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Summary: You gotta love MASH, but there was a problem with mine
Review: My wife and I love to cuddle and watch MASH in the evenings. It's great watching them on the DVD's, as you get scenes that the networks cut for commercials, and the quality is first rate. The only reason I gave Season 3 four stars instead of five is that the last DVD doesn't read for some reason. ...
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Summary: Great season...terrible DVD cover!
Review: Okay, I love M*A*S*H, and am delighted that the seasons are coming out on DVD. Season three is one of--if not the--best seasons in the entire series. The final episode with Henry Blake is a roller coaster of emotions and is really well done. It would have been nice if Trapper had gotten his own send off, but contract negotiations with Wayne Rogers sort of prohibited that from happening at the time. Anyway a great season nonetheless.My big gripe is with the graphic designer doing these covers and inserts. I am a professional graphic designer, and must say, whoever did this cover needs to brush up on their Photoshop skills! First of all, Radar is much shorter than Henry, yet this cover has them appearing back-to-back as if they were the same height...it looks ridiculous! Second, the image of Henry is reversed so that he is saluting with the LEFT hand! Now, I know that Henry was not a regualr Army guy, but come on, not even Hawkeye would salute left handed. I was never in the military, but I know that major bit of army etiquette! Finally, and I've stated this before in a previous review...the United States flag in the Korean War HAD 48 STARS!!!!!!!!!! Every insert from these DVDs has an image of the 50 star American flag that didn't exist until 1960, seven years after the end of the war in Korea. Ignorant, incompotent package designs aside...these DVD's are a joy to see and the ability to turn off the laugh track alone makes them worth adding to your collection. Enjoy and I only wish TV today could be half as good.
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Summary: Someone at Fox is gonna get a beating
Review: One Star for this collection - here we are 2 years later and the bozo's at Fox still aren't listening - PUT A 'PLAY ALL' FEATURE ON THESE DVD'S!!! - other than that they're great
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Summary: Be sure to check Disk 3 for playing problems!
Review: So far I have purchased and returned two sets for defects in Disk 3. The defects have differed slightly in each disk, but the disk was ultimately unplayable. Check your set as soon as possible in case you need to return it. Otherwise the set is excellent except for the lack of a "play all" feature.
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Summary: Another classic season
Review: Some consider the third season the show's very best, full of humor but also more boldly playing with serious topics. The actors are really at home in their characters by this point, and the audience knows them inside and out, too. They no longer need to play gags over-the-top to work because we know them so well. And because we know they so well, the serious turns hit home. Reams have been written about M.A.S.H.; offering accolades would just be repeating what has been said before. Among the most popular sitcoms ever made, the show still stands the test of time despite being a "period" show. The jokes still work, the characters are still charming and feel like old friends, and the show still more enjoyable than most of the shows that have come and gone since. Like the other sets, this DVD collection is bare bones (though not poorly produced). We get the episodes spread out over several discs in a sturdy triple-case and a small booklet with info on each episode. That's it. No extras. No commentaries. No documentaries. Just the episodes. And that is just fine, because the episodes are great. Good picture far quality, good sound, and an option to turn off the laugh track are about all we really need. Even better is the price. Because this is so bare bones, we're paying only about $35 rather than the $50 or $70 so common with TV-on-DVD sets. A no-brainer buy for M.A.S.H. fans.
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Summary: *Choppers* The True M*A*S*H Arrives
Review: Something kept pushing me to continue to buy this series. I was actually dissappointed with the bulk of the first two seasons. The comedy was corn ball, and the drama was almost non existance. Season 3 is the Mash quality I remember... and I am only four episodes into this. I just viewed the episode "Rainbow Bridge" and it is stunningly better than anything in the first two seasons. The sheer writing and timing are perfect. Seasons 1 and 2 had their moments but they were few and far between, so far the first 4 eps. here I have viewed are so obviously better. The inner booklet explains why. Before the 3rd season started the producers actually visited Korea, and the results are telling. The pace is better, it has a much more authentic air about it. The characters are more defined and the relationship lines are clearer. As a dvd set all three should be purchased on the principle of seeing the "tag" (endings) that were deleted from reruns years ago. This is about 1 or 2 mintues of footage that wraps up the show. How networks thought it was suitable to have shows with no true endings is beyond me. Mash isn't the only show to suffer this fate, but one of the few that truly benefit from it. In season 1, I believe it was, the tag actually showed the conclusion of a SHOW! Ending with Frank, Trap, and Hawkeye going off arm in arm. Something I thought I'd never see, but was worth the cost of the set just for that:) My only true gripe is that for this being Henry Blakes finest hour, I would like to have seen the packaging more focused on the best commanding officer this series ever saw. He is on the front... but with Radar. And when you open the set, we are greeted with Klinger on the disc? I'm sorry but 30 years later and the Klinger character still isn't funny and has become one of my pet peeves. The packaging just seems to be done with little thought as to the content of what that particular season contains... Heck even on the binding we have... Radar? Funny thing is, it's just a very small photo of the cover shot with Henry. Shouldn't they have used Henry's picture on the binding? (Note, I love Radar, but this is the season of Henry!) Ok, yes, there are no extras of any kind but Mash is like a family to me and I'm happy just to have them around. Something extra would be nice but like a good friend, having them close is enough. The final episode on this set is the best and most memorable episode of the series, maybe in history. RIP, Henry Blake.
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Summary: Good show, but 3rd disk has major problems
Review: The 3rd disk of this collection has some serious issues. I have 2 DVD players, a PS2 and a computer. I tried to play the last 4 or 5 episodes and on every player the episodes would chop and studder. I had a replacement set sent, and it has the exact same problem. Fox needs to retransfer the third disk.
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Summary: The sitcom summit
Review: The first three seasons of MASH are absolute genius and I'm thankful that they have been preserved digitally for my great-grandchildren to enjoy. After this, of course, came BJ, Potter, and the show's collapse into heavy-handed sentimentality (please don't argue this point with me, you know I'm right). I do have one complaint about this edition, however: WHAT'S WITH THE CORNY COVER ART? DID SOMEONE CHOP HENRY'S LEGS OFF??
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Summary: MASH is Great!!!
Review: The last of the great MASH seasons. After Henry and Trapper left MASH, although still a very good series, it was not the same for me. I never watch reruns of the Potter/BJ years as they lack the rapid fire comedy that the first three years contained. This will be the last of the MASH purchases for myself. The first three seasons of MASH, along with Seinfeld and The Simpsons, are the peak of sitcom heaven... Get this DVD if you want to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh....
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Summary: PristineTransfers From Original Film Elements = A1 Viewing!
Review: The stunning picture quality is only one positive part of this amazing series release on DVD. The second aspect is the fact that the episodes are UN-CUT, allowing viewers to see sequences that haven't been seen since their original airdates. This also cleans up some severe jumps in the stories that local television stations were forced to make to allow more time for commercials in syndication. The only problem (and this is minor) is that you have to go through several screens after each episode in order to see the next episode. I wish that Fox would have added a "Play All" feature so you could go through and see more than one show at a time.
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