The Nanny
Pen Pal
TV Flash files “Pen Pal” as a desk essential hour — The Nanny (1993–1999) on CBS, season 3, episode 1, aired 1995-09-11, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 49 of 146 in the The Nanny guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 1995-09-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Fran Gets Mugged” (S02E26). Next is “Franny and the Professor” (S03E02).
Essential hour: “Pen Pal”. Pen Pal: mid-run class war in the foyer, Niles and C.C. still keeping Sheffield dry on purpose.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Mr. Sheffield pushes Fran to accept a date from her long time pen-pal who she has never met.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pen Pal sit in the The Nanny guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 49 of 146 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did The Nanny S03E01 air?
Pen Pal aired 1995-09-11 and is listed at 30 minutes.
What is the core premise?
A Queens cosmetics saleswoman becomes nanny to a wealthy British Broadway producer's children — class collision as farce.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Fran Fine from Flushing detonates a Broadway producer's household with Queens volume, fashion, and Yiddish-inflected timing. Drescher co-creates and stars opposite Charles Shaughnessy's dry Sheffield; Niles and C.C. keep the class war in the foyer. Loud style, soft heart, catchphrases that still travel. Fish-out-of-water multi-cam with better coats.
CBS, November 3, 1993: a cosmetics saleswoman from Flushing detonates a Broadway producer's household with Queens volume, fashion, and Yiddish-inflected timing. Fran Drescher co-created the farce with Peter Marc Jacobson and starred opposite Charles Shaughnessy's dry Maxwell Sheffield. Lauren Lane's C.C. and Daniel Davis's Niles keep the class war in the foyer. The children complete a machine with wardrobe as characterization. Six seasons through 1999. Loud style, soft heart, catchphrases that still travel.…
Filed against
- Fran Drescher as Fran Fine
Fran Drescher detonated a Broadway household as Fran Fine on The Nanny — Flushing volume, fashion, Yiddish-inflected timing, Charles Shaughnessy's dry Sheffield, Niles and C.C. in the foyer class war. She co-created the loud style with a…
- Charles Shaughnessy as Maxwell Sheffield
Charles Shaughnessy played Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny — Fran Fine from Flushing detonating a Broadway producer's household with Queens volume, fashion, and Yiddish-inflected timing. Drescher co-creates and stars; Niles and C.C. keep…
- Lauren Lane as C.C. Babcock
Lauren Lane's C.C. Babcock kept The Nanny's foyer class war armed — Fran Fine from Flushing detonating a Broadway producer's household, Niles as sparring partner, Queens volume versus dry Sheffield. Loud style, soft heart. TV Flash files…
- Daniel Davis as Niles
Daniel Davis’s Niles kept The Nanny’s class war in the foyer — Broadway producer’s butler, Fran Fine from Flushing detonating the townhouse with Queens volume, C.C. as the other knife. Drescher’s fashion and Yiddish-inflected timing;…
- Nicholle Tom as Maggie Sheffield
Nicholle Tom’s Maggie Sheffield grew up in The Nanny’s foyer class war — Fran Fine from Flushing detonating a Broadway producer’s household, 1990s Queens volume, fashion, Yiddish-inflected timing, Charles Shaughnessy’s dry Sheffield,…