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1996-97 Season
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Episode 4.1: The Tart With Heart
When Maxwell takes back "The Thing" he said to Fran on the
plane when he thought he was dying (see ep. #3.26), Fran
decides to seek the attention of other men (hopefully, to
get Maxwell jealous), among them a blind man (Jason Alexander).
Meanwhile, Niles tries to find out what "The Thing" is.
Gracie has to do a school report on women with careers, so she chooses C.C.,
a fact that further hurts Fran. Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia,
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val.
Jason Alexander guest-stars as Jack, the blind man.
Maggie falls for a 20-something named John (Brian Bloom),
causing Maxwell to go through the roof! So it falls to Fran
to show Maggie the error of her ways, all the while trying
to pick up on John's friend Mike (Sean Kanan)!
Brain Bloom guest-stars as Maggie's 20-something beau, John;
Sean Kanan guest-stars as John's friend and Fran's date, Mike.
Brighton must put together a science project (which involves
a bird nest in the yard), or he'll fail science and Maxwell
will send him to military school! So Fran must help Brighton
out, which includes asking for an extension from Brighton's
science teacher Mrs. Richardson (Nora Dunn), who just
happens to dislike Fran due to a shopping "incident".
Meanwhile, while her place is fumigated, C.C. must stay at
the Sheffields, which gives Niles endless opportunities to
torture her! Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia.
Nora Dunn appears as Brighton's science teacher, Mrs. Richardson.
Marcia Shapiro appears as "Francine", a classmate of Brighton's who bears a
striking resemblance to Fran as a youngster.
Jackie Town also appears.
Fran goes to see "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and, when Rosie picks her out of the
audience, Fran is such a hit that she gets a weekly segment on the show
(which leads to C.C. being Fran's agent, which, as Niles says, "is a sure sign
of the Apocalypse"!). And soon enough, Fran is neglecting her duties to the
Sheffield family which causes Maxwell to go to unusual lengths to remedy the
situation.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia.
Ann Guilbert guest stars as Grandma Yetta.
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val.
Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump appear as themselves.
John McD & The McDLT's also appear.
When Fran's Aunt Frieda falls on hard times and loses her restaurant, she comes to stay
at the Sheffields' and it isn't long before Fran'll do anything to get Frieda back
together with her rich boyfriend, Fred (Donald O'Connor).
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia. Lainie Kazan guest stars as Fran's
(fraternal) Aunt Freta.
Marilyn Cooper guest stars as Fran's (fraternal) Grandma, Nettie.
Donald O'Connor guest stars as Fred. George Furth and Neil Zevnik co-star, and
Sue Goodman and Michelle Roth are featured.
Fran tries to reunite Maxwell with his estranged father (Robert Vaughn), who Maxwell
still resents for having run off on his mother with their maid, Joan (Joan Collins), and
who is now officially Maxwell's "stepmother" after all these years. Meanwhile, Brighton
takes ballet class to get "close to chicks".
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia.
Joan Collins makes a flambouyant appearance as Mrs. Joan Sheffield and
Robert Vaughn appears as Maxwell's father, Mr. James Sheffield.
Ann Guilbert guest stars as Grandma Yetta.
Fran is audited by the IRS but her wiles fail to move a tax auditor concerned with
her many
children she's been claiming. Meanwhile, Maxwell is entertaining Jay Leno.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia.
Rich Little appears as the IRS auditor.
Jay Leno makes a cameo appearance.
Fran begins to rue her present, unsatisfactory relationship with Maxwell, a point
that's driven home to her when Maxwell's brother, Nigel (Harry Van Gorkum; also in
episode #3.26), visits, and he and Fran have a lot of fun together, so much so that
Nigel soon realizes that he's fallen for Fran, and proposes to her on the spot... and
she accepts! Is this the end for Fran and Maxwell?
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia.
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend, Val.
Harry Van Gorkum appears as Nigel Sheffield, Maxwell's brother.
Christopher Edwards also appears.
Fran's tattoo has Maggie envious and Maxwell so curiousthat he can't stop obsessing
about it, leading Fran to butt heads
with her mother about keeping it or having it removed.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia.
John Astin guest stars as Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Roberts.
Sally Kirkland has a cameo as the tattoo artist.
