The Nanny

After being fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, a cosmetics saleswoman becomes the nanny to the three children of a rich English widower. As time passes, the two fall for each other.

Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance

Cast:Fran Drescher , Charles Shaughnessy , Daniel Davis , Lauren Lane , Nicholle Tom , Benjamin Salisbury , Madeline Zima , RenÃ©e Taylor , Rachel Chagall , Ann Morgan Guilbert , Chester Drescher , Spalding Gray , Mort Drescher , Nora Dunn , Sue Goodman , James Edson , DeeDee Rescher , Lawrence A. Mandley

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Nanny

Wed, Nov 3, 1993

Door-to-door cosmetics sales lady Fran Fine inadvertently becomes the nanny to the three children of a widowed Broadway producer.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Smoke Gets in Your Lies

Wed, Nov 10, 1993

As a result of Brighton getting caught smoking, Fran takes him to see her grandma Yetta who has been smoking all her life.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ My Fair Nanny

Wed, Nov 17, 1993

Fran hosts a tea party for Maggie's friends, however Maxwell wonders if Fran has the class to pull it off.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Nuchslep

Wed, Nov 24, 1993

When Fran acts as a chaperon on Maggie's date, Maggie's boyfriend shows an interest in Fran.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Here Comes the Brood

Mon, Dec 6, 1993

C.C.'s attempts to get closer to Maxwell's children results in Gracie running away.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother

Wed, Dec 8, 1993

When status-conscious relatives visit from Florida, Fran pretends that Niles is Maxwell and they are married.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Imaginary Friend

Wed, Dec 15, 1993

Gracie is traumatized when Fran "eats" her imaginary friend.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Christmas Episode

Wed, Dec 22, 1993

Much to his children's disappointment as well as Fran's, Maxwell has to be in Washington, D.C. on Christmas day. Meanwhile, Fran has overextended herself in buying gifts.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Personal Business

Wed, Dec 29, 1993

Maxwell wants to hire popular soap star Brock Storm for his latest show, but he'll only do it if he gets a date with Fran.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Nanny-in-Law

Wed, Jan 12, 1994

Maxwell's old nanny comes to visit and is unimpressed with Fran's unconventional ways and lack of formal training.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ A Plot for Nanny

Wed, Jan 19, 1994

Sylvia buys Fran a cemetery plot to get her closer to the cemetery manager.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Show Must Go On

Wed, Jan 26, 1994

Fran agrees to direct Grace's school play, but then Maxwell maneuvers his way into her position.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Maggie the Model

Wed, Feb 2, 1994

A world-renowned model thinks Maggie would make a good fashion model.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Family Plumbing

Wed, Feb 9, 1994

When the water goes out in the house, Maxwell reluctantly agrees to let Fran hire her uncle as a plumber. Meanwhile, Maggie wants to go to a party, but when her father learns there will be boys there he forbids it.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Deep Throat

Wed, Mar 2, 1994

When all the children get sick, Fran takes Grace to the doctor and learns she needs a tonsillectomy.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Schlepped Away

Wed, Mar 9, 1994

A blizzard paralyzes the city and forces Fran and the Sheffields to move their Bermuda vacation to her mother's apartment in Queens.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Stop the Wedding, I Want to Get Off

Wed, Mar 16, 1994

Maxwell's sister comes to visit and she decides then to marry her intended.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Sunday in the Park with Fran

Wed, Mar 23, 1994

A play-date between Gracie and the child of a Broadway critic does not go well.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ The Gym Teacher

Wed, Apr 6, 1994

Fran learns that her old, tyrannical gym teacher is now Maggie's gym teacher.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Ode to Barbra Joan

Wed, Apr 13, 1994

C.C.'s father comes to visit. When C.C. turns down his offer to see Barbra Streisand in concert, Fran, who adores all things Streisand, gets the opportunity.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Frannie's Choice

Wed, Apr 27, 1994

Fran must decide between the Sheffields and her old boy friend that proposes.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ I Don't Remember Mama

