Car 54.

WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME, the only successful, animated sitcom in the 27 year gap between the FLINTSTONES and SIMPSONS, progresses to its 48th regular episode...

Tom Bosley (who voices our series' titular father) once had a guest role on Joe E. Ross' early '60s live-action show CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?. So I suppose it was sort of payback for Ross to guest on WTYFGH. He even reprized his old character Officer Gunther Toody, driving Car 54. Too bad they didn't manage to get his original partner Fred Gwynne (of Herman Munster fame), and went with Ronnie Schell, whom you'll probably recognize as Duke from GOMER PYLE USMC, but also did tractor-trailer loads of cartoon voice work.

No explanation for how a Bronx cop and his department were somehow serving the Boyle's neighborhood, which has been established as being on the Left Coast.

Gunther manages to rope brother in-law Harry into a daycare side-business for preschoolers, which leads to a misunderstanding and not-really-kidnapping train wreck akin to THREE STOOGES comedies going back to at least 1938.

And so, after the LOVE AMERICAN STYLE pilot and four dozen subsequent episodes, we bid farewell to the Boyle family, as this is the final episode. Unlike the FLINTSTONES, JETSONS, JONNY QUEST, and TOP CAT, this prime-time animated show was a bit too adult-oriented to transition well into Saturday Morning reruns, so it mostly faded from view after production ended. I hadn't seen it since then myself.

From October 1974.
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