a Russian immigrant accidentally leaves her baby, and Fran picks it up, believing it to be abandoned.
A director plans to sabotage his production of "Romeo and Juliet" by casting Fran in the lead role.
Maxwell has Fran pretend to be C.C. in order to get theatrical backing from a man C.C. attacked to get a cab.
Fran gives Maxwell a stock tip that turns out to be from a hot dog vendor.
During Sylvia's 50th birthday party, Fran gets stuck in the wine cellar with C.C.
Fran inadvertently persuades an obnoxious child star set to star in Maxwell's revival of "Oliver!" to give up show business.
Maggie is upset when Fran inherits a mink coat. Fran decides to give it up to appease Maggie, but Sylvia won't hear of it.
Mr. Sheffield is opening a new play, "Norma", based on Norma Rae. But there's a busboy strike going on at the cast party, and Fran refuses to cross the picket line. The picture of Mr. Sheffield dragging Fran out of the line is published on the newspaper and they end up going to Sally Jesse Raphael's show to settle this misunderstanding.
Maxwell refuses to divulge the identity of the celebrity recuperating from surgery in the Sheffields' house.
Fran receives a surprise when Sylvia sends in a long-lost "Win a Date With Erik Estrada" contest entry form.
After Brighton joins Sylvia's canasta team, Fran is dumped from it.
Maxwell draws up a will which states that Fran will remain nanny in the event of his death. Meanwhile, she thinks that a fax of a potential client's heart-sensitive diet given to Niles is really for Maxwell.
Fran sets Grandma Yetta up with Dakota Williams, a hard-drinking Southern playwright from whom Maxwell hopes to buy his latest play.
Fran strikes up a friendship with a male nanny whom she erroneously assumes is gay.
C.C. plans to move into feature film production with a star vehicle for Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop. When Shari and Lamb Chop visit the Sheffield mansion, C.C.'s dog Chester tries to eat Lamb Chop.
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.
Maxwell hears Niles singing and asks him to sing for his backers' audition. Meanwhile, Fran clashes with her sister Nadine.
Maggie is upset when Fran beats her in a kissing contest. The winner is to appear on an album cover with Billy Ray Cyrus.
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.
Fran takes Maggie to her favorite beauty salon to prepare for a party; while there she arranges a job there for an actress who loses a Sheffield audition.
An valuable Shakespearian document is taken from Fran when she is mugged in New York's Central Park.
Instead of a boring 16th birthday for Maggie, Fran has it at her Aunt Freida's bar and the kids have a wonderful time.
Fran and Val take a small apartment together when Fran feels that her job is taking over her personal life. Even though Mr. Sheffield supports her, he really wants her to move back.
The marriage of her former intended (who threw her out in one of those crushing scenes) turns Fran into a shopaholic. Only a kiss from Mr. Sheffield snaps her out of it.
When Maxwell hires a female publicist to changes his image, C.C. and Fran think that he is falling for her. Actually the woman is gay and is more interested in Fran.
While Maxwell is in Boston, Fran throws a singles party and gets arrested.
When Maxwell's mother wants him to get rid of Fran, he proposes to her and she makes him feel very guilty for using her.
Fran considers having a baby sans husband; and Maxwell assumes she is asking him to be the donor.
Brighton faints while filming Fran's cousin's bris and Fran sends it to Hollywood. Everybody visits Hollywood and Fran keeps getting thrown off the set of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Fran inadvertently talks Maggie into going to a kibbutz in Israel for the Christmas vacation instead of a convent.
Fran is very happy with her new Italian boyfriend until she finds out that he has underworld connections and is now afraid to break up with him.
An animated Christmas special. Brighton is acting very selfishly, and Fran wishes he could learn that Christmas is not about what you get but what you give. On their way to help at a homeless shelter a gust of wind whisks Fran, Brighton, and Chester to the North Pole where they meet Santa Claus, who looks a lot like Mr. Sheffield, and learn that Santa might not make it this year because of an entity called the Amazing Babcock.
When Mr. Sheffield rushes Fran out the door to a premier before she can get a matching handbag, she ends up on a magazine's fashion mistake list.
When Fran gets Mr. Sheffield to teach her a lesson about smoking for Maggie's sake, he pushes Fran right out the door to the Clinton residence.
When her mother throws her father out of the house, Fran seeks advice from her grandmothers. She also thinks that Mr. Sheffield needs a change in his life.
Val gets a new boyfriend and Fran goes through an unusual situation: her best friend has a date and she doesn't! When Val's boyfriend makes a move on Fran, she thinks it's just jealousy and goes out with C.C., but later Val's boyfriend goes a little too far.
Thinking Mr. Sheffield wants her to be her valentine, she puts up a billboard in Times Square.
Fran is going crazy because her foot model reunion is coming up and her feet went up an entire shoe size.
