Classic Who Episodes Invade BBC/ITV’s BritBox
I signed up for BritBox on a whim when BBC America offered it to me for two weeks free. Now it’s paying dividends.
The loss of BBC iPlayer access this past year was a significant setback. There’s a lot of junk on UK TV, but it’s *fun* junk, and I loved it. So when I was offered a trial run by BBC America of “BritBox,” I took it, hoping that maybe they might just be sharp enough to upload episodes of The Great British Sewing Bee or Pointless.
No go on those two so far, but as luck would have it, a completely different sort of present showed up this month …tons and tons of Classic Who episodes, to celebrate the return of series 10 in a couple of weeks.
For Whovians, this is a *huge* deal. Partly because the BBC, for reasons I cannot fathom, has never made a concerted effort to box up every last Doctor Who serial they can sensibly get their hands on and sell it to consumers as blu-ray box set prices. One can, if one is the type of obsessive, work hard and gather up all the DVD box sets floating about in Big Box stores, amazon and nerd trading posts. But it’s a hard road, and not in the slightest bit cheap.
