Wait Till Your Father Gets Home is an American adult animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired in first-run syndication in the United States from 1972 to 1974. The show originated as a one-time segment on Love, American Style called "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father". The same pilot was later produced with a live cast (starring Van Johnson), but with no success. The show was the first primetime animated sitcom to run for more than a single season since fellow Hanna-Barbera show The Flintstones more than ten years earlier, and would be the only one until The Simpsons seventeen years later.

, the series appears Sunday nights 11p- 12a on the MeTV Toons channel.

Premise

The show features Harry Boyle, wife Irma, daughter Alice, and sons Chet and Jamie. Harry, a restaurant supply wholesaler, often butts heads with most of his family about the social issues of the day. Contrasting that is Harry's neighbor and friend, Ralph Kane, a paranoid militia fanatic whose extreme opinions and often dangerous actions Harry can barely tolerate as much as his kids' ideas.

Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. For this show, the studio added a third belly laugh to add a little more "variety" (the only TV series made by Hanna-Barbera to have this added laugh). In addition, the laugh track was also slowed considerably.

Home media

In 2007, Warner Home Video released Season 1 of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home on DVD in Region 1 for the Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection. Warner Archive Collection released the complete series on Blu-ray on January 28, 2025.

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  • 24 episodes
  • 528 minutes
  • 4-disc set
  • 4:3 standard

|style="text-align:left; width:300px;"|Retrospective look at the classic show

|style="text-align:center;"| Region 1 (DVD)<br/> June 5, 2007

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  • 48 episodes
  • 6-disc set
  • 4:3 standard

|style="text-align:left; width:300px;"|Retrospective Featurettes:<br />"Animation for the Nation" &<br />"Illustrating the Times"

|style="text-align:center;"| Region A (Blu-ray)<br/> January 28, 2025

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See also

  • List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions

References

  • Wait Till Your Father Gets Home on Internet Archive