Fran has just been dumped by her fiancé and employer, and is selling cosmetics door-to-door, when she happens to be in the right place at the right time.

When Brighton is caught smoking at school, Fran thinks it might be her fault.

Fran agrees to be made over by Niles and Maxwell in order to host a social.

Fran chaperones Maggie and her date, who ends up being attracted to Fran.

C.C. tells Grace that Fran acts like she loves them only because she's paid to.

Niles poses as Fran's husband to impress her visiting relatives.

Fran and Maxwell face a sticky situation after Fran eats Grace's imaginary friend.

Fran celebrates her first Christmas with the family.

Fran agrees to help Maxwell close a deal by dating a young and restless soap-opera star.

Maxwell's beloved Nanny Mueller makes herself at home, but makes Fran feel insecure.

Fran begins dating a funeral director she meets through her mother.

Fran directs Grace's school production until Maxwell takes over.

A former model sets up a photo test for Maggie, but Fran is pushed out of the picture.

Fran catches her young cousin kissing Brighton in the bathtub.

Fran has to have her tonsils removed, so Maxwell puts CC's reunion on hold to await the outcome of Fran's surgery.

On the way to catch a flight to the islands, heavy snow maroons the family at Fran's parents' home in Queens.

Fran plans a wedding for Maxwell's sister, but she's in love with her chauffeur, not her fiancé.

Fran has a run-in with the son of the town's toughest critic, and that could be catastrophic for Maxwell and CC's new play.

Maggie's tyrannical gym teacher is Fran's former one; Maxwell hires an abrasive megastar.

Fran accepts a proposal from the guy who once dumped her.

Fran and Grace enter a mother-daughter pageant at the country club.

Maxwell dates a woman with a striking resemblance to Fran.

A man whom Fran snubbed in high school has written a play and threatens to jump off a ledge unless Maxwell reads it.

Grandma Yetta stays with Fran and the Sheffields while her retirement home is being fumigated.

Fran goes out with a much older rich man.

Gracie's Red Robin troop goes to Grandma Yetta's retirement home to "adopt" a grandparent. When Gracie's first and second picks pass away, it sours her on scouting.

On the subway, a Russian immigrant accidentally leaves her baby, and Fran picks it up, believing it to be abandoned.

A director plans to sabotage his production of "Romeo and Juliet" by casting Fran in the lead role.

Maxwell has Fran pretend to be C.C. in order to get theatrical backing from a man C.C. attacked to get a cab.

Fran gives Maxwell a stock tip that turns out to be from a hot dog vendor.

C.C.'s vision for a romantic weekend hit a snag when she and Fran end up locked inside Maxwell's wine cellar together.

Fran inadvertently persuades an obnoxious child star, who's set to star in Maxwell's revival of "Oliver!", to give up show business.

Maggie is upset when Fran inherits a mink coat. Fran decides to give it up to appease Maggie, but Sylvia won't hear of it.

There's a busboy strike going on at the cast party for Maxwell's latest play. When Fran refuses to cross the picket line, a photo of Maxwell dragging her out of the line makes the news.

Maxwell refuses to divulge the identity of the celebrity recuperating from surgery in the Sheffields' house.

Fran receives a surprise when Sylvia sends in a long-lost "Win a Date With Erik Estrada" contest entry form.

After Brighton joins Sylvia's canasta team, Fran is dumped from it.

Maxwell draws up a will which states that Fran will remain nanny in the event of his death. Meanwhile, she thinks that a fax of a potential client's heart-sensitive diet given to Niles is really for Maxwell.

In an attempt to score a play by award-winning playwright Dakota Williams, Fran and Maxwell set him up to go out with Yetta. The romantic sparks are there—but the play's script may not be.

Fran strikes up a friendship with a male nanny whom she erroneously assumes is gay.

C.C. plans to move into feature film production with a star vehicle for Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop. When Shari and Lamb Chop visit the Sheffield mansion, C.C.'s dog Chester tries to eat Lamb Chop.

Maggie is a candy striper at the hospital. When she takes off to go on a date, Fran fills in for her and must shave Maxwell for an appendectomy.

Maxwell hears Niles singing and asks him to sing for his backers' audition. Meanwhile, Fran clashes with her sister Nadine.

Maggie is upset when Fran beats her in a kissing contest. The winner is to appear on an album cover with Billy Ray Cyrus.

Fran worries about her future when Mona, one of her fellow nannies, retires to Florida. The night of Mona's goodbye party, Fran gets drunk and staggers into Maxwell's bed.

Maggie receives a party invitation so Fran takes her to her favorite beauty salon. Fran gets a job there for an actress who loses a Sheffield audition.

An valuable Shakespearian document is taken from Fran when she is mugged in New York's Central Park.

When Maxwell's mother wants him to get rid of Fran, Maxwell reacts by proposing to Fran who makes him feel very guilty for using her.

Fran wants to have a baby, husband or not.

Brighton faints while filming Fran's cousin's bris and Fran sends it to Hollywood. Everybody visits Hollywood and Fran keeps getting thrown off the Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman set.

After Fran beats him in tennis, Maxwell is feeling old and goes out and buys a younger image and a sports car.

Fran and Maxwell find themselves on a desert island after falling off their honeymoon yacht.

While trying to learn to live together Fran agrees to be less forward if Maxwell will learn to be less uptight. They both tryout their new personalities at a business dinner meeting.

Brighton wants to go to Atlantic City and his father is totally against it. Fran finds herself torn between being nanny and wife.

Fran dreads a visit by Sara's parents.

Fran couldn't be happier with Maggie's rich, handsome, Jewish, model boyfriend, but when they decide to move in together, Maxwell wants Fran to put her foot down.