Wait Till Your Father Gets Home 

A conservative father butts heads with his family on various social attitudes of the day.

Stars:

Tom Bosley, Joan Gerber, Jack Burns

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Tom Bosley	...	Harry Boyle 48 episodes, 1972-1974
Joan Gerber	...	Irma Boyle / ... 48 episodes, 1972-1974
Jack Burns	...	Ralph Kane 46 episodes, 1972-1974
Kristina Holland	...	Alice Boyle 45 episodes, 1972-1974
Lennie Weinrib	...	Chet Boyle / ... 39 episodes, 1972-1974
Willie Aames	...	Jamie Boyle 35 episodes, 1972-1974

Storyline

Harry Boyle, a mostly conservative businessman, has a son, Chet, and a daughter Alice. Chet is a hippie and Alice is sexually liberated. Harry's shrewd youngest son Jamie is often an ally, but Harry's wife Irma is a neutral in the ongoing generational war. Their paranoid reactionary neighbor, Ralph, prepares them for the oncoming takeover by the Communists.

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Plot Keywords:

laugh track | cult tv | adult animation | surrealism | family relationships | 

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 September 1972 (USA)

Also Known As:

Aspettando il ritorno di papà

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hanna-Barbera Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

There was a live action version of the pilot filmed prior to the animated version for CBS. The live action version would have starred Van Johnson as a version of the "Harry Boyle" character.

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Connections

Featured in 100 Greatest Cartoons (2005)

User Reviews

A Cult Classic

This is one of my favorite show's from Hanna-Barbera. After years of placing families in the stone age, the space age and even in ancient Rome, Hanna-Barbera finally had a piece that took place in this century. The best thing about this show was the fact that the Boyles were played more or less like real people and it was a very humorous look at how conservative Harry dealt with not only his liberal kids, Alice and Chet, but with a changing world around him. However, the real star was Ralph, Harry's reactionary neighbor. He made Dale from "King of the Hill" look normal. Ralph was always looking for communists in every nook and cranny and he would always give Harry all sorts of crazy advice based on his wild theories. The only thing I found wrong with the show, however, was the poor job of animation (allegedly Hanna-Barbera "farmed out" the animation work to a Canadian company as a way to save money). All in all, though, despite the poor animating, this still is one of the funniest cartoons to come out of the 1970's.