Nanny and the Professor

Nanny and the Professor

1970
Nanny and the Professor
Nanny and the Professor

Nanny and the Professor

7.2 | en | Comedy

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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Seasons & Episodes

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EP15  Whatever Happened to Felicity?
Dec. 27,1971
Whatever Happened to Felicity?

Prudence, being ignored by her brothers, becomes attached to Nanny's old doll.

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

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

EP13  One For the Road
Dec. 06,1971
One For the Road

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

EP12  The Great Debate
Nov. 29,1971
The Great Debate

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

EP11  Professor Pygmalion Plays Golf
Nov. 23,1971
Professor Pygmalion Plays Golf

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

EP10  Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist
Oct. 25,1971
Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist

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

EP9  The Conversion of Brother Ben
Nov. 08,1971
The Conversion of Brother Ben

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

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

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

EP7  Aunt Henrietta and the Jinx
Nov. 15,1971
Aunt Henrietta and the Jinx

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

EP6  Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh
Oct. 18,1971
Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh

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.

EP5  Aunt Henrietta's Premonition
Oct. 11,1971
Aunt Henrietta's Premonition

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

EP4  South Sea Island Sweetheart
Oct. 04,1971
South Sea Island Sweetheart

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

EP3  Sunday's Hero
Sep. 27,1971
Sunday's Hero

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

EP2  The Flower Children
Sep. 20,1971
The Flower Children

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.

EP1  Oh, What a Tangled Web
Sep. 13,1971
Oh, What a Tangled Web

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

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7.2 | en | Comedy , Sci-Fi | More Info
Released: 1970-01-21 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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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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Cast

Juliet Mills , Richard Long , Kim Richards

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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.
peeweefan I had almost forgotten about this show from my early teen years, until i downloaded the TV theme off the net... and I was transported back immediately. Another fine ABC show that I recall, from approx the same era, was called the Smith Family (NOT Family, with Kristy McNichol), starring Henry Fonda... Seems like ABC had a good run of luck with many good shows during that era.