Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

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The Boyle family

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.

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.

1 Voice actors
2 Guest Stars
3 Credits
4 External links
5 Sources

[edit] 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

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] 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