Re: Announcing MAUDE : The Complete First Season DVD
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Originally Posted by Malcolm R
It looks like they just used the same opening credits on every episode. It must be from later episodes, as the first eps seem to list Esther Rolle even though she didn't appear until the third ep.
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Originally Posted by JohnMor
No, they had simply filmed about five episodes before they created the credits and went to air. If I'm not mistaken, Esther Rolle's first episode was filmed first, even though it aired third. They wanted to lead with a "family" oriented episode (Carol seeing a shrink), instead of a more political based one (Maude overdoing the liberal "savior" bit with Florida).
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OK.. I'm glad someone else brought this up.... Although not a HUGE deal, the first poster is indeed correct.... These
DVDs do use the same opening credits for all 22 episodes [I'm sure as do a lot of TV shows when they put them onto DVD.. they encode the opening credits once, then attach to all episodes]... However, the first two episodes DID have different credits, in that the first aired episode only listed Bea, Bill, and Adrienne.... then the second episode, which introduced us to Arthur, added in Conrad's name... then by the third aired episode, which introduced us to Florida, we then had the "complete" credits for Season One.... I noticed it from the very first viewing of the first episode that they didn't use the right opening titles, but sluffed it off, since it's really not a HUGE deal.... Now, keep in mind, I'm completely going off of my VHS collection that I recorded from TV Land back in 2001, but I can't see TV Land making an alteration like that... they had to be originally broadcast that way.... kind of ashame we dont have them that way on the DVDs, but again, not a huge deal....
I also noticed the little white spec, which is, yes, due to something on the camera lenses, as you'll see it disappear, then reappear, when they go to different camera shots, then back to that troubled one... Again, that doesn't really bother me too much, but something that did, which I haven't seen discussed thus far, was the presence of some lines of "discoloration" present in SOME of the episodes, usually about mid-screen, and usually only noticable when on a person's face... Anyone else notice that? Really not a BIG BIG deal, but, still annoying nonetheless.
whew... peace out
