Nanny and the Professor
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.
Seasons
1. Nanny Will Do
Air Date: 1970-01-21
A mysterious British nanny with psychic powers arrives at the Everett home to take care of the widwed professor's three children.
2. The Wiblet Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out
Air Date: 1970-01-28
Everyone pooh-poohs the imaginary beastie that's giving Prudence nightmares. But Nanny, true pixie that she is, maps inventive strategems to trap the thing.
3. The New Butch
Air Date: 1970-02-04
Prudence wants to learn to read, and Butch is feeling rejected. Nanny's solution: a typewriter that leaves messages for Prudence--and a scheme with a message for Dad.
4. The Scientific Approach
Air Date: 1970-03-11
Everett invites a lady psychologist home to dinner, unmindful of how she might react to his children's--and Nanny's--flights of fancy.
5. The Astronomers
Air Date: 1970-02-18
With his dad's beat-up old telescope, some amazing beginner's luck and Nanny's mysterious touch, Butch makes an astronomical discovery that creates a hubbub in the scientific world.
6. Spring, Sweet Spring
Air Date: 1970-02-25
It's positively weird. A series of mishaps stops the Everetts as they go their separate ways on a Saturday. Nanny, it seems, was thinking of a family picnic....
7. Nanny on Wheels
Air Date: 1970-03-04
The professor stands bemused and amazed at Nanny's solution to the second car problem: a 1930 Model A that will require a miracle to be run--even by Nanny.
8. Strictly for the Birds
Air Date: 1970-03-11
A grumpy zoologist has Nanny arrested for spiriting three ducklings out of a public park. Neither the grump nor the presiding judge is prepared for Nanny's defense ploy.
9. The Tyrannosaurus Tibia
Air Date: 1970-03-18
Waldo finds a dinosaur bone and buries it in Nanny's garden.
10. I Think That I Shall Never See a Tree
Air Date: 1970-03-25
The city's street widening project requires that the tree containing the children's tree house be cut down.
11. The Games Families Play
Air Date: 1970-04-01
The family is upset when the professor admits that his potential new job will require moving to a new house.
12. An Element of Risk
Air Date: 1970-04-08
The professor is afraid of seeing an old girlfriend, and Prudence is afraid of blowing up a balloon.
13. The Philosopher's Stone
Air Date: 1970-04-15
Nanny says that the stone she gives Hal will grant him three wishes.
14. A Fowl Episode
Air Date: 1970-04-22
The entire neighborhood is waking up to the noise of Prudence's pet rooster.
15. Nanny and the Smoke-Filled Room
Air Date: 1970-04-29
When Butch decides to run for homeroom president, Nanny decides to give him a little help.
1. The Human Element
Air Date: 1970-09-25
Professor is working on a computer program. Nanny takes the children in ""Arabella"", her car named after her Aunt. 3 boys laugh at Nanny and the children because of Nanny's car, calling it Yellow Arabella. The 3 boys hassle Butch and Hal about Arabella and they propose a race. Nanny laughs at the prospect of racing Arabella but says there is no race because old cars aren't to be raced, but to be loved for. After Nanny turns the boys challenge of a race down they ask their father who also says he agrees with Nanny. He suggests another way to have a race...using the computer program he has been working on. The bully boys father says his Buckingham will beat Arabella even through the computer race. The boys read all of their car information to the Professor who inputs the data into his computer. The Buckingham wins the computer data race and the Everett boys are disappointed. The family goes for a trip in Arabella and meet up with the Buckingham (magically of course!) along the way.
2. The Haunted House
Air Date: 1970-10-02
Nanny and the children explore a haunted house inhabited by an old actor.
3. Star Bright
Air Date: 1970-10-09
Prudence wishes for a different part in a school play. The Professor must decide whether or not to hire an old professor or a young one.
4. E. S. Putt
Air Date: 1970-10-16
Butch breaks his dad's lucky putter right before a big tournement.
5. Back to Nature
Air Date: 1970-10-23
Nanny and the family go camping!!!
6. A Letter For Nanny
Air Date: 1970-10-30
Nanny receives a letter that makes her a little unhappy and the children try to cheer her up.
7. The Great Broadcast of 1936
Air Date: 1970-11-06
Nanny's automobile ""Arrabella"" radio only broadcasts shows from the 1930's
8. The Masculine-Feminine Mystique
Air Date: 1970-11-13
The Professor's new assistant is a bit of a feminist.
9. The India Queen
Air Date: 1970-11-20
Hal and Butch work on a raft.
