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Season 1, Episode 0: The Nanny
3 November 1993Door-to-door cosmetics sales lady Fran Fine inadvertently becomes the nanny to the three children of a widowed Broadway producer.
10 November 1993As a result of Brighton getting caught smoking, Fran takes him to see her grandma Yetta who has been smoking all her life.
17 November 1993Fran hosts a tea party for Maggie's friends, however Maxwell wonders if Fran has the class to pull it off.
24 November 1993When Fran acts as a chaperon on Maggie's date, Maggie's boyfriend shows an interest in Fran.
6 December 1993C.C.'s attempts to get closer to Maxwell's children results in Gracie running away.
8 December 1993When status-conscious relatives visit from Florida, Fran pretends that Niles is Maxwell and they are married.
15 December 1993Gracie is traumatized when Fran "eats" her imaginary friend.
22 December 1993Much 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.
29 December 1993Maxwell 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.
12 January 1994Maxwell's old nanny comes to visit and is unimpressed with Fran's unconventional ways and lack of formal training.
19 January 1994Sylvia buys Fran a cemetery plot to get her closer to the cemetery manager.
26 January 1994Fran agrees to direct Grace's school play, but then Maxwell maneuvers his way into her position.
2 February 1994A world-renowned model thinks Maggie would make a good fashion model.
9 February 1994When 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.
2 March 1994When all the children get sick, Fran takes Grace to the doctor and learns she needs a tonsillectomy.
9 March 1994A blizzard paralyzes the city and forces Fran and the Sheffields to move their Bermuda vacation to her mother's apartment in Queens.
16 March 1994Maxwell's sister comes to visit and she decides then to marry her intended.
23 March 1994A play-date between Gracie and the child of a Broadway critic does not go well.
6 April 1994Fran learns that her old, tyrannical gym teacher is now Maggie's gym teacher.
13 April 1994C.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.
27 April 1994Fran must decide between the Sheffields and her old boy friend that proposes.
16 May 1994Mother'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. This year just prior to Mother's Day, Maxwell and the family have joined a new country club. Scoping out the club, Maxwell, Fran and Grace learn that the club is having Mother's Day festivities, including a mother-daughter pageant. Grace wants to enter the pageant with Fran, which Maxwell thinks not a good idea since he believes Grace will ultimately grieve the loss of Sara again. However, Maxwell ultimately gives in to Grace's wishes. But on Mother's Day after one of the competing mother-daughter's - ultra competitive Bobbi Jo and Betty Jo - deem Fran and Grace ineligible for the pageant since Fran is not Grace's mother, Grace does storm out from the pageant stating that she has no mother. Later, Grace admits her anger is not grief for missing her deceased mother, but anger at herself for not remembering anything about her mother. Maxwell realizes he has been approaching Sara's death all wrong especially with Grace. Back at the country club, Fran and Grace complete the pageant with a duet as their talent, placing them first runner-up, not behind Bobbi Jo and Betty Jo, but
Patti LaBelle and her daughter.
Season 2, Episode 1: Fran-Lite
12 September 1994Maxwell dates a woman with a striking resemblance to Fran.
19 September 1994A man whom Fran snubbed in high school has written a play and threatens to jump off a ledge unless Maxwell reads it.
26 September 1994Grandma Yetta stays with Fran and the Sheffields while her retirement home is being fumigated.
3 October 1994Fran goes out with a much older rich man.
10 October 1994Gracie'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.
17 October 1994On the subway, a Russian immigrant accidentally leaves her baby, and Fran picks it up, believing it to be abandoned.
24 October 1994A director plans to sabotage his production of "Romeo and Juliet" by casting Fran in the lead role.
31 October 1994Maxwell has Fran pretend to be C.C. in order to get theatrical backing from a man C.C. attacked to get a cab.