To get Maggie a car, Fran
agrees to enter the "Miss Trans Am" contest, but in order to win she has to learn
a "stick-shift", so Fran has Maxwell teach her, but an unfortunate accident
takes place that traumatizes Fran. Meanwhile, Fran tries to worm her way into a
charity event at Barbra Streisand's.
Roslyn Kind (Barbra Streisand's real-life sister) and
Miss America, Tara Holland appear as themselves. John Glen Bishop is also
featured.
An out of control hurricane
tries to come between Fran and a tropical holiday with Val. Who will win?
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia,
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val.
Les Brandt guest stars as Rico the bellhop.
Sandy Hackett also appears.
When Val tells Fran that her ex-beau, Danny, has passed on, they
attend his funeral, where Fran consoles her ex-fiance's beautiful grieving widow.
Pamela Anderson Lee makes an appearance as Danny's widow.
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val.
Fran's met the most wonderful man she can imagine and seems to be
finally having the perfect relationship. What could go wrong? Her Mr. Right turns out
to be her cousin!
Jon Stewart makes an appearance as the man of Fran's dreams.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia,
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val.
Fran, C.C. and Val decide jointly to swear off men. But when
C.C. and Val both find boyfriends, and Fran does not, she decides
to join them on their dates anyway!
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend Val.
Spalding Gray guest stars as Fran's therapist, Dr. Miller.
Fran's hero-worship dissolves when she catches her therapist
in a disgusting habit. And Niles and C.C. attend an affair together
and are surprised to find they enjoy themselves immensely!
Spalding Gray guest stars as Fran's therapist.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia.
Fran and Sylvia are held hostage during a bank robbery carried outby a timid thief!
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia.
Ann Guilbert appears as Yetta and Peter Scolari plays the part of the would-be robber.
C.C. gets called for jury duty, and Fran is so mad at Maxwell that she tags
along. Soon enough, both are put on the jury of the trial of the housekeeper
of romance novel cover-hunk Vinchenzo, who's plight bares a strinking
similarity to Fran's. Meanwhile, Sylvia becomes the "nanny" in Fran's
absence, and the Sheffield clan is in for a shock!
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia,
and Ann Guilbert guest stars as Grandma Yetta.
Robert Urich guest stars as Judge Jerry Moran.
Robert Costanzo guest stars as "Vincenzo" Bernie Schwatzberg.
Laura Knightlinger guest stars as Kiki Hanson, Vinchenzo's housekeeper.
Gloria Gifford and Barry Livingston guest star as the lawyers.
Luigi Amodeo, Jane Cecil and Lawrence A. Mandley guest star as jurors, and
Dee Dee Resche guest stars as the bailiff.
First Gracie, then Fran, Brighton and Maggie come down with a case of lice,
but when Maxwell doesn't, it prompts Fran to scold Maxwell for "not spending
enough time with his own children." Meanwhile, Niles' bad mood causes Fran
to become convinced that Niles is homicidal toward Maxwell, and that Niles
might even be a serial killer!
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia,
Ann Guilbert guest stars as Grandma Yetta,
and Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend, Val.
Fred Stoller guest stars.
Fran's entire life could be turned upside down if what a woman claims is
true: that Fran was switched at birth with another baby, and Sylvia is
not her real mother. Meanwhile, C.C. is in L.A. selling series idea, and
Niles hopes she doesn't return.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia, in the present;
Fran Drescher appears as Sylvia, about 25 years ago.
Telma Hopkins guest stars as the woman claiming to be Fran's birth mother.
Sara Alexis Weiss appears as Fran, at age 8, or so.
Jason Andrews and James Renee Smith also guest star.
Benjamin Brown, Donald Willis, Will Potter and also appear.
Maxwell's play, "The Widower", which is about a widower forever faithful to
his late wife, is actually up for some Tony Awards. But as soon as he wins,
a tabloid newspaper prints a story implying that Maxwell and Fran have been
having an affair for years, which causes Maggie to go ballistic.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother, Sylvia.
Spaulding Gray guest stars as Fran's therapist, Dr. Miller.
Michael Brandon guest stars as Stan (the reporter?).
Sean Lesure and Michele Roth were featured.
Marian Green has a bit as "Liza Minelli", and Ken Danziger is heard as the
voice of "Andrew Lloyd Webber".
Flush with the success of his 3 Tony Awards, Maxwell starts bringing in
better talent. His most recent hire is "Morgan Faulkner" (Jane Sibbett),
who was Fran's high-school rival back when she was Marcy Feldman, and who
takes an immediate liking to Maggie, and hires Maggie as her assistant.
