The sitcom takes a bit of Who's the Boss? (the servant/employer will-they-won't-they relationship) and combines it with touches of I Love Lucy (Fran constantly attempts to be part of Max' business) along with a heavy focus on Jewish culture and stereotypes to create a show that's legitimately classic. A resume hastily written in lipstick is all it takes for Nanny Fine to join the household, which also includes her fellow servant, butler Niles (Daniel Davis), and Max's business partner CC (Lauren Lane), who will become her friendly nemesis. In a sitcom coincidence, Fran arrives at the uptight Sheffield residence to sell make-up to the lady of the house, just as Max is looking for a nanny for his out-of-control children. Without a wife, he has his hands full with his three children, teenaged Maggie (Nicholle Tom, the voice of Supergirl on Justice League), middle-child Brighton (Benjamin Salisbury) and Grace (Madeline Zima, A Cinderella Story), the youngest one in therapy. As Fran Fine, a down-on-her-luck cosmetics saleswoman, Fran Drescher injected some of New York's ethnic brashness into the upper-crust Sheffield home, headed up by British theater producer Max (Charles Shaughnessy, Days of Our Lives). Belvedere, Who's the Boss? and this series, The Nanny. Try it with household help and you're traveling a road to frequent success, as seen on series like Mr. The fish-out-of-water concept is an easy one to milk comedy out of in a sitcom setting. DVDTalk has reviews of several of these sets. The sitcom ran for six seasons on CBS from 1993-1999, and has seen several DVD releases between 20, from two companies, resulting in the first three seasons being available on disc.

Her vibrant personality soon changes their lives for the better, as her warm but loud Jewish family becomes integrated with their repressed WASPy homelife. Going door to door to sell make-up, she ends up becoming a nanny to three sad-sack kids being raised by their cold theater-producing widower of a father. Daniel Davisįran Fine (Fran Drescher) was down in the dumps when her boyfriend dumped her and fired her from his Queens, New York wedding boutique. All of the flashy girl from Flushing you can take

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