What are the best episodes of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home?

The best rated episodes of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home are: Don for the Defense - S2E8 rated 8.0, The Mouse - S1E10 rated 7.8, Chet's Job - S1E8 rated 7.7, Love Story - S1E6 rated 7.6, The Fling - S1E1 rated 7.5, Duty Calls - S1E11 rated 7.4, Expectant Papa - S1E12 rated 7.3, Alice's Dress - S1E2 rated 7.2, Rich Little, Supersleuth - S3E1 rated 7.0, The Victim - S1E7 rated 7.0

What are the worst episodes of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home?

The lowest rated episodes of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home are: Bringing Up Jamie - S2E1 rated 5.5, Maude Loves Papa - S2E20 rated 5.5, The Lady Detective - S2E2 rated 6.0, Permissive Papa - S2E3 rated 6.0, Boyles on T.V. - S2E4 rated 6.0, My Wife, The Secretary - S2E5 rated 6.0, Papa , the Housewife - S2E6 rated 6.0, Jamie's Project - S2E7 rated 6.0, Alice's Diet - S2E9 rated 6.0, Mama Loves Monty - S2E10 rated 6.0

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Best Episodes of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Don for the Defense
S2 Ep8
8.0
6th Nov 1973
Harry goes to court to contest a traffic violation—and ends up in deeper trouble when he hires an incompetent lawyer.
The Mouse
S1 Ep10
7.8
14th Nov 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.
Chet's Job
S1 Ep8
7.7
31st Oct 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.
Love Story
S1 Ep6
7.6
17th Oct 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.
The Fling
S1 Ep1
7.5
12th Sep 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.
Duty Calls
S1 Ep11
7.4
21st Oct 1972
Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.
Expectant Papa
S1 Ep12
7.3
28th Nov 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.
Alice's Dress
S1 Ep2
7.2
19th Sep 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.
Rich Little, Supersleuth
S3 Ep1
7.0
17th Sep 1974
The bank next to Harry's store gets robbed.
The Victim
S1 Ep7
7.0
24th Oct 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.
The Beach Vacation
S1 Ep4
6.9
3rd Sep 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.
Papa the Patient
S1 Ep17
6.8
2nd Jan 1973
Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.
The New House
S1 Ep14
6.8
12th Dec 1972
The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.
Chet's Fiancee
S1 Ep9
6.7
7th Nov 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.

Worst Episodes of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Bringing Up Jamie
S2 Ep1
5.5
11th Sep 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.
Maude Loves Papa
S2 Ep20
5.5
29th Jan 1974
While collecting back payment, Harry helps an old woman open a service station for motorcycles.
The Lady Detective
S2 Ep2
6.0
18th Sep 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.
Permissive Papa
S2 Ep3
6.0
25th Sep 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.
Boyles on T.V.
S2 Ep4
6.0
2nd Oct 1973
The Boyles are invited to be interviewed on TV, but Harry thinks having the entire family on TV will ruin his reputation.
My Wife, The Secretary
S2 Ep5
6.0
9th Oct 1973
Irma re-tries to find a job...and ends up working as Harry's secretary at his restaurant equipment store.
Papa , the Housewife
S2 Ep6
6.0
16th Oct 1973
Harry takes Irma's place as a housewife...with disastrous results.
Jamie's Project
S2 Ep7
6.0
23rd Oct 1973
Harry helps Jamie with a project for a school-wide competition.
Alice's Diet
S2 Ep9
6.0
13th Nov 1973
After being spurned by a crush at school, Alice goes to a beauty farm, and comes back slim and beautiful.
Mama Loves Monty
S2 Ep10
6.0
20th Nov 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.
Alice's Crush
S2 Ep11
6.0
27th Nov 1973
Alice has fallen in love; this time, her object of desire is one of her teachers.
Papa's Big Check
S2 Ep12
6.0
4th Dec 1973
Harry gets a tax refund check for $940,000, but learns too late that the amount is a misprint.
Chet's Pad
S2 Ep14
6.0
18th Dec 1973
Chet finally moves out of the house and into his own place, but Harry keeps visiting Chet to parent him.
Papa the Coach
S2 Ep15
6.0
25th Dec 1973
Harry is named the new coach of the high school basketball team, and must contend with the pushy parents of the players.

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home Episode Guide

The Fling
S1 Ep1
7.5
12th Sep 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.
Alice's Dress
S1 Ep2
7.2
19th Sep 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.
The Hippie
S1 Ep3
6.6
26th Sep 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.
The Beach Vacation
S1 Ep4
6.9
3rd Sep 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.
Help Wanted
S1 Ep5
6.7
10th Oct 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.
Love Story
S1 Ep6
7.6
17th Oct 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.
The Victim
S1 Ep7
7.0
24th Oct 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.
Chet's Job
S1 Ep8
7.7
31st Oct 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.
Chet's Fiancee
S1 Ep9
6.7
7th Nov 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.
The Mouse
S1 Ep10
7.8
14th Nov 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.
Duty Calls
S1 Ep11
7.4
21st Oct 1972
Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.
Expectant Papa
S1 Ep12
7.3
28th Nov 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.
The New Car
S1 Ep13
6.5
5th Dec 1972
The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them.
The New House
S1 Ep14
6.8
12th Dec 1972
The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.
The Prowler
S1 Ep15
6.5
19th Dec 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.
Mama's Identity
S1 Ep16
6.7
26th Dec 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.
Papa the Patient
S1 Ep17
6.8
2nd Jan 1973
Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.
The Swimming Pool
S1 Ep18
6.3
9th Jan 1973
Harry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it.
Sweet Sixteen
S1 Ep19
6.7
16th Jan 1973
Irma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it.
The Commune
S1 Ep20
6.3
23rd Jan 1973
Alice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stresses of school and home life.
Music Tycoon
S1 Ep21
6.3
30th Jan 1973
Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle.
Accidents Will Happen
S1 Ep22
6.3
6th Feb 1973
Harry splits his pants after slipping in a restaurant. Everyone advises Harry to sue, but Harry just wants a new pair of pants.
Papa in New York
S1 Ep23
6.5
13th Feb 1973
Harry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him.
The Neighbors
S1 Ep24
6.3
20th Feb 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.

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home chronicles the lives of the Boyles, your average 1970's American family. Harry Boyle, the father, owns a restaurant supply company. His wife Irma portrays the typical housewife, with an occasional independent flare. Harry and Irma have three children: Chet, Alice, and Jamie. Chet, who is 22, is a college dropout, who spends most of his time sleeping. Alice is a rather robust 16-year-old, who teams up with her mother, to display the independence of women, in the 70's. Jamie is the Capitalist of the family, even though he is only 9. The show is set in the suburbs of Los Angeles, on Elm Street, to be precise. During the 1973 season, the show was host to many celebrity voices, including: Don Knotts, Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur and many more (many of these guests were carried over from The New Scooby-Doo Movies, which were recored at this time).

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