Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

A conservative father butts heads with his family on various social attitudes of the day.

5.7 / 10
1972
3 seasons
48 episodes
AnimationComedy

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home chronicles the lives of the Boyles, your average 1970's American family. Harry Boyle, the father, owns a restaurant supply company. His wife Irma portrays the typical housewife, with an occasional independent flare. Harry and Irma have three children: Chet, Alice, and Jamie. Chet, who is 22, is a college dropout, who spends most of his time sleeping. Alice is a rather robust 16-year-old, who teams up with her mother, to display the independence of women, in the 70's. Jamie is the Capitalist of the family, even though he is only 9. The show is set in the suburbs of Los Angeles, on Elm Street, to be precise. During the 1973 season, the show was host to many celebrity voices, including: Don Knotts, Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur and many more (many of these guests were carried over from The New Scooby-Doo Movies, which were recored at this time).

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Seasons

  • The Fling

    1.The Fling

    12-09-1972

    Restaurant-equipment dealer Harry Boyle helps a sexy female customer move into her apartment, prompting everyone around him to think that Harry is cheating on his wife, Irma.

  • Alice's Dress

    2.Alice's Dress

    19-09-1972

    The Boyles are invited to a party. Alice decides to buy a dress for the event, but it turns out to be way too revealing.

  • The Hippie

    3.The Hippie

    26-09-1972

    Chet befriends a hippie musician, which drives his family crazy and prompts Ralph and his anti-Communist Army buddies to create a wall around the neighborhood to keep out all hippi...

  • The Beach Vacation

    4.The Beach Vacation

    03-09-1972

    The Boyles rent a beach house, but things get complicated when Alice wants to wear a string bikini and Harry must decide whether or not to press charges against a nude sunbather wh...

  • Help Wanted

    5.Help Wanted

    10-10-1972

    Harry gets into trouble with special-interest groups when he fires his Jewish driver and must choose between hiring someone who is right for the job versus hiring someone in order...

  • Love Story

    6.Love Story

    17-10-1972

    Alice shocks her family again by dating a homeless man named Norman, but when Harry and Irma find out that Norman has rich parents, they push Alice into staying with him.

  • The Victim

    7.The Victim

    24-10-1972

    Harry gets mugged and beaten in the park by a young criminal. While Harry and Ralph want the young criminal to be locked away, Chet and Alice want Harry to go soft on his assailant...

  • Chet's Job

    8.Chet's Job

    31-10-1972

    Harry gives his slacker son, Chet, an ultimatum: either find a job and pay rent or get out of the house. Chet decides to find a job — and ends up earning more than his father as a...

  • Chet's Fiancee

    9.Chet's Fiancee

    07-11-1972

    Chet dates a young, attractive decent young woman named Prudence and brings her home to meet Harry and Irma...and ends up shocking everyone when he tells Prudence that he does not...

  • The Mouse

    10.The Mouse

    14-11-1972

    Jamie brings home a pet mouse. After being told that he can't keep it, the mouse escapes. Jamie blames Harry, and then he runs away.

  • Duty Calls

    11.Duty Calls

    21-10-1972

    Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.

  • Expectant Papa

    12.Expectant Papa

    28-11-1972

    Irma worries that she may be pregnant again, which does not sit well with Chet and Alice, who feel the world is too overpopulated.

  • The New Car

    13.The New Car

    05-12-1972

    The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them.

  • The New House

    14.The New House

    12-12-1972

    The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.

  • The Prowler

    15.The Prowler

    19-12-1972

    Ralph starts a neighborhood vigilante group in order to fight back against a burglar who has been breaking into houses in the Boyles' neighborhood.

  • Mama's Identity

    16.Mama's Identity

    26-12-1972

    In an attempt to be more than just a housewife and mother, Irma takes a job as a secretary at a law firm, but struggles with sexual discrimination and competition from a younger, p...

  • Papa the Patient

    17.Papa the Patient

    02-01-1973

    Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.

  • The Swimming Pool

    18.The Swimming Pool

    09-01-1973

    Harry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it.

  • Sweet Sixteen

    19.Sweet Sixteen

    16-01-1973

    Irma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it.

  • The Commune

    20.The Commune

    23-01-1973

    Alice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stresses of school and home life.

  • Music Tycoon

    21.Music Tycoon

    30-01-1973

    Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle.

  • Accidents Will Happen

    22.Accidents Will Happen

    06-02-1973

    Harry splits his pants after slipping in a restaurant. Everyone advises Harry to sue, but Harry just wants a new pair of pants.

  • Papa in New York

    23.Papa in New York

    13-02-1973

    Harry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him.

  • The Neighbors

    24.The Neighbors

    20-02-1973

    Newlyweds Mona and George experience trouble in paradise when they fight over a new couch. The Boyles must get Mona and George back together when George moves in with the Boyles.

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