Mon, May 16, 1994

Mother's Day is approaching and, as usual, Maxwell is trying to preoccupy the children so that they won't think about their mother, Sara. But Fran thinks talking to the kids about their mother. This year, Maxwell and the family have joined a new country club. Scoping it out, Maxwell, Fran, and Grace learn that it's having Mother's-Day festivities, including a mother-daughter pageant. Grace wants to enter it with Fran, which Maxwell doesn't think is a good idea, believing that she'll ultimately grieve Sara's loss again, but he gives in to her wish. Then, on Mother's Day, one of the competing mother-daughter teams (ultra-competitive Bobbi Jo and Betty Jo), deems Fran and Grace ineligible for the pageant since Fran isn't Grace's mother, and Grace storms out stating she has no mother. Later, Grace admits her anger is not grief and missing her deceased mother, but anger at herself for not remembering anything about her mother. Maxwell realizes he has been approaching Sara's death all wrong, especially with Grace. Back at the country club, Fran and Grace complete the pageant with a duet as their talent, placing them first runner-up, not behind Bobbi Jo and Betty Jo, but behind Patti LaBelle and her daughter.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Fran-Lite

Mon, Sep 12, 1994

Maxwell dates a woman with a striking resemblance to Fran.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ The Playwright

Mon, Sep 19, 1994

A man whom Fran snubbed in high school has written a play and threatens to jump off a ledge unless Maxwell reads it.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Everybody Needs a Bubby

Mon, Sep 26, 1994

Grandma Yetta stays with Fran and the Sheffields while her retirement home is being fumigated.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Material Fran

Mon, Oct 3, 1994

Fran goes out with a much older rich man.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Curse of the Grandmas

Mon, Oct 10, 1994

Gracie's Red Robin troop goes to Grandma Yetta's retirement home to "adopt" a grandparent. When Gracie's first and second picks pass away, it sours her on scouting.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Nanny-Napper

Mon, Oct 17, 1994

On the subway, a Russian immigrant accidentally leaves her baby, and Fran picks it up, believing it to be abandoned.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ A Star Is Unborn

Mon, Oct 24, 1994

A director plans to sabotage his production of "Romeo and Juliet" by casting Fran in the lead role.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Pishke Business

Mon, Oct 31, 1994

Maxwell has Fran pretend to be C.C. in order to get theatrical backing from a man C.C. attacked to get a cab.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Stock Tip

Mon, Nov 7, 1994

Fran gives Maxwell a stock tip that turns out to be from a hot dog vendor.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Whine Cellar

Mon, Nov 14, 1994

During Sylvia's 50th birthday party, Fran gets stuck in the wine cellar with C.C.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ When You Pish Upon a Star

Mon, Nov 21, 1994

Fran inadvertently persuades an obnoxious child star set to star in Maxwell's revival of "Oliver!" to give up show business.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Take Back Your Mink

Mon, Nov 21, 1994

Maggie is upset when Fran inherits a mink coat. Fran decides to give it up to appease Maggie, but Sylvia won't hear of it.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Strike

Mon, Nov 28, 1994

Maxwell and Fran face a difference in opinion on how to raise the children when Maxwell reverses a decision Fran made regarding not allowing Brighton to go to the mall. Fran makes Maxwell realize that Brighton was using the old ploy of dividing and conquering. Another difference they face is during the party following the opening on Maxwell and C.C.'s new play, a musical version of Norma Rae (1979). The busboys at the hotel where the reception is being held are on strike. Fran refuses to cross the picket line, which makes Maxwell try to forcibly make her cross. The media has a field day with the issue, especially considering the irony with regard to the subject matter of Norma Rae. Maxwell and C.C. decide to diffuse the issue by presenting their side of the story on Sally Jessy Raphael's talk show. But Sally's show offers Fran a counterpoint argument. Realistically, this forum allows both Fran and Maxwell to discuss deeper feelings around the issue.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ I've Got a Secret

Mon, Dec 12, 1994

Maxwell refuses to divulge the identity of the celebrity recuperating from surgery in the Sheffields' house.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Kindervelt Days

Mon, Jan 2, 1995

Fran receives a surprise when Sylvia sends in a long-lost "Win a Date With Erik Estrada" contest entry form.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Canasta Masta

Mon, Jan 9, 1995

After Brighton joins Sylvia's canasta team, Fran is dumped from it.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ The Will

Mon, Jan 16, 1995

Maxwell draws up a will which states that Fran will remain nanny in the event of his death. Meanwhile, she thinks that a fax of a potential client's heart-sensitive diet given to Niles is really for Maxwell.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Nanny Behind the Man

