The Worst Episodes of Nanny and the Professor

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.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Bob Mosher

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

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

An Italian director is invited to dinner at the Everett house, but can't leave as his supper makes him ill.

Director: Jack Arnold

Writer: Joanna Lee

Nanny takes some night school courses and falls for that school Professor (Bert Convy)

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Norman Abbott

Writer: N/A

The Professor's new assistant is a bit of a feminist.

Director: Gary Nelson

Writer: Joanna Lee

Butch and Hal have a fight and demand to have separate bedrooms

Director: Gary Nelson

Writer: N/A

A 12 year-old genius comes for a visit causing jealousy in Hal

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: Joanna Lee

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

Director: Hollingsworth Morse

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Bruce Bilson

Writer: N/A

Everett invites a lady psychologist home to dinner, unmindful of how she might react to his children's--and Nanny's--flights of fancy.

Director: Norman Abbott

Writer: John McGreevey

The family is upset when the professor admits that his potential new job will require moving to a new house.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Two of Nanny's aunts (Ida Lupino & Marjorie Bennett) arrive for a visit by BALLOON

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Butch enters a fishing contest in hopes that he can buy Nanny a present.

Director: Gary Nelson

Writer: John McGreevey

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

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: N/A

Hal and Butch work on a raft.

Director: Ralph Senensky

Writer: N/A

Butch's pen-pal, a runaway orphan from Canada, shows up at the Everett home.

Director: Gary Nelson

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Butch tries to earn enough money to buy an old record player.

Director: Ralph Senensky

Writer: Bob Mosher

The Professor gets a love note from one of his students

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Norman Abbott

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Hollingsworth Morse

Writer: N/A

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.