Despite changes in the prop, the TARDIS has become the show's most consistently recognisable visual element.

Despite the show's recognition of Kelley as one of its stars he was frustrated by the greater attention that Shatner received as its lead actor, and Nimoy received because of " Spockamania " among fans.

Despite critical acclaim NBC changed the show's time slot 11 times.

Despite the show's minuscule budget, Countdowns original director Paul Drane was able to create several memorable music videos especially for the show, including the classic film-clips for the AC / DC hits " It's A Long Way To The Top " and " Jailbreak ".

Despite " ambushing " Rukeyser, the show's trend of losing viewers continued as the show floundered on without Rukeyser's trusted presence and was terminated in early 2005.

Despite the conflict, the show was picked up for the 1969-70 season on March 14, seemingly ending the debate over the show's status.

Despite this record though, Merton is one of only three people to have played all three roles of the show's format at various points: he is usually captain of his team, but along with being the first post-Deayton presenter ( series 24, episode 3 ), he has also been a guest on Hislop's team ( in series 11, episode 1 ).

Despite protests of many of the show's fans, CBS refused to budge on the new timeslot.

Despite the show's steady decline, ABC agreed to a fourth season of Mork & Mindy, but executives wanted changes.

Despite the conflict, the show was picked up for the 1969-70 season on March 14, seemingly ending the debate over the show's status.

Despite introducing a large number of new regular characters, the show's second season brought in only two new actors.

Despite the show's terrestrial cancellation, new online episodes are expected to be produced for the foreseeable future.

Despite the new tube station opening sequence, the occasionally seen exterior shots of the show's locales along with brief glimpses of Sadie's home and the frequently visited Charnham Common suggested that Charnham was a modern, green and spacious small town.

Despite claims by the show's creators that SpongeBob is " somewhat asexual ", several annuals state that SpongeBob holds romantic feelings for Sandy, which could be shown in examples where SpongeBob brings Sandy flowers on occasion.

Despite the show's considerable success ( Horne still holds the record for the longest-running solo performance in Broadway history ), she did not capitalize on the renewed interest in her career by undertaking many new musical projects.

Despite the show's relative failure, fans of the former UK Play spoof interviews show Rock Profile, often recall the creators and future stars of Little Britain, Matt Lucas and David Walliams's, appearance on the show as Danny and Noel from Hear ' Say, in which they constantly sang " Monday, Monday " after Theakston asked them a question.

Despite appearing in the show's opening sequence, Coconuts appears less often than Scratch and Grounder.

Despite the show's title, Brown expanded its scope beyond mysteries to include horror, science fiction, historical drama, westerns and comedy, along with seasonal dramas at Christmas: A Christmas Carol, starring host Marshall as Scrooge, aired every Christmas Eve except 1974 and 1982.

Despite only announcing for six episodes ( the least of the four ), on February 17, 1986 Roddy was announced as the show's regular announcer.

Despite the McNeill show's far more modest following, Godfrey was unduly offended, even paranoid, at what he felt was disloyalty on Bleyer's part.

Despite this, most characters continued to call him Kramer for the remainder of the show's run ( although many minor characters did refer to him as " Cosmo ").

Despite this statement being a radical change from his previous claims that he was not willing to return to the series, it is unknown if Eccleston was hinting at the possibility of reprising his role for the show's 50th anniversary in 2013.

Despite high production values, the show's ratings faced an abrupt decline near the end of the season ( in part because of the success of Saban's acquisition of Digimon ), which led fans to believe that the studio wrapped up the series earlier than planned in order to cover their costs.

Despite its run during the Vietnam War, a time of " profound disillusionment with war and the military ," Gomer Pyle remained popular because it avoided war-related themes and instead focused on the show's rural roots and the relationship between Pyle and Sgt.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

Despite mission replanning necessitated by Challenger < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s abort to orbit trajectory, the Spacelab mission was declared a success.

Despite Kitna's success, Palmer was promoted to starting quarterback the following season.

Despite initial success, Shapur lifted his siege after his army missed an opportunity to exploit a collapsed wall.

Despite its limited success as a consumer offering, CDPD was adopted in a number of enterprise and government networks.

Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL's smallest city.

Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.

Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.

Despite its success, Enniskillen was not chosen as a World Cup Stop for 2008.

Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".

Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.

Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.

Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.

Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors.

Despite the delay in shipping the album to certain stores, In Pieces was another instant No. 1 success, selling a total of about 10 million copies worldwide.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

Despite this tragedy the railway was a resounding success.

Despite the bad financial situation, Athens staged the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, which proved a great success.

Despite the early predictions for success, the Astros had a mediocre 44 – 44 record at the All-Star break.

" Despite his success in an " A movie ," Bogart received a tepid twenty-six week contract at $ 550 per week and was typecast as a gangster in a series of " B movie " crime dramas.