Mon, Jan 23, 1995

Fran sets Grandma Yetta up with Dakota Williams, a hard-drinking Southern playwright from whom Maxwell hopes to buy his latest play.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ A Fine Friendship

Mon, Feb 6, 1995

Fran strikes up a friendship with a male nanny whom she erroneously assumes is gay. Meanwhile, Gracie believes she's pregnant

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Lamb Chop's on the Menu

Mon, Feb 13, 1995

C.C. plans to move into feature film production with a star vehicle for Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop. When Shari and Lamb Chop visit the Sheffield mansion, C.C.'s dog Chester tries to eat Lamb Chop.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ Close Shave

Mon, Feb 20, 1995

Maggie is a candy striper at the hospital. When she takes off to go on a date, Fran fills in for her and must shave Maxwell for an appendectomy.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ What the Butler Sang

Mon, Feb 27, 1995

Maxwell hears Niles singing and asks him to sing for his backers' audition. Meanwhile, Fran clashes with her sister Nadine.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ A Kiss Is Just a Kiss

Wed, May 3, 1995

Maggie is upset when Fran beats her in a kissing contest. The winner is to appear on an album cover with Billy Ray Cyrus.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ Strange Bedfellows

Mon, May 8, 1995

Fran worries about her future when Mona, one of her fellow nannies, retires to Florida. The night of Mona's goodbye party, Fran gets drunk and staggers into Maxwell's bed.

25Season 2

S2.E25 ∙ The Chatterbox

Mon, May 15, 1995

Fran takes Maggie to her favorite beauty salon to prepare for a party; while there she arranges a job there for an actress who loses a Sheffield audition.

26Season 2

S2.E26 ∙ Fran Gets Mugged

Mon, May 22, 1995

An valuable Shakespearian document is taken from Fran when she is mugged in New York's Central Park.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Pen Pals

Mon, Sep 11, 1995

Mr. Sheffield pushes Fran to accept a date from her long time pen-pal whom she has never met.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Franny and the Professor

Mon, Sep 18, 1995

C.C. makes a bet with her brother than he can't get Fran on Jeopardy. Fran gets on and wins and gets Renaissance Fair tickets from their new next door neighbor Roger Clinton when Maxwell can't.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Dope Diamond

Mon, Sep 25, 1995

Going out with the man who asks Fran to marry him, he steals the engagement ring that they were looking at.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ A Fine Family Feud

Mon, Oct 2, 1995

Instead of a boring 16th birthday for Maggie, Fran has it at her Aunt Freida's bar and the kids have a wonderful time.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Val's Apartment

Mon, Oct 9, 1995

Fran and Val take a small apartment together when Fran feels that her job is taking over her personal life. Even though Mr. Sheffield supports her, he really wants her to move back.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Shopaholic

Mon, Oct 16, 1995

The marriage of her former intended (who threw her out in one of those crushing scenes) turns Fran into a shopaholic. Only a kiss from Mr. Sheffield snaps her out of it.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Oy Vey, You're Gay

Mon, Oct 23, 1995

When Maxwell hires a female publicist to changes his image, C.C. and Fran think that he is falling for her. Actually the woman is gay and is more interested in Fran.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Party's Over

Mon, Nov 6, 1995

While Maxwell is in Boston, Fran throws a singles party and gets arrested.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Two Mrs. Sheffields

Mon, Nov 13, 1995

When Maxwell's mother wants him to get rid of Fran, he proposes to her and she makes him feel very guilty for using her.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Having His Baby

Mon, Nov 20, 1995

Fran wants to have a baby, husband or not.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Unkindest Cut

Mon, Nov 27, 1995

Brighton faints while filming Fran's cousin's bris and Fran sends it to Hollywood. Everybody visits Hollywood and Fran keeps getting thrown off the set of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993).