But Maxwell loses his cool when Maggie decides to forgo college to
continue the job with "Morgan". Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother, Sylvia.
Jane Sibbett guest stars as Marcy Feldman (a.k.a. Morgan Faulkner).
Fran decides that she's on the same wavelength as rock star "Tasha",
whose angry lyrics are a favorite of Maggie's, so she tries to get a
song she's written to Tasha. Before long, Tasha is using Fran's "pathetic"
life as the basis for her next songs, but Maxwell thinks their "friendship"
is a bad idea. Meanwhile, Niles listens to self-help tapes.
Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend, Val.
Ivana Milicevic guest stars as rock star "Tasha",
and Lois Chils appears as Tasha's manager Elaine.
Jayne Meadows has a cameo as herself.
Maxwell is producing a charity auction, in which Bette Midler is
the M.C. (because it's for one of her charities), and Fran offers her
services as a Nanny for a day. She ends up getting bid upon by
Keith Rosenstein, the young, piano prodigy son of Maxwell's big investor,
Tom Rosenstein. But when Fran gets Keith to play the piano at Yetta's
nursing home, and one of the residents dies while he's playing, the boy
can't play the piano anymore, causing both Maxwell and Bette Midler to lose
their temper. Meanwhile, C.C. wins Niles' services for a day at the auction.
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia,
Ann Guilbert guest stars as Grandma Yetta,
and Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend, Val.
Ed Begley, Jr. guest stars as Tom Rosenstein, and Danny Dayton guest stars
as his son Keith. Don Siess guest stars as the unfortunate nursing home
resident. Mort Drescher(!) also appears.
Fran's nemesis, Heather Biblow (Pamela Anderson Lee), has landed a role of
Fran's favorite daytime soap opera, "The Young & The Restless". But when
Fran and Val head out to Malibu to visit Heather (which means Frans is
passing up a trip to Hawaii with the Sheffields), it's Fran who ends up
getting the role on the soap, and it's Heather who ends up as the
Sheffield's new nanny! Meanwhile, C.C is overjoyed at the prospect of
Nanny Fine "never coming back", until she sees "Nanny Biblow"!
Ann Guilbert guest stars as Grandma Yetta, and Rachel Chagall guest stars
as Fran's best friend, Val. Pamela Anderson Lee guest stars as Heather
Biblow. Peter Bergman guest stars as himself (playing Jack Abbott).
Richard Kline guest stars. Roslyn Kern and Steve Posner also appear.
Special cameos: CBS President Les Moonves has a cameo as himself.
The following "The Young & The Restless" stars have cameos: Jeanne Cooper,
Shemar Moore, Joshua Morrow and Melody Scott Thomas; the following stars
from "The Bold & The Beautiful" have cameos: Barbara Crampton and Hunter Tylo.
Fran appears to be ecstatic when it looks like Sylvia (and Mort) are going
to take a deal for a place in Boca Raton, FL. But her true feelings are
exposed when she accompanies Maxwell down to Florida (where Maxwell is a
judge in the "Miss Universe Pageant"), and Fran realizes that (gasp!) she'll
miss her mother. Meanwhile, Niles is out of sorts because his last single
friend is getting married, and Gracie begins to "stuff" herself with
tissues to make herself better "endowed".
Renee Taylor guest stars as Fran's mother Sylvia, Ann Guilbert guest stars
as Grandma Yetta, and Rachel Chagall guest stars as Fran's best friend, Val.
Stanel Kamel guest stars as the representative of the Condo deal.
Spalding Gray appears as Fran's therapist, Dr. Miller.
Kristin Birch and Bobby Ramsen also appear.
1996 Miss Universe Alicia Machado and 1997 Miss USA/1997 Miss Universe
Brook Lee appear in cameos.
When Maxwell goes to London (to sign Celine Dion to a Broadway show), Fran
takes a cue from Val and follows him there, hoping that a romantic London
interlude will prompt Maxwell to commit. But just as the two of them begin
hashing out their feelings for each other, both are called back to New York
when Niles has a heart attack.
Ann Guilbert guest stars as Grandma Yetta, and Rachel Chagall guest stars
as Fran's best friend, Val. Celine Dion has a cameo as herself.
Darryl Hickman guest stars as Niles' doctor. Andrew Steel and Mary Bogue
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