
Scripted series · CBS
The Nanny
The flashy girl from Flushing, the Nanny named Fran.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
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TV DNA
How The Nanny actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Nanny reads strongest on Humour, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
That flashy girl from Flushing with the heart of an angel (and the voice of a slighty more nasal angel). The comic misadventures of the sweet and sassy Fran Fine, her sophisticated employer, Broadway producer Mr. Sheffield, his boisterous brood and his wisecracking staff.
The run
Seasons
6 seasons · 144 episodes.

Season 0 · Unannounced
Specials
3 episodes
Best episode · S00E02 Oy to the World - An Animated Christmas Special

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
199322 episodes
6.7IMDbFran Fine is a street-smart, down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied! Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot!
Best episode · S01E19 The Gym Teacher

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
199426 episodes
6.2IMDbIn the second season, Nanny Fine continues her inimitable style of witty one-liners, physical comedy, and fashion flair. As the season unfolds, Fran is mistaken for a nurse, arrested for kidnapping a baby, and cast in a Broadway production. Sparks of affection continue to fly between Miss Fine and Mr. Sheffield, while the razor-sharp repartee of C.C. Babcock and Niles further fuels the hilarity.
Best episode · S02E17 The Will

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
199526 episodes
6.3IMDbFran Drescher returns for a star-studded third season. This year, the best-dressed nanny dates more men than she can handle, hosts a wild sweet sixteen party for Maggie, seeks treatment for her out-of-control shopping and finally gets Mr. Sheffield to profess his love for her when he thinks their plane will crash.
Best episode · S03E20 Where's the Pearls?

Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
199626 episodes
6.0IMDbThe irrepressible Fran Drescher returns for the hilarious fourth season of The Nanny, a sitcom classic that dresses to impress. Nanny Fran Fine and the Sheffields are up to all-new shenanigans and misadventures in this fresh and funny fourth season.
Best episode · S04E15 The Nose Knows

Season 5 · Complete
Season 5
199723 episodes
6.1IMDbThe fashionably funny Fran Drescher is back for more in the fifth season of The Nanny, the nineties sitcom with style and flair to spare. In Season Five, Fran Fine is fully ensconced as the comedic caregiver to the Sheffield children. But her "Will they or won't they?" romance with dreamy Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield just might lead to a big promotion—from babysitter to bride! Will the producer pop the question? Will the nanny tie the knot?
Best episode · S05E13 Call Me Fran

Season 6 · Complete
Season 6
199821 episodes
6.5IMDbThe fashionably faultless Fran Drescher is back to bring the whole schmear to a close in the final season of The Nanny. Finally married to the dashing Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield, the former Miss Fine is a nanny no longer! But just as soon as Fran and Maxwell settle into marital bliss, they each announce a big production that will change the lives of the Sheffield family forever.
Best episode · S06E19 Yetta's Letters
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E06
The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother
Niles poses as Fran's husband to impress her visiting relatives.
- Directed by Lee Shallat Chemel
- Written by Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser

S06E19
Yetta's Letters
Maxwell battles an old rival for the rights to the story of Yetta's love life.

S04E16
The Bank Robbery
Fran and Sylvia are taken hostage in a Valentine's Day bank robbery.
- Directed by Dorothy Lyman

S06E17
The Producers (1)
Niles enlists Fran in an effort to impress C.C. by producing a play.
- Directed by Peter Marc Jacobson

S04E15
The Nose Knows
Maxwell suspects Fran's therapist is pushing her into an affair.
- Directed by Dorothy Lyman

S02E11
When You Pish Upon a Star
Fran inadvertently persuades an obnoxious child star, who's set to star in Maxwell's revival of "Oliver!", to give up show business.
- Directed by Lee Shallat Chemel
- Written by Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Peter Marc Jacobson
Creator

Fran Drescher
Showrunner

Ivan Menchell
Writer

Tracy Newman
Writer
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Robert Sternin
Writer
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Prudence Fraser
Writer
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Caryn Lucas
Writer

Alan Freedland
Writer
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Frank Lombardi
Writer
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Jay Amernick
Writer
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Dana Reston
Writer
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Dan Amernick
Writer
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Howard Meyers
Writer

Jonathan Stark
Writer
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Robbie Schwartz
Writer
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Diane Wilk
Writer

Jayne Hamil
Writer

Bill Lawrence
Writer
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Janis Hirsch
Writer
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Sally Lapiduss
Writer
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Eileen O'Hare
Writer
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Eric Mintz
Writer
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Rick Shaw
Writer
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Elliot Stern
Writer
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Pamela Eells
Writer
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Eric Cohen
Writer
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Michael Rowe
Writer

Alan R. Cohen
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Peter Marc JacobsonProducer
- Fran DrescherProducer
Writing
- Ivan MenchellWriter
- Tracy NewmanWriter
- Robert SterninWriter
- Peter Marc JacobsonWriter
- Prudence FraserWriter
- Caryn LucasWriter
Direction
- Paul MillerDirector
- Peter Marc JacobsonDirector
- Linda DayDirector
- Fran DrescherDirector
- Gail MancusoDirector
- Dorothy LymanDirector
Recognition
Awards
1 win
Zilveren Televizier-Tulp
1 win · latest 1999
- WinnerZilveren Televizier-Tulp1999
The Nanny · The Nanny
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