New MBP won't back up, disc full

I've searched around here and although I found similar question, never really found an answer:
I have a new MacBookPro and want to use Time Machine to back it up. I get a message that there is insufficient space on my 1Gb TC. I thought it would automatically delete old b/u's to make room for new.
There are b/u's of my old MBP on the drive. I would like to retain at least the latest one as my son is using the old MBP, but remove most of them to make room for the new guy.
I open the Time Machine, I get the window with the stacked b/u's showing, arrows up and down, and a time bar on the right side of the screen but I cannot navigate through the pages. It is stuck on today.
Is there a way to remove older b/u's manually to make room. I do not need 500Gb of old b/u's sitting there. I've already got 5 externals,(photographer) I'd like to NOT get another.
Thanks for any guidance.
...bob...
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About TM "Backup Drive is Full"
Alert TM only deletes older files if they have been deleted from the source and when TM needs space on the backup drive for a new incremental backup. Time Machine "thins" it's backups; hourly backups over 24 hours old, except the first of the day; those "daily" backups over 30 days old, except the first of the week. The weeklies are kept as long as there's room.
So, how long a backup file remains depends on how long it was on your Mac before being deleted, assuming you do at least one backup per day. If it was there for at least 24 hours, it will be kept for at least a month. If it was there for at least a week, it will be kept as long as there's room.
Note, that on a Time Capsule the sparsebundle grows in size as needed, but doesn't shrink. Thus, from the user's view of the TC it appears that no space has been freed, although there may be space in the sparsebundle.
Once TM has found it cannot free up enough space for a new backup it reports the disk is full. You can either erase the backup drive and start your backups anew or replace the drive with a larger drive.

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