Wait till Your Father Gets Home

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show_name = Wait till Your Father Gets Home


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narrated = Tom Bosley
Joan Gerber
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country = USA
language = English
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runtime = 22 min (30 min slot)
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first_aired = 1972
last_aired = 1974
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"Wait till Your Father Gets Home" is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974. The show first appeared as a one-time segment called "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father" on "Love, American Style". It was the first prime-time animated sitcom to run for more than a single season since "The Flintstones" more than ten years earlier, and would be the only one until "The Simpsons" fifteen years later. The show was inspired by "All in the Family". [ [http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/wait-till-father/205338 "TV Guide": "Wait till Your Father Gets Home"] ]

The 49 episodes feature Tom Bosley as Harry Boyle, the long-suffering suburban everyman dad and restaurant equipment dealer. The Boyle family consists of father Harry, wife Irma (voiced by Joan Gerber), overweight daughter Alice, lazy and unemployed young adult son Chet and precocious younger son Jamie. Harry often bickers with the more liberal Alice and Chet over various social attitudes of the day with Irma endeavoring to remain neutral while Jamie is more sympathetic to his father's beliefs.

In addition to Harry's conservatism, there is Boyle's neighbor Ralph Kane, a John Birch-like ultra-right-winger. Ralph is fanatically intolerant and obsessed with every absurd conspiracy theory. Following Ralph with his cause is senior citizen Sara Whittaker, whom he addresses as "Sergeant". This allows the disapproving Harry to appear reasonable and sympathetic in comparison. Many of the stories revolve around the generation gap between Boyle and his children.

Voice cast

*Tom Bosley - Harry
*Joan Gerber - Irma
*Kristina Holland - Alice
*David Hayward/Lennie Weinrib - Chet
*Jackie Earle Haley/Willie Aames- Jamie
*Jack Burns - Ralph

Guest stars

*Phyllis Diller
*Don Knotts
*Don Adams
*Rich Little
*Monty Hall
*Jonathan Winters
*Gene Eugene
*Paul Lynde (uncredited) "Sweet Sixteen"
*Kasey Kasem (uncredited)
*Pat Morita (uncredited) "The New House"
*Isabel Sanford

Other "guests" on the series included thinly-disguised versions of celebrities who did not provide their own voices, such as guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. But when a crooked car dealer on another episode was perceived by real-life Los Angeles-area salesman Cal Worthington as being a send-up of him, he sued the studio (Hanna-Barbera), the sponsors (Chevrolet) and the five NBC-owned stations that carried the show. (Erickson, "Syndicated Television", McFarland, 1988.)cn|date=July 2008

Theme Song

Alice: I love my mom and my dad and my brothers too, and the groovy way we get along.

Chet: Every time the slightest little thing goes wrong, Mom starts to sing this familiar song.

Irma: Wait till your father gets, until your father gets, wait till your father gets home.

Chet: Dad's not so bad and he seldom gets mad.

Alice: And we're not about to desert him.

Irma: Kids today like to have things their way, and what Daddy doesn't know won't hurt him.

Alice: I think Mom is swell.

Chet: But she starts to yell.

Alice: Every time we have a fuss.

Irma: Just wait till your father gets, until your father gets, wait till your father gets home.

Alice: (chuckles) See what I mean?

Irma: Wait till your father gets home.

Alice and Chet: We know.

Credits

*Animation Director: Peter Luschwitz
*Production Designer: Iwao Takamoto
*Story Director: Paul Sommer
*Story: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul
*Associate Producer: Zoran Janjic
*Producers: R.S. Allen, Harvey Bullock
*Executive Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

DVD release

On June 5, 2007 Warner Home Video released Season 1 of "Wait till Your Father Gets Home" on DVD in Region 1.

ources

* Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earl. "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 to Present." New York, Ballantine, 2003

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0068148
* [http://www.toontracker.com/waittil/waittil.htm "Wait till Your Father Gets Home"] article from Toon Tracker featuring stills from the series.
* [http://video.aol.com/video-category/wait-till-your-father-gets-home/2683 Full episodes of "Wait till Your Father Gets Home" free at AOL Video]
* [http://www.jumptheshark.com/topic/Wait-Till-Father-Gets-Home/Wait-Till-Father-Gets-Home/2120 Wait till Your Father Gets Home in in Jump The Shark]