Wait Til Your Father Gets Home is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974. The show first appeared as a one-time segment called "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father" on Love, American Style. It was the first prime-time animated sitcom to run for more than a single season since The Flintstones more than ten years earlier, and would be the only one until The Simpsons fifteen years later.
The 49 episodes feature Tom Bosley as Harry Boyle, the long-suffering suburban everyman dad and restaurant equipment dealer. The Boyle family consists of father Harry, wife Irma (voiced by Joan Gerber), overweight daughter Alice, lazy and unemployed young adult son Chet and precocious younger son Jamie. Harry often bickers with the more liberal Alice and Chet over various social attitudes of the day with Irma endeavoring to remain neutral while Jamie is more sympathetic to his father's beliefs.
In addition to Harry's conservatism, there is Boyle's neighbor Ralph Kane, a John Birch-like ultra-right-winger. Ralph is fanatically intolerant and obsessed with every absurd conspiracy theory. Following Ralph with his cause is senior citizen Sara Whittaker, whom he addresses as "Sergeant". This allows the disapproving Harry to appear reasonable and sympathetic in comparison. Many of the stories revolve around the generation gap between Boyle and his children.
Harry Boyle, a conservative businessman, has a son, Chet, and a daughter Alice. Chet is a hippie and Alice is sexually liberated. Harry's youngest son Jamie is an ally but Harry's wife Irma is a neutral in the ongoing war. The neighbor, Ralph, prepares them for the oncoming takeover by the Communists. Written by J.E. McKillop