Mr. Sheffield has Elizabeth Taylor over, and like with all celebrities, Fran can't control herself until she meets her. A very friendly Elizabeth asks Fran to take her black pearls necklace to a courier, but of course Fran has to do it in her own way.
Fran dates a very superstitious NY Ranger who claims that her red shoes jinxed the team and caused them to lose. After a much heard comment, the entire City of New York thinks that she is a jinx.
After Fran beats him in tennis, Maxwell is feeling old and goes out and buys a younger image and a sports car.
Fran suggests that her cantor boyfriend should audition for Maxwell's next show.
Brighton's handsome French tutor proposes to Fran who finds out he is flirting with other women and needs a green card.
Fran decides to take a cruise to meet guys and Mr. Sheffield and family join her.
Fran runs onto Mr. Sheffield's plane with his bag and ends up having to go to Paris with him. On the flight back as the plane is plummeting down he tells Fran that he loves her.
Despite Mr. Sheffield's objections Fran helps Brighton with his science project. He plans on hatching some bird eggs, but Fran waits too long and hard boils them.
After getting picked from the audience for the Rosie Show, Fran finds herself a regular, giving parenting advice. As her celebrity grows, Maxwell becomes afraid he's going to lose her.
With Aunt Freida broke, she moves into the Sheffield mansion. Fran's solution is to get her boyfriend to propose, but instead he has a heart attack.
Fran tries to have Maxwell and his father make peace by inviting the secretary that broke up his parent's marriage to dinner.
Fran is watching Jay Leno's dog and getting audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
Nigel Sheffield (Harry Van Gorkum), rather than Maxwell, pops the question to Fran (Fran Drescher), who agrees to join him in London.
Maxwell (Charles Shaughnessy) wants to see Fran's (Fran Drescher) concealed tattoo, while her mother (Renee Taylor) suggests that Dr. Roberts (John Astin) remove it.
Mr. Sheffield won't get Maggie a car, so she convinces Fran to enter a beauty constest to win her one.
Fran misses the Sheffield estate when she takes Val on a Caribbean vacation in the middle of hurricane season.
Fran attends the funeral of her former fiancé and wonders if she is going to be left alone in the world.
The man of Fran's dreams, a handsome, young doctor, turns out to be her first cousin.
Fran, Val and C.C. all go out together and Fran is the only one who doesn't find a date.
Fran gets very upset with Maxwell when she finds him making out in the living room with his date. Fran is told by her therapist that she is treating him like her husband rather than her boss.
While at a bank, Fran and her mother becomes hostages to a very inept bank robber. Fran starts to become very good friends with the gentleman.
Mr. Sheffiled calls from the limo saying he has to repair a mistake he made to Fran 6 moths ago. She's very excited thinking he might take back taking back saying he loved her, but for her misery he only wanted to pay her extra money he got from tax refund. Tired of living on high expectations, Fran decides to take some time off the house and joins C.C. on jury duty.
Fran accuses Maxwell of not spending enough time with his children when they get head lice but he is spared.
A woman believes that she, not Sylvia, is Fran's mother due to a hospital mix-up.
The tabloids print a fictitious story about Maxwell cheating on his late wife during their honeymoon.
Fran re-evaluates her life when her high-school rival lands a starring role in Sheffield's new play.
Fran will do anything to get her song lyrics to a new rock star. They bond, but she finds that Val is a better muse.
Fran is involved with a charity auction hosted by Maxwell and Bette Midler. Fran takes a child prodigy to Yetta's nursing home and the death of a resident so traumatizes the child that he swears he will never play the piano again.
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.
Sylvia decides to invest in a condo in Boca. This much anticipated fact that should come as a blessing for Fran upsets her deeply, and Dr. Miller says it's because deep down she doesn't want her mother to leave. Mr. Sheffield thinks if he takes Fran to see the condo she'll accept the idea, and just when Fran finally realized how much peace she'd get from that, they discover there isn't any condo, only a swamp.
Fran follows Maxwell to London and after a wonderful afternoon they almost commit to each other until they learn that Niles has had a heart attack. C.C. realizes that she doesn't hate Niles as much as she appears to.
When Maxwell's old partner Bobbi Flekman starts moving in on him, Fran's friends suggest that Maxwell only likes her because she looks like Fran.
After Chester is kidnapped while under Fran's care, she and Val try to find him and end up kidnapped themselves.
Fran and C.C. agree to let Dr. Joyce Brothers decide who's the better woman for Maxwell; Niles quits after he's denied a raise, a demand based on his faulty impression of Fran's salary.
Maxwell is jealous of Chevy Chase's attention to Fran, but he finds that she brings him luck for his poker game.
When a Cambodian woman that Fran and Val sponsored as a child visits New York and comes between the two friends, Fran fears she'll come between her and Maxwell too. To stay in the family Frans comes up with a plan to get engaged to Brighton.
