High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wait till Your Mother Gets Home! was an NBC TV film of the week in 1983 about role reversal and support, based on a true story, which starred Paul Michael Glaser from TV`s Starsky and Hutch, and Dee Wallace from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The movie deals with the popular question of whether or not men and women can successfully take on the other`s traditional roles in society, i.e. breadwinner vs. caretaker.