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#1 - Close Shave
Season 2 Episode 21
Aired 2/20/1995
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.
Director: Dorothy Lyman
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Elliot Stern
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#2 - A Fine Friendship
Season 2 Episode 19
Aired 2/6/1995
Fran strikes up a friendship with a male nanny whom she erroneously assumes is gay.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#3 - Strange Bedfellows
Season 2 Episode 24
Aired 5/8/1995
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.
Director: Dorothy Lyman
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Dana Reston
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#4 - The Whine Cellar
Season 2 Episode 10
Aired 11/14/1994
C.C.'s vision for a romantic weekend hit a snag when she and Fran end up locked inside Maxwell's wine cellar together.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#5 - Canasta Masta
Season 2 Episode 16
Aired 1/9/1995
After Brighton joins Sylvia's canasta team, Fran is dumped from it.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Dana Reston
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#6 - What the Butler Sang
Season 2 Episode 22
Aired 2/27/1995
Maxwell hears Niles singing and asks him to sing for his backers' audition. Meanwhile, Fran clashes with her sister Nadine.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#7 - Everybody Needs a Bubby Sometimes
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 9/26/1994
Grandma Yetta stays with Fran and the Sheffields while her retirement home is being fumigated.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#8 - The Will
Season 2 Episode 17
Aired 1/16/1995
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Fran Drescher, Peter Marc Jacobson
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#9 - Fran-Lite
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 9/12/1994
Maxwell dates a woman with a striking resemblance to Fran.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#10 - The Playwright
Season 2 Episode 2
Aired 9/19/1994
A man whom Fran snubbed in high school has written a play and threatens to jump off a ledge unless Maxwell reads it.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#11 - Curse of the Grandmas
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 10/10/1994
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.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Eric Cohen
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#12 - The Nanny-Napper
Season 2 Episode 6
Aired 10/17/1994
On the subway, a Russian immigrant accidentally leaves her baby, and Fran picks it up, believing it to be abandoned.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#13 - A Star Is Unborn
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 10/24/1994
A director plans to sabotage his production of "Romeo and Juliet" by casting Fran in the lead role.
Director: Gail Mancuso
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Pamela Eells, Sally Lapiduss
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#14 - Stock Tip
Season 2 Episode 9
Aired 11/7/1994
Fran gives Maxwell a stock tip that turns out to be from a hot dog vendor.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#15 - Pishke Business
Season 2 Episode 8
Aired 10/31/1994
Maxwell has Fran pretend to be C.C. in order to get theatrical backing from a man C.C. attacked to get a cab.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland
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#16 - The Strike
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 11/28/1994
There's a busboy strike going on at the cast party for Maxwell's latest play. When Fran refuses to cross the picket line, a photo of Maxwell dragging her out of the line makes the news.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#17 - Kindervelt Days
Season 2 Episode 15
Aired 1/2/1995
Fran receives a surprise when Sylvia sends in a long-lost "Win a Date With Erik Estrada" contest entry form.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Dana Reston
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#18 - The Nanny Behind the Man
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 1/23/1995
In an attempt to score a play by award-winning playwright Dakota Williams, Fran and Maxwell set him up to go out with Yetta. The romantic sparks are there—but the play's script may not be.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#19 - Lamb Chop's on the Menu
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 2/13/1995
C.C. plans to move into feature film production with a star vehicle for Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop. When Shari and Lamb Chop visit the Sheffield mansion, C.C.'s dog Chester tries to eat Lamb Chop.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Dana Reston
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#20 - Fran Gets Mugged
Season 2 Episode 26
Aired 5/22/1995
An valuable Shakespearian document is taken from Fran when she is mugged in New York's Central Park.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#21 - Take Back Your Mink
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 11/21/1994
Maggie is upset when Fran inherits a mink coat. Fran decides to give it up to appease Maggie, but Sylvia won't hear of it.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#22 - I've Got a Secret
Season 2 Episode 14
Aired 12/12/1994
Maxwell refuses to divulge the identity of the celebrity recuperating from surgery in the Sheffields' house.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Eric Cohen
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#23 - A Kiss Is Just a Kiss
Season 2 Episode 23
Aired 5/3/1995
Maggie is upset when Fran beats her in a kissing contest. The winner is to appear on an album cover with Billy Ray Cyrus.
Director: Dorothy Lyman
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#24 - Material Fran
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/3/1994
Fran goes out with a much older rich man.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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#25 - When You Pish Upon a Star
Season 2 Episode 11
Aired 11/21/1994
Fran inadvertently persuades an obnoxious child star, who's set to star in Maxwell's revival of "Oliver!", to give up show business.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Close Shave" is the best rated episode of "The Nanny" season 2. It scored 8.7/10 based on 511 votes. Directed by Dorothy Lyman and written by Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Elliot Stern, it aired on 2/20/1995. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "A Fine Friendship".