Aired: 1970-71
DAD: Professor Howard Everett (Richard Long) / Widower
DAD’S JOB: Math Professor
KIDS: Hal(David Doremus) (12), Butch (Trent Lehman) (8), Prudence (Kim Richards) (5)
WHERE’S MOM?: Dead a few years. Unknown cause.
STAND-IN “MOM”: Phoebe Figalilly (Juliet Mills) – “Nanny”
Nanny & The Professor represented a “last hurrah” for Sixties-style TV Single Dads; in fact, it barely made it into the Seventies. The story was a thinly-veiled ripoff of Disney’s Mary Poppins, with the added spin of a Single Dad in the mix.
ABC ran the boards in the early 70’s with multitudes of single and recombinant TV parent sitcoms such as The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, and the aforementioned Getting Together.
A slight casting irony – – TV Single Dad Richard Long was returning to television after a four-year run on one of the most famous TV Single *Mom* shows: The Big Valley.