You know the arrangement: A door leads out at left or right; on the opposite wall, another door leads farther in. Center stage, a couch, or maybe a bar, or some desks. They interact in something like real time. An audience laughs, unseen but, mechanical sweetening notwithstanding, authentic. (After a single-camera first season, in 1970, “The Odd Couple” switched to multi-camera, in part because stars Tony Randall and Jack Klugman hated the laugh track; if there were to be laughs, they wanted them from real people.)

Source: Los Angeles Times May 05, 2019 17:37 UTC