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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

Episode list

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

    • SeasonsYearsTop-rated
    • 123
  • Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E1 ∙ The Fling

    Tue, Sep 12, 1972
    Harry is accused of having an affair when he drives a client to the airport and they become stranded at a motel.
    7.4/10 (24)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E2 ∙ Alice's Dress

    Tue, Sep 19, 1972
    Alice wants to wear a revealing dress to Harry's awards ceremony, until he gives her a taste of her own medicine.
    7.3/10 (20)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E3 ∙ The Hippie

    Tue, Sep 26, 1972
    Chet idolizes his new hippie friend, until he learns his new friend is not all he seems.
    7.3/10 (18)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E4 ∙ The Beach Vacation

    Tue, Oct 3, 1972
    When Harry and Irma plan their vacation at a beach house, they get more than they bargained for.
    7.2/10 (20)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
    Top-rated

    S1.E5 ∙ Help Wanted

    Tue, Oct 10, 1972
    Harry attempts to be an equal opportunity employer but faces the problem of many small businessmen when he has only one opening and a dozen minority groups clamoring for preference.
    7.8/10 (21)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
    Top-rated

    S1.E6 ∙ Love Story

    Tue, Oct 17, 1972
    Alice falls for a young beggar that asked Harry for money. Worse yet, when the young man asks her to marry him she says yes, which horrifies Harry. However, when he meets the young man's wealthy parents he see's dollar signs in his little girl's future.
    7.5/10 (19)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E7 ∙ The Victim

    Tue, Oct 24, 1972
    While out bowling with Ralph, Harry gets mugged and knocked unconscious leaving a big lump on his head. At first Chet and Alice are all for the mugger getting sent to jail. However, when they find out that the young man came from a poor family they demand that Harry drop the charges.
    7.3/10 (19)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
    Top-rated

    S1.E8 ∙ Chet's Job

    Tue, Oct 31, 1972
    Chet finally takes a job which could make him a millionaire.
    8.2/10 (16)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E9 ∙ Chet's Fiancee

    Tue, Nov 7, 1972
    Chet announces that he finally has met "the one" and announces that he intends to spend the rest of his life with her. However, Harry and Irma are shocked when they find out that spending the rest of his life with the girl doesn't necessarily mean getting married when he tells him that he will be living with her and that he still won't go to work, but will live off the system.
    7.3/10 (15)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
    Top-rated

    S1.E10 ∙ The Mouse

    Tue, Nov 14, 1972
    Jamie brings home a mouse that he intends to not only keep as a pet, but to train so he can charge admission when it performs. However, this doesn't sit well with Irma and Alice who are both deathly afraid of it. Harry, behind Irma's back, tells Jamie he can keep it as long as it stays in the garage. Unfortunately, when the mouse turns up missing, Jamie blames Harry and decides to run away from home.
    7.8/10 (14)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E11 ∙ Duty Calls

    Tue, Nov 21, 1972
    Once again Harry tries to get a job for Chet. Unfortunately, his efforts fail when Chet calls for a recall of several perfectly good pots made at Harry's plant. However, Harry's anger at his son turns to concern as Chet gets his draft notice. Chet then shocks his father by announcing that he will avoid the draft by escaping to Canada. Now Harry must try to not only try to delay Chet's induction, but try to keep him out of prison for draft evasion.
    7.1/10 (15)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E12 ∙ Expectant Papa

    Tue, Nov 28, 1972
    Irma informs Harry that she may be pregnant with their fourth child. While he is both excited and terrified about the prospect that he is about to become a father again in his mid 40's, everyone else seems to be against the idea. Ralph is afraid that the baby might turn out to become a radical and Harry's accountant thinks that the baby might lead to financial ruin. However, he is most horrified by Chet and Alice's reaction as they don't want to see a new baby arrive in an already overcrowded world.
    7.3/10 (13)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E13 ∙ The New Car

    Tue, Dec 5, 1972
    Harry buys a "lemon" from a used car lot and returns to humiliate the car dealership by posing as a satisfied customer during a live TV telecast.
    7.3/10 (11)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
    Top-rated

    S1.E14 ∙ The New House

    Tue, Dec 12, 1972
    Harry decides between a costly renovation or moving into a more expensive house.
    8.0/10 (11)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E15 ∙ The Prowler

    Tue, Dec 19, 1972
    After a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood, Ralph calls a meeting on how to deal with the problem and it immediately turns into a recruitment rally for his vigilante group. Unfortunately, another burglary takes place during the meeting and Harry becomes a suspect not only due to the fact that he left the meeting early, but that he was seen the next morning rummaging through one of the neighbor's windows while looking for Julius. Now he must clear his name before Ralph and his vigilantes put him in front of a firing squad.
    7.1/10 (13)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
    Top-rated

    S1.E16 ∙ Mama's Identity

    Tue, Dec 26, 1972
    Harry Boyle's wife, Irma, liberates herself from domestic shackles and becomes a working woman.
    7.5/10 (13)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E17 ∙ The Patient

    Tue, Jan 2, 1973
    Harry enters an expensive hospital for routine tests and finds himself the subject of a gall bladder transplant which is scheduled for worldwide telecast.
    7.2/10 (11)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E18 ∙ The Swimming Pool

    Tue, Jan 9, 1973
    A backyard battle erupts between Harry and Ralph when they share expenses for a swimming pool.
    6.8/10 (11)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
    Top-rated

    S1.E19 ∙ Sweet Sixteen

    Tue, Jan 16, 1973
    Daughter Alice's 16th birthday forces harry to float a bank loan to cover party costs.
    7.6/10 (10)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E20 ∙ The Commune

    Tue, Jan 23, 1973
    Harry tangles with the guru leader of a hippie commune when Alice announces she is joining the commune.
    7.0/10 (10)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E21 ∙ Music Tycoon

    Tue, Jan 30, 1973
    Chet informs Harry and Irma that he is going to meet with some of his former college classmates to discuss their future. At first they think that Chet is going back to college to finally earn his degree. However, they are shocked when he tells them that the guys he met with are all dropping out of college to form a rock band and the he is going to be their manager and after the group has a major hit with their first single, Chet goes on a spending spree. However, he soon finds out that success in the music business can be fleeting.
    7.5/10 (12)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E22 ∙ Accidents Will Happen

    Tue, Feb 6, 1973
    Harry is deluged with legal aid after he slips in a restaurant in front of 100 lawyers attending a conference.
    6.2/10 (11)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)

    S1.E23 ∙ Papa in New York

    Tue, Feb 13, 1973
    Harry's overnight business trip to New York becomes a disaster when he is persuaded to take his family and neighbor Ralph.
    6.8/10 (11)
    Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972)
    Top-rated

    S1.E24 ∙ The Neighbors

    Tue, Feb 20, 1973
    When a newlywed couple have their first fight, the Boyles are caught in the middle trying to get their neighbors reconciled and end up having their own marital misunderstanding.
    7.6/10 (18)

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