Season 2, Episode 9: Stock Tip
7 November 1994Fran gives Maxwell a stock tip that turns out to be from a hot dog vendor.
14 November 1994Two events are supposed to happen simultaneously. First, Sylvia is celebrating her "50th" birthday at the Sheffield house (obviously the umpteenth times she's celebrated her 50th), with Fran throwing her a not so surprise party. And second, C.C. is going away for the weekend with Maxwell to an industry function, the weekend which she envisions will be a romantic one with her business partner. The first does happen, but the second hits a snag when C.C. accidentally gets trapped in Maxwell's wine cellar. What's worse is that Fran ultimately gets trapped in there with her. To make the best of a bad situation, Fran treats their captivity much like a slumber party. C.C. doesn't get into Fran's swing of things until she dulls her pain by the copious amounts of wine at her disposal. Fran ultimately becomes C.C.'s confidante, C.C. who finally admits to herself for the first time and to Fran that her feelings for Maxwell are probably unreciprocated. But things go back to normal between C.C. and Fran after Maxwell frees them from their prison.
21 November 1994Fran inadvertently persuades an obnoxious child star, who's set to star in Maxwell's revival of "Oliver!", to give up show business.
21 November 1994Maggie is upset when Fran inherits a mink coat. Fran decides to give it up to appease Maggie, but Sylvia won't hear of it.
Season 2, Episode 13: The Strike
28 November 1994Maxwell and Fran face a difference in opinion on how to raise the children when Maxwell reverses a decision Fran made regarding not allowing Brighton to go to the mall. Fran makes Maxwell realize that Brighton was using the old ploy of dividing and conquering. Another difference they face is during the party following the opening on Maxwell and C.C.'s new play, a musical version of
Norma Rae (1979). The busboys at the hotel where the reception is being held are on strike. Fran refuses to cross the picket line, which makes Maxwell try to forcibly make her cross. The media has a field day with the issue, especially considering the irony with regard to the subject matter of Norma Rae. Maxwell and C.C. decide to diffuse the issue by presenting their side of the story on
Sally Jessy Raphael's talk show. But Sally's show offers Fran a counterpoint argument. Realistically, this forum allows both Fran and Maxwell to discuss deeper feelings around the issue.
12 December 1994Maxwell refuses to divulge the identity of the celebrity recuperating from surgery in the Sheffields' house.
2 January 1995Fran receives a surprise when Sylvia sends in a long-lost "Win a Date With Erik Estrada" contest entry form.
9 January 1995After Brighton joins Sylvia's canasta team, Fran is dumped from it.
Season 2, Episode 17: The Will
16 January 1995Maxwell 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.
23 January 1995Fran sets Grandma Yetta up with Dakota Williams, a hard-drinking Southern playwright from whom Maxwell hopes to buy his latest play.
6 February 1995Fran strikes up a friendship with a male nanny whom she erroneously assumes is gay.
13 February 1995C.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.
20 February 1995Maggie 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.
27 February 1995Maxwell hears Niles singing and asks him to sing for his backers' audition. Meanwhile, Fran clashes with her sister Nadine.
3 May 1995Maggie is upset when Fran beats her in a kissing contest. The winner is to appear on an album cover with Billy Ray Cyrus.
8 May 1995Fran 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.
15 May 1995Maggie receives a party invitation so Fran takes her to her favorite beauty salon. Fran gets a job there for an actress who loses a Sheffield audition.
22 May 1995An valuable Shakespearian document is taken from Fran when she is mugged in New York's Central Park.
Season 3, Episode 1: Pen Pals
11 September 1995Mr. Sheffield pushes Fran to accept a date from her long time pen-pal who she has never met.
18 September 1995C.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.
25 September 1995Going out with the man who asks Fran to marry him, he steals the engagement ring that they were looking at.
2 October 1995Instead of a boring 16th birthday for Maggie, Fran has it at her Aunt Freida's bar and the kids have a wonderful time.
9 October 1995Fran 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.
Season 3, Episode 6: Shopaholic
16 October 1995The 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.
23 October 1995When 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.
6 November 1995While Maxwell is in Boston, Fran throws a singles party and gets arrested.
13 November 1995When Maxwell's mother wants him to get rid of Fran, Maxwell reacts by proposing to Fran who makes him feel very guilty for using her.
