It Had to Be You is an American sitcom starring Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...

 and Robert Urich

Robert Urich

Robert Urich was an American actor. He played the starring roles in the television series Vega$ and Spenser: For Hire...

. The series premiered September 19, 1993 on CBS

CBS

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. It centered on Dunaway's character, a Network

Network (film)

Network is a 1976 American satirical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor ratings. The film was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet...

-like businesswoman, who hires blue-collar Urich (a single father of three boys) to do some carpentry work at her New York office, and their ensuing romance. Music by Stephen James Taylor.

The theme song was the 1924 hit It Had to Be You

It Had to Be You

It Had to Be You may refer to:* It Had to Be You * It Had to Be You * It Had to Be You * It Had to Be You! * It Had to Be You * "It Had to Be You"...

 written by Isham Jones

Isham Jones

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Cast

• Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...
  
  .....Laura Scofield
• Robert Urich
  Robert Urich
  Robert Urich was an American actor. He played the starring roles in the television series Vega$ and Spenser: For Hire...
  
  .....Mitch Quinn
• Robin Bartlett
  Robin Bartlett
  Robin Bartlett is an American actress who grew up in Switzerland.She was formerly married to the actor Alan Rosenberg....
  
  .....Eve Parkin
• Justin Whalin
  Justin Whalin
  Justin Garrett Whalin is an American actor best known for his role as Jimmy Olsen in the American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.-Early life:...
  
  .....David Quinn
• Will Estes
  Will Estes
  Will Estes is an American actor best known for his role as JJ Pryor, on the NBC drama American Dreams. In 2010, he joined the cast of Tom Selleck's new CBS police drama Blue Bloods...
  
  .....Christopher Quinn
• Justin Jon Ross.....Sebastian Quinn

Production

Four episodes were aired before the show went into hiatus. Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway is an American actress.Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...

 was pulled from the series, and a new pilot was ordered with Robin Bartlett

Robin Bartlett

Robin Bartlett is an American actress who grew up in Switzerland.She was formerly married to the actor Alan Rosenberg....

 in the lead. The revised version of the series never aired. The series was produced by Lorimar Television

Lorimar Productions

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Episodes

Nine episodes are registered with the United States Copyright Office

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Reception

Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly

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rated the series a C+ and called it "one of the season's vaguest, most ambivalent new sitcoms". Tucker described the casting of "odd-couple lovers" Urich and Dunaway as "almost perversely capricious". CBS cancelled the series in October 1993 after only four episodes due to low ratings.