Year:1984
Date:04/11/1984
Show no:441
Summary:THIS SHOW WAS HOSTED BY LYN BUCKFIELD FROM ELECTRIC PANDAS AND MOLLY WHO IV LYN RE ALBUM, TOUR. LYN, MOLLY AND PUNTER TO PUNTER PERFORMED COMEDY SKETCHES ABOUT THE MELBOURNE CUP.VIDEO CLIPS:
ELECTRIC PANDAS 'LET'S GAMBLE'
HALL & OATS 'OUT OF TOUCH'
PUNTER TO PUNTER 'PUNT, PUNT, PUNT'
BILLY OCEAN 'CARIBBEAN QUEEN' (EXCERPT)
FREDDIE MERCURY 'LOVE KILLS'
MADONNA 'LIKE A VIRGIN'
DEAD OR ALIVE 'THAT'S THE WAY'
DYNAMIC HEPNOTICS 'SOUL KIND OF FEELING'
JIMMY BARNES 'PROMISE ME YOU'LL CALL'
CULTURE CLUB 'THE WAR SONG' AND IV RE TOUR, ALBUM,
RELATIONSHIP WITH MARILYN, SONG
SCANDAL 'THE WARRIOR' (ENDS SHOW)
CHARTBUSTERS:
HOWARD JONES 'LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU WELL'
PAUL MCCARTNEY 'NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS'
MADONNA 'LUCKY STAR'
AUSTEN TAYSHUS 'PHANTOM SHUFFLE'
TOP TEN:
SCANDAL 'THE WARRIOR'
DIVINE 'YOU THINK YOU'RE A MAN'
JOHN WAITE 'MISSING YOU'
TWISTED SISTER 'WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT'
CYNDI LAUPER 'SHE BOP'
U2 'PRIDE'
CULTURE CLUB 'THE WAR SONG'
RAY PARKER JNR 'GHOSTBUSTERS'
GEORGE MICHAEL 'CARELESS WHISPER'
STEVIE WONDER 'I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU'

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Year:1985
Date:24/03/1985
Show no:455
Summary:THIS SHOW WAS HOSTED BY THE MEMBERS OF SPANDAU BALLET AND MOLLY WHO IV THE GROUP RE THEIR ENERGETIC CONCERT PERFORMANCE AND PRESENTED BADGES.
LIVE STUDIO PERFORMANCES:
SPANDAU BALLET 'HIGHLY STRUNG', 'REVENGE FOR LOVE'
UNCANNY X-MEN 'THE PARTY'
VIDEO CLIPS:
THE RADIATORS 'A BIT OF PAIN NEVER HURTS'
HALL & OATES 'METHOD OF MODERN LOVE'
JACKO 'I'M AN INDIVIDUAL'
DEPECHE MODE 'SOMEBODY'
GLENN FREY 'THE HEAT IS ON'
THOMPSON TWINS 'LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME'
ANGELS 'STICKY LITTLE *******
TINA MARIE 'I NEED YOUR LOVE' (EXCERPT)
POOKAH MAKES THREE 'TAKE IT BACK'
INXS 'LOVE IS' (EXCERPT)
CHARTBUSTERS:
KANE GANG 'RESPECT YOURSELF'
DRAGON 'SPEAK NO EVIL'
MODELS 'BARBADOS'
SPANDAU BALLET 'ROUND & ROUND'
TOP TEN:
DAVID LEE ROTH 'CALIFORNIA GIRLS'
BILLY OCEAN 'LOVER BOY'
FOREIGNER 'I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS'
POINTER SISTERS 'NEUTRON DANCE'
MADONNA 'MATERIAL GIRL'
DON HENLEY 'BOYS OF SUMMER'
DEAD OR ALIVE 'YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD)'
MURRAY HEAD 'ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK'
JIM DIAMOND 'I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER'
TEARS FOR FEARS 'SHOUT'

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Year:1986
Date:20/7/1986
Show no:518
Summary:MOLLY INTERVIEWS FILM PRODUCER RUSSELL MULCAHY ABOUT LATEST FILM 'HIGHLANDER' AND FILM CLIP BY QUEEN MADE FOR MOVIE. MULCAHY AND MOLLY ARE ENGULFED IN SMOKE FROM DRY ICE MACHINE WHICH MULCAHY FINDS VERY AMUSING, MOLLY NOT SO. MOLLY ALSO IV'S SAMANTHA FOX RE SINGING AND MODELLING CAREER
LIVE STUDIO PERFORMANCES:
WA WA NEE 'STIMULATION'
CROWDED HOUSE 'MEAN TO ME'
ICEHOUSE 'MR BIG'
JOHN JUSTIN 'FLASH KING CADILLAC'
CHARTBUSTERS (EXCERPTS):
CULTURE CLUB 'GOD THANK YOU WOMAN'
ANGELS 'NATURE OF THE BEAST'
ROD STEWART 'LOVE TOUCH'
BIG COUNTRY 'LOOK AWAY'
VIDEO CLIPS:
BOOM CRASH OPERA 'HANDS UP IN THE AIR'
DR & THE MEDICS 'SPIRIT IN THE SKY'
JANET JACKSON 'NASTY'
KISSING THE PINK 'ONE STEP'
WHAM 'EDGE OF HEAVEN'
EURYTHMICS 'WHEN TOMORROW COMES'
QUEEN 'PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE'
NATIONAL TOP TEN:
WHAM 'EDGE OF HEAVEN'
AC/DC 'WHO MADE WHO'
MIKE & THE MECHANICS 'ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE'
MADONNA 'PAPA DON'T PREACH'
PETER GABRIEL 'SLEDGEHAMMER'
BOYS DON'T CRY 'I WANNA BE A COWBOY'
WHITNEY HOUSTON 'GREATEST LOVE OF ALL'
GENESIS 'INVISIBLE TOUCH'
WA WA NEE 'STIMULATION'
SAMANTHA FOX 'TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY)

