Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
- R.S. Allen
- Harvey Bullock
- Peter Luschwitz (1972-1973)
- Barrie Helmer (1973-1974)
- Charles A. Nichols (1974)
- Tom Bosley
- Joan Gerber
- Jack Burns
- David Hayward
- Kristina Holland
- Jackie Haley
- John Stephenson
- Frank Maxwell
- Len Weinrib
- William Hanna
- Joseph Barbera
- R.S. Allen
- Harvey Bullock
- Zoran Janjic (associate)
- Carl Urbano (associate)
October 8, 1974 (1974-10-08)
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is an animated sitcom[1] produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974.[2] 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 (starring Van Johnson), 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 show was inspired by All in the Family.[3]
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 right-wing 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.[4] For this show, the studio added a third belly laugh to add a little more "variety" (the only TV series made by Hanna-Barbera to have this added laugh). In addition, the laugh track was also slowed considerably.[4]
Episodes
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 24 | September 12, 1972 | February 20, 1973 | |
2 | 20 | September 11, 1973 | January 29, 1974 | |
3 | 4 | September 17, 1974 | October 8, 1974 |
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
- Veteran Hanna-Barbera voice talents such as Daws Butler, Don Messick, and John Stephenson provided minor roles.
Guest stars
- Don Adams
- Phyllis Diller
- Gene Eugene
- Monty Hall
- Don Knotts
- Rich Little
- Allan Melvin (also appeared on All In The Family)
- Joe E. Ross
- Isabel Sanford (also appeared on All In The Family)
- Jonathan Winters
- Casey Kasem (uncredited)
- Pat Morita (uncredited) "The New House"
- Ken Clark (Britain)
Other "guests" on the series included thinly disguised versions of celebrities who did not provide their own voices, such as guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. When a crooked car dealer on another episode was perceived by real-life Los Angeles car salesman Cal Worthington as being a send-up of him, he sued Hanna-Barbera, the sponsors (Chevrolet) and the five NBC-owned stations that carried the show.[5]
Home media
On June 5, 2007, Warner Home Video released Season 1 of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home on DVD in Region 1 for the Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection. Warner Archive has yet to release season 2 and Season 3.
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete First Season | ||||
Set details | Special features | Release dates | ||
| Retrospective look at the classic show | Region 1 June 5, 2007 |
See also
References
- ^ "Why Family Guy is the king of comedy". independent.
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. pp. 306–307. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". TVGuide.com.
- ^ a b Iverson, Paul: "The Advent of the Laugh Track". Hofstra University archives; February 1994.
- ^ Erickson, Syndicated Television, McFarland, 1988
External links
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home at IMDb