10. The Visitor
Air Date: 1970-12-04
Butch's pen-pal, a runaway orphan from Canada, shows up at the Everett home.
11. My Son, the Sitter
Air Date: 1970-12-11
Hal believes he is old enough to watch his siblings and is put to the test.
12. From Butch, With Love
Air Date: 1970-12-18
Butch tries to earn enough money to buy an old record player.
13. The Humanization of Herbert T. Peabody
Air Date: 1970-12-25
Nanny and the kids help out an old puppeteer.
14. A Diller, a Dollar
Air Date: 1971-01-08
Prudence and her new teacher both start their first day of school.
15. Separate Rooms
Air Date: 1971-01-15
Butch and Hal have a fight and demand to have separate bedrooms
16. The Human Fly
Air Date: 1971-01-22
Nanny's Uncle Alfred comes to visit her. Of course every one knows actor John Mills (Uncle Alfred) is series star Miss Juliet Mills daddy.
17. The Man Who Came to Pasta
Air Date: 1971-01-29
An Italian director is invited to dinner at the Everett house, but can't leave as his supper makes him ill.
18. The Art of Relationships
Air Date: 1971-02-05
Nanny takes some night school courses and falls for that school Professor (Bert Convy)
19. The Balloon Ladies
Air Date: 1971-02-12
Two of Nanny's aunts (Ida Lupino & Marjorie Bennett) arrive for a visit by BALLOON
20. The Prodigy
Air Date: 1971-02-19
A 12 year-old genius comes for a visit causing jealousy in Hal
21. How Many Candles?
Air Date: 1971-02-26
This episode begins with the children coming home from school to find Nanny in bed with the ""dreaded lergys"". The children are preparing to attend Francine's costume party. When Butch goes into Nanny's trunk to get out some make-up he sees a passport with Nanny's photo giving he date of birth as April 18, 1864, making her 106 years old. Since the 18th is the following day the children prepare to throw her party. The professor keeps trying to get Nanny to reveal her real age. She mentions how she is the image of her great-aunt who lived to a very advanced age. Just as the Professor thinks he has solved the passport riddle Nanny mentions her great-aunt's was a Libra (October).
22. The Unknown Factor
Air Date: 1971-03-05
Butch enters a fishing contest in hopes that he can buy Nanny a present.
23. Kid Stuff
Air Date: 1971-03-12
To raise money to restore a park fountain, Nanny and the children put on a show.
24. The Communication Gap
Air Date: 1971-03-26
The Professor gets a love note from one of his students
1. Oh, What a Tangled Web
Air Date: 1971-09-13
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
2. The Flower Children
Air Date: 1971-09-20
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.
3. Sunday's Hero
Air Date: 1971-09-27
The Professor tries to get out of playing football with his friends.
4. South Sea Island Sweetheart
Air Date: 1971-10-04
Nanny's Uncle Horace (Ray Bolger) visits from the South Seas to perform a rain dance in order to cure a drought.
5. Aunt Henrietta's Premonition
Air Date: 1971-10-11
Nanny's pychic aunt (Elsa Lanchester) predicts Nanny will be menaced by a man with a mustache.
6. Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh
Air Date: 1971-10-18
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.
7. Aunt Henrietta and the Jinx
Air Date: 1971-11-15
Butch, thinking he is a jinx, is given a good luck charm from Nanny's Aunt Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester)
8. Nanny and Her Witch's Brew
Air Date: 1971-11-01
Nanny is accused of being a witch. (30 years later actress Juliet Mills will portray on witch on the daytime drama Passions)
9. The Conversion of Brother Ben
Air Date: 1971-11-08
The Professors RICH brother (Robert Sterling) donates two million dollars to his brothers college.
10. Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist
Air Date: 1971-10-25
Aunt Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester) believes there is a ghost in the house because the furniture is disarranged every night.
11. Professor Pygmalion Plays Golf
Air Date: 1971-11-23
Hal enters a golf tournement using strange clubs given to him by Nanny
12. The Great Debate
Air Date: 1971-11-29
Nanny and Hal help the Professor keep a basketball player from failing math.
13. One For the Road
Air Date: 1971-12-06
Hal tries to visit his uncle, but doesn't quite make it.
14. Good-bye, Arabella, Hello
Air Date: 1971-12-13
Nanny trades in her old car ""Arabella"" for a new one
15. Whatever Happened to Felicity?
Air Date: 1971-12-27
Prudence, being ignored by her brothers, becomes attached to Nanny's old doll.
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Rating
6.0/10
Release Date
1970-01-21
Episodes
54 (3 seasons)
Status
Ended
