Season 1 - Episode Guide

Door-to-door cosmetics sales lady Fran Fine inadvertently becomes the nanny to the three children of a widowed Broadway producer.

As a result of Brighton getting caught smoking, Fran takes him to see her grandma Yetta who has been smoking all her life.

Fran hosts a tea party for Maggie's friends, however Maxwell wonders if Fran has the class to pull it off.

When Fran acts as a chaperon on Maggie's date, Maggie's boyfriend shows an interest in Fran.

C.C.'s attempts to get closer to Maxwell's children results in Gracie running away.

When status-conscious relatives visit from Florida, Fran pretends that Niles is Maxwell and they are married.

Gracie is traumatized when Fran "eats" her imaginary friend.

Much to his children's disappointment as well as Fran's, Maxwell has to be in Washington, D.C. on Christmas day. Meanwhile, Fran has overextended herself in buying gifts.

Maxwell wants to hire popular soap star Brock Storm for his latest show, but he'll only do it if he gets a date with Fran.

Maxwell's old nanny comes to visit and is unimpressed with Fran's unconventional ways and lack of formal training.

Sylvia buys Fran a cemetery plot to get her closer to the cemetery manager.

Fran agrees to direct Grace's school play, but then Maxwell maneuvers his way into her position.

A world-renowned model thinks Maggie would make a good fashion model.

When the water goes out in the house, Maxwell reluctantly agrees to let Fran hire her uncle as a plumber. Meanwhile, Maggie wants to go to a party, but when her father learns there will be boys there he forbids it.

When all the children get sick, Fran takes Grace to the doctor and learns she needs a tonsillectomy.

A blizzard paralyzes the city and forces Fran and the Sheffields to move their Bermuda vacation to her mother's apartment in Queens.

Maxwell's sister comes to visit and she decides then to marry her intended.

A play-date between Gracie and the child of a Broadway critic does not go well.

Fran learns that her old, tyrannical gym teacher is now Maggie's gym teacher.

C.C.'s father comes to visit. When C.C. turns down his offer to see Barbra Streisand in concert, Fran, who adores all things Streisand, gets the opportunity.

Fran must decide between the Sheffields and her old boy friend that proposes.

Mother's Day is approaching, and as usual, Maxwell is trying to preoccupy the children so that they won't think about their mother, Sara. Fran, on the other hand, thinks it a good idea to talk to the kids about their mother.