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It's all in his autobiography, Listen Very Carefully, I Shall Say This Only Once. If you get a chance, pick it up. It's an interesting read! He was either engaged, or newly-married to Joanna Lumley. She, naturally, wanted him to stay home in England with her. As it's an autobiography, one can...

Bob: Thanks for looking into that. This thread is so old, though, were the claims of incorrect framerate for the Season 1 and/or 2 sets? I don't recall anything being mentioned for the later ones. Do you have the earlier seasons sets to check a few episodes? I think the thing was that no one...

If you're talking about the signal processing that makes stuff look shot-on-tape, I think that's only on HDTVs. Maybe some high-end CRTs had something like that, but I never had a professional tube TV to know. It's that "motion smoothing" software stuff that's usually switched on by default at...

I don't think that's the problem, because the reruns on TrioTV (and the Rhino DVDs) had the fluid look of videotape. It's more than likely the Time/Life set is either using the same masters used for Amazon Prime, or they're encoded the same way, as 30fps/progressive, rather than...

Of course, 1960s video won't look as clear and crisp as modern video, but it should still have the same fluid motion as videotape in all eras. I think what was being said was that the framerate was off, giving jerky (non-fluid) motion. I know I've seen this crop up on random Johnny Carson...

Just like Norman Lear 'was inspired by' (copied*) classic BBC comedies to make his shows ('Steptoe & Son' and 'Till Death Us Do Part') this sitcom revival sounds very much like something the BBC did in September 2016 called 'Lost Sitcoms', where they re-staged an episode each of 'Steptoe', 'Till...

I can see why they'd have had Loni on. She's a celebrity who would've been of prime viewing age when the show was on TV, so I'm sure she remembers seeing it. Now Snoop, I'm just not sure (he's younger than me, and I'm too young to have remembered watching it on first-run).

As far as editing goes, the theory about edits being done directly to the master tape concerning reruns, pre-emptions seems sound enough. One other tiny possibility for edits could be ones done to disguise damage to the master videotapes. I know this had been done on other shows in the past...

Martin: Thanks for the clarification. I thought that '80s syndication went beyond the first 70 shows, but when I saw that Wikipedia page, I didn't want to just assume someone got it wrong. Glad someone here was able to confirm what I'd suspected.

I can't speak to the 1980s syndication runs. I can see what Wikipedia says, but I'm not sure that's accurate. Someone else here probably knows for sure. The "seasons 1-3 and a little of the fourth" is definitely what was run on the defunct TrioTV network, although those were the original...

Parts of the series were available on a CED disc, but that was a test/promo disc that wasn't for sale to the public...

Maybe your TV is compensating for this? Most TVs have "signal processing" turned ON by default, and if you don't turn all that stuff off, it can give that shot-on-tape look to things which aren't (and maybe, to ones which were improperly encoded).

Besides the comment from a poster on Roobarb's, here's a DVDTalk review from Jesse Skeen (who has posted in this very thread). His review states that he has bought/watched these (season 3), not just relied on the words of others...

I think it's been said that what's on Prime is just like the Time-Life discs (not interlaced).

here's a quote from someone who purchased (and watched) the Time-Life episodes (and compared them to the previous Rhino ones (post #27). For those who don't want to (or can't) read the link: Simon Curtis: I'm very pleased I kept hold of the Rhino releases until I'd had a chance to look at the...

Given some of the things that have happened in the past, I'd wager my money on ignorance/mistake rather than anything intentional. The real question is, did Time-Life make an encoding mistake at their end, or were they supplied with botched masters (maybe they were sent de-interlaced masters...

My apologies, I know there were at least a couple people in this thread who were watching these for the first time, so wrongly assumed you were one of them. What I don't understand is that if you have truly seen episodes via all the above sources, I'm puzzled at how you cannot see the frame...

Maybe the "tech slanted" reviewers have never seen an episode on TV (the show was very rarely syndicated, and the previous DVD releases weren't exactly widespread). If the reviewer doesn't know the show was shot on/aired from 2" videotape, then he isn't aware that what he's seeing is improperly...

No, the DVDs are fine. On Roobarb's, someone else was saying this is the same on UK Netflix, and they also said that Netflix doesn't seem to be able to properly display videotaped shows at all, that they all take on the sort of jerky "fake film" appearance. As far as Flying Circus is concerned...

Well, I have the first half of the series off-air from TrioTV on S-VHS (and those retain their original videotape look), so if these never get fixed, I've still got the first three seasons and a bit.

I wonder if part of the reason might be that Laugh-In wasn't shown in reruns nearly as much as other shows, so people seeing the DVD sets today quite possibly 1). haven't seen the show since the '60s and don't remember it being shot-on-tape or 2). have never seen it and don't know it was...

Sorry, but I'm with Jesse on this. Stuff that's supposed to look like video that doesn't is just as annoying as trying to watch a film on a HDTV that has the "soap-opera-effect" settings turned on. You seem to think we're nitpicking, but let me ask you this...if they had accidentally released...

I'm very sensitive to video that has been fiddled about with/badly encoded. If this is on Prime, I can take a look at it there, but I suspect I'm not going to like how this looks.

The person I quoted wasn't an Amazon review, he was a member of Roobarb's forum, and as descriptive as his post is, I trust that he can tell the difference in "fluid video look" and "film-like look". I don't have the Rhino tapes (or the new T-L sets), but I do have Trio tapes, and they have the...

What's being discussed is whether or not the Time-Life releases (complete, season-by-season or both) for Laugh-In look like a shot-on-tape show (as it should, and as it did on its original run, TrioTV reruns, and the Rhino/Shout DVDs), or has the frame-rate been changed to where it has lost that...

Someone please tell me this isn't true (found on another forum): So, did they screw up the encode, and destroy the original video look (and reduce the horizontal resolution)?

Jeremy Lloyd answered this one himself in his autobiography, I Shall Say This Only Once... Basically, he met (and fell in love with--and later married) Joanna Lumley during the summer hiatus. George Schalatter kept phoning him, trying to get him to come back for the fourth season, but Lloyd...

One thing I noticed in you review: Were you only wanting blu-ray discs for space-saving reasons? The reason I ask is that the episodes were shot on NTSC videotape, so a HD presentation is impossible. The only thing to be gained by blu-rays would be space saving. A blu-ray set containing only...

The black-and-white blooper reel I saw was (as I recall) a kinesope/telerecording.

I found it while browsing around the excellent CED Magic website a few years back. CED was the first home video format I ever bought into (the players and discs were much less expensive than their VHS/Beta alternatives when I was a 12-year-old in 1982 who paid for this indulgence by mowing...