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The Nanny

After a Jewish, high-voiced, woman from Flushing, New York gets fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, Fran Fine (Fran Drescher) is mistaken as applying for a nanny for widowed Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy), who has three children, Maggie (Nicholle Tom), Brighton (Benjamin Salisbury), and Grace (Madeline Zima), when she is stuck selling cosmetics in Manhattan. As she spends years there, she becomes great friends with the butler, Niles (Daniel Davis), and the three kids. She is good friends with the widowed man, and some romance sparks through the years.

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Cast & Crew See All

Fran Drescher
Fran Fine
Charles Shaughnessy
Maxwell Sheffield
Daniel Davis
Niles

Season 6 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

The Honeymoon's Overboard

Wed, Sep 30, 199830 mins

On Fran and Maxwell's honeymoon aboard the yacht, Fran falls overboard and Maxwell jumps in to rescue her. They manage to make it to a deserted island. There, they have some good times and bad times in their survival, but the worst ends up being a poisonous bite that Maxwell receives. He thinks he's going to die, but luckily for him, Fran watched daytime television in the past which gave her the necessary skills to tend to his illness. Meanwhile, they are noticed missing when the yacht docked at its first port without them. The Sheffield kids, Sylvia and Niles fear the worst. After a week of the Coast Guard not being able to locate any sign of Fran and Maxwell dead or alive, C.C. decides to take matters into her own hands.

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Awards

  • 1996 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical - nominated
  • 1997 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical - nominated
  • 1996 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - nominated
  • 1997 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Costuming for a Series - nominated

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