bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (09/30/83)
Recent criticism of Alda states he made a bundle rerunning the Korean War with a laughtrack. What I have read indicates that the writers of the show fought very hard with CBS to remove the laughtrack, but did not reach their aim. You can see this if you watch M*A*S*H by noticing that the more subtle jokes do not have the laughtrack on them. -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304
mikeg@mprvaxa.UUCP (10/02/83)
They won a partial victory; if you pay attention, you will notice that the laughtrack is NEVER used in the operating room scenes. -- Michael Ghesquiere Microtel Pacific Research ..!ubc-vision!mprvaxa!mikeg
msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (10/04/83)
How did this get in net.singles?
The BBC insisted that Fox remove the laugh track from MASH before they
would buy it. I'm glad they did.
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Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA.
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