You Can't Take It with You

Name: You Can't Take It with You
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1987-09-01
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Harry Morgan, Lois Nettleton, Richard Sanders

TV Series
1987–1988
30m

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6.8/10

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Sitcom Comedy

The show takes place in Staten Island, New York. Unlike the stage play and film versions, the TV show was set in the then-modern era of the late 1980s. Martin lives in a Victorian home with ... Read allThe show takes place in Staten Island, New York. Unlike the stage play and film versions, the TV show was set in the then-modern era of the late 1980s. Martin lives in a Victorian home with his daughter Penny, her husband Paul and Essie and Alice, their daughters. Mr. Pinner is a... Read allThe show takes place in Staten Island, New York. Unlike the stage play and film versions, the TV show was set in the then-modern era of the late 1980s. Martin lives in a Victorian home with his daughter Penny, her husband Paul and Essie and Alice, their daughters. Mr. Pinner is a neighbor.

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- Hal Kanter
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6.8/10

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- Hal Kanter
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The original Broadway production of "You Can't Take It With You" by George S. Kaufman opened at the Booth Theater in New York on December 14, 1936, ran for 838 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1937.

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6/10

The One Episode I Remember Was a Simple, Basic Morality Play

I distinctly remember an episode of this show in which Grandpa and Mr. Pinner visit a resort hotel of some kind that had advertised a rate of $25 per day all-inclusive, but then piled on the extras to the tune of hundreds of dollars; Grandpa refused to pay and the two were sent to jail, where they bickered back and forth:

MR. PINNER: "Grandpa! I just had a brainstorm! You pay the bill, and then we write that hotel a real nasty note." GRANDPA: "Tell your brain the storm's over. You want out, you can pay your way out. But I'm not budging until I get my day in court. I don't care if I grow old in here." MR. PINNER: "You are old." GRANDPA: "My. Forty-five minutes in the slammer and some people do forget their party manners."

They eventually get out of jail by alerting the hotel's corporate owner to the scam. Why I remember this so vividly I can't fathom, but it was a nice, clean, simple morality play put on by some veteran actors -- which, apparently, no one else watched. Apparently the episode title, synopsis, and indeed the entire series, are entirely lost to history.