Re: Is Family Ties Probably dead on dvd?
 

I am in the middle of the first season and noticed this. It's been awhile since I have watched the show and I remember the later shows better than the first year. Same seems to go for the Dad. He was a little scattered in the first season but was presented as a near vegetable in some later episodes...though that did make him funnier. Same can't be said for Mallory.

And I forgot how annoying Jennifer was. Did she ever have a decent episode?

I recently watched the first season where one of Michael's friends hit on Mallory and they dealt with it. Very touching and excellent writing and acting. Uncomfortable at times and yet they still could have the funny.

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I loved this show as a kid. I was shocked when I watched a few episodes recently to see how poorly the humor held up, like so many 70s and 80s shows with forced jokes and a laugh track that feels even more forced.

Story wise though, I remember it being better than many of the 80s family sitcoms though.

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I have been watching the old reruns on AntennaTV for the past few weeks, and I wonder what seasons you were watching? The first season was OK, but the 2nd, 3rd and 4th seasons were the best, while the each season after that got progressively worse. I thought the humor holds up pretty well in those middle seasons, but the last 3 seasons the show is almost unwatchable.

I have to disagree with you about the laugh track as the episode I was watching last night (Alex goes to West Virginia bar with his friends for his 18th birthday), and alot of those laughs sounded authentic. It was a very funny episode and a laugh track is always consistent but in this episode the really funny parts got some big laughs.

Maybe the later season they installed the laugh track?

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They showed the studio audience at the end of the last episode. Most likely they were still being told when to laugh.

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Bumping this up-- Paramount/CBS didn't do this with every show they made full releases of. While the condensed shelf-friendly Brady Bunch release does not have the bonus disc, the condensed shelf-friendly MacGyver release does, which has caused me to wonder why the inconsistency.