Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Épisode 1 - The Fling

12 septembre 1972

Harry is accused of having an affair when he drives a client to the airport and they become stranded at a motel.

Épisode 2 - Alice's Dress

19 septembre 1972

Alice wants to wear a revealing dress to Harry's awards ceremony, until he gives her a taste of her own medicine.

Épisode 3 - The Hippie

26 septembre 1972

Chet idolizes his new hippie friend, until he learns his new friend is not all he seems.

Épisode 4 - The Beach Vacation

3 octobre 1972

When Harry and Irma plan their vacation at a beach house, they get more than they bargained for.

Épisode 5 - Help Wanted

10 octobre 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.

Épisode 6 - Love Story

17 octobre 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.

Épisode 7 - The Victim

24 octobre 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.

Épisode 8 - Chet's Job

31 octobre 1972

Chet finally takes a job which could make him a millionaire.

Épisode 9 - Chet's Fiancée

7 novembre 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.

Épisode 10 - The Mouse

14 novembre 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.

Épisode 11 - Duty Calls

21 novembre 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.

Épisode 12 - Expectant Papa

28 novembre 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.

Épisode 13 - The New Car

5 décembre 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.

Épisode 14 - The New House

12 décembre 1972

Harry decides between a costly renovation or moving into a more expensive house.

Épisode 15 - The Prowler

19 décembre 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.

Épisode 16 - Mama's Identity

26 décembre 1972

Irma liberates herself from her domestic shackles and becomes a working woman.

Épisode 17 - Papa, the Patient

2 janvier 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.

Épisode 18 - The Swimming Pool

9 janvier 1973

A backyard battle erupts between Harry and Ralph when they share expenses for a swimming pool.

Épisode 19 - Sweet Sixteen

16 janvier 1973

Daughter Alice's 16th birthday forces harry to float a bank loan to cover party costs.

Épisode 20 - The Commune

23 janvier 1973

Harry tangles with the guru leader of a hippie commune when Alice announces she is joining.

Épisode 21 - Music Tycoon

30 janvier 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.

Épisode 22 - Accidents Will Happen

6 février 1973

Harry is swamped with unsolicited legal aid after he slips in a restaurant in front of 100 lawyers attending a conference.

Épisode 23 - Papa in New York

13 février 1973

Harry's overnight business trip to New York becomes a disaster when he is persuaded to take his family and neighbor Ralph.

Épisode 24 - The Neighbors

20 février 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.

Épisode 1 - Bringing Up Jamie

11 septembre 1973

Jamie gets in a fight at school. Instead of spanking, his parents take him to a child psychologist.

Épisode 2 - The Lady Detective

18 septembre 1973

After being burglarized, Detective Phyllis Dexter (Phyllis Diller) is on the case for the Boyle family.

Épisode 3 - Permissive Papa

25 septembre 1973

Alice wants to go to an all night rock concert, but she needs Harry's permission.

Épisode 4 - Boyles on T.V.

2 octobre 1973

A TV producer wants to make a documentary about the Boyle family.

Épisode 5 - My Wife, the Secretary

9 octobre 1973

When Harry's secretary gets married and goes on her honeymoon, while in the midst of his selling season, he tries to find a replacement. And so far can't find anyone. When Irma offers to fill in, Harry doesn't want to work with his wife. So Irma dons a disguise and applies under a different name and is accepted. And when he tells her to tell someone who's been annoying him to go away, she mistakes the client who has big order as that person.

Épisode 6 - Papa, the Housewife

16 octobre 1973

With all the vacation money gone, Harry becomes worry that Irma is spending too much on shopping.

Épisode 7 - Jamie's Project

23 octobre 1973

Jamie's class has to do an American History Project. Harry is adamant about not helping so Jamie can build self-reliance. Another parent begins an unspoken competition with Harry about the kid's projects.

Épisode 8 - Don for the Defense

6 novembre 1973

When a girl runs into Harry's car she sues him. Harry then calls a lawyer he knows who sends his son to handle the case. And the guy turns out to be an idiot.

Épisode 9 - Alice's Diet

13 novembre 1973

Alice falls for the new boy in school, but he only has eyes for the most popular girl, who is much more beautiful and several pounds lighter. Alice then decides to go on a diet to try to lose weight but is unsuccessful. Harry then decides to send her to a health resort not only to lose weight, but to ensure she hooks up with a much more handsome boy and not her more homely boyfriend Herbie. When she returns she is several pounds lighter and much more glamorous. However, when he talks to the other girl's father, Harry begins to have fears that the boys will want to date her for all the wrong reasons.

Épisode 10 - Mama Loves Monty

20 novembre 1973

Irma goes on Let's Make A Deal with Monty Hall in hopes of winning something for her husband for their 25th Anniversary,

Épisode 11 - Alice's Crush

27 novembre 1973

Alice is in love with a new boy. Harry tries to undermine Irma by finding out who the mystery man is.

Épisode 12 - Papa's Big Check

4 décembre 1973

The IRS accidentally sends a refund of $940,000 instead of $94.00 to the Boyles.

Épisode 13 - Mama's Charity

11 décembre 1973 - 5/5

Irma's Ladie's Club is looking for a cause to invest their charity work.

Épisode 14 - Chet's Pad

18 décembre 1973

Harry feels that he and Irma have been unfair by constantly providing for Chet. So Harry gives Chet a push out of the nest to live on his own.

Épisode 15 - Papa, the Coach

25 décembre 1973

Harry accidentally volunteers to be the coach to Jamie's basketball team.

Épisode 16 - Birdman Chet

1 janvier 1974

Bonding over saving the Condors, young Jamie is starting to imitate some of slacker Chet's habits. This worries Irma and Harry, so Harry starts taking Chet to Harry's work.

Épisode 17 - Back to Nature

8 janvier 1974

Upset that the family's life is based around their individual television schedules, Harry bans the device in the house in hopes that everyone will turn off the television set and turn on real life.

Épisode 18 - Alice's Freedom

15 janvier 1974

Irma's mother visits and insists that Alice be allowed her freedom since she is a woman. Alice enjoys her freedom to do as she pleases, but soon realizes that there's a downside to too much freedom.

Épisode 19 - The Beekeeper

22 janvier 1974

The Boyles call an exterminator to get rid of the bees in their backyard, but the exterminator ends up being more of a pest than the actual bees. Guest star: Don Knotts as Charlie "Bumbles" Johnson

Épisode 20 - Maude Loves Papa

29 janvier 1974

While collecting back payment, Harry helps an old woman open a service station for motorcycles. Guest star Jonathan Winters as Maude Frickert

Épisode 21 - Pas de titre

Épisode 1 - Rich Little, Supersleuth

17 septembre 1974

Harry's asked to help a private investigator who's been hired to protect some gold coins being stored in a bank near Harry's office. The guy named Rich Little relies on his ability to imitate anyone's voice to get the job done. But when the bank is robbed and he's fired, he turns to Harry for help.

Épisode 2 - Model Alice

24 septembre 1974

The family invites the famous Hungarian artist László to dinner. He asks Alice to be one of his nude models.

Épisode 3 - Marriage Counselor

1 octobre 1974

Newlyweds Irene and George have a fight. Irene moves in with the Boyles. Irma decides to invite a marriage counselor for dinner to try to help. However, the marriage counselor starts to "help" the Boyles.

Épisode 4 - Car 54

8 octobre 1974

Officer Gunther Toody, of Car 54 Where Are You?, is looking for a moonlighting job so the Boyle's give him the idea of a Child Care business. When Chet gets involved the Boyle's basement becomes ground zero for the business.