Some producers, like James Komack, however, followed Lear's approach. Komack, who was involved in the short-lived sitcom "Hennesey" starring Jackie Cooper, was a longtime critic of the Douglass laugh track, believing the laughs were too predictable and could hinder the effect of the sitcom's humor. Komack instead employed music to counteract the sweetened laughs. He experimented with this technique in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (ABC, 1969–72), which featured a subdued laugh track. Multi-camera shows produced by Komack, such as "Chico and the Man" (NBC, 1974–78) and "Welcome Back, Kotter" (ABC, 1975–79), utilized background music cues during scene transitions (obvious locations for sweetening) and made sure that Douglass's laugh track was used infrequently during post-production. Komack later commented, "If you ever try to do a show without a laugh track, you'll see a huge difference...flattens. The only way to get away from a laugh track is to use music, which can indicate when something is funny." On sweetening, he continued, "Then it's determined by the taste of the producers – by the morality of the producers...[After a while, you learn that it is valueless. In the extremes, people are going to hear it and say, 'Why are they laughing?' and they'll turn off your program."