| You Can't Take It with You | |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Based on | You Can't Take It with You by George Kaufman & Moss Hart |
| Developed by | Hal Kanter |
| Directed by | Bob LaHendro |
| Starring |
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| Composer | Tom Bahler |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Pamela Rosser Sid Smith Chris Hart Larry Patterson |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production companies | Harps Productions Procter & Gamble Productions LBS Communications |
| Original release | |
| Network | Syndicated |
| Release | September 16, 1987 – 1988 |
| Related | |
| You Can't Take It with You (1936 play) | |
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You Can't Take It with You is an American sitcom television series produced for syndication[1] in 1986.[2][3] It was based on the 1938 film adaptation of the 1937 play by the same name.
Set in a contemporaneous home in Staten Island, the show starred Harry Morgan as the eccentric elderly family patriarch Martin Vanderhof, and Lois Nettleton as his daughter, Penny. The cast also included Richard Sanders as Penny's inventor-husband Paul, Lisa Aliff as Penny's older daughter, Alice, and Heather Blodgett (Elizabeth Townsend in the pilot)[2] as Penny's younger daughter, Essie. Theodore Wilson appeared as neighbor Durwood Pinner.[2][3]
As of 2019[update] some episodes are available to watch on various content streaming services. One review of the show noted that the play from which the material for the show was originally adapted "will be remembered long after this routine comedy is not".[3]