Taboo Territory.

"Father" story writer/editor Norman Paul had worked on various Norman Lear comedies including "All in the Family" and "Good Times" so he did bring a certain 1970s "Relevancy" in the series. It was interesting to hear familiar Hanna-Barbera voice actors like John Stephenson, Lennie Weinrib, Allen Melvin, Alan Oppenheimer, and Don Messick performing dialogue about wife-swapping, swinging singles, recreational drugs, hippies, and the occasional effeminate (but not explicitly gay) male character.

Tom Bosley played the voice of Harry Boyle here and played Howard Cunningham on "Happy Days" the following year...bringing the understanding if harried father character to live-action. Interestingly, the pilot for "Happy Days" also premiered as a "Love American Style" segment titled "Love and The Happy Day"...but Tom Bosley did not play Howard Cunningham...Harold Gould played Howard in the pilot with Ron Howard playing Richie, Anson Williams playing Potsie, and Marion Ross playing Mrs. C. No Fonzie.

David Hayward played the voice of Chet in season 1 and Lennie Weinrib played Chet in season 2. Hayward played the assassin of country singer Barbara Jean in the acclaimed 1975 film "Nashville" directed by Robert Altman.

Willie Aames played the voice of Jamie in season 1 and Jackie Earle Haley played Jaime in season 2. Aames played Tommy Bradford in the "Eight is Enough" series which starred Harry Boyle lookalike Dick Van Patten as the Bradford family dad. Jackie Earle Haley played the voice of Greg Butler in "Valley of the Dinosaurs" and appeared in "The Bad News Bears" with Walter Matthau and in various movies and tv series as a child actor. Haley's acting roles faded when he reached adulthood until he made a comeback with an Oscar-nominated performance as a paroled child molester in the film "Little Children" and appearing in the films "Watchmen", "Lincoln", and "Dark Shadows" and the tv series "The Human Target."

Jamie the young son did not appear in the "Love and the Old Fashioned Father" pilot.

Hanna-Barbera also animated another "Love American Style" segment titled "Love and the Private Eye" with the voice of Richard Dawson as master of disguise detective Melvin Danger, Lennie Weinrib as his British assistant Williams, and Mitzi McCall as Melvin's smitten secretary Tangerine. It was also more adult-oriented than most Hanna-Barbera shows..."Love American Style" did originally air at 10pm in its hour long ABC prime time run. That did not become a series. "Love American Style" producers/story writers R.S. Allen and Harvey Bullock wrote episodes of "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home".

The Decades digital tv channel, which is owned by MeTV and is usually carried by most CBS network affiliates, aired the 2 Hanna-Barbera-produced "Love American Style" segments on July 21, 2016 to commemorate the anniversary of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The voice cast in the "Love and the Old Fashioned Father" was the same cast as the series sans Jamie (Tom Bosley as Harry, Joan Gerber as Irma, Kristina Holland as Alice, David Hayward as Chet, Jack Burns as Ralph with guest voice Sidney Miller as swinging dad Fred).

Catchy theme song of "Love American Style" performed by The Cowsills...who was the inspiration for the tv show (and later Hanna-Barbera cartoon show) "The Partridge Family".

Wait Till Your Father Get's Home was a show that i got to know in the late hours of Cartoon Network in my childhood. And i remembered I was hooked. While in comparison to the children of the 70s, by my flock was around we we're pretty used to material before our times regurally apart of our entertainment thanks to the institutions cable tv and the like gave us. In truth as a youngster a lot of the more timely issues writing went over my head, but the comedy was always right on target even if i didn't fully realize what I had in time.

I assume that over time as it went away from the air, i had forgot about the show a bit. When it first came out on dvd with it's first season, i even skipped it. But when i watched a commercial for it, my oh my the memories came back and i decided to go back and give it another shot, and there i was right back enjoying the escapades of Harry Boyle.

I enjoy Harry as a main character. I find him likable in his struggles (something in a lot of modern cartoons i don't feel the same endearment to the lead). His family are also pretty good. I enjoy the interactions. Crazy Ralph is just as crazy and phobic as i recalled. As a crazy nut, he's hilarious, especially when he gets in trouble. A lot of the plot line of the then days are pretty good. Some of which may need a little more education for some younger than me to get, but if i could get it back in the 90s, new kids of 2010s probably shouldn't be that far behind.

I do wish the music things get cleared so i can relive the rest of this show on dvd like i do the first season. In a way i'm a bit sorry it took me so long to welcome Harry Boyle back into my life.

Years ago I watched a TV special about Hanna-Barbera that included a bizarre clip of what was basically "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" with lions instead of humans, set in a jungle. All of the voices were the same, and the teenage son's mane was the equivalent of long hair. Was this an aborted pilot?

There was a one-season syndicated cartoon show in the 1990s titled "The Lionhearts" which featured an anthropomorphic MGM lion and his problems at home with his wife and kids. Produced by MGM animation. William H. Macy played the voice of Leo the MGM Lion and Peri Gilpin ("Frasier") played his lioness wife. Not sure if that was the show you remembered.

No, this was back in the 1970's. It was "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" with lions instead of humans, with Tom Bosley and all the other original voices.