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Year:1987
Date:22/3/1987
Show no:546
Summary:THIS SHOW CONSISTING OF ELABORATE GRAPHICS,RAP MUSIC,ELECTRONIC SOUNDS AND DICTATORIAL COMMENTARY, HOSTED BY MEMBERS OF THE GROUP 'THE CHANTOOZIES' (TOTTY, ALLY, EVIE & ANGIE). MEMBERS OF 'THE ****ED' INTRODUCED A SEGMENT AS DID 'DEAD OR ALIVE' WHO INTRODUCED THE SONG 'SOMETHING IN MY HOUSE'. MOLLY (WITH HAT) PRESENTS HUMDRUM AND IV'S ALEX SADKIN (SONGWRITER) WITH THE GROUP 'BOOM CRASH OPERA' (IN LONDON) RE MUSIC WRITING, NEW ALBUM & WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND BOY GEORGE (IN
LONDON) RE SELF DESTRUCTION, DRUGS & MEMORIES OF GOOD TIMES.
LOCAL ARTIST:
HOODOO GURUS 'WHAT'S MY SCENE' (25.40)
OVERSEAS ARTISTS:
SIMPLY RED 'THE RIGHT THING' (1.13)
THE ****ED 'GIGOLO' (LIVE) (9.55)
ERIC CLAPTON 'IT'S IN THE WAY THAT YOU USE IT' (14.25)
THE THE 'SLOW TRAIN TO DAWN' (19.00)
DEAD OR ALIVE 'SOMETHING IN MY HOUSE' (23.26)
BOY GEORGE 'EVERYTHING I OWN' (33.16)
PEPSI & SHIRLIE 'HEARTACHE' (35.05)
HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS 'JACOB'S LADDER' (39.09)
BEASTIE BOYS 'FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT (TO PARTY)' (43.14)
CYNDI LAUPER 'WHAT'S GOING ON' (47.31)
STYLE COUNCIL 'IT DIDN'T MATTER' (5.26)
ARETHA FRANKLIN & GEORGE MICHAEL 'I KNEW YOU WERE
WAITING' (NO.1 HIT OF THE WEEK) (54.11)
FREDDIE MERCURY 'GREAT PRETENDER' (32.03) (MELDRUM ITEM)
NATIONAL TOP TEN:
PETER GABRIEL & KATE BUSH 'DON'T GIVE UP' (NO.10)
(51.00)
CAMEO 'WORD UP' (NO.9) (51.27)
THE ANGELS 'WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE' (NO.8)
(51.45)
NEW ORDER 'BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE' (NO.7) (52.03)
JOHN FARNHAM 'PRESSURE DOWN' (NO.6) (52.19)
BANGLES 'WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN' (NO.5) (52,45)
EUROPE 'THE FINAL COUNTDOWN' (NO.4) (52.58)
BORIS GARDINER 'I WANNA WAKE UP WITH YOU' (NO.3) (53.18)
KIM WILDE 'YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON' (NO.2) (53.45)

Well, I got my request for the follow up to the preview of the Boy George and Marilyn interview :-) Though there is are still another 2 Lyn Buckfield episodes I need. The one with Let's Gamble in the Countdown studio plus Alison Moyet and Sade interviews and the 1985 Italian Boys one...

Another request for Spandau ballet is FINALLY being played! :-)

Also Chantoozies which I and many requested, don't like 1987 Countdown's much BUT always wanted this one to see Chantoozies host PLUS some other good stuff in t here I have looked forward to like the graphics section, Pete Burns and Boy George.

1986 is one I have wanted to see for awhile, I know John Justin and have his performance from this. Looking forward to Kissing The Pink.

Overall a GREAT night's programming except for all the video clips yet again. I remember the 1st Countdown Revolution and hated it, there are MUCH better Countdown Revolutions with heaps of studio performances like the Batdance Comp, but ah well...

Thanks for that Jason.

How silly they're playing Cyndi Lauper's 'What's Going On' on Saturday morning when it appears in the 1987 Countdown episode?

Some great episodes this week, especially 1984 and the Chantoozies.(Some great looking ladies they were)

I am pretty sure I saw Electric Pandas live around 1985 in Canberra.

I might have to trouble someone to dub me a copy too, if you don't mind. My recording is stuffed for the first time in ages.

