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Costas Mandylor, Angie Everhart, and Christopher Atkins headline this thriller about a traumatized big city cop who moves his family to the country in hopes of forgetting his violent past, only to be targeted for death by the same psychopath responsible for killing his partner. After seeing his partner murdered during a drug bust gone awry, Sean was certain that his fellow officers would do everything in their power to ensure that justice was served. When internal politics within the police force threaten to prevent this from happening, a dejected Sean makes the decision to leave the city behind and move his wife and daughter to a modest ranch in the country. Meanwhile, the maniac who murdered Sean's partner stages a daring escape from prison, and he's determined to take out the man responsible for putting him there in the first place. Out in the country, Sean and his family are sitting ducks. As the killer closes in, Sean finds himself reluctantly dragged back into the violent world he had once tried so hard to escape. But this time the odds are greater than ever before, leaving Sean with no choice but to take drastic action for the sake of his frightened family. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Season five of The Nanny ended with newlyweds Fran Fine (Fran Drescher) and Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy) both falling over the rail of their honeymoon cruise ship. The opening episode of the series' sixth and final season reveals that Fran and Maxwell have managed to avoid a watery grave by swimming to a deserted island. But before the series can evolve into a neo-Gilligan's Island, the couple is rescued and flown back to New York City, where Fran promptly adopts Maxwell's three children: 22-year-old Maggie (Nicholle Tom), 16-year-old Brighton (Benjamin Salisbury), and 12-year-old Grace (Madeline Zima). In a later two-part episode, our heroine is told that there will soon be one more youngster in the Sheffield household -- but alas, Fran's obstetrician, Dr. Reynolds (Nora Dunn), informs Fran that her pregnancy test was a "false positive." Having not succeeded, Fran and Maxwell try, try again, and in the episode "The Yummy Mummy" it is confirmed beyond all doubt that Fran is "with child." Ultimately, she gives birth to twins in the series finale, which also establishes the fact that the Sheffield family will soon be relocating to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Maxwell's butler, Niles (Daniel Davis), who has spent the past six years in a war of insults with his boss' bitchy business partner, C.C. (Laura Lane), surprises everyone -- himself included -- by asking C.C. to become his wife. Her first impulse is to laugh in his face, which she does; but given time to think, she realizes that she and Niles are made for each other. Although this would the last season of The Nanny, there was no slackening of the series' commitment to featuring celebrity guest stars as "themselves." This year's crop of big names includes Whoopi Goldberg, Lynn Redgrave, former Beverly Hillbillies leading lady Donna Douglas, game show host Bob Goen -- and, in the episode "The Baby Shower," Fran Drescher herself! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

As season three of the CBS sitcom The Nanny drew to a close, widowed Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy) was stammering out the words "I love you" to Fran Fine (Fran Drescher), a Jewish gal from Queens who for the past several years had been working as the nanny for Maxwell's three children. But as season four commences, Maxwell panics and takes the words back! Sent into an emotional spiral, Fran consults a therapist named Dr. Miller (played by legendary monologist Spalding Gray), who tells her that she should put the kibosh on her insatiable man-chasing -- words that do not sit too well with Fran's mother, Sylvia (Renee Taylor), who is anxious to marry off her daughter post-haste. Despite the cooling off of her relationship with Maxwell, Fran continues to work in the Sheffield town house, enduring the taunts and put-downs of Maxwell's female business partner, C.C. (Laura Lane), who is laboring under the misapprehension that she can get her own lunchhooks into Maxwell. As it turns out, however, the main man in C.C.'s life may very well be her worst enemy -- namely, Maxwell's sarcastic butler, Niles (Daniel Davis). This year's guest star crop includes Seinfeld's Jason Alexander, cast against type as a blind man in the season opener, "A Tart With Heart"; Nora Dunn, who would later join the series' cast as obstetrician Dr. Reynolds, but in the meantime is seen as Mrs. Richardson in "The Bird's Nest"; Donald O'Connor as a millionaire to whom Fran gives dancing lessons (!) in "Frieda Needa Man"; Robert Vaughn as Maxwell's dad and Joan Collins as Maxwell's new mother-in-law in "Me and Mrs. Joan"; Pamela Anderson, introduced as Fran's gold-digging archrival Heather Biblow in "Danny 's Dead and Who's Got the Will?"; and future Daily Show host Jon Stewart as a Jewish doctor whom Fran gets serious about until she learns a startling fact about him in "Kissing Cousins." And, of course, a number of celebrities show up as "themselves": Rosie O'Donnell, Jay Leno, Monty Hall, Donald Trump, and Celine Dion, to name but a few. