Can I just delete a previous date from my list in Time Machine?

I have a 1TB hard drive from LaCie and it's almost full. Is it possible to go back to earlier this year and just delete the back up for a certain date?
I can see in the data in the file tree and it looks like Time Machine has literally copied my hard drive for each saved back up...
That's a LOT of data to be saving.
Am I right? It's not compressed in any way?

Here's the problem - I sent my laptop in for repairs, and when it came back, the system no longer recognized the "Backups.backupdb" file that had been running since January - it created a new instance of my computer (2) - and did the whole copy again! (1million+ files) Now I have an old backup file that runs from January 08 to Oct. 10, 2008 and a new one that started October 15. Can I just delete their original one and continue with the current one?
I really don't need to keep stuff since January and I've archived important stuff on DVDs for storage.

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