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I've seen all the Nanny and the Professor episodes that my mother had taped, and I quite liked most of them. I intend to watch it again if it ever makes it out on DVD. I was raised watching 'old' shows and not all of the humour was lost on me, as many may suspect. The younger generation CAN enjoy these shows if they're given a chance to appreciate them.

I was born in '70, when this show first aired, so I can only remember watching reruns of it. I always thought it was a great show, and that Juliet Mills was so beautiful, and also a great actress.

Tragically, Trent Lehman ("Butch"), hung himself in 1982, partly because he was distraught over a breakup with his girlfriend.

"Professor" Richard Long, who had previously played "Nick" on "Big Valley," died of a heart attack in 1974, at the relatively young age of 44.

The rest of the cast (Juliet Mills, Kim Richards, and David Doremus) are alive and well today. Mills and Richards are still acting, and Doremus manages a mobile communications company.

Kim Richards will play a waitress in the forthcoming installment of Disney's "Witch Mountain" series. Her former "Witch Mountain" co-star Ike Eisenmann will play a sheriff. It is scheduled to hit the theaters in '09!

Don't know if many of you are aware of this site, but hulu.com has a lot of full Nanny episodes (as well as other TV shows) on its website - and it's free! I just watched the Wiblet episode (Hal invents the Clapper!) and although it's somewhat dated in terms of the hairstyles and clothing, it was fun to watch. Juliet Mills was HOT and Kim Richards looked a lot like Heather O'Rourke. Go check it out. I'll be waiting here. hehehe

This was a wonderful show. I grew up watching this show as a kid and recently saw an episode that my friend had on tape. The show is just as incredible as I remember it being. The casting was perfect too. Let's hope that the seasons will be released on DVD so that our children can also enjoy this classic.

I voted "don't know" I was 15 turning 16 when this show debuted and was so busy drooling over Juliet Mills that I can't remember anything about the show other than her, she was HOT.

Glad to see that there are still people out there who my age and appreciate these shows. I have been seeing many of the old episodes of everything, like this, CAR 54, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Love American Style, McHales Navy, and the other show we all grew up with, we all will likely never see this generation of stuff again! Our kids and this new generation are too immeshed in violence to appreciate this content!.

I loved this show!!! The opening theme song genuinely reflected the way I felt about this whimsical breeze of a short-lived series.Juliet Mills was perfectly cast as the nanny. As a child, I always looked forward to hearing the harpsichord sound (I believe) before she predicted what was about to happen. I hope someone will release this on dvd so we can all relive the magic of nanny!!!

I think the Addrisi brothers' Nanny and The Professor theme song is the grooviest little gem. I remember watching the show as a youth and I thought Nanny was kinda cool and sexy and Prudence was adorable - I wished she was my girlfriend. The Theme song haunted me for years - then I finally found a download of it and have studied it carefully. It's so perfectly crafted; I can't think of a more perfect little song - I don't think any other theme song comes close. Kudos to the Addrisis for this contribution. The show was watchable enough as a kid, but I wonder how well it stands up when viewed nowadays. What is this magic thing about Nanny? Is it love - or is it magic?

this was one of my favorite shows as a kid. ah the age of innocence. the cast was perfect for friday nights on abc. i'd love to see an episode.

The new primetime access law that went into effect in 1971 may have had more blame for this show's demise than ABC. In the 1970-71 season, Nanny aired between The Brady Bunch, then at 7:30 PM ET, and The Partridge Family at 8:30 PM ET. In the fall of 1971, the networks were forced to give up a half-hour of primetime each night Monday thru Saturday, so networks had to give back the 7:30 PM timeslot to their affiliates then. In order for the Brady/Nanny/Partridge shows to continue to air in that order, the Partridge Family would have had to move to 9 PM ET, which was past a lot of young kids' bedtimes, even on Friday night. I suppose that Nanny had the weakest ratings of the three, so it was moved to the deadly Monday night timeslot, before Monday Night Football. Since MNF was carried live across the whole country, Nanny had to be aired after MNF on the West Coast, since MNF started at 6 PM PT, so the show would have been airing past 9 PM there, or moved to another timeslot, and the same likely happened in the Rockies, since MT ran MNF from 7-10 PM local time, which coincides w/ MT primetime, so Nanny was either preempted altogether or aired at some other varying times there. The other night I watched a copy of the show's 4th episode that I got w/ original commercials. It had Joanna Barnes, whom I loved in the original Parent Trap movie, as a child psychologist who persuades Prof. Everett to enroll her kids in a program of hers, since being around Nanny, in her opinion, has led them into flights of fancy. They enroll in her program, and eventually chaos results for reasons that I will not disclose here. The show was a lot of fun to revisit for me.

I loved THE NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR when I was a kid on ABC. Actually, one of the things that made the show so appealing to me is the fact that what Phoebe Figallily was was never really explained. She wasn't a witch like Samantha and she wasn't a Jeannie like Jeannie. She didn't have superpowers like Superman or a utility belt and state of the art technology like Batman. The creators sort of left it to us to try and figure out was so special about Nanny. Juliet Mills was absolutely charming in the title role and worked well with Richard Long as the second half of the title role. David Doremus, Trent Lehman (whose death I only learned about through this site) and Kim Richards were watchable as TV kids go. This was a fun fantasy that never jumped the shark.

I can't be real specific, but I was still in public school when this show aired, and I remember discussing the show in general with a girl who was pretty smart and we agreed that initially we got the feeling the specialness of the nanny was an unexplained, unexplainable thing hovering between positive thinking and psychic ability. But in short order, maybe in the first half dozen episodes, it turned into "magic," and that was an overdone deal by 1970. We likened it to the difference between the The Turn of the Screw movie The Innocents (original nanny, good) and Mary Poppins (later nanny, unsatisfying). I really liked that girl and would have tried to date her but she was going with a college boy or guy in the service or something. I sure could have used a magical nanny! Because "Ever since the nanny came to stay with us, fantastic things keep happening..."

Richard long died in December of 1974. He was not murdered, and his death had nothing to do with the cancellation of the show.

Richard Long's oldest son hit puberty and his voice cracked

Nanny and The Professor Never Jumped the Shark, It was never even given the Chance, TPTB Move it to a crappy spot and away from its cozy place on Friday Nights between the Bradys and the Partridges, But worst of all Richard Long was Stabbed and Killed in a shopping Mall in 1971, so the show had an abrupt ending. As for Juliet Mills being on that crappy show Passions, which it is, at least she's a working actress! The Best eip. Ever was when Hal, Butch found a picture of Nanny being Burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials, in their School History Book!