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ The Kibbutz

Mon, Dec 4, 1995

Fran inadvertently talks Maggie into going to a kibbutz in Israel for the Christmas vacation instead of a convent.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ An Offer She Can't Refuse

Mon, Dec 11, 1995

Fran is very happy with her new Italian boyfriend until she finds out that he has underworld connections and is now afraid to break up with him.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Oy to the World

Mon, Dec 18, 1995

An animated Christmas special. Brighton is acting very selfishly, and Fran wishes he could learn that Christmas is not about what you get but what you give. On their way to help at a homeless shelter a gust of wind whisks Fran, Brighton, and Chester to the North Pole where they meet Santa Claus, who looks a lot like Mr. Sheffield, and learn that Santa might not make it this year because of an entity called the Amazing Babcock.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Fashion Show

Mon, Jan 8, 1996

When Mr. Sheffield rushes Fran out the door to a premier before she can get a matching handbag, she ends up on a magazine's fashion mistake list.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Where's Fran?

Mon, Jan 15, 1996

When Fran gets Mr. Sheffield to teach her a lesson about smoking for Maggie's sake, he pushes Fran right out the door to the Clinton residence.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ The Grandmas

Mon, Jan 22, 1996

When her mother throws her father out of the house, Fran seeks advice from her grandmothers. She also thinks that Mr. Sheffield needs a change in his life.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Val's Boyfriend

Mon, Feb 5, 1996

Val's new boyfriend starts to move in on Fran.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Love Is a Many Blundered Thing

Mon, Feb 12, 1996

Thinking Mr. Sheffield wants her to be her valentine, she puts up a billboard in Times Square.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Your Feets Are Too Big

Mon, Feb 19, 1996

Fran is going crazy because her foot model reunion is coming up and her feet went up an entire shoe size.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Where's the Pearls?

Mon, Feb 26, 1996

Fran loses Elizabeth Taylor's string of black pearls.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ The Hockey Show

Mon, Mar 4, 1996

Fran dates a very superstitious NY Ranger who claims that her red shoes jinxed the team and caused them to lose. After a much heard comment, the entire City of New York thinks that she is a jinx.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ That's Midlife

Mon, Mar 11, 1996

After Fran beats him in tennis, Maxwell is feeling old and goes out and buys a younger image and a sports car.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ The Cantor Show

Mon, Apr 29, 1996

Fran suggests that her cantor boyfriend should audition for Maxwell's next show.

25Season 3

S3.E25 ∙ Green Card

Mon, May 6, 1996

Brighton's handsome French tutor proposes to Fran who finds out he is flirting with other women and needs a green card.

26Season 3

S3.E26 ∙ Ship of Fran's

Mon, May 13, 1996

Fran decides to take a cruise to meet guys and Mr. Sheffield and family join her.

27Season 3

S3.E27 ∙ A Pup in Paris

Mon, May 20, 1996

Fran runs onto Mr. Sheffield's plane with his bag and ends up having to go to Paris with him. On the flight back as the plane is plummeting down he tells Fran that he loves her.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Tart with Heart

Wed, Sep 18, 1996

Upon returning home from Paris, Fran couldn't be happier when C.C. says Maxwell just hired her for her looks. To find out if this is true, Fran tries dating a blind guy. Meanwhile Maxwell tries to back-peddle after what he told Fran on the plane.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ The Cradle Robbers

Wed, Sep 25, 1996

After Maxwell tells Fran to make Maggie break up with a 25 year old, Fran starts dating his same age friend.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Bird's Nest

Wed, Sep 25, 1996

Despite Mr. Sheffield's objections Fran helps Brighton with his science project. He plans on hatching some bird eggs, but Fran waits too long and hard boils them.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ The Rosie Show

Wed, Oct 9, 1996

After getting picked from the audience for the Rosie Show, Fran finds herself a regular, giving parenting advice. As her celebrity grows, Maxwell becomes afraid he's going to lose her.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Freida Needa Man

Wed, Oct 16, 1996

With Aunt Freida broke, she moves into the Sheffield mansion. Fran's solution is to get her boyfriend to propose, but instead he has a heart attack.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Me and Mrs. Joan

Wed, Oct 30, 1996

Fran tries to have Maxwell and his father make peace by inviting the secretary that broke up his parent's marriage to dinner.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ The Taxman Cometh

Wed, Nov 6, 1996

Fran is watching Jay Leno's dog and getting audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ An Affair to Dismember

Wed, Nov 13, 1996

With Maxwell busy it's up to Fran to show his brother Nigel around New York. Nigel is enchanted and proposes to Fran.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Tattoo

Wed, Nov 20, 1996

While lecturing Maggie about not getting a tattoo, Val lets it slip that she and Fran got one when they were teenagers. Now Mr. Sheffield is dying to know where it is.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ The Car Show

Wed, Dec 11, 1996

Mr. Sheffield won't get Maggie a car, so she convinces Fran to enter a beauty contest to win her one.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Hurricane Fran

Wed, Dec 18, 1996

When Fran takes a vacation with Val to get away from her job and the kids, a hurricane hits their tropical paradise.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will?

