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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Season 1 Episode 5: Help Wanted

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.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Fling

1. The Fling

Aired: Sep 12, 1972

Restaurant-equipment dealer Harry Boyle helps a sexy female customer move int...

Episode 2 Alice's Dress

2. Alice's Dress

Aired: Sep 19, 1972

The Boyles are invited to a party. Alice decides to buy a dress for the event...

Episode 3 The Hippie

3. The Hippie

Aired: Sep 26, 1972

Chet befriends a hippie musician, which drives his family crazy and prompts R...

Episode 4 The Beach Vacation

4. The Beach Vacation

Aired: Sep 3, 1972

The Boyles rent a beach house, but things get complicated when Alice wants to...

Episode 5 Help Wanted

5. Help Wanted

Aired: Oct 10, 1972

Harry gets into trouble with special-interest groups when he fires his Jewish...

Episode 6 Love Story

6. Love Story

Aired: Oct 17, 1972

Alice shocks her family again by dating a homeless man named Norman, but when...

Episode 7 The Victim

7. The Victim

Aired: Oct 24, 1972

Harry gets mugged and beaten in the park by a young criminal. While Harry and...

Episode 8 Chet's Job

8. Chet's Job

Aired: Oct 30, 1972

Harry gives his slacker son, Chet, an ultimatum: either find a job and pay re...

Episode 9 Chet's Fiancee

9. Chet's Fiancee

Aired: Nov 6, 1972

Chet dates a young, attractive decent young woman named Prudence and brings h...

Episode 10 The Mouse

10. The Mouse

Aired: Nov 13, 1972

Jamie brings home a pet mouse. After being told that he can't keep it, the mo...

Episode 11 Duty Calls

11. Duty Calls

Aired: Oct 21, 1972

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

Episode 12 Expectant Papa

12. Expectant Papa

Aired: Nov 27, 1972

Irma worries that she may be pregnant again, which does not sit well with Che...

Episode 13 The New Car

13. The New Car

Aired: Dec 4, 1972

The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the m...

Episode 14 The New House

14. The New House

Aired: Dec 11, 1972

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

Episode 15 The Prowler

15. The Prowler

Aired: Dec 18, 1972

Ralph starts a neighborhood vigilante group in order to fight back against a ...

Episode 16 Mama's Identity

16. Mama's Identity

Aired: Dec 25, 1972

In an attempt to be more than just a housewife and mother, Irma takes a job a...

Episode 17 Papa The Patient

17. Papa The Patient

Aired: Jan 1, 1973

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

Episode 18 The Swimming Pool

18. The Swimming Pool

Aired: Jan 8, 1973

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

Episode 19 Sweet Sixteen

19. Sweet Sixteen

Aired: Jan 15, 1973

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

Episode 20 The Commune

20. The Commune

Aired: Jan 22, 1973

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

Episode 21 Music Tycoon

21. Music Tycoon

Aired: Jan 29, 1973

Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon lear...

Episode 23 Papa in New York

23. Papa in New York

Aired: Feb 12, 1973

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

Episode 24 The Neighbors

24. The Neighbors

Aired: Feb 19, 1973

Newlyweds Mona and George experience trouble in paradise when they fight over...

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Info about Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

Seasons: 3

Current Status: Ended

Network: Syndication

Production Country: United States

Genres:Comedy, Animation