Nanny and the Professor
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| Nanny and the Professor | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Situation comedy |
| Created by | AJ Carothers |
| Starring | Juliet Mills Richard Long |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 54 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Charles B. Fitzsimons |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | January 21, 1970 – December 27, 1971 |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
Nanny And The Professor is an U.S. fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series first aired on January 21, 1970, and was last telecast on December 27, 1971 on ABC. It was aired at 8 p.m. Fridays opposite NBC's Western, The High Chaparral. Later, the series enjoyed a brief run in syndication.
[edit] Premise
The series starred Juliet Mills as Nanny Phoebe Figalilly, Richard Long as Professor Harold Everett, and Elsa Lanchester as Aunt Henrietta. Figalilly was apparently psychic, and had regular flashes of what was often more than intuition (she frequently knew who was ringing the doorbell before the bell even rang). There was the vague suggestion that she may have been at least several hundred years old and more than human, which the children thought they discovered in an episode after they saw a photo of Phoebe that looked like it was taken a century earlier.
Figalilly watched over Professor Everett and his three children: Hal, the intellectual tinkerer, played by David Doremus, Butch, the middle child, played by Trent Lehman, and Prudence, the youngest, played by Kim Richards. Patsy Garrett had the recurring role of nosey neighbor Mrs. Fowler. Midway through the brief first season, a yellow 1930 Model A Ford, "Arabella," joined the series.
[edit] Nanny's Relatives
From time to time, some of Nanny's relatives dropped by the Everett home for a visit. They include:
- Uncle Alfred (portrayed by John Mills, Juliet Mills' father), an eccentric who enthralls the Everett children with his wonderful stories and human flying act in his visit in "The Human Fly".
- Aunt Justine (portrayed by Ida Lupino) and Aunt Agatha (portrayed by Marjorie Bennett), two of Nanny's loveable aunts who draw a mob of reporters, touries and Flem Libbers when they descend on the Everetts, quite literally, in a balloon in "The Balloon Ladies".
- Uncle Horace (portrayed by Ray Bolger), Nanny's roguish uncle, an old charmer, just back from the South seas, finds himself in great demand as rainmaker in Nanny's drought-stricken town during his visit in "South Sea Island Sweetheart".
- Aunt Henrietta (portrayed by Elsa Lanchester), an eccentric grand dame who arrives in town with her circus and a disturbing premonition that Nanny's about to be carried off by a mustached stranger in "Aunt Henrietta's Premonition". She later appeared in "Aunt Henrietta and the Jinx" during a battle between reason and superstition and returned again in "Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist" helping to get rid of a ghost.
- Aunt Arabella, Nanny's aunt and inspiration for the nickname of Nanny's antique 1930 Model A automobile in "Nanny on Wheels".
- Nanny had a lookalike great-aunt (never seen) who lived to a ripe old age (she was born in October - a Libra).
- During Nanny's wedding to Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh, she found a note from her mother tucked in her great-great-great grandmother's wedding gown that told her to only marry if she was truly in love.