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Moving from Wednesdays to Mondays, The Nanny begins its second season on CBS, with Fran Drescher as the title character. Offering 26 episodes this season (up from the previous year's 22), the series provides ample time and space for abrasive, down-to-earth Fran Fine (Drescher) to gleefully upset the decorum of the posh town house owned by her widowed employer, Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy). Despite Fran's million-and-one social gaffes, Maxwell could never bring himself to fire her as the family's nanny, especially since his children, Maggie (Nicholle Tom), Brighton (Benjamin Salisbury), and Grace (Madeline Zima), dote upon our heroine. Even the Sheffields' haughty butler, Niles (Daniel Davis), has warmed up to Fran, if for no other reason than she provides a potential threat to Niles' sworn enemy: Maxwell's bitchy, predatory business partner C.C. Babock (Laura Lane) -- who has been trying to manipulate Maxwell into marriage for years. This season, the possibility begins to arise that the relationship between Fran and Maxwell will eventually blossom into something more than "strictly business." The first clue occurs in the season opener, "Fran-Lite, in which Fran encourages Maxwell to re-enter the dating scene, only to have him go out with a woman who is exactly like her! Other episodes of note include "Everybody Needs a Bubby," in which Fran's freewheeling grandmother Yetta (Ann Morgan Guilbert) briefly moves into the Sheffield household (and now it's Fran's turn to go into the "snob" act!); "A Star Is Born," in which Fran finds herself on-stage playing Juliet, with Fran Drescher's then real-life husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, as Romeo; and the season finale, "Fran Gets Mugged," which not only offers a delightful spin on an old urban legend, but also sets up a situation whereby Fran and Maxwell come very, very close to exchanging their first romantic kiss. As in the previous season, The Nanny exploits the fact that Maxwell Sheffield is supposed to be a major producer by featuring several celebrity guest stars, cast as "themselves": Bob Barker, Sally Jessy Raphael, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Shari Lewis, and Billy Ray Cyrus, to name but a few. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Season one of The Nanny begins as the cheerfully abrasive Fran Fine (Fran Drescher) is fired from her job at her ex-fiancé's bridal store in Queens. Taking a new job selling cosmetics door to door, Fran ends up in the foyer of the lavish Manhattan town house owned by British-born Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy). Mistaking Fran as an applicant for the job of nanny, Sheffield's haughty butler, Niles (Daniel Davis), escorts our overwhelmed heroine into the house -- and before you can say "Oy gevalt!," Fran has accepted the nanny position, tackling the not inconsiderable task of caring for Maxwell's children: 14-year-old Maggie (Nicholle Tom), ten-year-old Brighton (Benjamin Salisbury), and six-year-old Grace (Madeline Zima). Although both Maxwell and Niles are aghast at Fran's manners -- or lack of same -- Niles would rather have Fran in the house than Maxwell's bitchy, predatory business partner C.C. Babcock (Laura Lane). Quickly establishing the series' predilection for guest stars, season one of The Nanny finds Cloris Leachman cast as Maxwell's former governess in the episode "The Nanny-in-Law," Andy Dick in a dual role in "Maggie the Model," Rita Moreno as the title character in "The Gym Teacher," and even Fran Drescher's real-life mother, Sylvia Drescher, who shows up in family home movies in "I Don't Remember Mama." Also, allowing for the fact that Maxwell Sheffield is a major showbiz mover-and-shaker, a handful of celebrities appear as themselves during The Nanny's maiden season, among them Carol Channing and Patti LaBelle. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

This ultra low-budget production made in Dallas seems to not take itself very seriously. A group of computer geeks become masked vigilantes and use the power of their machines to dispense punishment to those they deem guilty of crimes against society. ~ Mark Hockley, Rovi