This Beloved '90s Sitcom Is Coming to Hulu

Beloved '90s sitcom The Nanny is coming to Hulu on March 18, nearly 27 years after its cancelation.

The CBS sitcom launched Fran Drescher, who created the series alongside her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, into superstardom. Drescher played Fran Fine, a working-class woman from Queens who ends up becoming a nanny to a wealthy family, the Sheffields. Cue Fine's catchphrase: "Oh Mr. Sheffield..."

'The Nanny's Lasting Legacy

The Nanny ran for six seasons and 146 episodes. Despite being 30 years old, Drescher says people still tell her how much it means to them, which makes its availability on streaming all the more prescient. "A lot of the millennials were kids when they first watched it," the former SAG-AFTRA president told People in January. "Then they grew up, and are realizing how great it was on levels they didn't recognize when they were younger. The clothes, the jokes, the gay humor, the sexual tension, all of that kind of went over their heads."

Drescher based the show off her real life, growing up in deep Queens with an unmistakable nasal accent. "Even my high school theater teacher said, ‘If you’re going to make it, you need to get rid of that voice!'" the Marty Supreme star told People. "I was like, ‘You know what? I’m a pretty girl with a funny voice who can do comedy. That’s my sweet spot. Let’s just call it what it is.'"

For many, The Nanny wasn't just a moment. It was a movement. "When The Nanny first hit our screens in the '90s, she didn't just change television; she redecorated it," Madeline Zima, who played Drescher's stepdaughter on the show, said at Drescher's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. "Suddenly, the working class Jewish women from Queens, they weren't side characters anymore. They were the stars. They were smart. They were sexy. They were hilarious — and they wore Bob Mackie."