Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Premiere	September 12, 1972
Finale	October 8, 1974
Network/Provider	syndication
Style	30-minute animated sitcom
Company	Hanna-Barbera Productions, Rhodes Productions
Seasons	2
Episodes	48
Origin	USA

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is an animated sitcom that aired in syndication. It was first piloted as the Love, American Style episode "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father" (aired February 11, 1972).

Harry Boyle is the conservative head of a household populated by his wife Irma and their progressively thinking children--slacker Chet, sexually active Alice and capitalist Jamie (who did not appear in the pilot). His next door neighbor, Ralph, is a conspiracy theorist who thinks the communists are coming to subvert us, so he lines up a grass-roots platoon of neighbors to help thwart the red foe.

The series is by essence an animated All in the Family without the racial overtones. It does contain some mild adult themes, (Harry's suspected infidelity, Alice wanting to wear a see-through blouse), which by today's standards would garnish it a TV-PG rating. However, when Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang ran the series late night Sundays, it was branded with a TV-Y7 rating.

Production of the series was affected at Air Programs International in Sydney, Australia, and at Canawest Studios in Vancouver, Canada (where some of The Beatles cartoons were made in 1965).

Seasons

Season	Premiere	Finale	#
syndication
Season One	September 12, 1972	February 20, 1973	24
Season Two	September 11, 1973	October 8, 1974	24

In-Depth

• At a Glance: Additional information about the series

DVD Releases

Title	Release Date	#
Season Sets
The Complete First Season	June 5, 2007	4	purchase