Nanny and the Professor
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| Genre | Situation comedy |
| Created by |
AJ Carothers Thomas L. Miller |
| Starring |
Juliet Mills Richard Long David Doremus Trent Lehman Kim Richards |
| Opening theme | "Nanny", written and sung by The Addrisi Brothers |
| Composer(s) | Charles Fox Arthur Morton |
| Country of origin | US |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 54 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Charles B. Fitzsimons |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Production company(s) | 20th Century Fox Television |
| Distributor | 20th Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | January 21, 1970 – December 27, 1971 |
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.
Playing upon the popular successes of Mary Poppins and other magical nannies of literature, this TV series posited another ostensibly magical British nanny taking care of a family in need of guidance. Unlike the candid "magicality" of its forebears, this Nanny's paranormal nature was less overt and only implied. The Nanny's young wards, as well as the audience, were left intentionally uncertain of the nature of Nanny's "powers", if any.
The series starred Juliet Mills as Nanny Phoebe Figalilly, Richard Long as Professor Harold Everett, and in season 3 Elsa Lanchester in the recurring role of Aunt Henrietta. Figalilly was housekeeper for Professor Everett as well as nanny to 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.
Nanny was apparently psychic, and had regular flashes of what was often more than intuition (accented by a musical tinkling sound effect); she frequently knew who was at the door before the doorbell 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. On outings, Nanny wore a navy blue Inverness cape and cap that resembled a deerstalker; the program's opening titles showed animations of both. Midway through the first season Nanny and the kids restored a broken down 1930 Model A Ford, which Nanny nicknamed "Arabella"; for some reason the car's radio can only pick up radio broadcasts from 1930.
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