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Summary: Fox got it right!!
Review: This first season DVD set is wonderful - The greatest 'bonus feature' the creators of this DVD series has given us is the option to play the dialogue straight without the laugh soundtrack. According to Alan Alda, the cast and crew never liked the canned laughter but CBS insisted on it. The people involved with the show felt the audience did'nt need to be told what was funny or when to laugh. Now you can watch these pristine quality episodes as they were intended - Without the laugh track (but for those who prefer it, the laugh soundtrack is also an option).
M * A * S * H Season 2 DVD is set to be released in May 2002. We're finally getting a DVD collection with the quality it deserves! THANKS!! (Let's hope more classic shows are on the way...)
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Summary: It's a great set
Review: I was delighted to see my DVD set arrive in the mail yesterday and I was even more delighted when I saw the quality. No, this set is not heavy on extra features, but the quality of the transfer is beautiful. They did an excellent job. Picture is simply perfect, excellent audio, and hey, it's M*A*S*H, for crying out loud. What isn't there to love?
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Summary: Fabulous presentation of a classic series.
Review: This DVD set of the first series is everything I could have hoped for. The packaging is a sturdy plastic three-disk case and not a card one that'll fall apart over time, and the episodes themselves are presented in screening order with the option to remove the laughter track, the much better option. Inside there's a flyer saying that season TWO should be out in May. Lets hope for some extras on coming sets, there must be some retrospectives out there, or documentaries!?
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Summary: First two years excellent, after that .... dismal!
Review: The first two years of the tv show demonstrated the positive effects of an outstanding ensemble cast and some high-quality comedy writing. Shows like Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore, WKRP in Cin., Cheers, and Seinfeld were similar in many ways. It's great to note how good the acting is from Wayne Rogers and especially MacLean Stevenson, in the role he was born to play.
Later, however, you'll see this show mutate into the Alan Alda Show which should have been cancelled years before the finale. At that point you'll see, the ensemble cast becoming sacrificed in favor of Alan Alda and his cliche-ridden, ego-driven scripts in which he takes himself much too serious, and the humour of the show dwindles down to almost nothing. It's interesting to note that Robert Altman (MASH director) and Richard Hooker (MASH author) both slammed the show. The first two years, see it and enjoy! After that... Look at the character substitutions that take place. Trapper for BJ! Mike Farrell acts as the ultimate schill ansd straight man for Alan Alda. Frank Burns for Winchester? Yuck! How Klinger later received more than one line per episode is amazing! I'm still not sure how the original vision of the movie, and then the original vision of the TV show degenerated into a vehicle for Alan Alda.
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Summary: MASH is a great DVD
Review: No commercials, uncut, what more could you want!
I purchased my copy at Wal-Mart on Jan 1. Maybe they made a mistake & released it early. They will be releasing Season 2 this year.
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Summary: At last, I can see all the episodes IN ORDER!
Review: I am delighted beyond description that this series is coming out on DVD !!! This is my wife's all-time favorite TV show, both because she is a retired nurse, and because it's a sit-com with some real depth to it. We've just about memorized every episode and we still laugh together every time we watch. What we've been watching, however, are a bunch of old VHS tapes that we recorded off the TV back in the mid-80s, which range in quality from pretty good to abysmally snowy, depending on what the reception was like that day in rural Minnesota. (No, we don't have cable out here...) Our homemade tapes are the uncut episodes as aired by a local station, but they are all badly out of order and we are missing a few episodes. So, it will be wonderful to see MASH uncut, in order, with no commercials and in DVD quality. I ordered my Season 1 set today and I do hope that the other 10 seasons come out on DVD very soon. I plan to collect them all.
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Summary: Only the beginning of the best
Review: I am constantly amazed at the quality of MASH, especially the first three seasons when Henry and Trapper were on the show. It is amazing how the show is able to be so incredibly funny and yet so deftly touching. Later years of MASH tried to do the same but ultimately came up short. I cant wait to see the WHOLE episodes, without scenes cut, as it was meant to be. The zaniness of MASH reached a feverish pitch during this time when anything and everything could happen. Not to belittle the later years of this fine show, but it was at its creative best in its first three years. Cant wait for the next two editions to come out. Five stars plus!
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Summary: Gotta be good
Review: MASH is such a great show and so worthwhile for DVD. Haven't seen the DVD yet but definitely will buy it. Used to be you had to pay 20 bucks just for 3 or 4 episodes on a tape from Columbia House, so this is a great bargain even at twice the price. I hope this means that later seasons and other shows will be forthcoming. The DVDs of TV shows that are available now are so focused on currently-running material. And classic stuff like this is a rarity. Maybe DVD producers and distributors will realize that there is a DVD market beyond what's on TV right now.
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Summary: Finally...
Review: I for one am very stoked about M*A*S*H coming to DVD. This without a doubt is my all time favorite show. I would have bought it on VHS, but a DVD version just makes it a sweeter deal. I've got my remote in hand waiting for my package to arrive in January.
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Summary: One of the Best TV Shows Ever
Review: While it's hard to review something that isn't out yet, it's also impossible to imagine myself not putting all three discs in my five disc changer and leaving them in for a very long time. The early years of M*A*S*H are often the most beloved, and they also seem to be the least shown on FX or Fox reruns. While they are holding back too much on the extras, the thought of uncut episodes is very exciting. FX and Fox have cut scenes out of almost every episode - to this day I still haven't seen the scenes of the pilot episode that take place before the opening credits (this is the only episode to have action take place before the opening credits). Now, just like the Simpsons DVD's, we should get the complete episodes without any scenes cut!
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