This H-B classic was their answer to ALL IN THE FAMILY. It was syndicated run and it aired on most NBC affiliates. Does anybody remember in their respective markets including the New York City market on they aired this show. It was on from like 1972 to 1974. Fill in the information and thanks.
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HANNA-BARBERA CLASSIC "WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME"
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I remember it was circa 1978 or maybe 1980, we were visiting Cape Cod and WLNE TV 6 Providence (at that time, a CBS affiliate) used to run it on Sunday mornings.
By the way, in Dennis, WLNE 6 and WNEV 7 (from Boston) were the only two stations that came in with indoor rabbit ears, and both were CBS back then. So you could imagine the riveting choices you had for watching TV...
By the way, in Dennis, WLNE 6 and WNEV 7 (from Boston) were the only two stations that came in with indoor rabbit ears, and both were CBS back then. So you could imagine the riveting choices you had for watching TV...
Wait till Your Father Gets Home was actually one of HB's more successful cartoons. Unlike most of their other cartoons ( The Flintstones was one of their few exceptions ) HB did 2 full seasons of new episodes of this show. Even the popular Jetsons for almost 25 years only one season was produced.
I believe as well that most of the stations that aird Wait were NBC affiliates, of course not all stations that aired it were NBC. Usually on Saturdays, some Sundays. Three more I can think of were Washington DC's WRC-TV, Lancaster,PA's WGAL-TV 8 and Fredericksburg, VA's WHFV.
I do know the woman who voiced the part of Harry Boyle's wife Joan Gerber also did the same on Lancelot Link.
Wait til Your Father Gets Home was almost forgotten after it left syndication ( Even HB's Anniversay special in the 70s overlooked it ) that is until the show became a part of the originial Cartoon Network lineup. The show was an early hit for them.
The downside of this show was Tom Bosley. Other than his long running role on Happy Days, and Father Downing it seems he didn't care much for his past roles and from what I heard, his role as Harry Boyle was no exception.
Shame too as Wait til Your Father Gets Home was pretty good.
And they still do have the most catchy oepning theme than most other shows.
If people can still remember the theme of a TV show YEARS after it left TV ( Yeah I know Boomerang airs it but most can't get that channel ), then the show cant be a total flop.
I believe as well that most of the stations that aird Wait were NBC affiliates, of course not all stations that aired it were NBC. Usually on Saturdays, some Sundays. Three more I can think of were Washington DC's WRC-TV, Lancaster,PA's WGAL-TV 8 and Fredericksburg, VA's WHFV.
I do know the woman who voiced the part of Harry Boyle's wife Joan Gerber also did the same on Lancelot Link.
Wait til Your Father Gets Home was almost forgotten after it left syndication ( Even HB's Anniversay special in the 70s overlooked it ) that is until the show became a part of the originial Cartoon Network lineup. The show was an early hit for them.
The downside of this show was Tom Bosley. Other than his long running role on Happy Days, and Father Downing it seems he didn't care much for his past roles and from what I heard, his role as Harry Boyle was no exception.
Shame too as Wait til Your Father Gets Home was pretty good.
And they still do have the most catchy oepning theme than most other shows.
If people can still remember the theme of a TV show YEARS after it left TV ( Yeah I know Boomerang airs it but most can't get that channel ), then the show cant be a total flop.
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FreddyE1977
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I was very young when it ran, but I do remember that show. In Pittsburgh it ran early on a weekday evening
on KDKA-TV2. 7 or 7:30 I think, sorry I don't remember on which day. I do recall they ran a disclaimer
before the show started, some early variaton of "viewer discretion advised". That might have been done
by the local station. I do recall it tried to go after very edgy topics, a la All in the Family. Tom Bosley was
the voice of the father.
on KDKA-TV2. 7 or 7:30 I think, sorry I don't remember on which day. I do recall they ran a disclaimer
before the show started, some early variaton of "viewer discretion advised". That might have been done
by the local station. I do recall it tried to go after very edgy topics, a la All in the Family. Tom Bosley was
the voice of the father.
In 1972-73, the show ran in Los Angeles on a weekday night on KNBC 4 - between 7:30 and 8:00, I believe. Most area local stations just stripped one show every night in that "prime time access" period. I'm sure most of you will recall that network programming originally aired between 7:30 and 8:00. Then, about 1970, the FCC (in their infinite wisdom) turned that first prime-time half-hour back over to the affiliates, believing they would all develop high-quality locally produced programming. Though there was some of that in the early years, most affiliates just stripped the same syndicated program (game shows or sitcom reruns) five nights a week.
I think KNBC was the only affiliate in LA to run different syndicated shows on each weeknight. As I remember, "Littlest Hobo" was one of the others, but I can't recall the other three.
Overall, I don't think KNBC was very successful with that strategy.
I think KNBC was the only affiliate in LA to run different syndicated shows on each weeknight. As I remember, "Littlest Hobo" was one of the others, but I can't recall the other three.
Overall, I don't think KNBC was very successful with that strategy.
Lkeller said:
Yet, many stations in the US in the 1970s set aside at least a half-hour for a different syndicated program in that time slot each night, especially game shows (like Dennis James' TPIR, Tom Kennedy's "Name That Tune", and nighttime versions of Hollywood Squares and Match Game (PM), all once a week).
