The Nanny Named Fran Sing-Along

The Nanny is an American situation comedy, co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc. and Highschool Sweethearts Productions in association with TriStar Television for the CBS network. It first aired from November 3, 1993 to June 23, 1999, and starred actress Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a charming and bubbly Jewish Queens native who casually becomes the nanny of three children from the New York upper class. The show's theme song was written and performed by Ann Hampton Callaway.

Created and executive produced by Drescher and her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, The Nanny took much of its inspiration from Drescher's personal life, involving names and characteristics based on near relatives and friends. The show earned a Rose d'Or and one Emmy Award, out of a total of 13 nominations, and Drescher was twice nominated for a Golden Globe. Since the early 2000s the sitcom has also spawned several foreign adaptations, loosely inspired by the original scripts.

The Nanny is primarily based upon the story of nasal-voiced Fran Fine (played by Fran Drescher) who is from Flushing, New York. Fine appears at the doorstep of a wealthy widowed Englishman, Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (played by former Days of our Lives star Charles Shaughnessy), while selling cosmetics. Fran has just been fired from her job as a bridal consultant by her ex-boyfriend, Danny, and Maxwell mistakenly believes that she has been sent by a nanny agency and quickly hires her to be nanny to his three kids. Fran, with her nontraditional nurturing style and no-nonsense honesty, soon becomes a favorite with the kids as well as Maxwell, as they come to respect her opinions and love her as a person. It is a situation of blue collar meets blue blood, as Fran gives the prim-and-proper Maxwell and his children a dose of "Queens logic," helping them to become a healthy, happy family.

Proudly running the Sheffield household is the butler, Niles (Daniel Davis), who watches all events with a bemused eye and levels problems with his quick wit. Niles quickly recognizes Fran's gift for bringing warmth into the family and becomes fast friends with her. He does his best to undermine Maxwell's socialite business partner, C. C. Babcock (Lauren Lane), in their ongoing game of one-upmanship. C. C. views Fran with a mixture of skepticism and jealousy, as they both have designs on the very available Mr. Sheffield.

Perpetually hovering close by are Fran's typically obsessive and food-loving "Jewish mother" Sylvia (Renee Taylor); her rarely-seen but often-mentioned father Morty; her cigarette-addicted senile grandmother Yetta (Ann Guilbert), dispensing nonsensical advice and often erroneously believing Sheffield to already be Fran's husband and his children to be hers as well (a belief she does not keep to herself); and Fran's dim-witted best friend Val (Rachel Chagall), keeping her company on the perpetual quest for a husband and constantly reminding Fran how things can always get worse (as Val has much less luck than Fran).

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[beachbaby251]

frans awesome i want to be a nanny for a hot guy

[DisneyVillain]

@beachbaby251 Well you'll need a CC Babcock for a rival.

[MsHatakee1]

I love this show!! Niles is my favorite character!!

[NYdejo]

I Love the show i watch it every day

[IloveFranDrescherFan]

Awesome i love it Fran is my favorite :)

[HeadfirstLuke]

@TheDramafreak98 thanks AGAIN. (sorry i accidentally turned caps on.)

[TheDramafreak98]

@HeadfirstLuke i think when they said everyone else is wearing tan they meant like everything was boring and she brought happiness in the house or she was different from everybody in the house who didnt care much about having fun so the red makes her stand out from them i think

[HeadfirstLuke]

@TheDramafreak98 thanks. i watch this show alot and the only part i had trouble with was the theme song. also at the ena with the conga line. it says "everyone else is wearing tan." only c.c was wearing tan. and that is how you spell c.c babcock.

[TheDramafreak98]

@HeadfirstLuke i think when she said watch c.c she is saying since c.c babcock (i think thats how u spell her name) is in love with mr. sheffield she should watch out since fran is there. and such joie de vivre means its joy to be living i or happy to be alive

[HeadfirstLuke]

@seiryuukun i only understood some of it. i didn't understand the foreign part or "watch out CC".

[julia92901]

@NandeKunSumomoChan is on nick@nite at 12

[seiryuukun]

by ear?