Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home was an animated television series produced from 1972 to 1974.
The 49 episodes features 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, unemployed young adult son Chet and a 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.
To balance out Harry's conservativism, there is Ralph Kane, Boyle's neighbour who is a right wing militant vigilante. Ralph's fanatically intolerant and potentially violent obsessions allow the disapproving Harry to appear reasonable and sympathetic in comparison. Ralph is possibly the model for Dale Gribble on King of the Hill.
Many of the stories revolve around the generation gap between Boyle and his children. It was voted into 98th place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Cartoons in 2005.
The show was inspired by All In The Family, itself a remake of the British series Til Death Us Do Part
The show premiered as a one-time segment on Love, American Style (as did the show Tom Bosley is better known for, Happy Days) and was spun off into a syndicated series.
Voice actors
- Tom Bosley as Harry
- Joan Gerber as Irma
- Kristina Holland as Alice
- David Hayward as Chet
- Jackie Hayler as Jamie
- Jack Burns as Ralph
Guest Stars
Credits
- Animation Director: Peter Luschwitz
- Production Designer: Iwao Takamoto
- Production Supervisor: Rolf Sandor
- Character Designer: Marty Murphy
- Key Layout: Milton Fredlund, Andrea Bresciani
- Layouts: Chebby Badham & Steve Lumley, David Skinner
- Animators: Stuart Barry, John Burge, Warwick Gilbert, Don MacKinnon, Gus McLaren, Kevin Roper, Laurie Sharpe, John Taylor
- Backgrounds: Richard Zaloudek, Ros Breillat, Peter Connell, George Hatsatouris, Milan Zahorsky
- Painting Department: Zora Bubica
- Musical Director: Ricard Bowden
- Camera: Bill Constable, Chris Ashbrook, Jan Cregan, Peter Huiswaard, Santiago Gomez
- Editors: Peter Addison, Catherine McKenzie, Michael Norton
- Track Reader: Maurice Kattell
- Scene Painter: Yvonne Kattell
- Story Director: Paul Sommer
- Story: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul
- Associate Producer: Zoran Janjic
- Producers: R.S. Allen, Harvey Bullock
- Executive Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
External links
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home at IMDb
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home article from Toon Tracker featuring stills from the series.
Sources
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earl. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 to Present. New York, Ballantine, 2003