The Commune
- Studio
- Hanna-Barbera Studios, Rhodes Productions
- Distributor
- Worldvision
Synopsis
Communal living provides the theme as Harry clashes with a hippie guru who's trying to lure his daughter.
Teaser Sequence: As Alice is in the refrigerator eating and drinking, Harry wants to know why she wants to leave school to live on a farm? Alice says she can't really learn life from a schoolteacher. Harry tells her "You're not gonna get too many hot tips from a cow either." Alice says it's upset her father. Harry says he's thinking of Irma and that he wouldn't be surprised if if her mind snapped completely when she finally realizes she put in 10 years with the PTA for nothing.
Teaser Sequence: As Alice is in the refrigerator eating and drinking, Harry wants to know why she wants to leave school to live on a farm? Alice says she can't really learn life from a schoolteacher. Harry tells her "You're not gonna get too many hot tips from a cow either." Alice says it's upset her father. Harry says he's thinking of Irma and that he wouldn't be surprised if if her mind snapped completely when she finally realizes she put in 10 years with the PTA for nothing.
Characters
Harry Boyle, Irma Boyle, Alice Boyle, Chet Boyle, Jamie Boyle, Ralph Kane, Sara Whitaker
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Peter Luschwitz
- First Assistant Director (Second Unit)
- Norman Drew
Producing
- Producer
- R.S. Allen, Harvey Bullock
- Executive Producers
- William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
- Associate Producer
- Zoran Janjic
Writing
- Writer
- Jack Elinson, Norman Paul
- Story Direction
- Paul Sommer
Animation
- Animator
- Stuart Barry, John Burge, Warwick Gilbert, Don MacKinnon, Gus McLaren, Kevin Roper, Laurie Sharpe, John Taylor
- Animation Director
- Peter Luschwitz
Voices
- Voice
- Tom Bosley (Harry Boyle), Jack Burns (Ralph Kane), Joan Gerber (Irma Boyle, Sara Whitaker), Tina Holland Kristina Holland (Alice Boyle), Len Weinrib Lennie Weinrib (Chet Boyle), Willie Aames (Jamie Boyle), Pat Harrington Jr
Editing
Crew
- Production Design
- Iwao Takamoto
- Production Supervisors
- Rolf Sandor, Victor O. Schipek
- Character Design
- Marty Murphy
- Key Layout
- Milton Fredlund, Andrea Bresciani
- Layouts
- Chebby Badham, Steve Lumley, David Skinner
- Backgrounds
- Richard Zaloudek, Ros Breillat, Peter Connell, George Hatsatouris, Milan Zahorsky
- Painting Department
- Zora Bubica
- Musical Director
- Ricard Bowden
- Camera
- Bill Constable, Chris Ashbrook, Jan Cregan, Peter Huiswaard, Santiago Gomez
- Track Reading
- Maurice Kattell
- Scene Painting
- Yvonne Kattell
Production notes
This situation family series illustrated the generation gap between old-fashioned father Harry Boyle, president of Boyle Restaurant Supply Company, and his modern-day children (Chet, Alice and Jamie) who have difficulty accepting their father's golden-day methods and philosophies of life.