Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home chronicles the lives of the Boyles, your average 1970's American family. Harry Boyle, the father, owns a restaurant supply company. His wife Irma portrays the typical housewife, with an occasional independent flare. Harry and Irma have three children: Chet, Alice, and Jamie. Chet, who is 22, is a college dropout, who spends most of his time sleeping. Alice is a rather robust 16-year-old, who teams up with her mother, to display the independence of women, in the 70's. Jamie is the Capitalist of the family, even though he is only 9. The show is set in the suburbs of Los Angeles, on Elm Street, to be precise. During the 1973 season, the show was host to many celebrity voices, including: Don Knotts, Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur and many more (many of these guests were carried over from The New Scooby-Doo Movies, which were recored at this time).
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Episode 1 - Bringing Up Jamie
Release Date: 1973-09-11A child psychologist recommends that Jamie take up photography to deal with his aggression, but Jamie only ends up photographing his family at their worst.
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Episode 2 - The Lady Detective
Release Date: 1973-09-18An eccentric female detective (played by guest star Phyllis Diller) is hired to help Harry find out who stole from the company's payroll.
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Episode 3 - Permissive Papa
Release Date: 1973-09-25Harry bars Alice from going to a concert and sets her up on a date with a nice man named Jay Jay, who turns out to be a pervert.
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Episode 4 - Boyles on T.V.
Release Date: 1973-10-02The Boyles are invited to be interviewed on TV, but Harry thinks having the entire family on TV will ruin his reputation.
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Episode 5 - My Wife, The Secretary
Release Date: 1973-10-09Irma re-tries to find a job...and ends up working as Harry's secretary at his restaurant equipment store.
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Episode 6 - Papa , the Housewife
Release Date: 1973-10-16Harry takes Irma's place as a housewife...with disastrous results.
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Episode 7 - Jamie's Project
Release Date: 1973-10-23Harry helps Jamie with a project for a school-wide competition.
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Episode 8 - Don for the Defense
Release Date: 1973-11-06Harry goes to court to contest a traffic violation—and ends up in deeper trouble when he hires an incompetent lawyer.
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Episode 9 - Alice's Diet
Release Date: 1973-11-13After being spurned by a crush at school, Alice goes to a beauty farm, and comes back slim and beautiful.
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Episode 10 - Mama Loves Monty
Release Date: 1973-11-20Irma signs herself and Harry to appear on a game show, but Harry misconstrues it as a sign that Irma is leaving him for game show host Monty Hall.
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Episode 11 - Alice's Crush
Release Date: 1973-11-27Alice has fallen in love; this time, her object of desire is one of her teachers.
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Episode 12 - Papa's Big Check
Release Date: 1973-12-04Harry gets a tax refund check for $940,000, but learns too late that the amount is a misprint.
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Episode 13 - Mama's Charity
Release Date: 1973-12-11Irma begins spending all of her time working for different charities.
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Episode 14 - Chet's Pad
Release Date: 1973-12-18Chet finally moves out of the house and into his own place, but Harry keeps visiting Chet to parent him.
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Episode 15 - Papa, The Coach
Release Date: 1973-12-25Harry is named the new coach of the high school basketball team, and must contend with the pushy parents of the players.
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Episode 16 - Birdman Chet
Release Date: 1974-01-01Chet gets a job at a pan factory, and suggests that the company change their image to help the endangered California condor.
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Episode 17 - Back to Nature
Release Date: 1974-01-08Harry takes his family on a camping trip to break them of their addiction to TV, but after a few days in the woods, Harry wants out.
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Episode 18 - Alice's Freedom
Release Date: 1974-01-15Irma's mother visits and insists that Alice be allowed her freedom since she is a woman. Alice enjoys her freedom to do as she pleases, but soon realizes that there is a downside to too much freedom.
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Episode 19 - The Beekeeper
Release Date: 1974-01-22The Boyles call an exterminator to get rid of the bees in their backyard, but the exterminator ends up being more of a pest than the actual bees.
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Episode 20 - Maude Love Papa
Release Date: 1974-01-29While collecting back payment, Harry helps an old woman open a service station for motorcycles.
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Episode 21 - Episode 21
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