The Nanny STRANGE BEDFELLOWS (Man
MONDAY, MAY 8, 1 995 The Nanny STRANGE BEDFELLOWS (Man. (8), 8-8:30p.m., CBS) Taped in Culver City by Sternin/Fras- er Ink Inc. in association with TriStar Television. Executive producers, Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, Peter Marc Ja- RIETY cobson; co-executive producers, Sally Lapiduss, Pam Eells; producers, Kathy Landsberg, Fran Drescher, Diane Wilke; co-producers, Frank Lombardi, Dana Reston; supervising producers, Eric Cohen, Diane Wilke; director, Dorothy Lyman; writers, Dana Reston, Frank Lombardi; camera, Mikel Neiers; editor, Butler Niles (Daniel Davis) lets Jim McQueen; production designer, Bill Brzeski; art director, Bernard Vyzga; C.C. (Lauren Lane) discover them; sound, Tamar Johnson, John Bickel- the animosity between Niles and haupt; music, Timothy Thompson. C.C. generates some laughs. As Cast: Fran Drescher, Charles Shaugh- nessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane, Ni- usual the only other jokes that con- cholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, Made- nect grow out of Fran's character. line Zima, Tyne Daly, Adeline Drescher, Show's so skewed toward adult Irene Olga Lopez. urban women that others may miss lines. The cross-promotion of ask- lthough they end up shar- ing a group of nannies in the park ing the same bed, Fran "Who's taping Dr. Quinn?" A from Flushing (Fran Dre- doesn't negate it's humor. When scher) and her boss, Maxwell Max offers to buy Fran a retirement (Charles Shaughnessy), aren't condo her main concern is whether the strange bedfellows in Mon- it'll have plantation shutters. day night's above-average epi- sode of "The Nanny." Dre- Things work out for Mona, and scher and Tyne Daly, who guest Niles implies he'll keep scheming stars as a nanny, are the odd to get Fran and Max together for couple — at least at first blush.
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