I don't know how many times I have typed 'The Nanny DVD (box set)' on various websites, hoping it was released on DVD. Many times, I was disappointed. I just read about the upcoming release of this box set and I couldn't be any happier. The Nanny is one of the best shows, I've seen every episode over and over again..now, I can see them anytime that I want to. Fran Drescher is perfect as Fran Fine, there is just something about her that draws you in to the show. Her voice and whine bring a touch of hilarity to the show, along with Niles' (Daniel Davis) constant bashing on C.C. (Lauren Lane) This show makes you want to watch. It makes you hope that something will finally come about romantically between Fran and Maxwell (Charles Shaughnessy) I haven't even touched on how great this show is. I have a listing for the first season episodes, I think this is what can be expected on this DVD set:
Episode 1.1: Pilot-Fran Fine is fired from her job at a bridal boutique. She then takes a job selling make-up door to door, where she stumbles across the home of Maxwell Sheffield. He is trying to find a nanny for his three children, who recently lost their mother. Maxwell decides to try Fran out.
Episode 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. Fran tries to redeem herself by showing Brighton a real life example of a smoker: her chain-smoking Grandma Yetta.
Episode 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!
Episode 1.4: The Nuchslep-Maggie finally gets a date, but trouble ensues when the date likes Fran more than he likes Maggie.
Episode 1.5: Here Comes the Brood-C.C. tries her hand at taking the children 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 Fines'.
Episode 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 friends that Fran is married to 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!
Episode 1.7: Imaginary Friend-Fran is in big trouble when she accidently eats Grace's imaginary friend, prompting a scolding from Maxwell, and a trip to the shrink for Grace, Maxwell and Fran.
Episode 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, costing her a Christmas cash bonus!
Episode 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".
Episode 1.10: The Nanny-In-Law-When Maxwell's childhood nanny (Cloris Leachman) visits, she is appalled by Fran's unique child care methods.
Episode 1.11: A Plot for Nanny-Fran's mother has a surprise gift for her: a cemetery plot. And it's not exactly a grave undertaking for Fran when she begins dating the gorgeous funeral (Matt McCoy).
Episode 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.
Episode 1.13: Maggie the Model-Maxwell's supermodel old flame (Lesley-Anne Down) returns, prompting Maggie to try to become a model.
Episode 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!
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 1.18: Sunday in the Park with Fran-When Grace is getting bullied by the son of an influential theater critic, 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.
Episode 1.19: The Gym Teacher-Maggie has a new gym teacher: the same tough-as-a-drill-sergeant gym teacher who terrorized Fran in high school. So Fran rides to the rescue and challenges the teacher for Maggie.
Episode 1.20: Ode to Barbara Joan (a.k.a. Daddy Dearest)-C.C.'s father (Robert Culp) invites Fran to a Streisand concert, upsetting C.C.
Episode 1.21: Frannie's Choice-Danny, the guy who originally dumped Fran, gets dumped by his girlfriend, 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.
Episode 1.22: I Don't Remember Mama-Fran encourages Maxwell to *not* try and 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 Pagent".
Your box set collection will not be complete without this. I hope the other seasons are released in this format as well.
**NOTE** It says 24 episodes are on this box set, but all the episode guides I've read have 22 for the first season..so if there are indeed 24, this is all the information I could dig up.