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Nostalgic TV: Nanny & The Professor
Jul. 15th, 2010 08:52 amLife with the new Mac Mini has been great. One of the few (and very few) complaints was the sound, which is only the one speaker and not good for music listening or movie watching. The new computer speakers are working out well for that as I've been watching a lot of Hulu now that the speakers are here and hooked up.
Shows from the 1970's have always been favorites of mine. One of the shows that I've been watching on Hulu of late is Nanny & The Professor.
It's a simple family show really. A British nanny, Phoebe Figalilly, (Juliet Mills) mysteriously appears at the home of a mathematics professor (Richard Long) soon after his three children have run off yet another nanny. With no reference checks (something no parent would do today), the professor agrees to let the nanny stay and finds that she controls the children quite well.
Nanny has some unusual skills. She's apparently psychic and can converse with animals, though she never freely admits this. She also seems to be able to influence the things around her to her advantage -- such as causing televisions to turn off when she needs someone's attention or having the phone ring to deliver a message at a critical moment. It's different from Samantha of Bewitched. She doesn't do this with a gesture or any particular activity to make you think she did it purposefully, but it seems to happen coincidentally, coined by some small musical notes.
I love to hear Juliet Mills' voice in the show, her British accent is very sweet. Richard Long was a good looking man. Sadly, the show only ran for three seasons (and some of them partial) and from what I've read the cancellation of the series might have been due more to bad timeslot placement. The show isn't on DVD, but you can buy the first season on Amazon for download and watch the first two seasons on Hulu.
Shows from the 1970's have always been favorites of mine. One of the shows that I've been watching on Hulu of late is Nanny & The Professor.It's a simple family show really. A British nanny, Phoebe Figalilly, (Juliet Mills) mysteriously appears at the home of a mathematics professor (Richard Long) soon after his three children have run off yet another nanny. With no reference checks (something no parent would do today), the professor agrees to let the nanny stay and finds that she controls the children quite well.
Nanny has some unusual skills. She's apparently psychic and can converse with animals, though she never freely admits this. She also seems to be able to influence the things around her to her advantage -- such as causing televisions to turn off when she needs someone's attention or having the phone ring to deliver a message at a critical moment. It's different from Samantha of Bewitched. She doesn't do this with a gesture or any particular activity to make you think she did it purposefully, but it seems to happen coincidentally, coined by some small musical notes.
I love to hear Juliet Mills' voice in the show, her British accent is very sweet. Richard Long was a good looking man. Sadly, the show only ran for three seasons (and some of them partial) and from what I've read the cancellation of the series might have been due more to bad timeslot placement. The show isn't on DVD, but you can buy the first season on Amazon for download and watch the first two seasons on Hulu.
