The Babysitter is a 1980 American made-for-television drama horror thriller film directed by Peter Medak and starring Patty Duke Astin, William Shatner and Stephanie Zimbalist about a young girl hired as a live-in nanny who infiltrates and tries to destroy a suburban Seattle family. The film originally premiered as The ABC Friday Night Movie on November 28, 1980. The film is rated M in New Zealand for violence, horror, drug use and sex scenes.