Is there any way to watch old series of Strictly?

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I’ve very belated caught the Strictly bug this year having never watched it before, and discovered it’s the perfect antidote to all 2020 gloom and worry.

Is there any way to watch old seasons? I’m feeling a bit bereft now it’s over!

Have you tried iplayer?

There are an enormous number of individual dances on the BBC Strictly YouTube account but complete episodes are very hard to come by.

If you’re really desperate, I’d suggest picking a series, reading Monkseal’s old recaps week by week and watching the YouTube videos of each dance.

monkseal.wordpress.com/

Is it on Britbox?

No it’s not on BritBox. I think it’s a music rights problem as much as anything - also possibly a video quality issue on the very early series.
But there is episode 1 of series 2 on YouTube, until the BBC get to it and take it down, and I’ve just found that series 14-17 are available to buy on Amazon for about 13 quid each.

I wanted to know this too!

Strictly has kept my spirits up, and given me something to look forward to each week that’s positive and escapist.

Really missing it!

Would be great if the BBC put even a couple of the old series up on iplayer.

I’ve ended up buying a season on Amazon - just thinking of it as better value than paying for a cinema ticket (or any number of the things we can’t spend money on at the moment!)

Having only ever watched socially distances Strictly the huge audience and amount of hugging and kissing on the older seasons made me feel a bit anxious

Having confidently said upthread that it’s not on BritBox they’ve just put series 16 and 17 up.

ive been waiting so long for prime or iplayer to release older series of strictly