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  • 1973-09-11T04:00:00Z on Syndication
  • 23m
  • 7h 40m (20 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation, Comedy
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).

20 episodes

Season Premiere

1973-09-11T04:00:00Z

2x01 Bringing Up Jamie

Season Premiere

2x01 Bringing Up Jamie

  • 1973-09-11T04:00:00Z23m

A child psychologist recommends that Jamie take up photography to deal with his aggression, but Jamie only ends up photographing his family at their worst.

1973-09-18T04:00:00Z

2x02 The Lady Detective

2x02 The Lady Detective

  • 1973-09-18T04:00:00Z23m

An eccentric female detective (played by guest star Phyllis Diller) is hired to help Harry find out who stole from the company's payroll.

1973-09-25T04:00:00Z

2x03 Permissive Papa

2x03 Permissive Papa

  • 1973-09-25T04:00:00Z23m

Harry 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.

1973-10-02T04:00:00Z

2x04 Boyles on T.V.

2x04 Boyles on T.V.

  • 1973-10-02T04:00:00Z23m

The Boyles are invited to be interviewed on TV, but Harry thinks having the entire family on TV will ruin his reputation.

1973-10-09T04:00:00Z

2x05 My Wife, the Secretary

2x05 My Wife, the Secretary

  • 1973-10-09T04:00:00Z23m

Irma re-tries to find a job...and ends up working as Harry's secretary at his restaurant equipment store.

1973-10-16T04:00:00Z

2x06 Papa, the Housewife

2x06 Papa, the Housewife

  • 1973-10-16T04:00:00Z23m

Harry takes Irma's place as a housewife...with disastrous results.

1973-10-23T04:00:00Z

2x07 Jamie's Project

2x07 Jamie's Project

  • 1973-10-23T04:00:00Z23m

Harry helps Jamie with a project for a school-wide competition.

1973-11-06T05:00:00Z

2x08 Don for the Defense

2x08 Don for the Defense

  • 1973-11-06T05:00:00Z23m

Harry goes to court to contest a traffic violation—and ends up in deeper trouble when he hires an incompetent lawyer.

1973-11-13T05:00:00Z

2x09 Alice's Diet

2x09 Alice's Diet

  • 1973-11-13T05:00:00Z23m

After being spurned by a crush at school, Alice goes to a beauty farm, and comes back slim and beautiful.

1973-11-20T05:00:00Z

2x10 Mama Loves Monty

2x10 Mama Loves Monty

  • 1973-11-20T05:00:00Z23m

Irma 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.

1973-11-27T05:00:00Z

2x11 Alice's Crush

2x11 Alice's Crush

  • 1973-11-27T05:00:00Z23m

Alice has fallen in love; this time, her object of desire is one of her teachers.

1973-12-04T05:00:00Z

2x12 Papa's Big Check

2x12 Papa's Big Check

  • 1973-12-04T05:00:00Z23m

Harry gets a tax refund check for $940,000, but learns too late that the amount is a misprint.

1973-12-11T05:00:00Z

2x13 Mama's Charity

2x13 Mama's Charity

  • 1973-12-11T05:00:00Z23m

Irma begins spending all of her time working for different charities.

1973-12-18T05:00:00Z

2x14 Chet's Pad

2x14 Chet's Pad

  • 1973-12-18T05:00:00Z23m

Chet finally moves out of the house and into his own place, but Harry keeps visiting Chet to parent him.

1973-12-25T05:00:00Z

2x15 Papa, the Coach

2x15 Papa, the Coach

  • 1973-12-25T05:00:00Z23m

Harry is named the new coach of the high school basketball team, and must contend with the pushy parents of the players.

1974-01-01T05:00:00Z

2x16 Birdman Chet

2x16 Birdman Chet

  • 1974-01-01T05:00:00Z23m

Chet gets a job at a pan factory, and suggests that the company change their image to help the endangered California condor.

1974-01-08T04:00:00Z

2x17 Back to Nature

2x17 Back to Nature

  • 1974-01-08T04:00:00Z23m

Harry 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.

1974-01-15T04:00:00Z

2x18 Alice's Freedom

2x18 Alice's Freedom

  • 1974-01-15T04:00:00Z23m

Irma'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's a downside to too much freedom.

1974-01-22T04:00:00Z

2x19 The Beekeeper

2x19 The Beekeeper

  • 1974-01-22T04:00:00Z23m

The 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.

Guest star: Don Knotts as Charlie "Bumbles" Johnson

1974-01-29T04:00:00Z

2x20 Maude Loves Papa

2x20 Maude Loves Papa

  • 1974-01-29T04:00:00Z23m

While collecting back payment, Harry helps an old woman open a service station for motorcycles.

Guest star Jonathan Winters as Maude Frickert

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