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The Best Episodes of The Nanny

Every episode of The Nanny ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Nanny!

The Best Episodes of The Nanny

Fran, fresh out of her job as a bridal consultant in her boyfriend’s shop, first appears on the doorstep of Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield peddling...

Seasons6

  1. Background image for Close Shave
    8.7/10(536 votes)

    #1 - Close Shave

    S2:E21

    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.

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  2. Background image for A Fine Friendship
    8.5/10(476 votes)

    #2 - A Fine Friendship

    S2:E19

    Fran strikes up a friendship with a male nanny whom she erroneously assumes is gay.

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  3. Background image for Strange Bedfellows
    8.5/10(464 votes)

    #3 - Strange Bedfellows

    S2:E24

    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.

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  4. Background image for The Finale, Part 2
    8.5/10(450 votes)

    #4 - The Finale, Part 2

    S6:E22

    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.

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  5. Background image for I Don't Remember Mama
    8.4/10(528 votes)

    #5 - I Don't Remember Mama

    S1:E22

    Fran and Grace enter a mother-daughter pageant at the country club.

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  6. Background image for Schlepped Away
    8.3/10(521 votes)

    #6 - Schlepped Away

    S1:E16

    On the way to catch a flight to the islands, heavy snow maroons the family at Fran's parents' home in Queens.

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  8. Background image for The Finale, Part 1
    8.3/10(349 votes)

    #7 - The Finale, Part 1

    S6:E21

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

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  9. Background image for The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother
    8.2/10(570 votes)

    #8 - The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother

    S1:E6

    Niles poses as Fran's husband to impress her visiting relatives.

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  10. Background image for The Whine Cellar
    8.2/10(467 votes)

    #9 - The Whine Cellar

    S2:E10

    C.C.'s vision for a romantic weekend hit a snag when she and Fran end up locked inside Maxwell's wine cellar together.

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  11. Background image for Canasta Masta
    8.2/10(456 votes)

    #10 - Canasta Masta

    S2:E16

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

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  12. Background image for What the Butler Sang
    8.2/10(472 votes)

    #11 - What the Butler Sang

    S2:E22

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

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  13. Background image for The Nanny
    8.1/10(879 votes)

    #12 - The Nanny

    S1:E1

    Fran has just been dumped by her fiancé and employer, and is selling cosmetics door-to-door, when she happens to be in the right place at the right time.

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  14. Background image for Everybody Needs a Bubby Sometimes
    8.1/10(471 votes)

    #13 - Everybody Needs a Bubby Sometimes

    S2:E3

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

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  15. Background image for The Will
    8.1/10(430 votes)

    #14 - The Will

    S2:E17

    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.

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  16. Background image for The Producers
    8.1/10(325 votes)

    #15 - The Producers

    S6:E16

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

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  17. Background image for The Dummy Twins
    8.1/10(318 votes)

    #16 - The Dummy Twins

    S6:E17

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  18. Background image for Yetta's Letters
    8.1/10(351 votes)

    #17 - Yetta's Letters

    S6:E18

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Maggie's Wedding
    8.1/10(329 votes)

    #18 - Maggie's Wedding

    S6:E19

    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.

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    Director:Fran Drescher
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Fran-Lite
    8.0/10(481 votes)

    #19 - Fran-Lite

    S2:E1

    Maxwell dates a woman with a striking resemblance to Fran.

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  21. Background image for Maggie's Boyfriend
    8.0/10(335 votes)

    #20 - Maggie's Boyfriend

    S6:E5

    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.

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  22. Background image for The Family Plumbing
    7.9/10(517 votes)

    #21 - The Family Plumbing

    S1:E14

    Fran catches her young cousin kissing Brighton in the bathtub.

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  23. Background image for Deep Throat
    7.9/10(488 votes)

    #22 - Deep Throat

    S1:E15

    Fran has to have her tonsils removed, so Maxwell puts C.C.'s reunion on hold to await the outcome of Fran's surgery.

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  24. Background image for The Playwright
    7.9/10(465 votes)

    #23 - The Playwright

    S2:E2

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

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    7.9/10(464 votes)

    #24 - Stock Tip

    S2:E9

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

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  26. Background image for Curse of the Grandmas
    7.8/10(432 votes)

    #25 - Curse of the Grandmas

    S2:E5

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Close Shave" is the best rated episode of "The Nanny". It scored 8.7/10 based on 536 votes. Directed by Dorothy Lyman and written by Prudence Fraser, Robert Sternin, Elliot Stern, it aired on 2/20/1995. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Fine Friendship".