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Until she gets there. Then she freezes up, as do all the other kids, until Nanny arrives with the cookies and explains it's the new teacher's first day too and don't the kids want to help her out? They do, but the new teacher has a lot to learn too, like don't tell a 6-year-old that her nanny is only making up stories about being able to hear what the family dog is saying. Prudence runs to Nanny's arms, and Nanny proposes to the Professor that the new teacher should be invited to dinner, to try to smooth things over with Prudence.

The new teacher comes to meet the family, and the Everett menagerie of dog, hamsters, rooster and goats - and she learns that her own cat is a blabbermouth. As usual with this series, it's a sweet story about a family working out a problem with a little mysterious help from their nanny. Funny, but in this crazy and uncertain December 2020, watching this 50-year-old show just makes me feel better, which is what it was supposed to do, wasn't it?

Prudence (Kim Richards) is anxious for her first day of school. Her father Professor Everett (Richard Long) sits with the nervous child in the classroom, along with a number of other parents. The teacher Miss Laurel Fielding (Katherine Justice) is having a hard time dealing with the class, which is all crying to go home. Nanny (Juliet Mills) is waiting outside with cookies for everyone and tells them it's their teacher's first day of school as well and encourages them to be nice to her. Prudence becomes upset and leaves when her teacher insists the family dog Waldo can't actually talk. The professor has the teacher over for dinner for a chance for Prudence to be more acquainted with her. She isn't the only one.