Wed, Jan 8, 1997

Fran attends the funeral of her former intended and wonders if she is going to be left alone in the world.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Kissing Cousins

Wed, Jan 15, 1997

Fran can't believe her luck when she meets a rich Jewish doctor at a wedding, and they begin dating; that is, until Fran's mother meets him.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ The Fifth Wheel

Wed, Jan 29, 1997

Fran, Val and C.C. all go out together and Fran is the only one who doesn't find a date.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ The Nose Knows

Wed, Feb 5, 1997

Fran gets very upset with Maxwell when she finds him making out in the living room with his date. Fran is told by her therapist that she is treating him like her husband rather than her boss.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ The Bank Robbery

Wed, Feb 12, 1997

While at a bank, Fran and her mother becomes hostages to a very inept bank robber. Fran starts to become very good friends with the gentleman.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Samson, He Denied Her

Wed, Feb 19, 1997

Fran and C.C. sit on a jury of a case that mirrors Fran's life.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ The Facts of Lice

Wed, Mar 5, 1997

Fran thinks that Niles is plotting a murder when she finds a piece of paper he wrote with incriminating words. When she gives it back to him, he harshly questions her and threatens her if she read it.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Fran's Roots

Wed, Mar 12, 1997

A woman shows up claiming to be Fran's mother due to a mix-up at the hospital.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ The Nanny & the Hunk Producer

Wed, Apr 2, 1997

A tabloid publishes a story that Fran and Maxwell have been having an affair since before his wife died. Fran is more upset that that fact means she is over 40, which she isn't.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ The Passed-Over Story

Wed, Apr 9, 1997

Maxwell hires Fran's old classmate for his latest production and Maggie wants to be her personal assistant. The Sheffields join the Fines for Passover.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ No Muse Is Good Muse

Wed, Apr 23, 1997

Fran will do anything to get her song lyrics to a new rock star. They bond, but she finds that Val is a better muse.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ You Bette Your Life

Wed, Apr 30, 1997

Fran is involved with a charity auction hosted by Maxwell and Bette Midler. Fran takes a child prodigy to Yetta's nursing home and the death of a resident so traumatizes the child that he swears he will never play the piano again.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ The Heather Biblow Story

Wed, May 7, 1997

The woman who stole Fran's job and fiance now has a job on "The Young and the Restless." Fran steals that job from her and she takes Fran's nanny job instead.

25Season 4

S4.E25 ∙ The Boca Story

Wed, May 14, 1997

When Fran takes Sylvia to Boca to look at her condo all they find is a swamp.

26Season 4

S4.E26 ∙ Fran's Gotta Have It

Wed, May 21, 1997

Fran follows Maxwell to London and after a wonderful afternoon they almost commit to each other until they learn that Niles has had a heart attack. C.C. realizes that she doesn't hate Niles as much as she appears to.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ The Morning After

Wed, Oct 1, 1997

To give him more time, Maxwell gives Fran the job to redecorate the kitchen.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ First Date

Wed, Oct 8, 1997

On their first date Fran must hide from Elton John because of a previous run-in with him.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ The Bobbi Flekman Story

Wed, Oct 15, 1997

When Maxwell's old partner Bobbi Flekman starts moving in on him, Fran's friends suggest that Maxwell only likes her because she looks like Fran, and she even tells Fran not to talk so much because her voice is so annoying.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Fransom

Wed, Oct 22, 1997

After Chester is kidnapped while under Fran's care, she and Val try to find him and end up kidnapped themselves.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ The Ex-Niles

Wed, Oct 29, 1997

C.C. and Fran visit Dr. Joyce Brothers to decide who is the better woman for Maxwell.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ A Decent Proposal

