Joseph Barbera
Director
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
Season 2
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).
Released Sept. 12, 1972
12+
Keywords: imdb.laugh-track, imdb.cult-tv, imdb.father-dislikes-daughter-s-boyfriend, imdb.small-business-owner, imdb.adult-animation, imdb.surrealism, imdb.family-relationships + 4 more, imdb.generation-gap, imdb.for-grown-ups-animation, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, tmdb.adult-animation
Production Companies: Hanna-Barbera Productions
Network: Syndication
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Bringing Up Jamie
A child psychologist recommends that Jamie take up photography to deal with his aggression, but Jamie only ends up photographing his family at their worst.
Sept. 11, 1973, midnight
S2E2 - The Lady Detective
An eccentric female detective (played by guest star Phyllis Diller) is hired to help Harry find out who stole from the company's payroll.
Sept. 18, 1973, midnight
S2E3 - Permissive Papa
Harry bars Alice from going to a concert and sets her up on a date with a nice man named Jay Jay, who turns out to be a pervert.
Sept. 25, 1973, midnight
S2E4 - Boyles on T.V.
The Boyles are invited to be interviewed on TV, but Harry thinks having the entire family on TV will ruin his reputation.
Oct. 2, 1973, midnight
S2E5 - My Wife, The Secretary
Irma re-tries to find a job...and ends up working as Harry's secretary at his restaurant equipment store.
Oct. 9, 1973, midnight
S2E6 - Papa , the Housewife
Harry takes Irma's place as a housewife...with disastrous results.
Oct. 16, 1973, midnight
S2E7 - Jamie's Project
Harry helps Jamie with a project for a school-wide competition.
Oct. 23, 1973, midnight
S2E8 - Don for the Defense
Harry goes to court to contest a traffic violation—and ends up in deeper trouble when he hires an incompetent lawyer.
Nov. 6, 1973, midnight
S2E9 - Alice's Diet
After being spurned by a crush at school, Alice goes to a beauty farm, and comes back slim and beautiful.
Nov. 13, 1973, midnight
S2E10 - Mama Loves Monty
Irma signs herself and Harry to appear on a game show, but Harry misconstrues it as a sign that Irma is leaving him for game show host Monty Hall.
Nov. 20, 1973, midnight
S2E11 - Alice's Crush
Alice has fallen in love; this time, her object of desire is one of her teachers.
Nov. 27, 1973, midnight
S2E12 - Papa's Big Check
Harry gets a tax refund check for $940,000, but learns too late that the amount is a misprint.
Dec. 4, 1973, midnight
S2E13 - Mama's Charity
Irma begins spending all of her time working for different charities.
Dec. 11, 1973, midnight
S2E14 - Chet's Pad
Chet finally moves out of the house and into his own place, but Harry keeps visiting Chet to parent him.
Dec. 18, 1973, midnight
S2E15 - Papa the Coach
Harry is named the new coach of the high school basketball team, and must contend with the pushy parents of the players.
Dec. 25, 1973, midnight
S2E16 - Birdman Chet
Chet gets a job at a pan factory, and suggests that the company change their image to help the endangered California condor.
Jan. 1, 1974, midnight
S2E17 - Back to Nature
Harry takes his family on a camping trip to break them of their addiction to TV, but after a few days in the woods, Harry wants out.
Jan. 8, 1974, midnight
S2E18 - Alice's Freedom
Irma's mother visits and insists that Alice be allowed her freedom since she is a woman. Alice enjoys her freedom to do as she pleases, but soon realizes that there is a downside to too much freedom.
Jan. 15, 1974, midnight
S2E19 - The Beekeeper
The Boyles call an exterminator to get rid of the bees in their backyard, but the exterminator ends up being more of a pest than the actual bees.
Jan. 22, 1974, midnight
S2E20 - Maude Loves Papa
While collecting back payment, Harry helps an old woman open a service station for motorcycles.
Jan. 29, 1974, midnight
Network: Syndication
Released: Sept. 12, 1972
Last Air Date: Oct. 8, 1974, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
Common sense age: 12+
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