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Title: Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 6.2 (9 votes)

Cast

  • Harry Boyle: Tom Bosley
  • Irma Boyle: Joan Gerber
  • Alice Boyle: Kristina Holland
  • Chet Boyle: Lennie Weinrib
  • Jamie Boyle: Willie Aames
  • Ralph Kane: Jack Burns
  • Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Bringing Up Jamie (Season 2 - Episode 1)

    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.

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - The Lady Detective (Season 2 - Episode 2)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Permissive Papa (Season 2 - Episode 3)

    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.

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Boyles on T.V. (Season 2 - Episode 4)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - My Wife, The Secretary (Season 2 - Episode 5)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Papa , the Housewife (Season 2 - Episode 6)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Jamie's Project (Season 2 - Episode 7)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Don for the Defense (Season 2 - Episode 8)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Alice's Diet (Season 2 - Episode 9)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Mama Loves Monty (Season 2 - Episode 10)

    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.

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Alice's Crush (Season 2 - Episode 11)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Papa's Big Check (Season 2 - Episode 12)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Mama's Charity (Season 2 - Episode 13)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Chet's Pad (Season 2 - Episode 14)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Papa, The Coach (Season 2 - Episode 15)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Birdman Chet (Season 2 - Episode 16)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Back to Nature (Season 2 - Episode 17)

    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.

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Alice's Freedom (Season 2 - Episode 18)

    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 is a downside to too much freedom.

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - The Beekeeper (Season 2 - Episode 19)

    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.

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Maude Love Papa (Season 2 - Episode 20)

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

    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Episode 21 (Season 2 - Episode 21)

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