The "magical" Nanny shows up unbidden after the single dad's mischievous children have just driven away another housekeeper (as reprised in Nanny McPhee).
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In character, Mills sometimes wore a navy blue Inverness cape and cap that resembled a deerstalker; the program's opening titles showed animations of both.
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Beginning her career as a radio performer at the age of seven, Garrett is best known for her seven years on Fred Waring's "Pleasure Time" radio show during the 1940s, as well as for her recurring television and film roles; as nosy neighbor Mrs. Florence Fowler on Nanny and the Professor (1970–1971), school secretary Miss Hogarth on Room 222 (1972–1973) and as Mary Gruber in the Benji series of motion pictures beginning in 1974.
According to the story line for Nanny and the Professor, Doremus is the oldest of three children of widowed college professor Harold Everett (played by Richard Long), who hired Phoebe Figalilly (Juliet Mills) as housekeeper and nanny.
He later wrote episodes for Nanny and the Professor and Me and the Chimp and co-created that show with Garry Marshall.