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The Best Episodes of Nanny and the Professor

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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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    Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 7 - Nanny on Wheels
    8.2/10(43 votes)

    #1 - Nanny on Wheels

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 5 - Back to Nature
    8.2/10(36 votes)

    #2 - Back to Nature

    S2:E5

    Nanny and the family go camping!!!

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  3. Nanny and the Professor Season 3 Episode 3 - Sunday's Hero
    8.0/10(32 votes)

    #3 - Sunday's Hero

    S3:E3

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

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Nanny and the Professor Season 3 Episode 6 - Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh
    8.0/10(37 votes)

    #4 - Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh

    S3:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 8 - Strictly for the Birds
    7.9/10(37 votes)

    #5 - Strictly for the Birds

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  6. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 14 - A Diller, a Dollar
    7.9/10(33 votes)

    #6 - A Diller, a Dollar

    S2:E14

    Prudence and her new teacher both start their first day of school.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 16 - The Human Fly
    7.9/10(38 votes)

    #7 - The Human Fly

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Nanny and the Professor Season 3 Episode 8 - Nanny and Her Witch's Brew
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #8 - Nanny and Her Witch's Brew

    S3:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 10 - I Think That I Shall Never See a Tree
    7.8/10(42 votes)

    #9 - I Think That I Shall Never See a Tree

    S1:E10

    The city's street widening project requires that the tree containing the children's tree house be cut down.

    Director:Jay Sandrich
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  10. Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 12 - An Element of Risk
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    #10 - An Element of Risk

    S1:E12

    The professor is afraid of seeing an old girlfriend, and Prudence is afraid of blowing up a balloon.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  11. Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 1 - Nanny Will Do
    7.7/10(65 votes)

    #11 - Nanny Will Do

    S1:E1

    A mysterious British nanny with psychic powers arrives at the Everett home to take care of the widwed professor's three children.

    Director:Peter Tewksbury
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 2 - The Haunted House
    7.7/10(40 votes)

    #12 - The Haunted House

    S2:E2

    Nanny and the children explore a haunted house inhabited by an old actor.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  13. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 6 - A Letter For Nanny
    7.7/10(37 votes)

    #13 - A Letter For Nanny

    S2:E6

    Nanny receives a letter that makes her a little unhappy and the children try to cheer her up.

    Director:Jay Sandrich
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 9 - The Tyrannosaurus Tibia
    7.6/10(37 votes)

    #14 - The Tyrannosaurus Tibia

    S1:E9

    Waldo finds a dinosaur bone and buries it in Nanny's garden.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  15. Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 13 - The Philosopher's Stone
    7.6/10(34 votes)

    #15 - The Philosopher's Stone

    S1:E13

    Nanny says that the stone she gives Hal will grant him three wishes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  16. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 7 - The Great Broadcast of 1936
    7.6/10(34 votes)

    #16 - The Great Broadcast of 1936

    S2:E7

    Nanny's automobile ""Arrabella"" radio only broadcasts shows from the 1930's

    Director:Jay Sandrich
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 13 - The Humanization of Herbert T. Peabody
    7.6/10(33 votes)

    #17 - The Humanization of Herbert T. Peabody

    S2:E13

    Nanny and the kids help out an old puppeteer.

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  18. Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 6 - Spring, Sweet Spring
    7.5/10(38 votes)

    #18 - Spring, Sweet Spring

    S1:E6

    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....

    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 23 - Kid Stuff
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #19 - Kid Stuff

    S2:E23

    To raise money to restore a park fountain, Nanny and the children put on a show.

    Director:Gary Nelson
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  20. Nanny and the Professor Season 3 Episode 10 - Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist
    7.5/10(34 votes)

    #20 - Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist

    S3:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Nanny and the Professor Season 3 Episode 11 - Professor Pygmalion Plays Golf
    7.5/10(32 votes)

    #21 - Professor Pygmalion Plays Golf

    S3:E11

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

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  22. Nanny and the Professor Season 3 Episode 14 - Good-bye, Arabella, Hello
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #22 - Good-bye, Arabella, Hello

    S3:E14

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

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Nanny and the Professor Season 1 Episode 14 - A Fowl Episode
    7.4/10(34 votes)

    #23 - A Fowl Episode

    S1:E14

    The entire neighborhood is waking up to the noise of Prudence's pet rooster.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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  24. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 1 - The Human Element
    7.4/10(35 votes)

    #24 - The Human Element

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Nanny and the Professor Season 2 Episode 21 - How Many Candles?
    7.4/10(35 votes)

    #25 - How Many Candles?

    S2:E21

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Nanny on Wheels" is the best rated episode of "Nanny and the Professor". It scored 8.2/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by Gary Nelson and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/4/1970. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Back to Nature".