Wed, Nov 5, 1997

Maxwell is jealous of Chevy Chase's attention to Fran, but he finds that she brings him luck for his poker game.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Mommy and Mai

Wed, Nov 12, 1997

When a Cambodian woman that Fran and Val sponsored as a child visits New York and comes between the two friends, Fran fears she'll come between her and Maxwell too. To stay in the family Frans comes up with a plan to get engaged to Brighton.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Fair Weather Fran

Wed, Nov 19, 1997

With Yetta's wedding approaching Fran looks for a new job and gets an audition for a job on television.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Educating Fran

Wed, Dec 10, 1997

Fran visits Maggie's school and gets into a relationship with her Jewish philosophy teacher.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ From Flushing with Love

Wed, Dec 17, 1997

Fran takes Mr. Sheffield to the Fine Family Reunion at Niagara Falls to give both her and Niles the weekend off. Maxwell proposes and then hits his head.

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ Rash to Judgment

Wed, Jan 7, 1998

Fran has a romantic date with Maxwell just as she breaks out and swells up due to an allergic reaction to her mother's squash pasta.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ One False Mole and You're Dead

Wed, Jan 14, 1998

Fran has a run-in with actress Margo Lange, who is starring in one of Maxwell's plays, when she discovers that her famous mole is a fake.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Call Me Fran

Wed, Jan 21, 1998

Fran's father will not use the basketball tickets that come from Mr. Sheffield. Fran questions her relationships with men and Maxwell agrees to call her Fran.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Not Without My Nanny

Wed, Jan 28, 1998

Grace's pen pal, Billy, is the son of the Sultan of Koorestan, a country in the Middle East. Billy has invited Grace for a visit. Despite the fact that Fran would prefer Niles take Grace since Fran could therefore spend time alone with Maxwell, Maxwell talks Fran into escorting Grace alone on this trip. Hence, Maxwell and Fran part company for the time being with an argument hanging between them. With Fran gone, Maxwell is miserable and frustrated about their argument. In Koorestan, Fran initially is homesick despite the fact that the Sultan bears a striking resemblance to a certain Broadway producer. But she begins to love the place. In return, the Sultan seems to love Fran as he asks her to stay forever. Fran politely declines, but the Sultan seems to take whatever measures he deems necessary for Fran to stay. Maxwell decides to head off to Koorestan to see Fran. Upon his arrival, the Sultan denies Fran's suspicions. But there is no denying what Maxwell has to say to Fran.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ The Engagement

Wed, Mar 4, 1998

Maxwell is ready to propose to Fran and thanks to Niles everyone already knows it. At the big announcement dinner everyone is there except Maxwell.

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ The Dinner Party

Wed, Mar 11, 1998

Maxwell and Fran go shopping for engagement rings while Fran starts to feel that she isn't good enough for Maxwell's friends and lifestyle.

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Homie-Work

Wed, Mar 18, 1998

When Fran hires a gift wrapper instead of a singer rapper, she has to turn him into a singing sensation.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ The Reunion Show

Wed, Mar 25, 1998

Fran goes to her high school reunion and finds all of her friends getting divorced while she is engaged.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ Immaculate Concepcion

Wed, Apr 1, 1998

Maxwell's father dies, leaving his entire estate to a secret love-child, Concepcion.

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ The Pre-Nup

Wed, Apr 29, 1998

Maxwell asks stunned Fran to sign a prenuptial agreement.

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ The Best Man

Wed, May 6, 1998

Maxwell's brother and best man Nigel arrives to throw him a bachelor party. Fran is worried that he will tell Maxwell that they almost got married themselves.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ The Wedding

Wed, May 13, 1998

Even though Maxwell's family tells Fran that their marriage won't work, Maxwell tells her how much he loves her and that their lives together will never be dull. That night they both fall off their honeymoon yacht.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ The Honeymoon's Overboard

Wed, Sep 30, 1998

Fran and Maxwell find themselves on a desert island after falling off their honeymoon yacht.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Fran Gets Shushed

Wed, Oct 7, 1998

While trying to learn to live together Fran agrees to be less forward if Maxwell will learn to be less uptight. They both tryout their new personalities at a business dinner meeting.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ Once a Secretary, Always a Secretary

Wed, Oct 14, 1998

Brighton wants to go to Atlantic City and his father is totally against it. Fran finds herself torn between being nanny and wife.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Sara's Parents

Wed, Oct 21, 1998

Fran dreads a visit by Sara's parents.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ Maggie's Boyfriend

Wed, Oct 28, 1998

Fran couldn't be happier with Maggie's rich, handsome, Jewish, model boyfriend, but when they decide to move in together, Maxwell wants Fran to put her foot down.

