It featured Sylvester McCoy in his final portrayal of the Seventh Doctor and introduced Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. The ABC premiere of the movie was on Sunday 7 July at 8.30pm, nearly two months after its Canadian and US debut and almost six weeks after its first airing in the UK. The ABC had originally planned a 3 July airdate, but didn't want to clash with The X-Files, which was already established in the 8:30pm Wednesday timeslot and was achieving its peak success in Australia at the time. Material in the movie was cut in the US to allow for extra advertising time, but these cuts were largely restored for the ABC's Australian broadcast. A publicity screening of the cut version had been held on 5 June at Planet Hollywood in Sydney, with several fan-built Daleks operated by fan club members acting as ushers. During the summer non-ratings period of 1996–97, the ABC repeated the movie at 8:30pm on Wednesday 15 January. In recognition of "Doctor Who's" 35th anniversary they also replayed it a second time, at 11pm on Wednesday 25 November 1998. Less than a month after the ABC premiere of the "Doctor Who" telemovie, the coming of subscription television to Australia saw the commencement of one of "Doctor Who's" longest uninterrupted runs. Foxtel's UKTV channel started screening the show from 1 August 1996; beginning with "An Unearthly Child" and airing weeknights at 11:30pm (plus weekend omnibus encores on Saturdays and Sundays), every available episode of the series was shown. The run ended more than two years later with the then most recent production, "Doctor Who", on 16 August 1998. After a break of only six weeks, another long run commenced in early-October 1998, starting from "The Edge of Destruction" and continuing through a selection of stories screened in a largely random order, although some were loosely grouped together on the basis of villains, locations or other themes. This run also included the results of UKTV's first viewer survey, with the ten stories voted most popular filling the last two months of the schedule, ending with "The Five Doctors" in November 1999. As well, this run featured the first Australian broadcast of the 1992 documentary "Resistance is Useless", as well as "More Than... Thirty Years in the TARDIS", the 1994 expanded version of the BBC's 30th anniversary documentary "". Neither "Resistance Is Useless" nor either of the "Thirty Years..."