Elizabeth Taylor brought a different kind of backstage spectacle and demands to the hit sitcom The Nanny when she made a guest appearance. It was one of four guest appearances Taylor made in one night of television for CBS in 1996. The Monday comedy night lineup had Taylor appearing in The Nanny, Can’t Hurry Love, Murphy Brown, and High Society.
In the Season 7 episode of The Nanny, “Where’s the Pearls?” which aired February 26, 1996, the then 64-year-old Taylor starred as herself. When Taylor arrived to meet Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy) she was, of course, greeted by an overly excited Fran Fine (Fran Drescher), which led to a series of awkward star-struck moments (including Fran’s onscreen mother hiding in the closet and Niles barely able to talk).