Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Season 1

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes24
DatesSep 3, 1972 - Feb 20, 1973
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Episodes

The Fling
Season 1Episode 130 min

The Fling

Restaurant-equipment dealer Harry Boyle helps a sexy female customer, prompting everyone around him to think that Harry is cheating on his wife, Irma.

Sep 12, 1972
Alice's Dress
Season 1Episode 230 min

Alice's Dress

Harry and his family get invited to a party held by Harry's boss, and Harry wants everyone in the family to act and dress their best — which is easier said than done when Alice wants to wear a racy department-store dress with no brassiere, prompting Harry and Irma to worry about the influence that sex and sexuality in the media has on their daughter.

Sep 19, 1972
The Hippie
Season 1Episode 330 min

The Hippie

Chet befriends a hippie musician, which drives his family crazy and prompts Ralph and his anti-Communist Army buddies to create a wall around the neighborhood to keep out all hippies, alleged Communists, and free-thinkers.

Sep 26, 1972
The Beach Vacation
Season 1Episode 430 min

The Beach Vacation

The Boyles rent a beach house, but things get complicated when Alice wants to wear a string bikini and Harry must decide whether or not to press charges against a nude sunbather who won't leave his property.

Sep 3, 1972
Help Wanted
Season 1Episode 530 min

Help Wanted

Harry gets into trouble with special-interest groups when he fires his Jewish driver and must choose between hiring someone who's right for the job versus hiring someone in order to comply with affirmative action dictates.

Oct 10, 1972
Love Story
Season 1Episode 630 min

Love Story

Alice shocks her family again by dating a homeless man named Norman. But when Harry and Irma find out that Norman has rich parents, they push Alice into staying with him.

Oct 17, 1972
The Victim
Season 1Episode 730 min

The Victim

Harry gets mugged and beaten in the park by a young criminal. While Harry and Ralph want the young criminal to be locked away, Chet and Alice want Harry to go soft on his assailant since it is his first offense.
Oct 24, 1972
Chet's Job
Season 1Episode 830 min

Chet's Job

Harry gives his slacker son, Chet, an ultimatum: either find a job and pay rent or get out of the house. Chet decides to find a job — and ends up earning more than his father as a hardware-store grunt.
Oct 31, 1972
Chet's Fiancée
Season 1Episode 930 min

Chet's Fiancée

Chet dates a young, attractive decent young woman named Prudence and brings her home to meet Harry and Irma...and ends up shocking everyone when he tells Prudence that he does not want to marry her.
Nov 7, 1972
The Mouse
Season 1Episode 1030 min

The Mouse

Jamie brings home a pet mouse. After being told that he can't keep it, the mouse escapes. Jamie blames Harry, and then he runs away.
Nov 14, 1972
Duty Calls
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Duty Calls

Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.
Oct 21, 1972
Expectant Papa
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Expectant Papa

Irma worries that she may be pregnant again, which does not sit well with Chet and Alice, who feel the world is too overpopulated.
Nov 28, 1972
The New Car
Season 1Episode 1330 min

The New Car

The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them.
Dec 5, 1972
The New House
Season 1Episode 1430 min

The New House

The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.
Dec 12, 1972
The Prowler
Season 1Episode 1530 min

The Prowler

Ralph starts a neighborhood vigilante group in order to fight back against a burglar who has been breaking into houses in the Boyles' neighborhood.
Dec 19, 1972
Mama's Identity
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Mama's Identity

In an attempt to be more than just a housewife and mother, Irma takes a job as a secretary at a law firm, but struggles with sexual discrimination and competition from a younger, prettier coworker, while Harry and Ralph worry that women in the workplace will lead to men being treated like sex objects and second-class citizens.
Dec 26, 1972
Papa the Patient
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Papa the Patient

Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.
Jan 2, 1973
The Swimming Pool
Season 1Episode 1830 min

The Swimming Pool

Harry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it.
Jan 9, 1973
Sweet Sixteen
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Sweet Sixteen

Irma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it.
Jan 16, 1973
The Commune
Season 1Episode 2030 min

The Commune

Alice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stresses of school and home life.
Jan 23, 1973
Music Tycoon
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Music Tycoon

Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle.
Jan 30, 1973
Accidents Will Happen
Season 1Episode 2230 min

Accidents Will Happen

Harry splits his pants after slipping in a restaurant. Everyone advises Harry to sue, but Harry just wants a new pair of pants.
Feb 6, 1973
Papa in New York
Season 1Episode 2330 min

Papa in New York

Harry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him.
Feb 13, 1973
The Neighbors
Season 1Episode 2430 min

The Neighbors

Newlyweds Mona and George experience trouble in paradise when they fight over a new couch. The Boyles must get Mona and George back together when George moves in with the Boyles.
Feb 20, 1973

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