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Nanny gets her first real problem to confront with the children when she learns that Prudence has been having nightmares about a monster called the wiblet. Trying to convince her it isn't real hasn't worked, and Nanny reminds her father that to Prudence it is real - as real as the monster Nanny confronted when she was a child (the globbamore). As real as the monster the Professor's date (Joanna Moore) dealt with when she was a child (the dinklebilly). The way to defeat the wiblet is to confront it and see how funny it is - which Hal and Butch manage to pull off although not exactly as they planned. Trent Lehman, as Butch, gets a nice round of slapstick comedy in this episode, and Hal invents "the clapper" fifteen years before it was invented and marketed in the real world. As usual, a sweet episode built around real life and a real world family situation.

Prudence (Kim Richards) is having nightmares about a monster called Wiblet. Nanny (Juliet Mills) encourages the concept, much to Professor Everett's (Richard Long) dismay. She tells Prudence ways to make the Wiblet appear and in a way that makes the creature seem silly, effectively losing its terror for the child. Prudence's brothers Hal (David Doremus) and Butch (Trent Lehman) unsuccessfully uses a frightening mask to trick her and Nanny. When the professor goes out to dinner with a colleague Dr. Alice Miller (smoky-voiced Southern beauty Joanna Moore, "Touch of Evil") they return to chaos. Could the Wiblet really exist in an unexpected form? There is a nice tactic of dealing with a child's nightmares, but otherwise I found this episode a little difficult in keeping my interest.