Nanny and the Professor
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Nanny and the Professor was a 1970s U.S. fantasy sitcom that was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television. The series first aired on January 21, 1970 and was last telecast on December 27, 1971 on ABC. Later, the series enjoyed a brief run in syndication.
Premise
The series starred Juliet Mills as Nanny Phoebe Figalilly, Richard Long as Professor Harold Everett, and veteran character actress 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. Figalilly watched over Professor Everett and his three children: Hal, the intellectual tinkerer, played by David Doremus, Butch, the middle child, played by the late Trent Lehman, and Prudence, the youngest, played by Kim Richards. The opening theme song described Figalilly as, "Soft and sweet, wise and wonderful.. mystical, magical Nanny." Midway through the brief first season, a yellow 1930 Model A Ford, "Arabella," joined the series.Trivia
- A clip of the show's opening theme can be seen in the 1996 film "Waiting To Exhale."
- In 2005 Mills would revisit her former character in an episode of Passions, in which her current character Tabitha Lenox would bring a doll to life...Phoebe Figalilly! (except it would be Mill's real-life daughter that would play the role).
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