Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

The Boyle family
Genre animation
Narrated by Tom Bosley
Joan Gerber
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Language(s) English
No. of episodes 49
Production
Running time 22 min (30 min slot)
Broadcast
Original channel syndicated
Original run 1972 – 1974
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Wait Til 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.[1]

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.

Contents

[edit] Voice cast

[edit] Guest stars

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.)

[edit] 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 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] DVD release

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

DVD Name Ep # Release Date
Season 1 24 June 5, 2007

[edit] Sources

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ TV Guide: Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

[edit] External links