With Yetta's wedding approaching Fran looks for a new job and gets an audition for a job on television.
Fran goes to Maggie's school to have a word with her Philosophy teacher and ends up developing a crush on him. After having to ask Maggie for her approval, Fran starts dating the gorgeous Jewish bachelor, which, of course, upsets Mr. Sheffield (who won't do anything regarding his true feelings towards Fran).
Fran takes Mr. Sheffield to the Fine Family Reunion at Niagara Falls to give both her and Niles the weekend off. Maxwell proposes and then hits his head.
Fran has a romantic date with Maxwell just as she breaks out and swells up due to an allergic reaction to her mother's squash pasta.
Fran has a run-in with actress Margo Lange, who is starring in one of Maxwell's plays, when she discovers that her famous mole is a fake.
Fran's father will not use the basketball tickets that come from Mr. Sheffield. Fran questions her relationships with men and Maxwell agrees to call her Fran.
Grace's pen pal, Billy, is the son of the Sultan of Koorestan, a country in the Middle East. Billy has invited Grace for a visit.
Maxwell is ready to propose to Fran and thanks to Niles everyone already knows it. At the big announcement dinner everyone is there except Maxwell.
Maxwell and Fran go shopping for engagement rings while Fran starts to feel that she isn't good enough for Maxwell's friends and lifestyle.
When Fran hires a gift wrapper instead of a singer rapper, she has to turn him into a singing sensation.
Fran goes to her high school reunion and finds all of her friends getting divorced while she is engaged.
Maxwell's father unexpectedly passes away, and in his will he leaves everything to Concepcion, a secret daughter he had with a flamenco dancer. C.C. is back from the sanatorium and doesn't miss the opportunity of terrifying Fran and trying to split Fran and Maxwell up.
Pressured by his family, Maxwell wants Fran to sign a pre-nup, which upsets her. She thinks he doesn't trust her and/or doesn't have faith their marriage will last forever. Unbelievably, Val is the one that opens her eyes to what's happening and how it is better for Fran to sign it.
Maxwell's brother and best man Nigel arrives to throw him a bachelor party. Fran is worried that he will tell Maxwell that they almost got married themselves.
Even though Maxwell's family tells Fran that their marriage won't work, Maxwell tells her how much he loves her and that their lives together will never be dull. That night they both fall off their honeymoon yacht.
Finally, after 5 long years, the wedding day has arrived. Fran spends her last night as a single woman at her mom's house, where Sylvia reads her a letter she wrote to Fran when Fran was born.
Brighton wants to go to Atlantic City and his father is totally against it. Fran finds herself torn between being nanny and wife.
Sara's parents are visiting, and Max is afraid they might not like Fran, as he never told them about the marriage. Fran tries to do all the right things, but can't get it right.
Fran couldn't be happier with Maggie's rich, handsome, Jewish, model boyfriend, but when they decide to move in together, Maxwell wants Fran to put her foot down.
When Maggie thinks that she is pregnant, Fran takes her to the doctor and finds that she is the expectant mother.
Fran is excited about the news of her pregnancy though Maxwell doesn't seem to want any more children.
Fran is depressed over her inability to conceive. She finds out that she is ovulating just as they are making an appearance on Hollywood Squares.
On a ski trip to Aspen, the Sheffields accept a dinner invitation from the President. Fran's blood test needed to get some antibiotics have some wonderful results.
While excited about celebrating her first Hanukkah with her new husband and family, Maxwell, C.C., and Gracie have to drive to Boston in a snowstorm. Fran is worried sick when they don't arrive on time after they run off the road.
After Aunt Freida buys her parents' condo, the Fines move into the Sheffield mansion.
After Fran lends a college buddy of Maxwell's $1 million, she hears that he is broke and has been swindling others.
Fran finds out that she and Maxwell are having twins and she is disturbed when Brighton doesn't want her go with him on his tour of colleges.
Maxwell is asked to turn one of his plays into a sitcom and the Sheffields might be moving to California. And her mother may be having an affair.
C.C. flees after Niles proposes again. Fran runs after her and gets stuck in an elevator with her and goes into labor.
C.C. and Niles get married while Fran is in labor and find out that they are also expectant parents. Maggie and Brighton head off to Europe as the Sheffields head to California with the new twins and a new life together.
Fran checks into a man that his mother is seeing and coaches her father on spicing up their marriage.
Fran tries to produce a play written by a friend of Niles and he confesses his love for C.C.
Fran is coaching Niles in his unappreciated courtship of C.C. Finally Niles calls her pathetic and lonely after which the Sheffields find them in bed together.
Maxwell uses Yetta's letters as the basis for a play on Broadway beating out Andrew Lloyd Webber who also wanted to use them.
Fran learns that Micheal's cousin is James Brolin and that Barbra Streisand is coming to Maggie and Micheal's wedding. Fran is so excited that she goes into premature labor almost missing Barbra.
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.