6Season 6

S6.E6 ∙ I'm Pregnant

Wed, Nov 4, 1998

When Maggie thinks that she is pregnant, Fran takes her to the doctor and finds that she is the expectant mother.

7Season 6

S6.E7 ∙ Mom's the Word

Wed, Nov 11, 1998

Fran is excited about the news of her pregnancy though Maxwell doesn't seem to want any more children.

8Season 6

S6.E8 ∙ Making Whoopi

Wed, Nov 18, 1998

Fran is depressed over her inability to conceive. She finds out that she is ovulating just as they are making an appearance on Hollywood Squares.

9Season 6

S6.E9 ∙ Oh, Say, Can You Ski?

Wed, Nov 25, 1998

On a ski trip to Aspen, the Sheffields accept a dinner invitation from the President. Fran's blood test needed to get some antibiotics have some wonderful results.

10Season 6

S6.E10 ∙ The Hanukkah Story

Wed, Dec 16, 1998

While excited about celebrating her first Hanukkah with her new husband and family, Maxwell, C.C., and Gracie have to drive to Boston in a snowstorm. Fran is worried sick when they don't arrive on time after they run off the road.

11Season 6

S6.E11 ∙ The In-Law Who Came Forever

Wed, Jan 6, 1999

After Aunt Freida buys her parents' condo, the Fines move into the Sheffield mansion.

12Season 6

S6.E12 ∙ The Fran in the Mirror

Wed, Jan 20, 1999

After Fran lends a college buddy of Maxwell's $1 million, she hears that he is broke and has been swindling others.

13Season 6

S6.E13 ∙ The Yummy Mummy

Wed, Feb 3, 1999

Fran finds out that she and Maxwell are having twins and she is disturbed when Brighton doesn't want her go with him on his tour of colleges.

14Season 6

S6.E14 ∙ California, Here We Come

Wed, Mar 31, 1999

Maxwell is asked to turn one of his plays into a sitcom and the Sheffields might be moving to California. And her mother may be having an affair.

15Season 6

S6.E15 ∙ Ma'ternal Affairs

Wed, Jun 2, 1999

Fran checks into a man that his mother is seeing and coaches her father on spicing up their marriage.

16Season 6

S6.E16 ∙ The Producers

Wed, Jun 9, 1999

Fran tries to produce a play written by a friend of Niles and he confesses his love for C.C.

17Season 6

S6.E17 ∙ The Dummy Twins

Wed, Jun 16, 1999

Fran is coaching Niles in his unappreciated courtship of C.C. Finally Niles calls her pathetic and lonely after which the Sheffields find them in bed together.

18Season 6

S6.E18 ∙ Yetta's Letters

Wed, Jun 16, 1999

Maxwell uses Yetta's letters as the basis for a play on Broadway beating out Andrew Lloyd Webber who also wanted to use them.

19Season 6

S6.E19 ∙ Maggie's Wedding

Wed, Jun 23, 1999

Fran learns that Michael's cousin is James Brolin and that Barbra Streisand is coming to Maggie and Michael's wedding. Fran is so excited that she goes into premature labor almost missing Barbra.

20Season 6

S6.E20 ∙ The Baby Shower

Wed, Jun 23, 1999

After her fortune telling hair dresser sees Maxwell in bed with a blonde while in California Fran flies out to check on him. Fran Fine Sheffield also runs into actress Fran Drescher and there is a bit of a resemblance.

21Season 6

S6.E21 ∙ The Finale: Part 1

Wed, May 12, 1999

C.C. flees after Niles proposes again. Fran runs after her and gets stuck in an elevator with her and goes into labor.

22Season 6

S6.E22 ∙ The Finale: Part 2

Wed, May 12, 1999

C.C. and Niles get married while Fran is in labor and find out that they are also expectant parents. Maggie and Brighton head off to Europe as the Sheffields head to California with the new twins and a new life together.