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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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Episodes

Season 1

15 episodes

S1 E1 · Nanny Will Do

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

S1 E2 · The Wiblet Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out

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.

S1 E3 · The New Butch

Prudence wants to learn to read, and Butch is feeling rejected. Nanny's solution: a typewriter that leaves messages for Prudence--and a scheme with a message for Dad.

S1 E4 · The Scientific Approach

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

S1 E5 · The Astronomers

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.

S1 E6 · Spring, Sweet Spring

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....

S1 E7 · Nanny on Wheels

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.

S1 E8 · Strictly for the Birds

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.

S1 E9 · The Tyrannosaurus Tibia

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

S1 E10 · I Think That I Shall Never See a Tree

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

S1 E11 · The Games Families Play

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

S1 E12 · An Element of Risk

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

S1 E13 · The Philosopher's Stone

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

S1 E14 · A Fowl Episode

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

S1 E15 · Nanny and the Smoke-Filled Room

When Butch decides to run for homeroom president, Nanny decides to give him a little help.

Season 2

24 episodes

S2 E1 · The Human Element

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.

S2 E2 · The Haunted House

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

S2 E3 · Star Bright

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.

S2 E4 · E. S. Putt

Butch breaks his dad's lucky putter right before a big tournement.

S2 E5 · Back to Nature

Nanny and the family go camping!!!

S2 E6 · A Letter For Nanny

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

S2 E7 · The Great Broadcast of 1936

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

S2 E8 · The Masculine-Feminine Mystique

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

S2 E9 · The India Queen

Hal and Butch work on a raft.

S2 E10 · The Visitor

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

S2 E11 · My Son, the Sitter

Hal believes he is old enough to watch his siblings and is put to the test.

S2 E12 · From Butch, With Love

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

S2 E13 · The Humanization of Herbert T. Peabody

Nanny and the kids help out an old puppeteer.

S2 E14 · A Diller, a Dollar

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

S2 E15 · Separate Rooms

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

S2 E16 · The Human Fly

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.

S2 E17 · The Man Who Came to Pasta

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

S2 E18 · The Art of Relationships

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

S2 E19 · The Balloon Ladies

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

S2 E20 · The Prodigy

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

S2 E21 · How Many Candles?

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).

S2 E22 · The Unknown Factor

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

S2 E23 · Kid Stuff

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

S2 E24 · The Communication Gap

The Professor gets a love note from one of his students

Season 3

15 episodes

S3 E1 · Oh, What a Tangled Web

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

S3 E2 · The Flower Children

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.

S3 E3 · Sunday's Hero

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

S3 E4 · South Sea Island Sweetheart

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

S3 E5 · Aunt Henrietta's Premonition

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

S3 E6 · Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh

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.

S3 E7 · Aunt Henrietta and the Jinx

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

S3 E8 · Nanny and Her Witch's Brew

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

S3 E9 · The Conversion of Brother Ben

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

S3 E10 · Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist

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

S3 E11 · Professor Pygmalion Plays Golf

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

S3 E12 · The Great Debate

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

S3 E13 · One For the Road

Hal tries to visit his uncle, but doesn't quite make it.

S3 E14 · Good-bye, Arabella, Hello

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

S3 E15 · Whatever Happened to Felicity?

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