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Originally Posted by
Ethan Riley 
Well, again--it's going to take up too much room in the U.K. then, because there were 10 seasons and each season only had about 6 episodes. In the U.S. there were 14 volumes in standard-sized dvd cases; when they released it as a complete boxed set, they didn't bother to repackage the discs, so the whole thing took up a lot of room. And I also had Grace and Favour to content with. So out went the cases and my home is now far less cluttered lol
The BBC (at least in the UK) are often slow to release their "classic" stuff. I guess they either perceive a small market or (more likely) the potential to wring more cash out of the customer by doing each series one at a time. As for not reissuing the complete boxes in smaller packaging (such as digipaks), I don't think the American office of the BBC usually do that. They just take the cheap/easy way out (reuse all the individual art/cases and just put them all in a slipcover). In the UK, the BBC
sometimes issues a complete set in smaller packaging where the individuals were all in Amarays (such as the
Steptoe and
Fry & Laurie examples I mentioned above) but other times, they just add a slipcover to the existing ones (such as
Worst Week of My Life). I doubt they'll issue a condensed-packaged set here in R1, but they might in R2. Of course, edited versions of some of the episodes sneaked onto the R2s, so even with bulky packaging and the episodes not being divided series-by-series, we have the superior release over here.