20 November 1995Fran wants to have a baby, husband or not.
27 November 1995Brighton faints while filming Fran's cousin's bris and Fran sends it to Hollywood. Everybody visits Hollywood and Fran keeps getting thrown off the Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman set.
4 December 1995Fran suggests that Maggie might go to a kibbutz in Israel for the summer instead of a convent.
11 December 1995Fran 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.
18 December 1995An animated Christmas special. Brighton is acting very selfishly, and Fran wishes he could learn that Christmas is not about 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.
8 January 1996When 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.
15 January 1996When 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.
22 January 1996When 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.
5 February 1996Val's new boyfriend starts to move in on Fran.
12 February 1996Thinking Mr. Sheffield wants her to be her valentine, she puts up a billboard in Times Square.
19 February 1996Fran is going crazy because her foot model reunion is coming up and her feet went up an entire shoe size.
26 February 1996Fran loses Elizabeth Taylor's string of black pearls.
4 March 1996Fran 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.
11 March 1996After Fran beats him in tennis, Maxwell is feeling old and goes out and buys a younger image and a sports car.
29 April 1996Fran suggests that her cantor boyfriend should audition for Maxwell's next show.
Season 3, Episode 25: Green Card
6 May 1996Brighton's handsome French tutor proposes to Fran who finds out he is flirting with other women and needs a green card.
13 May 1996Fran decides to take a cruise to meet guys and Mr. Sheffield and family join her.
20 May 1996Fran 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.
18 September 1996Upon 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.
25 September 1996After Maxwell tells Fran to make Maggie break up with a 25 year old, Fran starts dating his same age friend.
25 September 1996Despite 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.
9 October 1996After 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.
16 October 1996With 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.
30 October 1996Fran tries to have Maxwell and his father make peace by inviting the secretary that broke up his parent's marriage to dinner.
6 November 1996Fran is watching Jay Leno's dog and getting audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
13 November 1996With Maxwell busy it's up to Fran to show his brother Nigel around New York. Nigel is enchanted and proposes to Fran.
Season 4, Episode 9: Tattoo
20 November 1996While lecturing Maggie about not getting a tattoo, Val lets it slip that she and Fran got one when they were teenagers. Now Mr. Sheffield is dying to know where it is.
11 December 1996Mr. Sheffield won't get Maggie a car, so she convinces Fran to enter a beauty contest to win her one.
18 December 1996When Fran takes a vacation with Val to get away from her job and the kids, a hurricane hits their tropical paradise.
8 January 1997Fran attends the funeral of her former intended and wonders if she is going to be left alone in the world.
15 January 1997Fran falls for a rich Jewish doctor she meets at a wedding and he turns out to be her cousin.
29 January 1997Fran, Val and C.C. all go out together and Fran is one only one who doesn't find a date.
5 February 1997Fran 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.
12 February 1997While 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.
19 February 1997Fran and C.C. sit on a jury of a case that mirrors Fran's life.
5 March 1997Fran thinks that Niles is a murderer when he is only writing a play.
12 March 1997A woman shows up claiming to be Fran's mother due to a mix-up at the hospital.
2 April 1997A tabloid publishes a story that Fran and Maxwell have been having an affair since before his wife died. Fran is more upset that that fact means she is over 40, which she isn't.
9 April 1997Maxwell hires Fran's old classmate for his latest production and Maggie wants to be her personal assistant. The Sheffields join the Fines for Passover.
23 April 1997Fran will do anything to get her song lyrics to a new rock star. They bond, but she finds that Val is a better muse.
30 April 1997Fran 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.
7 May 1997The 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.
14 May 1997When Fran takes Sylvia to Boca to look at her condo all they find is a swamp.
21 May 1997Fran 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.
1 October 1997To give him more time, Maxwell gives Fran the job to redecorate the kitchen.
Season 5, Episode 2: First Date
8 October 1997On their first date Fran must hide from Elton John because of a previous run-in with him.
15 October 1997When 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.
Season 5, Episode 4: Fransom
22 October 1997After Chester is kidnapped while under Fran's care, she and Val try to find him and end up kidnapped themselves.
