Nanny and the Professor

1970
Nanny and the Professor

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EP1 Oh, What a Tangled Web Sep 13, 1971

Hal falls madly for Bunny, a swinging chick who comes on to him during a Sadie Hawkins dance. ""You look just like Robert Redford!"" exclaims Bunny. Hal is smitten by Bunny's feminine wiles. After Bunny imparts that she is fifteen years old, thirteen year old Hal tries to impress her by claiming to be sixteen. Complications ensue the next day, when the assertive Bunny calls Hal and asks him to pick her up for the movies. Flustered Hal blurts out that he will be right over, in spite of the fact that he is too young to drive. Nanny decides to bail out Hal, and she gives him a ride to pick up Bunny. Bunny is confused, and perhaps suspicious as to why Hal isn't driving, but Nanny explains she is driving because that ""she loves to drive - even in Los Angeles."" While at the movies, Francine, Hal's thirteen year old next door neighbor sits down in front of Bunny and Hal. Francine, who has a crush on Hal, expresses surprise to see Hal with a high school girl. Bunny reacts icily to Francine

EP2 The Flower Children Sep 20, 1971

Prudence tries to get her seeds to grow faster while the Professor upsets his new girl friend when he doesn't try to save a dying tree.

EP3 Sunday's Hero Sep 27, 1971

The Professor tries to get out of playing football with his friends.

EP4 South Sea Island Sweetheart Oct 04, 1971

Nanny's Uncle Horace (Ray Bolger) visits from the South Seas to perform a rain dance in order to cure a drought.

EP5 Aunt Henrietta's Premonition Oct 11, 1971

Nanny's pychic aunt (Elsa Lanchester) predicts Nanny will be menaced by a man with a mustache.

EP6 Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh Oct 18, 1971

Nanny's fiance arrives to claim her hand in marriage. The marriage had been arranged by their families on the day Nanny was born. They ask the Professor if he will give the bride away. The children and the Professor are upset by the thought of losing Nanny. She tries on her great-great-grandmother's wedding dress. Along with the dress is a note written by her mother which makes it clear the decesion to marry ""Chumley"" must be her's and her's alone. Nanny decides she's not rady to leave the Everett household.

EP7 Aunt Henrietta and the Jinx Nov 15, 1971

Butch, thinking he is a jinx, is given a good luck charm from Nanny's Aunt Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester)

EP8 Nanny and Her Witch's Brew Nov 01, 1971

Nanny is accused of being a witch. (30 years later actress Juliet Mills will portray on witch on the daytime drama Passions)

EP9 The Conversion of Brother Ben Nov 08, 1971

The Professors RICH brother (Robert Sterling) donates two million dollars to his brothers college.

EP10 Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist Oct 25, 1971

Aunt Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester) believes there is a ghost in the house because the furniture is disarranged every night.

EP11 Professor Pygmalion Plays Golf Nov 23, 1971

Hal enters a golf tournement using strange clubs given to him by Nanny

EP12 The Great Debate Nov 29, 1971

Nanny and Hal help the Professor keep a basketball player from failing math.

EP13 One For the Road Dec 06, 1971

Hal tries to visit his uncle, but doesn't quite make it.

EP14 Good-bye, Arabella, Hello Dec 13, 1971

Nanny trades in her old car ""Arabella"" for a new one

EP15 Whatever Happened to Felicity? Dec 27, 1971

Prudence, being ignored by her brothers, becomes attached to Nanny's old doll.
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Released: 21 January 1970 Ended
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Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and Thomas L. Miller for 20th Century Fox Television. During pre-production, the proposed title was Nanny Will Do.