AMAZING! I am without speech!

They did good this weekend!...

Filled with Countdown's!!!

Here's partial details of the Countdown Revolution episode:


ID: 118173 - COUNTDOWN REVOLUTION;SHOW 1 - PROGRAM
Email Sales about this item
duration: 27.27
location: MELBOURNE,VIC,AUSTRALIA
summary: FIRST SHOW ABC YOUTH ORIENTATED MUSIC PROGRAM, COUNTDOWN REVOLUTION
hide details:
personalities: ANDY MCLEAN, ABC HOST;LISA COLLINS, ABC HOST;DANIEL WOODS, ABC HOST;KYLIE MINOGUE, SINGER;TANIA LACY, ABC REPORTER
shotlist: OPENING TITLES (0.32);VS BAND POISON LIVE ON STAGE PERFORMING, NOTHING BUT A GOOD TIME (4.23);HOSTS TO CAMERA (5.05);VS AUDIENCE IN METRO NIGHTCLUB (5.17);FILE FTG THE BELLE STARS FILM CLIP, IKO IKO, CA AUDIENCE (7.46);VS VOX POP, WHAT DOES

As Culture Club sung in April 1984, "It's a Miracle"

This period, 1983 - 1987, right up my alley, absolutely beautiful.

Hi, what does the "email Sales about this" refer to? Can I buy these shows anywhere? p.s. Saturday night is gonna be a beeeaauuuttyyy!! very exciting!

Matt, from the brief look I had around the TARA site (http://www.abccontentsales.com/librarysales/databases/tara/default.htm), you can "buy" the episodes - but I think it's only for other broadcasters/TV channels, and commercial organisations. However, you'd want to be loaded. Non-broadcasting rates for footage costs are $20 per second! So for an average song of around 3.5 minutes, that would set you back a cool $4,200! But I don't know if you can buy the actual music videos within the programs, as the ABC doesn't hold the rights to those.


This is interesting:

Can I come into the ABC and do my own research?

Independent program makers and researchers can come to the ABC to use the research facilities in Sydney and Melbourne. You can access in-house databases and tape-viewing facilities and take away DVD dubs. There is a daily fee of $120 to cover facility costs plus our standard fees if you need specific research assistance from specialised ABC personnel. A shot list database and a Natural History database are available online, visit http://www.abccontentsales.com/librarysales/databases/


How do I buy ABC programs or segments for private or domestic use?

Programs can be obtained from the ABC Shop for home viewing only.

However there are many programs broadcast on ABC TV that are not available in the ABC Shop or other retail outlets, but can be ordered upon request from Non-Theatric Sales, see http://abc.net.au/programsales. These programs are licensed with 'non-theatric' rights which permits viewing by non-paying Australian-based audiences and are used most frequently for educational and business purposes.

http://www.abccontentsales.com.au/librarysales/faqs.htm

A little upsetting there hasn't been any 1982 and 1983 Countdown's. Hopefully there will be a 1982 and 1983 also coming up :-)

Don't you love the PC ABC censorship in the 1985 episode where Sticky Little ***** by The Angels is referred to as "Sticky Little *******". Let's hope they don't bleep out the word when the song is played in tonight's presentation.

It seems we have the same moronic PC censorship on this site as well judging from how my last post was published. The Angels song is called STICKY LITTLE B-I-T-C-H. I hope I've managed to circumvent that crap censorship this time.

I always at D-A-M-N being one of the censored words. Like '****, I Wish I Was Your Lover' - makes it look that much more naughty than it is.

I posted the playlists on here and realized that the word B I T C H was censored on here. It automatically censored it on this forum. when I type ***** it automatically blocked it out. i have to do this now,
B I T C H with a space.

Trying "biatch" instead...

Aha! That worked! lol

DYYYYYYING for 1984, 1985 and 1986 Countdown's tonight!!!!...

Though not mega into 1987 I wanted this episodes for Pete Burns interview during Something in my House where he slags off Bananarama for wanting to sound like DOS, Boy George interview after the drugs and Chatoozies. HEAVEN!

And SO glad they are playing Kylie with 'Hand On Your Heart' from C.Revolution w

A few Boy George interviews tonight which makes me VERY happy :-) :-) :-) Which I recorded at the time and unfortunately don't have the original vhs anymore :-( So really GOOD I am getting it again.

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Wtahch out for Pete Burns saying


I's so easy for Kim Wilde to have a hit with a DOA sound with 'Set Me Free'... LOL!

Lol, Pete is a funny bugger. Although he mentioned in a recent-ish interview that he wanted to work with S/A/W for 'Spin Me' because he wanted the same sound as Divine's 'You Think You're a Man', so really he can't criticise Kim or the Nanas.

I reckon 'Venus' sounds more like 'Pistol In My Pocket' than 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)'.

Nathan, I said the same ting on facebook tonight. Pete wanted to work with S/A/W as he heard Hazel Dean's 'Whatever I Do' and Divine's 'You Think Your A Man' and loved them. LOL!!!

It was ALL about the Countdown 04/11/1984 for me!

1979 - 1984 COUNTDOWN fooooreveeeeeer