Interestingly, WGHP/8 Greensboro/Winston-Salem/
High Point, located in a conservative market and
not known for edgy programming until it became a
Fox o&o, ran "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" for
two seasons (1972-74) Tuesdays at 7:30. In the
last few months Triad viewers got a double dose
of Tom Bosley, since "Happy Days' followed at 8.
WAGA/5 Atlanta, on the other hand, had no luck
with "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home." In the
fall of '72 it was on Tuesdays at 7:30, just ahead
of "Maude," but fell victim to "Wild Kingdom" on WSB
and "To Tell The Truth" on WXIA. WAGA dropped it
at midseason, then ran it Saturdays at 7:30, ahead of
"All In The Family," in the summer of '73. It fared no
better against "Hee Haw" on WSB and wrestling on
then-WTCG, and was not renewed in the Atlanta
market for the 1973-74 season.
High Point, located in a conservative market and
not known for edgy programming until it became a
Fox o&o, ran "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" for
two seasons (1972-74) Tuesdays at 7:30. In the
last few months Triad viewers got a double dose
of Tom Bosley, since "Happy Days' followed at 8.
WAGA/5 Atlanta, on the other hand, had no luck
with "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home." In the
fall of '72 it was on Tuesdays at 7:30, just ahead
of "Maude," but fell victim to "Wild Kingdom" on WSB
and "To Tell The Truth" on WXIA. WAGA dropped it
at midseason, then ran it Saturdays at 7:30, ahead of
"All In The Family," in the summer of '73. It fared no
better against "Hee Haw" on WSB and wrestling on
then-WTCG, and was not renewed in the Atlanta
market for the 1973-74 season.
Yep, that's what all 3 syracuse stations did when that extra half-hour of primetime opened up. It created this tremendous market for 1/2 hour strips. Some of those were Dusty's Trail (a western with Bob Denver); Ozzie's girls (in which Ozzie & Harriet took in 2 cute college girl boarders, shot on videotape); and Wait til your father gets home. Most ran no more than one year. I remember well those game shows -- they were pretty good!
Ch. 3 ran "bowling for dollars" at 7PM, then game shows/first run syndication shows at 7:30, for example.
Wait ran on ch. 5/WHEN, I am pretty sure, on a weeknight at 7:00.
bk77 said:
...add two more -- WFRV/5 Green Bay and its full-power satellite WJMN/3 Escanaba. Ironically, both switched from NBC to ABC (which WFRV had begun its existence with) ten years or so after that and bought by CBS after yet another decade...
In Houston, it aired on KPRC (NBC).
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kirkiefan
Guest
I remember this show! WKEF in Dayton aired it frm 7:30 to 8pm. HB didn't use its otherwise familiar animation techniques and sound effects for this series...kinda resembled the artwork and backgrounds of the Doonesbury comic strip. Jack Burns (formerly of the Burns and Schriber comedy duo) also voiced a character who lived next door to Tom Bosley's character who operated a vigilante group out of his house. Unusual for its time but still funny. HB obviously wanted to do something different to appeal the mid age folks of that time.
Did you know that "Wait Until Your Father Gets Home" was a spin-off of an episode of Love Amercian Style called "Love and the Old Fashioned Father" (the only cartoon that Love American Style ever aired, I believe) that aired in January 1972?
Does anyone happen to know if this episode is a part of the syndicated package of Love American Style?
Does anyone happen to know if this episode is a part of the syndicated package of Love American Style?
The show aired on NBC affiliates Channel 22 WWLP in Springfield, MA (Tuesday Nights at 7:30PM) and Channel 30 WHNB in New Britain, CT (now WVIT)(Thursday Nights at 7:30PM). Both stations coverage areas overlapped greatly, so if you missed it once, you could see it again - clutch in those pre-VCR days!
I always thought the commie-hunting, paranoid next door neighbor could very well have been Mike Judge's inspiration for the Dale Gribble character on "King Of The Hill".
I always thought the commie-hunting, paranoid next door neighbor could very well have been Mike Judge's inspiration for the Dale Gribble character on "King Of The Hill".
azumanga said:
Yes, Tom did voice the dad in the episode Love and the Old Fashioned Father. In fact, all of the actors appeared in the same roles as they did in the TV series.
Here in Seattle, our local NBC affiliate, KING 5 aired the show. My question was there stations not affiliated with NBC aired the show back then?
I remember that the show aired on ABC affilate WTVN Channel 6 (now WSYX) in Columbus, Ohio back in 1972-1973. I can't remember which night it was on but I believe it ran either in the 7:00 or 7:30 p.m. slot back then.
I do remember back in the early 1970's that CBS affilate WBNS Channel 10 in Columbus had the local news at 7:00 and local shows at 7:30. A few of the local shows that I remember on WBNS were The Judge and Traffic Court back in the late 1960's-early 1970's.
I do remember back in the early 1970's that CBS affilate WBNS Channel 10 in Columbus had the local news at 7:00 and local shows at 7:30. A few of the local shows that I remember on WBNS were The Judge and Traffic Court back in the late 1960's-early 1970's.
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