Wait Till Your Father Gets Home | |
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Genre | Animated sitcom |
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Composer | Richard Bowden |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 48 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
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Network | Syndicated |
Release | September 12, 1972 October 8, 1974 | –
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
[edit]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
[edit]Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]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 | ||
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Retrospective look at the classic show | Region 1 June 5, 2007 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Why Family Guy is the king of comedy". independent. 24 July 2009.
- ^ 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
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