Nanny and the Professor: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Nanny and the Professor Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Oh, What a Tangled Web
Sep 13, 1971
Hal falls madly for Bunny, a swinging chick who comes on to him during a Sadie Hawkins dance. ""You look just like Robert Redford!"" exclaims Bunny. Hal is smitten by Bunny's femi
The Flower Children
Sep 20, 1971
Prudence tries to get her seeds to grow faster while the Professor upsets his new girl friend when he doesn't try to save a dying tree.
Sunday's Hero
Sep 27, 1971
The Professor tries to get out of playing football with his friends.
South Sea Island Sweetheart
Oct 4, 1971
Nanny's Uncle Horace (Ray Bolger) visits from the South Seas to perform a rain dance in order to cure a drought.
Aunt Henrietta's Premonition
Oct 11, 1971
Nanny's pychic aunt (Elsa Lanchester) predicts Nanny will be menaced by a man with a mustache.
Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh
Oct 18, 1971
Nanny's fiance arrives to claim her hand in marriage. The marriage had been arranged by their families on the day Nanny was born. They ask the Professor if he will give the bride
Aunt Henrietta and the Jinx
Nov 15, 1971
Butch, thinking he is a jinx, is given a good luck charm from Nanny's Aunt Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester)
Nanny and Her Witch's Brew
Nov 1, 1971
Nanny is accused of being a witch. (30 years later actress Juliet Mills will portray on witch on the daytime drama Passions)
The Conversion of Brother Ben
Nov 8, 1971
The Professors RICH brother (Robert Sterling) donates two million dollars to his brothers college.
Aunt Henrietta and the Poltergeist
Oct 25, 1971
Aunt Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester) believes there is a ghost in the house because the furniture is disarranged every night.
Professor Pygmalion Plays Golf
Nov 23, 1971
Hal enters a golf tournement using strange clubs given to him by Nanny
The Great Debate
Nov 29, 1971
Nanny and Hal help the Professor keep a basketball player from failing math.
Good-bye, Arabella, Hello
Dec 13, 1971
Nanny trades in her old car ""Arabella"" for a new one
Whatever Happened to Felicity?
Dec 27, 1971
Prudence, being ignored by her brothers, becomes attached to Nanny's old doll.