You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You is an American sitcom television series produced for syndication in 1986. 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) as Penny's younger daughter, Essie. Theodore Wilson appeared as neighbor Durwood Pinner. Although only four episodes were broadcast, 22 episodes were filmed. 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". Cast Harry Morgan as Martin Vanderhof Lisa Aliff as Alice Sycamore Richard Sanders as Paul Sycamore Lois Nettleton as Penny Vanderhof Sycamore Heather Blodgett as Essie Sycamore Theodore Wilson as Darwood Pinner