I would agree that Series 1 is better than Series 2, but Series 3 is certainly better than its predecessor. All the series have their high and low points however, and S2 has some moments of genius (the less said about Fear Her the better though).

I’m not sure I should be lumped in with Alex, who is bona fide Whovian aristocracy. I’m a mere amateur by comparison: I bought my first ever Doctor Who novel last week, and that was for my girlfriend!

I suspect the BBC knows we’ll pay whatever they charge, so they have no incentive to keep the price reasonable.

I’ll wait a while before buying them as the new series 1 was IMO significantly better than series 2 which was in turn better than what I’ve seen of series 3.

I’m now going into hiding before James and Alex hunt me down for such heresy

Having said that, I’m surprised that, after a couple of years, no site seems to be selling the 2005 Doctor Who box set at half price yet. I know that the Doctor Who range is one of the steadiest sellers – obviously peaking on first release, but all of them continue selling, unlike most DVDs which tail off sharply – but there’s been strong price competition for the original series DVDs, often seen at 50% or more off after a year or so. My best guess would be that the Life On Mars DVDs started off at a slightly lower price because they were expected to have stronger initial sales and so make their money back more quickly, but that sales dropped off and so the price of Season One was reduced to try and keep people buying. With Doctor Who, I suspect sales are more inelastic; as long as people keep buying at that price, they’ll keep selling at that price :-^

Or, alternatively, Life is cheap and Doctors are expensive.

And Laurence, in the warm weather, is it not more sensible to be wearing short trousers?