Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

1. The Fling

Sep 12, 1972

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

2. Alice's Dress

Sep 19, 1972

The Boyles are invited to a party. Alice decides to buy a dress for the event, but it turns out to be way too revealing.

3. The Hippie

Sep 26, 1972

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, subversives, and free-thinkers.

4. The Beach Vacation

Sep 3, 1972

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 will not leave his property.

5. Help Wanted

Oct 10, 1972

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

6. Love Story

Oct 17, 1972

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.

7. The Victim

Oct 24, 1972

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.

8. Chet's Job

Oct 31, 1972

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.

9. Chet's Fiancee

Nov 7, 1972

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.

10. The Mouse

Nov 14, 1972

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.

11. Duty Calls

Oct 21, 1972

Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.

12. Expectant Papa

Nov 28, 1972

Irma worries that she may be pregnant again, which does not sit well with Chet and Alice, who feel the world is too overpopulated.

13. The New Car

Dec 5, 1972

The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them.

14. The New House

Dec 12, 1972

The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.

15. The Prowler

Dec 19, 1972

Ralph starts a neighborhood vigilante group in order to fight back against a burglar who has been breaking into houses in the Boyles' neighborhood.

16. Mama's Identity

Dec 26, 1972

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.

17. Papa the Patient

Jan 2, 1973

Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.

18. The Swimming Pool

Jan 9, 1973

Harry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it.

19. Sweet Sixteen

Jan 16, 1973

Irma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it.

20. The Commune

Jan 23, 1973

Alice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stresses of school and home life.

21. Music Tycoon

Jan 30, 1973

Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle.

22. Accidents Will Happen

Feb 6, 1973

Harry splits his pants after slipping in a restaurant. Everyone advises Harry to sue, but Harry just wants a new pair of pants.

23. Papa in New York

Feb 13, 1973

Harry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him.

24. The Neighbors

Feb 20, 1973

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.

1. Bringing Up Jamie

Sep 11, 1973

A child psychologist recommends that Jamie take up photography to deal with his aggression, but Jamie only ends up photographing his family at their worst.

2. The Lady Detective

Sep 18, 1973

An eccentric female detective (played by guest star Phyllis Diller) is hired to help Harry find out who stole from the company's payroll.

3. Permissive Papa

Sep 25, 1973

Harry bars Alice from going to a concert and sets her up on a date with a nice man named Jay Jay, who turns out to be a pervert.

4. Boyles on T.V.

Oct 2, 1973

The Boyles are invited to be interviewed on TV, but Harry thinks having the entire family on TV will ruin his reputation.

5. My Wife, The Secretary

Oct 9, 1973

Irma re-tries to find a job...and ends up working as Harry's secretary at his restaurant equipment store.

6. Papa , the Housewife

Oct 16, 1973

Harry takes Irma's place as a housewife...with disastrous results.

7. Jamie's Project

Oct 23, 1973

Harry helps Jamie with a project for a school-wide competition.

8. Don for the Defense

Nov 6, 1973

Harry goes to court to contest a traffic violation—and ends up in deeper trouble when he hires an incompetent lawyer.

9. Alice's Diet

Nov 13, 1973

After being spurned by a crush at school, Alice goes to a beauty farm, and comes back slim and beautiful.

10. Mama Loves Monty

Nov 20, 1973

Irma signs herself and Harry to appear on a game show, but Harry misconstrues it as a sign that Irma is leaving him for game show host Monty Hall.

11. Alice's Crush

Nov 27, 1973

Alice has fallen in love; this time, her object of desire is one of her teachers.

12. Papa's Big Check

Dec 4, 1973

Harry gets a tax refund check for $940,000, but learns too late that the amount is a misprint.

13. Mama's Charity

Dec 11, 1973

Irma begins spending all of her time working for different charities.

14. Chet's Pad

Dec 18, 1973

Chet finally moves out of the house and into his own place, but Harry keeps visiting Chet to parent him.

15. Papa the Coach

Dec 25, 1973

Harry is named the new coach of the high school basketball team, and must contend with the pushy parents of the players.

16. Birdman Chet

Jan 1, 1974

Chet gets a job at a pan factory, and suggests that the company change their image to help the endangered California condor.

17. Back to Nature

Jan 8, 1974

Harry takes his family on a camping trip to break them of their addiction to TV, but after a few days in the woods, Harry wants out.

18. Alice's Freedom

Jan 15, 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 is a downside to too much freedom.

19. The Beekeeper

Jan 22, 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.

20. Maude Loves Papa

Jan 29, 1974

While collecting back payment, Harry helps an old woman open a service station for motorcycles.

4. Car 54

Oct 8, 1974

Irma's brother-in-law (who works as a police officer) opens a kindergarten, which goes well, until a child goes missing.