"Personal Business" is the ninth episode in the first season of the CBS television series The Nanny which was aired on December 29, 1993.
Synopsis[]
Fran becomes a bargaining chip when Maxwell tries to cast a soap star in a new play.
Plot[]
Fran and Maggie arrive down for breakfast, both in the same robe before Niles arrives with a call from Val about Danny, Fran's ex, and Heather Bibles before causing Maxwell to miss a meeting call before he tells Fran to keep her personal feelings out of his business.
After a soap opera star imposes a date with Fran to be on Mr. Sheffield's upcoming play, Maxwell has to re-consider his rule about not mixing personal lives with business. Fran's dream date is a big disappointment after the big star she loves turns out to be a first class jerk.
After the night, Brock's character was killed off the show with Max on the phone to Val about refusing to put another star on his show.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Fran Drescher as Fran Fine
- Lauren Lane as C.C. Babcock
- Daniel Davis as Niles
- Charles Shaughnessy as Maxwell Sheffield
- Nicholle Tom as Margaret Sheffield
- Benjamin Salisbury as Brighton Sheffield
- Madeline Zima as Grace Sheffield
Guest Starring[]
- Renée Taylor as Sylvia Fine
- Ann Morgan Guilbert as Yetta Rosenberg
- Rachel Chagall as Valerie Toriello
Co-Starring[]
- Stephen Nichols as Brock Storm
Quotes[]
- (Fran and Maxwell are having a conversation after she gets back from her date with Brock)
Maxwell: Frankly, Ms. Fine, after the way he treated you I don't care to work with him any more.
Fran: Oh, too bad, 'cause now he could really hit those high notes! Good night, Mr. Sheffield! (Fran walks upstairs)
Brighton: Does that mean she kicked him in the...
Maxwell: (interrupts) Goodnight, Brighton!
Trivia[]
- The episode presented the idea that perverted actors weren't always like their more gentlemanly characters more than two decades before the Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein scandals which led to more revelations about sex abuse in Hollywood. Like Brock Storm, Bill Cosby himself was a television actor. Like Storm, Cosby also played a television doctor, which was also arguably his best known role. However, Cosby's doctor character Heathcliff Huxtable was an obstetrician who was specialized in delivering babies rather than performing medical surgery. Starting in 2014, however, it has been strongly suggested that he sexually abused women behind-the-scenes throughout much of his entertainment career, including many years before Personal Business aired, despite playing characters which at times gave moral lesson lecturing. Cosby would be imprisoned between 2018 and 2021 following a sex abuse conviction and is to this day a subject of numerous sex abuse lawsuits which multiplied after numerous U.S. states enacted statute of limitation reforms.
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