Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974. The show originated as a one-time segment on Love, American Style called "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father". The same pilot was later produced with a live cast, but with no success. The show was the first primetime animated sitcom to run for more than a single season since fellow Hanna-Barbera show The Flintstones more than ten years earlier, and would be the only one until The Simpsons seventeen years later.
, the series appears on the MeTV Toons channel.
Premise
The show features Harry Boyle, wife Irma, daughter Alice, and sons Chet and Jamie. Harry, a restaurant supply wholesaler, often butts heads with most of his family about the social issues of the day. Contrasting that is Harry's neighbor and friend, Ralph Kane, a paranoid militia fanatic whose extreme opinions and often dangerous actions Harry can barely tolerate as much as his kids' ideas.Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. For this show, the studio added a third belly laugh to add a little more "variety". In addition, the laugh track was also slowed considerably. Like The Flintstones and Top Cat, all the episodes feature a cold open, which is a small scene from the episode that takes place in medias res.
Episodes
Voice cast
- Tom Bosley as Harry Boyle
- Joan Gerber as Irma Boyle
- Kristina Holland as Alice Boyle
- David Hayward/Lennie Weinrib as Chet Boyle
- Jackie Earle Haley/Willie Aames as Jamie Boyle
- Jack Burns as Ralph Kane