Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
(1972)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 3
Car 54
Episode 4 - 10-08-1974
Irma's brother-in-law (who works as a police officer) opens a kindergarten, which goes well, until a child goes missing.
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Marriage Counselor
Episode 3 - 10-01-1974
Harry and Irma's visit to a marriage counselor threatens to destroy their relationship rather than save it.
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Model Alice
Episode 2 - 9-24-1974
Harry objects when a painter asks Alice to pose nude.
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Season 2
Episode 21
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Maude Love Papa
Episode 20 - 1-29-1974
While collecting back payment, Harry helps an old woman open a service station for motorcycles.
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The Beekeeper
Episode 19 - 1-22-1974
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.
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Alice's Freedom
Episode 18 - 1-15-1974
30m
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.
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Back to Nature
Episode 17 - 1-08-1974
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.
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Birdman Chet
Episode 16 - 1-01-1974
Chet gets a job at a pan factory, and suggests that the company change their image to help the endangered California condor.
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Papa, The Coach
Episode 15 - 12-25-1973
Harry is named the new coach of the high school basketball team, and must contend with the pushy parents of the players.
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Chet's Pad
Episode 14 - 12-18-1973
Chet finally moves out of the house and into his own place, but Harry keeps visiting Chet to parent him.
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Mama's Charity
Episode 13 - 12-11-1973
Irma begins spending all of her time working for different charities.
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Papa's Big Check
Episode 12 - 12-04-1973
Harry gets a tax refund check for $940,000, but learns too late that the amount is a misprint.
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Alice's Crush
Episode 11 - 11-27-1973
Alice has fallen in love; this time, her object of desire is one of her teachers.
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Mama Loves Monty
Episode 10 - 11-20-1973
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.
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Alice's Diet
Episode 9 - 11-13-1973
After being spurned by a crush at school, Alice goes to a beauty farm, and comes back slim and beautiful.
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Don for the Defense
Episode 8 - 11-06-1973
Harry goes to court to contest a traffic violation—and ends up in deeper trouble when he hires an incompetent lawyer.
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Jamie's Project
Episode 7 - 10-23-1973
Harry helps Jamie with a project for a school-wide competition.
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Papa , the Housewife
Episode 6 - 10-16-1973
Harry takes Irma's place as a housewife...with disastrous results.
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My Wife, The Secretary
Episode 5 - 10-09-1973
Irma re-tries to find a job...and ends up working as Harry's secretary at his restaurant equipment store.
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Boyles on T.V.
Episode 4 - 10-02-1973
The Boyles are invited to be interviewed on TV, but Harry thinks having the entire family on TV will ruin his reputation.
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Permissive Papa
Episode 3 - 9-25-1973
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.
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The Lady Detective
Episode 2 - 9-18-1973
An eccentric female detective (played by guest star Phyllis Diller) is hired to help Harry find out who stole from the company's payroll.
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Bringing Up Jamie
Episode 1 - 9-11-1973
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.
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Season 1
The Neighbors
Episode 24 - 2-20-1973
30m
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.
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Papa in New York
Episode 23 - 2-13-1973
24m
Harry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him.
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Accidents Will Happen
Episode 22 - 2-06-1973
23m
Harry splits his pants after slipping in a restaurant. Everyone advises Harry to sue, but Harry just wants a new pair of pants.
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Music Tycoon
Episode 21 - 1-30-1973
30m
Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle.
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The Commune
Episode 20 - 1-23-1973
23m
Alice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stresses of school and home life.
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Sweet Sixteen
Episode 19 - 1-16-1973
30m
Irma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it.
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The Swimming Pool
Episode 18 - 1-09-1973
23m
Harry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it.
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Papa The Patient
Episode 17 - 1-02-1973
23m
Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.
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Mama's Identity
Episode 16 - 12-26-1972
23m
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.
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The Prowler
Episode 15 - 12-19-1972
30m
Ralph starts a neighborhood vigilante group in order to fight back against a burglar who has been breaking into houses in the Boyles' neighborhood.
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The New House
Episode 14 - 12-12-1972
23m
The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.
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The New Car
Episode 13 - 12-05-1972
23m
The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them.
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Expectant Papa
Episode 12 - 11-28-1972
23m
Irma worries that she may be pregnant again, which does not sit well with Chet and Alice, who feel the world is too overpopulated.
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Duty Calls
Episode 11 - 10-21-1972
30m
Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.
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The Mouse
Episode 10 - 11-14-1972
30m
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.
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Chet's Fiancee
Episode 9 - 11-07-1972
30m
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.
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Chet's Job
Episode 8 - 10-31-1972
30m
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.
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The Victim
Episode 7 - 10-24-1972
30m
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.
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Love Story
Episode 6 - 10-17-1972
23m
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.
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Help Wanted
Episode 5 - 10-10-1972
23m
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.
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The Beach Vacation
Episode 4 - 9-03-1972
23m
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.
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The Hippie
Episode 3 - 9-26-1972
23m
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.
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Alice's Dress
Episode 2 - 9-19-1972
23m
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.
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The Fling
Episode 1 - 9-12-1972
23m
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.
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Alice's Diet
Episode 9 - 11-13-1973
After being spurned by a crush at school, Alice goes to a beauty farm, and comes back slim and beautiful.
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Mama Loves Monty
Episode 10 - 11-20-1973
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.
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Help Wanted
Episode 5 - 10-10-1972
23m
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.
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Chet's Job
Episode 8 - 10-31-1972
30m
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.
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The Mouse
Episode 10 - 11-14-1972
30m
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.
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