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The Swimming Pool

January 9, 1973

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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home - S1 - E18

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

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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: Season 1 - 24 Episode s

1x1 - The Fling
September 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.
1x2 - Alice's Dress
September 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.
1x3 - The Hippie
September 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.
1x4 - The Beach Vacation
September 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.
1x5 - Help Wanted
October 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.
1x6 - Love Story
October 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.
1x7 - The Victim
October 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.
1x8 - Chet's Job
October 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.
1x9 - Chet's Fiancee
November 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.
1x10 - The Mouse
November 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.
1x11 - Duty Calls
October 21, 1972
Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.
1x12 - Expectant Papa
November 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.
1x13 - The New Car
December 5, 1972
The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them.
1x14 - The New House
December 12, 1972
The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.
1x15 - The Prowler
December 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.
1x16 - Mama's Identity
December 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.
1x17 - Papa The Patient
January 2, 1973
Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.
1x18 - The Swimming Pool
January 9, 1973
Harry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it.
1x19 - Sweet Sixteen
January 16, 1973
Irma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it.
1x20 - The Commune
January 23, 1973
Alice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stresses of school and home life.
1x21 - Music Tycoon
January 30, 1973
Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle.
1x22 - Accidents Will Happen
February 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.
1x23 - Papa in New York
February 13, 1973
Harry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him.
1x24 - The Neighbors
February 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.

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