The Nanny Named Fran Sing-Along

The Nanny is an American situation comedy, co-produced by Sternin & Fraser Ink, Inc. and Highschool Sweethearts Productions in association with TriStar Television for the CBS network. It first aired from November 3, 1993 to June 23, 1999, and starred actress Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a charming and bubbly Jewish Queens native who casually becomes the nanny of three children from the New York upper class. The show’s theme song was written and performed by Ann Hampton Callaway. Created and executive produced by Drescher and her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, The Nanny took much of its inspiration from Drescher’s personal life, involving names and characteristics based on near relatives and friends. The show earned a Rose d’Or and one Emmy Award, out of a total of 13 nominations, and Drescher was twice nominated for a Golden Globe. Since the early 2000s the sitcom has also spawned several foreign adaptations, loosely inspired by the original scripts. The Nanny is primarily based upon the story of nasal-voiced Fran Fine (played by Fran Drescher) who is from Flushing, New York. Fine appears at the doorstep of a wealthy widowed Englishman, Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (played by former Days of our Lives star Charles Shaughnessy), while selling cosmetics. Fran has just been fired from her job as a bridal consultant by her ex-boyfriend, Danny, and Maxwell mistakenly believes that she has been sent by a nanny agency and quickly hires her to be nanny to his three kids …
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