M*A*S*H* Season 1 Collector's Edition

I have been a longtime fan of M*A*S*H. I have owned numerous sets of the DVD's (as I wear them out). I was so excited to be able to purchase it digitally. I am so disappointed in the laugh track and no way to disable it. A REAL M*A*S*H fan can't tolerate it. I am disappointed and wish I could get my money back. I'm the idiot for buying a whole season, when I should have only got an episode. A HUGE thumbs DOWN!

This is a review of the streaming HD from Amazon. The picture quality is excellent, significantly better than some DVDs of the show that I own. My complaint is that the the picture is full screen for a wide screen tv and to do that some of the top and or bottom of the picture is cut off. The editing is done very well, but there are some scenes where your lose something such as showing an empty plate when Trapper eats Col Blake's food. Ideally one should have the option of full screen or not, but at the least Amazon should say that the show is not being presented in the original format.

I'm embarrassed to admit this but I was not a big fan of this show when it first came out. Guess I was just too young and dumb. Now that I'm older and wiser (well, maybe just the older part...lol) I think I can honestly say this is classic TV at its absolute best. Nothing I write here can come close to giving this show the kudos and praise it deserves so I'll just say this...anyone out there aspiring to go into television; binge watch this show first to see exactly how it's supposed to be done.

Oh the laugh track! I wish I had known about the laugh track!? Thank you T. painter for your review. MASH is such a wonderful, funny, classic medical humorous show but if even one laugh track happens, it ruins all the show for me! Only REAL fans would know what I mean! One laugh track makes me wish the show had never existed. T. Painter knows what I mean, he’s a true fan who knows how laugh tracks can destroy entire shows. God bless you T. Painter.

It's MASH, yes, which we all know and love, but I specifically ordered the collectors edition for a reason. I don't want to have to keep clicking each and every show to make it play. The other collectors series I have have that "Play all" button. But not this one. That gets it a star yanked. Simply because it's inconvenient. Esp when you are busy doing something, and you have to go back to click the next show when ur viewer can't do it for themselves. But yes, it is MASH, but keep in mind, this did NOT have a play all button.

There is little I can add with regards to the series itself. M*A*S*H is a classic and has been one of my favorite shows for many years. Read the other 5-Star reviews. One feature I think the produces of the DVD could have added, which we see on seasons 5-11: I would very much like a "PLAY ALL" feature where we could watch all 8 episodes on 1 DVD without interruption - that is, watch all 8 episodes in sequence without constantly having to use the remote control on each and every episode. Other than that, no complaints.

Just love the series Mash!With the fighting so close the doctors still do a great job fixing these men up so they can continue to protect us on the home front.The actors do a great job with their sense of humor trying to keep the mood light during such hard times.I really like how they add their personal life to the stories, shows how hard it was to be away from their families while protecting our country.It’s a great show to enjoy with the family.Can’t wait to order Season 2.

Understand that this is a comedy, but the level of silliness is not by cup of tea! Some of the lines are funny, but some of the situations are ridiculous. For example, I am retired military and I can guarantee you that if a general walks into a room the folks don't (1) continue sitting, (2) talk sarcastic and belittling to the general and (3) ignore his orders. And it isn't funny when they do! Also, the commander is way too silly and stupid.Over the top for me. Later seasons were are considerably better!

Wow!I am knocked out, I had never seen the beginning of this series, I came to it late and to be truthful I hadn't seen very much of it.I haven't bought it on DVD before because of the cost but now I find it at a ridiculous price I decided to give it a go.Would it be as good as I remembered? No worries, unlike others I found it brilliant from the pilot episode, I only bought series one because I wanted to make sure I didn't have to put up with canned laughter and I don't, the default is for the episodes to play with canned laughter but just selecting the no laughter option in the language menu means you can enjoy this brilliant series without the constant annoyance of the awful canned laughter, and trust me if there was ever a comedy series that didn't need canned laughter this is it, it's laugh-out loud right from the start and I will be purchasing the rest of the series immediately.Oh and I recommend you seek out the theme song by the MASH it's absolutely wonderful, one of the greatest ever theme tunes.

These DVDS are excellent quality. The only thing I disliked about them was that the default option is to listen to the canned laughter soundtrack. It is quite fiddly to put it off before each episode. I have also bought the last season and the default on that DVD is for it to play without the canned laughter soundtrack. Far less fiddly!

I ordered just Season One because I wasn't sure if a) MASH was as good as I remembered and b) the series hadn't dated to the point where the humour just isn't anymore. (In the UK MASH has been missing from terrestrial screens for twenty years or longer).Well no, it hasn't dated. People after all haven't changed since 1972 and MASH is primarily a people show. The humour is much as I remember it: only occasionally laugh-out-loud, but MASH bubbles along on constant and consistent stream of smutty schoolboy jokes, eccentricity and perfectly judged slapstick. The realities of war, casualties and estrangement, are sometimes poignant and sometimes the canvass on which the attempts at ordinariness can appear both funny and charming.It is the contradictions of MASH and the manner in which they are judged and balanced that made it the critical and popular success it was. In later series some argue this balance was lost and the gradual shift to overt moralising damaged the character of the show. Perhaps, but the early seasons are near to perfect and Season One the place to start.

In the 1970s MASH was the thing to watch - I remember important meetings being closed early because people wanted to get home to watch the latest episode. I'd forgotten just how funny and, frequently, poignant, these stories were until I came across them again recently. So here's to the complete showings - series one to eleven that I'm now getting hold of and enjoying once more. They don't seem particularly dated [they were always set in the recent past of the Korean war of the 1950s anyway] and it's a delight to get back to them.

You either love or hate MASH - no in between, in my case I needed a comfort blanket of something that I understood. I don't know why but MASH makes me feel happy. I understand that the earlier series were the better ones. The canned laughter was fairly easily avoided as this would have marred the viewing (in my opinion).