Unbeknownst to her, the director is hoping for the play to fail so that he can do better on his taxes. It seems that things will end badly, until a love of soap operas bonds Fran, the mother, and even the police chief and helps solve the issue.įran is hired by an avant-garde director to play Juliet in a reproduction of Romeo and Juliet. The Sheffields think that the woman deliberately abandoned her son, and make plans to care for him-only to get a nasty surprise when Fran is arrested for kidnapping. When Fran offers to hold an Eastern European woman's baby on the subway, she inadvertently "kidnaps" the child when his mother walks off the train without realizing it. Fran leads Gracie's girl scout troop to "adopt" their very own grandmas at Yetta's retirement home, but each of Gracie's grandmas die. It is the first anniversary since Fran started working for the Sheffields, but Maxwell does not seem to recall this very important occasion. The idea would sound mighty fine if Fran's date ( Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) was not so old. One of Fran's old high school friends sets her up with her husband's business partner to see how she likes someone who is loaded. While the retirement home gets fumigated, Grandma Yetta comes to stay at the Sheffield mansion, but when she starts passing some of her "wisdom" among the children, Fran and Maxwell are concerned. Jeffrey, now a playwright, threatens to commit suicide unless Maxwell buys his piece and turns it into a Broadway play.
In order to teach Brighton a lesson about rejecting girls, Fran goes on a date with a man named Jeffrey that she had rejected back in high school. Maxwell starts dating a woman, Leslie, who looks and sounds exactly like Fran. Maxwell exclaims "But he has such big feet!" such as in the myth of large features to conclude to a larger genital size. Fran misconstrues this when Brighton tells her he was in the locker room at the time, to which Fran describes to Maxwell as being "gherkin". The children are heading back to school, but Brighton refuses to go back because he feels "small" compared to other boys in middle school. Main article: List of The Nanny episodes No.
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The series also features Daniel Davis as Niles, the family butler, and Lauren Lane as C.C. Drescher stars as the titular character, Charles Shaughnessy as British-born producer Maxwell Sheffield, and the children – Maggie, Brighton and Grace – portrayed by Nicholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, and Madeline Zima. and TriStar Television, the series features Drescher, Jacobson, Fraser, Sternin, Caryn Lucas and Diane Wilk as executive producers.īased on an idea inspired by Drescher's visit with a friend and The Sound of Music, the season revolves around Fran Fine, a Jewish woman from Flushing, Queens, New York, who is hired by a wealthy Broadway producer to be the nanny to his three children. The series was created by actress Fran Drescher and her-then husband Peter Marc Jacobson, and developed by Prudence Fraser and Robert Sternin. The second season of the American television sitcom The Nanny aired on CBS from September 12, 1994, to May 22, 1995.