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AaronDog Very charming and cute show, though it had definitely run its course by the time it was canceled after 54 episodes. I think if it had continued, it would have started to become stale. However, in spite of its short run, I believe it was at least as good as other "magical" shows like "Bewitched", and "I Dream of Jeannie". Better, really, because Phoebe's powers were always downplayed, and there was no annoying sub-plot involving sexual tension between her and "The Professor". Strictly G-rated stuff, though not in a cloying or naive way.I was born the year "Nanny" came out, so I can only remember watching it in syndication. I also remember having a crush on Juliet Mills! She is still a beautiful woman, in her mid-60's. So is her younger sister, Hayley. Juliet was perfectly cast here, in the role of Phoebe, the quintessentially English nanny with a touch of magic. She was basically a down-to-Earth version of Mary Poppins. I also loved her giant pea coat and hat, which were incorporated into the animated opening sequence, a la "The Partridge Family" opening, which involved a partridge and eggs.Richard Long, who played "The Professor", had previously played the character of "Nick" in 'Big Valley'. A few years after "Nanny" was canceled, he died of a heart attack, even though he was only in his 40's.Kim Richards, such a cute kid, went on to co-star with Ike Eisenmann in the "Witch Mountain" movies, ironically, playing a child with psychic powers! She grew up to be a gorgeous woman, too.It is unfortunate that Trent Lehman (Butch) hung himself at the age of 20, in 1982. He had run into some tough times, including having his apartment burglarized, and chose to deal with it by hanging himself from a fence at his old elementary school. A sad ending to a very brief life.On a happier note, David Doremus went on to achieve some success later on with The Waltons, and I believe he has had a fairly active career ever since.Great show, overall. They don't make 'em like this anymore!
Brian Washington This show was part of ABC's classic Friday night block of sitcoms from the early 1970's. To me Nanny was a more subtle version of "Bewitched". However, whereas "Bewitched" was very much into visual effects, the magic of this show was more subtle and didn't really need the special effects. Also, Juliet Mills was perfectly cast as Phoebe Figalilly (aka Nanny). This could almost have been a foreshadowing as some thirty years later she would play another lady with magical powers in the person of Tabitha Lenox in the daytime soap Passions. However, where Tabitha is pretty much a villain, Phoebe was all sweetness and light.
moonspinner55 Nanny Juliet Mills (with her magical ESP and London-town dark blue cape and hat) is such a lovely presence on the tube that it's rather a shame her TV series "Nanny and The Professor" doesn't utilize her personal magic more and give us less of Richard Long (sort of a Darrin Stephens to Mills' Samantha) and those squawking kids running up and down the stairs. The quaint laughs that come aren't enough to make the search for bootleg episodes worthwhile. It's blandly-nice, a featherweight diversion with its heart in the right place; yet it never found its audience on ABC prime-time, despite an initially plum spot between "The Brady Bunch" and "The Patridge Family". Even compared to those two squeaky-clean family shows, "Nanny" looks resolutely old-fashioned and square, but Mills is still very lovely.
glassman-4 I liked this show as a variation of the popular "magic" sitcoms. Nanny never performed outlandish or obvious feats of prestidigitation, but it was obvious that paranormal things happened around her. The most common was Nanny saying "I'll get it," BEFORE the telephone or doorbell rang. In fact, it was never completely clear to the family that she had any powers, a la Gladys Kravitz on "Bewitched," for lack of a better comparison. As the theme song goes "Since the day that Nanny came to stay with us, fantastic things have been happening. Is there really magic in the things she does, or is love the only magic thing that Nanny brings?"Once it was hinted that although she appeared to be a young woman (20s to 30s) she may have been hundreds of years old. However, this as most things about her background, were never resolved. This was a clear ripoff from the first season of Bewitched. The show had a cute simple animated opening and memorable theme song, as was de rigeur for the decade's magic sitcoms, and of course the 1990s unrelated Fran Drescher vehicle "The Nanny."I also loved the family's big shaggy dog. I haven't seen this since the reruns in the late 1970s, except for the premiere which was shown once on TV Land around 2000, so I won't comment on the overall writing and production quality. I just remember enjoying it as a kid, and was upset that it was only rerun for a short time.