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[lesbiassparrow]

Based purely on fond childhood memories I have ordered Robin of Sherwood on DVD from Amazon UK. I have a feel that rewatching it will be a bit like rereading The Dark is Rising and realising that your memory plays horrible, horrible tricks on you. But still I couldn't resist - there were manly men running through the forest, gods with antlers, evil sheriffs, and lots of bows and arrows, and have I mentioned manly men running through forests? Michael Praed was my first tv boyfriend.

Going through Amazon I saw there was a Dick Turpin series which is also now out on DVD. If Sterling wasn't so absurdly high at the moment I would have bought it; highwaymen are like pirates, you cant really go wrong with them. They just have to get on their horses and gallop madly for me to be all amazed and impressed.

I have also given up on the new Doctor Who ever being shown on US tv so will end up buying it when the boxed set comes out. But why is it so bloody expensive? For 13 episodes $80 seems a bit high to me.

Comments

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I hope you're right; unfortunately, the BBC seems to keep Dr. Who very expensive somehow. And UK DVDs seem in general to cost more if you have to buy them from there.

If Babylon 5 DVDs actually come that cheap I might have look around for them. I liked that show but not enough to pay the higher prices they were asking at one point.

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

This is true; Dr Who does seem to stay expensive longer than everything else. *sigh*

B5 is actually pretty cheap now; I've had good luck with getting things used off Amazon.