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1993-94 Season
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Episode 1.1: Pilot 1/03/93
Fran Fine is fired from her job at a bridal boutique after her boyfriend
(the owner) dumps her. So Fran takes a job selling make-up door to door,
where she stumbles across the home of Maxwell Sheffield, the "famous"
Broadway producer. Maxwell is desparately trying to find a nanny for
his three children who have recently lost their mother, and who have
gone through their share of nannies. But after a hesitant start, Maxwell
decides to test Fran out as the answer to his problems.
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend, Val. Renee Taylor guest
stars as Fran's mother - Sylvia Fine, and Jonathan Penner guest stars as
Danny - Fran's (former) fiancee.
Fran boo-boos when she talks about her "good old" rebellious high school
days, and Brighton reads that as a green light to try smoking, which
infuriates Maxwell when he finds out. So Fran tries to redeem herself by
showing Brighton a real life example of a smoker: her chain-smoking
Grandma Yetta.
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Val. Anne Guilbert guest stars as Fran's
Grandma Yetta.
Maxwell and Fran get together to throw a coming-out party for Maggie, but they
can't agree on just how "out" Maggie can come!
Maggie finally gets a date, but trouble ensues when the date likes Fran
more than he likes Maggie.
C.C. tries her hand at taking the children to the zoo, but when the
whole affair is a dismal failure, C.C. tells the children that Fran
only spends time with them because she is paid to. So Grace runs away
to find Nanny Fine at her parents' house, and ends up at the wedding
of a friend of the Fines'.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother.
Niles is worried because the Butler's association is coming to evaluate
him. Meanwhile, Fran's mother tells some friends that Fran is married to
Maxwell. Well, when one thing leads to another, Fran is impersonating the
lady of the house, Niles is impersonating her husband "Maxwell", and
Maxwell is impersonating Niles!
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother, and Dan Aykroyd has a cameo.
Fran is in big trouble when she accidently eats Grace's imaginary
friend, prompting a scolding from Maxwell, and a trip to the shrink for
Grace, Maxwell and Fran.
Christine Rose guest stars as Dr. Bort.
Fran spends her first Christmas at the Sheffields, but she is appalled when
she finds out that Maxwell hires a professional "gift buyer" to get the
children's gifts. So she scolds him into getting a "gift from the heart",
which he does - for the children, AND for Fran, costing her a Christmas
cash bonus!
Fran figures she only has one life to live, so she agrees to help
Maxwell close a casting deal by dating a young and restless soap-opera
star (Stephen Nichols), whom she sends to "another world".
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val.
When Maxwell's childhood nanny (Cloris Leachman) visits, she is
appalled by Fran's unique child care methods.
Guest-stars include Lu Leonard, Peggy Blow, Irene Olga Lopez.
Fran's mother has a surprise gift for her: a cemetary plot. And it's
not exactly a grave undertaking for Fran when she begins dating the
gorgeous funeral (Matt McCoy).
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother.
The spotlight is on Fran when Maxwell volunteers her to direct Grace's
school production, but he soon upstages her by taking over.
Guest-stars include Maree Cheatham, Marianne Muellerleile, Tina Hart,
Thomas Dekker, Susan Goodman, Kellen Hathaway, and Steve Posner.
Maxwell's supermodel old flame (Lesley-Anne Down) returns, prompting
Maggie to try to become a model.
Guest-stars include Anthony Cistaro, Andy Dick (of "NewsRadio"), and
Victoria Hulett.
Fran's doddering Uncle Irving shows up to fix the plumbing, and he's
asssisted by Fran's young cousin Tiffany, whom Fran catches kissing
Brighton... in the bathtub!
Guest-stars include Louis Guss, Jaclyn Tohn, Melanie Good and Laurelyn Scharkey.
Fran is the one who requires TLC when she has to have her tonsils
removed, and Maxwell puts C.C.'s reunion on hold to await the outcome
of Fran's surgery.
It's the Holidays, and the Sheffields are heading off to the tropics,
so Nanny Fine gets herself invited. All seems to be going well, until
everyone gets snowed in at Fran's parents' house, including all of the
Sheffields, Niles, and C.C., who is crushed at missing her vacation off
with the "Senator". So Sylvia and Fran try and make everyone at home in
their small Flushing abode.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother.
Maxwell is ecstatic that he's going to get see his sister (Twiggy Lawson)
who is coming to New York to get married, but it doesn't take Fran long to
figure out that Maxwell's sister only has eyes for her chauffeur.
Twiggy Lawson (Fran Drescher's colleague on "Princesses") guest stars as
Maxwell's sister.
When Grace is getting bullied by the son of an influencial theater critic
(Eric Braeden), C.C. convinces Maxwell that Grace should invite the child
over to smooth things over. But when the boy is a beast, and Fran hits
him with a bagette, it's all Maxwell can do to convince the critic that
no harm was done and that C.C. and Maxwell's play should still get a good
review.
Eric Braeden guest stars as the critic, and Carol Channing has a cameo.
Maggie has a new gym teacher: the same tough-as-a-drill-sergeant gym
teacher who terrorized Fran in high school. So Fran rides to the rescue
and challanges the teacher for Maggie.
Rita Moreno guest stars as the gym teacher.
C.C.'s father (Robert Culp) invites Fran to a Streisand concert, upsetting C.C.
Robert Culp guest stars as C.C.'s dad; Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's
mother. Loren Michaels has a cameo.
Danny, the guy who originally dumpted Fran, gets dumped by his girlfreind,
so he proposes to Fran, who says yes. But no one is happy about this,
including Niles, her mother or the Sheffield family, and Fran is left to
decide whether leaving the Sheffields is the right thing to do.
Jonathan Penner guest stars as Danny, and Renee Taylor guest stars as
Fran's mother.
Fran encourages Maxwell to *not* try and take the kids' minds off Mother's
Day, so Maxwell takes them to the country club, where Fran promptly enters
herself and Grace in a "Mother-Daughter Beauty Pagent".
Patti LaBelle has a cameo. |
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