1.1 "The Pilot"
Fran Fine is fired from her job at a bridal boutique after her boyfriend (the owner) dumps her. So Fran takes a job selling make-up door to door, where she stumbles across the home of Maxwell Sheffield, the "famous" Broadway producer. Maxwell is desperately trying to find a nanny for his three children who have recently lost their mother, and who have gone through their share of nannies. But after a hesitant start, Maxwell decides to test Fran out as the answer to his problems.
1.2 "Smoke Gets in Your Lies"
Fran boo-boos when she talks about her "good old" rebellious high school
days, and Brighton reads that as a green light to try smoking, which infuriates
Maxwell when he finds out. So Fran tries to redeem herself by showing Brighton
a real life example of a smoker: her chain-smoking Grandma Yetta. Carol Channing has a cameo as herself.
1.3 "My Fair Nanny"
Maxwell and Fran get together to throw a coming-out party for Maggie, but they can't agree on just how "out" Maggie can come. Fran gets etiquette lessons from Niles and Maxwell so she can hold a mother-daughter tea for Maggie. They manage to turn Fran into a sophisticated woman for the party, but Maggie is disillusioned as she prefers the old Fran, the diamond in the rough. Dorothy Lyman (future director of The Nanny) guest stars.
1.4 "The Nuchslep"
When Maggie is asked out on her first date Maxwell forces Fran to be the chaperone, or as she likes to see it: the nuchslep. But on the date, the young man seems to be more interested in Fran, causing tension between the fourteen year old and her nanny.
1.5 "Here Comes the Brood"
To prove to Maxwell that she can be great with his children, C.C. tries her hand at taking them to the zoo, but when the whole affair is a dismal failure, C.C. tells the children that Fran only spends time with them because she is paid to. So Grace runs away to find Nanny Fine at her parents' house, and ends up at the wedding of a friend of the Fine's.
1.6 "The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother"
Niles is worried because the Butler's association is coming to evaluate
him. Meanwhile, Fran's mother tells some relatives that Fran is married
to a handsome millionaire Broadway producer, in other words: Maxwell. Well,
when one thing leads to another, Fran is impersonating the lady of the
house, Niles is impersonating her husband "Maxwell", and Maxwell is impersonating
Niles!
1.7 "Imaginary Friend"
Fran is in big trouble when she accidentally eats Grace's imaginary friend, prompting a scolding from Maxwell, and a trip to the shrink for Grace, Maxwell and Fran.
1.8 "Christmas Episode"
Fran spends her first Christmas at the Sheffields, but she is appalled when she finds out that Maxwell hires a professional "gift buyer" to get the children's gifts. So she scolds him into getting a "gift from the heart", which he does for the children, and for Fran, which costs her a Christmas cash bonus!
1.9 "Personal Business"
Fran figures she only has one life to live, so she agrees to help Maxwell close a casting deal by dating a young and restless soap-opera star (Stephen Nichols), whom she sends to "another world".
1.10 "The Nanny-In-Law"
When Maxwell's childhood nanny (Chloris Leachman) visits, she is appalled by Fran's unique child care methods. Some tension arises between the two nannies due to their differences. Meanwhile Maxwell's nanny relives and old fling with "the young house boy"! Chloris Leachman guest stars
1.11 "A Plot for Nanny"
Fran's mother has a surprise gift for her 30th birthday: a cemetery plot. And it's not exactly a grave undertaking for Fran when she begins dating the gorgeous funeral director (Matt McCoy).
1.12 "The Show Must Go On"
The spotlight is on Fran when Maxwell volunteers her to direct Grace's school production, but he soon upstages her by taking over. Meanwhile Gracie is terrified that she won't be good at playing the leading role in the play.
1.13 "Maggie the Model"
When Maxwell's supermodel old flame (Lesley-Anne Down) returns, he seems to still be attracted to her, despite the fact that she broke his heart 20 years earlier. At the same tame she prompts Maggie to try to become a model and the whole thing goes to her naive teen-age head.
1.14 "The Family Plumbing"
Fran's doddering Uncle Irving shows up to fix the plumbing, and he's assisted by Fran's young cousin Tiffany, whom Fran catches kissing Brighton... in the bathtub! But that's not the only "close encounter" that occurs thanks to this plumbing situation!
1.15 "Deep Throat"
Fran is the one who requires TLC when she has to have her tonsils removed, and Maxwell puts C.C.'s reunion on hold to await the outcome of Fran's surgery. But while Fran is under the effects of the anesthetic, she says something that leaves Mr. Sheffield shaking.
1.16 "Schlepped Away"
it's the Holidays, and the Sheffields are heading off to the tropics, so Nanny Fine gets herself invited. All seems to be going well, until everyone gets snowed in at Fran's parents' house, including all of the Sheffields, Niles, and C.C., who is crushed at missing her vacation off with the "Senator". So Sylvia and Fran try and make everyone at home in their small Flushing abode.
1.17 "Stop the Wedding, I Want to Get Off"
Maxwell is ecstatic that he's going to get see his sister (Twiggy Lawson) who is coming to New York to get married, but it doesn't take Fran long to figure out that Maxwell's sister only has eyes for her chauffeur (Leigh Lawson).
1.18 "Sunday in the Park With Fran"
When Grace is getting bullied by the son of an influential theater critic (Eric Braeden), C.C. convinces Maxwell that Grace should invite the child over to smooth things over. But when the boy is a beast, and Fran hits him with a baguette, it's all Maxwell can do to convince the critic that no harm was done and that C.C. and Maxwell's play should still get a good review.
1.19 "The Gym Teacher"
Maggie's has a new gym teacher: the same tough-as-a-drill-sergeant gym teacher who terrorized Fran in high school (Rita Moreno). So Fran rides to the rescue and challenges the teacher for Maggie.
1.20 "Ode to Barbara Joan (a.k.a. Daddy's Dearest)"
C.C.'s dad (Robert Culp) is in town, but he and C.C. don't get along very well, so when he says he has tickets to a Streisand concert and C.C. says she can't stand Streisand, her dad invites Fran instead, causing C.C. to go into a emotional tail-spin!
1.21 "Frannie's Choice"
Danny Imperiali, the guy who originally dumped Fran, gets dumped by his girlfriend Heather Biblow, so he proposes to Fran, who says yes. But no one is happy about this, including Niles, her mother or the Sheffield family, and Fran is left to decide whether leaving the Sheffields is the right thing to do.
1.22 "I Don't Remember Mama"
Fran encourages Maxwell, who doesn't want the children to dwell on unpleasant memories, to abandon his attempt to take the kids' minds off Mother's Day, so Maxwell takes them to the country club, where Fran promptly enters herself and Grace in a "Mother-Daughter Beauty Pageant". This causes all sorts of trouble, but the situation manages to relive some memories that should have never been ignored.