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Frood
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Actually a DVD question.
It would appear that the later series of M.A.S.H. available on DVD give to the option of not having thelaughter track.
Des anyone know if this is true of the DVDs for the earlier series?
Without the laughter track this is one of the best programmes ever made. With it..... rubbish.
It would appear that the later series of M.A.S.H. available on DVD give to the option of not having thelaughter track.
Des anyone know if this is true of the DVDs for the earlier series?
Without the laughter track this is one of the best programmes ever made. With it..... rubbish.
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I buy the US versions as a) they are out about 9 months earlier and b) they are cheaper.
No idea about the UK versions but I would assume that they would do.
It is quite strange though. The laughte track bears little resemblance to the actual gags in the show. In one episode I was watching recently it was a full 5 minutes before I realised I had left the laughter track on.
Unfortunately I do notice the laughter track. On one occassion the BBC showed an episode with the track switched on for the first ten minutes until someone realised. A lot of people had complained even in that short time.
The writers and producers wanted the series done without a laughter trackbut the Network insisted. The only concession was that there would be no canned laughter for scenes in the operating theatre.
Aggg! I never finished that properly!! I always noticed laughter tracks too. But on this particular episode it was a full 10minutes before they actually used it, at which point I turned it off. There seems to be a scatter gun approach to it as though the dullard putting it on does not know what funny is.
I never knew they did not have laughter in the operating theatre...but no reason I would do really!
I've never watched a full episode with a laughter track and the bits I have "sampled" with it on are somewhat surreal and off-balance.