The Single Greatest TV Show Of All Time.

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Believe it or not, it just not about a guy who's wife had a giant picture of her in the mall outside the shoe store.

 

pcgeek11

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M*A*S*H (movie ~ 1970)

The show was initially popular because it was based on a popular (R-rated) movie and stayed that way for a long time due to some pretty decent writing and a terrific cast.





I enjoyed the M.A.S.H movie...

Alan Alda killed it for the TV Series.
His slapstick comedy sucks.
 
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IronWing

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I enjoyed the movie...

Alan Alda killed it for the TV Series.
His slapstick comedy sucks.
The TV show started out closer to the movie then went all touchy feely as the seasons progressed until it turned into an Alan Alda psychodrama.
 
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nakedfrog

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I bought the Blu-ray of the first season. Surprisingly great video quality for such an old show, any show really. Tack sharp. It IS "B&W!" It looks incredibly better than it did on those old CR-TVs.

Full disclosure: I have never watched a single episode of MWC or MASH. I lived 20 straight years without a TV and once I got one I stayed away from most series with few exceptions... I watched The Simpsons and some Seinfeld (subsequently bought a lot of their DVD sets too, several other TV series as well that I heard great things about, but I never watched them via television).
Twilight Zone was probably shot on film, which is higher resolution than Blu-Ray, and potentially higher than 4K AFAIK. When you were watching it on TV, it was coming in at a slightly blurry 480i most likely.
my buddy is the same age as me (both born a few years after vietnam) and he loved MASH

but i never could get into that show at all. even when there was nothing else on.
I didn't start to enjoy it until I was in my 20s and it was one of the few things I could watch OTA after 10PM.
 
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They keep talking about re-booting the series in some form, or maybe even a movie, but it never happens. But I see comments from some of the cast expressing the same efars I have. Reboots rarely find the same magic. They may be OK, sort of, but never quite the same. They say they don't want to do something and have it bomb and tarnish the memories.
 

Iron Woode

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Twilight Zone was probably shot on film, which is higher resolution than Blu-Ray, and potentially higher than 4K AFAIK. When you were watching it on TV, it was coming in at a slightly blurry 480i most likely.
You are correct but 6 episodes were shot on video tape. You can see it easily as they look a bit fuzzy and flat compared to the others. This was in season 2.
 
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You are correct but 6 episodes were shot on video tape. You can see it easily as they look a bit fuzzy and flat compared to the others. This was in season 2.

Also to my very minimal understanding of the subject. Many TV shows didn’t use the best quality film and nobody expected to be converting this stuff to digital. Many old shows original copies had degraded when the conversion to digital happened.
 
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