Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
GenreAnimated sitcom
Created byR.S. Allen & Harvey Bullock
Directed by
Voices of
ComposerRichard Bowden
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes48 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
Running time22 minutes
Production companyHanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
NetworkSyndicated
ReleaseSeptember 12, 1972 (1972-09-12) –
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

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
124September 12, 1972February 20, 1973
220September 11, 1973January 29, 1974
34September 17, 1974October 8, 1974

Voice cast

Guest stars

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
  • 24 episodes
  • 528 minutes
  • 4-disc set
  • 4:3 standard
   Retrospective look at the classic show Region 1
June 5, 2007

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Why Family Guy is the king of comedy". independent.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". TVGuide.com.
  4. 1 2 Iverson, Paul: "The Advent of the Laugh Track". Hofstra University archives; February 1994.
  5. ↑ Erickson, Syndicated Television, McFarland, 1988
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