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S4.E1 ∙ The Tart with Heart

Tue, Sep 17, 1996

Upon returning home from Paris, Fran couldn't be happier when C.C. says Maxwell just hired her for her looks. To find out if this is true, Fran tries dating a blind guy. Meanwhile Maxwell tries to back-peddle after what he told Fran on the plane.

7.4 /10

S4.E2 ∙ The Cradle Robbers

Tue, Sep 24, 1996

After Maxwell tells Fran to make Maggie break up with a 25 year old, Fran starts dating his same age friend.

7.3 /10

S4.E3 ∙ The Bird's Nest

Tue, Sep 24, 1996

Despite Mr. Sheffield's objections Fran helps Brighton with his science project. He plans on hatching some bird eggs, but Fran waits too long and hard boils them.

7.9 /10

S4.E4 ∙ The Rosie Show

Tue, Oct 08, 1996

After getting picked from the audience for the Rosie Show, Fran finds herself a regular, giving parenting advice. As her celebrity grows, Maxwell becomes afraid he's going to lose her.

6.8 /10

S4.E5 ∙ Freida Needa Man

Tue, Oct 15, 1996

With Aunt Freida broke, she moves into the Sheffield mansion. Fran's solution is to get her boyfriend to propose, but instead he has a heart attack.

7.8 /10

S4.E6 ∙ Me and Mrs. Joan

Tue, Oct 29, 1996

Fran tries to have Maxwell and his father make peace by inviting the secretary that broke up his parent's marriage to dinner.

7.7 /10

S4.E7 ∙ The Taxman Cometh

Tue, Nov 05, 1996

Fran is watching Jay Leno's dog and getting audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

6.8 /10

S4.E8 ∙ An Affair to Dismember

Tue, Nov 12, 1996

With Maxwell busy it's up to Fran to show his brother Nigel around New York. Nigel is enchanted and proposes to Fran.

7.5 /10

S4.E9 ∙ Tattoo

Tue, Nov 19, 1996

While lecturing Maggie about not getting a tattoo, Val lets it slip that she and Fran got one when they were teenagers. Now Mr. Sheffield is dying to know where it is.

7.6 /10

S4.E10 ∙ The Car Show

Tue, Dec 10, 1996

Mr. Sheffield won't get Maggie a car, so she convinces Fran to enter a beauty contest to win her one.

7.6 /10

S4.E11 ∙ Hurricane Fran

Tue, Dec 17, 1996

When Fran takes a vacation with Val to get away from her job and the kids, a hurricane hits their tropical paradise.

6.7 /10

S4.E12 ∙ Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will?

Tue, Jan 07, 1997

Fran attends the funeral of her former intended and wonders if she is going to be left alone in the world.

7.9 /10

S4.E13 ∙ Kissing Cousins

Tue, Jan 14, 1997

Fran can't believe her luck when she meets a rich Jewish doctor at a wedding, and they begin dating; that is, until Fran's mother meets him.

8 /10

S4.E14 ∙ The Fifth Wheel

Tue, Jan 28, 1997

Fran, Val and C.C. all go out together and Fran is the only one who doesn't find a date.

7.7 /10

S4.E15 ∙ The Nose Knows

Tue, Feb 04, 1997

Fran gets very upset with Maxwell when she finds him making out in the living room with his date. Fran is told by her therapist that she is treating him like her husband rather than her boss.

7.7 /10

S4.E16 ∙ The Bank Robbery

Tue, Feb 11, 1997

While at a bank, Fran and her mother becomes hostages to a very inept bank robber. Fran starts to become very good friends with the gentleman.

8.3 /10

S4.E17 ∙ Samson, He Denied Her

Tue, Feb 18, 1997

Fran and C.C. sit on a jury of a case that mirrors Fran's life.

7.6 /10

S4.E18 ∙ The Facts of Lice

Tue, Mar 04, 1997

Fran thinks that Niles is plotting a murder when she finds a piece of paper he wrote with incriminating words. When she gives it back to him, he harshly questions her and threatens her if she read it.

8.1 /10

S4.E19 ∙ Fran's Roots

Tue, Mar 11, 1997

A woman shows up claiming to be Fran's mother due to a mix-up at the hospital.

7.3 /10

S4.E20 ∙ The Nanny & the Hunk Producer

Tue, Apr 01, 1997

A tabloid publishes a story that Fran and Maxwell have been having an affair since before his wife died. Fran is more upset that that fact means she is over 40, which she isn't.

7.3 /10

S4.E21 ∙ The Passed-Over Story

Tue, Apr 08, 1997

Maxwell hires Fran's old classmate for his latest production and Maggie wants to be her personal assistant. The Sheffields join the Fines for Passover.

7.3 /10

S4.E22 ∙ No Muse Is Good Muse

Tue, Apr 22, 1997

Fran will do anything to get her song lyrics to a new rock star. They bond, but she finds that Val is a better muse.

7 /10

S4.E23 ∙ You Bette Your Life

Tue, Apr 29, 1997

Fran is involved with a charity auction hosted by Maxwell and Bette Midler. Fran takes a child prodigy to Yetta's nursing home and the death of a resident so traumatizes the child that he swears he will never play the piano again.

7.3 /10

S4.E24 ∙ The Heather Biblow Story

Tue, May 06, 1997

The woman who stole Fran's job and fiance now has a job on "The Young and the Restless." Fran steals that job from her and she takes Fran's nanny job instead.

7.6 /10

S4.E25 ∙ The Boca Story

Tue, May 13, 1997

When Fran takes Sylvia to Boca to look at her condo all they find is a swamp.

7.4 /10

S4.E26 ∙ Fran's Gotta Have It

Tue, May 20, 1997

Fran follows Maxwell to London and after a wonderful afternoon they almost commit to each other until they learn that Niles has had a heart attack. C.C. realizes that she doesn't hate Niles as much as she appears to.

8.3 /10