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*The short aired on several PBS stations in the [[United States]] (such as on [[KUED]] and [[KSPS]], on '''22 August 1992'''; [[KTEH]], '''26 August 1992'''; [[WKPC]], '''1 September 1992'''; [[Maryland Public Television]] on '''5 December 1992'''; [[Iowa Public Television]], '''7 May 1993'''; [[WQEX]], on '''29 October 2000''', plus ''many many'' others in the 1990s and 2000s). It was also sold in a "two story" package with the recently-returned [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]].  
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*The short aired on several PBS stations in the [[United States]] (such as on [[KUED]] and [[KSPS]], on '''22 August 1992'''; [[KTEH]], '''26 August 1992'''; [[WKPC]], '''1 September 1992'''; [[Maryland Public Television]] on '''5 December 1992'''; [[Iowa Public Television]], '''7 May 1993'''; [[WQEX]], on '''29 October 2000''', plus ''many many'' others in the 1990s and 2000s).  
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*Lionheart also sold it in a "two story" package with the recently-returned [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]. [[NJN]] aired both back-to-back on '''2 January 1993'''.  
  
 
*Some of the US newspapers incorrectly described it as being an interview with Dalek creator Terry Nation, who did not even appear! (This error comes from a misreading of Lionheart's promotional material for the half-hour special which does refer to Nation in passing in the blurb text.)
 
*Some of the US newspapers incorrectly described it as being an interview with Dalek creator Terry Nation, who did not even appear! (This error comes from a misreading of Lionheart's promotional material for the half-hour special which does refer to Nation in passing in the blurb text.)

Latest revision as of 19:49, 13 October 2023

Radio Times

Resistance is Useless (aka A Doctor Who Retrospective) was a 30 minute documentary made by the BBC's Late Show.

It aired on BBC2 on Friday, 3 January 1992 at 6:50pm, as an introduction to a series of repeats (one story for each of the seven Doctors) playing on the channel from 3 January 1992 to 14 May 1993. (It was followed by the repeat of The Time Meddler part 1.)

It was hosted by the Brummie-accented faceless "Anorak" (voiced by Steve Steen), and featured lots of clips, including rare silent footage from The Daleks' Master Plan part 1 that was discovered by the Late Show team during the research phase of the production.


Foreign transmissions

United States from 1992
New Zealand Dec 93
TV4 SF Mar 09
  • Some of the US newspapers incorrectly described it as being an interview with Dalek creator Terry Nation, who did not even appear! (This error comes from a misreading of Lionheart's promotional material for the half-hour special which does refer to Nation in passing in the blurb text.)
Listing for the documentary in Florida Today, August 1992; note the incorrect synopsis



BBC2 Trailer


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