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I agree that the episodes could look better, and like you, I suspect that syndication prints may look better. (The answer is to do what Paramount seems to have done with some episodes from Happy Days season 1, which is to use the syndication prints and splice in the missing scenes from less...

The episodes are uncut. Sometimes they used a shorter version of the title sequence, but that's from the original broadcasts. And as long as they have the producer credits just before the end titles, you know that the tag scenes are intact (though the chapter stops don't always indicate them as...

As of this writing, Season 1 of The Bob Newhart Show is # 9 on Amazon's list of top-selling DVDs. Way to go, Bob. Now, Fox, will you let him do some extras for later seasons?

Yes, it's 3 double-sided discs, 4 episodes per side. And no, I don't know why Fox is choosing to do it this way. Yes, the unaired pilot is the one where Bob and Jerry are both psychologists. Some scenes from that pilot, where Bob and Emily try to adopt a child, were incorporated into a...

There are no extras (unless you count the unaired pilot), but the low price and the uncut 25-minute episodes more than make up for that IMO. One thing "Newhart" and "Bob Newhart" both had in common is that both shows got much weirder as they went on. "Bob Newhart" started very much in the...

The Comedy Network in Canada used to run TBNHS uncut, and the varying title lengths are part of the original show -- basically they shot at least two titles, one longer, one shorter, and used the shorter one when the show was running a little long. (Of course, back then they had 25 minutes of...

I don't care for Fox's WB-like conversion to double-sided discs, but I'm glad they're finally dipping into the MTM vault, and while "Bob Newhart" isn't one of my very favorites, it's a good place to start, because of the popularity of both the star and the show. Though the early '70s fashions in...