29 October 1997C.C. and Fran visit Dr. Joyce Brothers to decide who is the better woman for Maxwell.
5 November 1997Maxwell is jealous of Chevy Chase's attention to Fran, but he finds that she brings him luck for his poker game.
12 November 1997When 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.
19 November 1997With Yetta's wedding approaching Fran looks for a new job and gets an audition for a job on television.
10 December 1997Fran visits Maggie's school and gets into a relationship with her Jewish philosophy teacher.
17 December 1997Fran 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.
7 January 1998Fran 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.
14 January 1998Fran 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.
21 January 1998Fran'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.
28 January 1998Grace'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. Despite the fact that Fran would prefer Niles take Grace since Fran could therefore spend time alone with Maxwell, Maxwell talks Fran into escorting Grace alone on this trip. Hence, Maxwell and Fran part company for the time being with an argument hanging between them. With Fran gone, Maxwell is miserable and frustrated about their argument. In Koorestan, Fran initially is homesick despite the fact that the Sultan bears a striking resemblance to a certain Broadway producer. But she begins to love the place. In return, the Sultan seems to love Fran as he asks her to stay forever. Fran politely declines, but the Sultan seems to take whatever measures he deems necessary for Fran to stay. Maxwell decides to head off to Koorestan to see Fran. Upon his arrival, the Sultan denies Fran's suspicions. But there is no denying what Maxwell has to say to Fran.
4 March 1998Maxwell is ready to propose to Fran and thanks to Niles everyone already knows it. At the big announcement dinner everyone is there except Maxwell.
11 March 1998Maxwell and Fran go shopping for engagement rings while Fran starts to feel that she isn't good enough for Maxwell's friends and lifestyle.
Season 5, Episode 17: Homie-Work
18 March 1998When Fran hires a gift wrapper instead of a singer rapper, the Jewish nanny has to turn him into a singing sensation.
25 March 1998Fran goes to her high school reunion and finds all of her friends getting divorced while she is engaged.
1 April 1998Maxwell's father dies, leaving his entire estate to a secret love-child, Concepcion.
29 April 1998Maxwell asks stunned Fran to sign a prenuptial agreement.
6 May 1998Maxwell'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.
13 May 1998Even 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.
30 September 1998Fran and Maxwell find themselves on a desert island after falling off their honeymoon yacht.
7 October 1998While 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.
14 October 1998Brighton wants to go to Atlantic City and his father is totally against it. Fran finds herself torn between being nanny and wife.
21 October 1998Fran dreads a visit by Sara's parents.
28 October 1998Fran 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.
4 November 1998When Maggie thinks that she is pregnant, Fran takes her to the doctor and finds that she is the expectant mother.
11 November 1998Fran is excited about the news of her pregnancy though Maxwell doesn't seem to want any more children.
18 November 1998Fran is depressed over her inability to conceive. She finds out that she is ovulating just as they are making an appearance on Hollywood Squares.
25 November 1998On 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.
16 December 1998While 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.
6 January 1999After Aunt Freida buys her parent's condo, the Fines move into the Sheffield mansion.
20 January 1999After Fran lends a college buddy of Maxwell's $1 million, she hears that he is broke and has been swindling others.
3 February 1999Fran 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.
31 March 1999Maxwell 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.
2 June 1999Fran checks into a man that his mother is seeing and coaches her father on spicing up their marriage.
9 June 1999Fran tries to produce a play written by a friend of Niles and he confesses his love for C.C.
16 June 1999Fran 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.
16 June 1999Maxwell uses Yetta's letters as the basis for a play on Broadway beating out Andrew Lloyd Webber who also wanted to use them.
5 May 1999Fran 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.
23 June 1999After 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.
12 May 1999C.C. flees after Niles proposes again. Fran runs after her and gets stuck in an elevator with her and goes into labor.
12 May 1999C.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.
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