The issue we are going yet again to have this retro month is the ABC committing themselves to wall-to-wall coverage of tedious sporting events again. The main one is the Asian Cup Soccer throughout January. There is hockey and basketball looking through January as well. And we all know soccer means extra time, shootouts and all the other hideous crap that goes with it. Expect games and shows to run overtime and Rage to be trimmed down on the night to fit.

Dont think there will be anything to get excited about, it will be doubly frustrating when shows we look forward to seeing dont happen at all. Dont say you werent warned.

Actually, that was 2 years ago now . I didn't mind, though, because when it originally aired, the watermark was in the 4:3 screen area. Oddly, though, I don't think it was a direct hour taken from his programming, because it started with him saying 'good evening', and then on a later segment where he introduced a video, it was 'good morning'.

The week before, the 5-6am Sunday slot was Van She programming an hour of Vault videos. The majority, if not all (I haven't checked their previous playlist) of the videos they chose they also chose when programming in 2012. I wonder if that was another random hour of repeat from 2 years earlier? Again, I didn't mind, because last time the watermark was in the 4:3 area.

For the last couple of months, rage have aired retro videos between 5-6am Sunday, which is great

I like the bit where it says never before repeated episodes, hopefully that will be exclusively but I am suspecting 70's repeats will be thrown into the mix.

Disappointing if Retro gets cut off at 5am considering it already starts after midnight and Rage goes until 7am on Sunday mornings these days but five Saturdays should give us a fair amount, a bit over 20 hours at that rate. Don't tell me there is some basketball or hockey tournament starting in January.

Please, no Joe Cocker Special....unless they show Countdown episode 531 which Joe Cocker and Angry Anderson hosted and has a great Countdown clip for Jean Beauvoir - Feel The Heat

Joe Cocker hosting Countdown episode 531 - October 19 1986

I'm also hoping they keep the Joe Cocker tribute (if there is one, surprised there wasn't this weekend) stuff to Saturday morning.

I must say I'm not a fan of when rage air 'themed' nights during retro month, like this year's Elton John-themed night which was just awful IMO, or when they started each episode with an hour+ long concert performance a couple of years back. I much prefer random retro nights.

I also get the feeling there'll be a couple of 70s Countdown repeats.

I too hope there is NO Joe Cocker special and like Guru Bob, the only thing I welcome is Countdown episode 531 which Joe Cocker and Angry Anderson hosted for the ehavenly Countdown clip for Jean Beauvoir's Feel The Heat!

I heard about the Asian Soccer nightmare and now basketball and hockey?

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Why do I sense A LOT of anger coming towards the ABC in January!

We better get at least 17 un repeated Countdown episodes!

At Nathan, I too am not pleased about the GTK & Hitscence crap. How I LOATHE those 2 programs!!!!!

There is one thing that may save us from the soccer violations, and that is the ABC3 repeats may include footage cut out from the main program as has happened before.

Besides Nathan, I don't know how closely anyone follows Rage during the year but when Russell Morris guest programmed on November 29 they cut off the Billy Idol special at the end due to some hockey or basketball that was being shown. It was then shown during the week on the ABC3 repeats.

If anything gets cut off we can request that it is shown during the weekly repeats.

It's a glimmer of hope anyhow.

The other thought is that they are leaving 2 hours spare which will still maneuver around to accommodate 2 hours of soccer which may not be at a defined time yet.

So.... can I have the run down on rage repeats on ABC 3.

What days do they happen, times? e.t.c....

Yes, because of the 7 am finish Guru, this does mean a little extra time but the point is that rage shouldn't be interrupted period. It so angers me, especially during January which is the only time that matters

In a nutshell, on ABC3:

Sunday 9:30pm-2:00am: repeat of 6:00am-10:30am Saturday morning
Monday 9:30pm-10:30pm: repeat of 5:00am-6:00am Saturday morning
Tuesday 9:30pm-10:30pm: repeat of 5:00am-6:00am Sunday morning
Wednesday 9:30pm-10:30pm: repeat of 6:00am-7:00am Sunday morning
Thursday 9:30pm-10:30pm: repeat of 10:30am-11:30am Saturday morning


The exception to the above is obviously when rage finishes earlier than 7:00am on Sunday (like back when Dr Who was airing on Sunday mornings) - they were then repeating the last hour of Saturday night's rage on Wednesday night, and the 2nd last hour of Saturday night's rage on Tuesday night.

The ABC3 repeats are almost always watermark-free, too. I've only seen the ABC3 watermark on rage once or twice, though I only check/record it when there's something I'm after (which is usually Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday night). It's also a great back-up option if I get a digital signal glitch on the weekend, though sometimes it happens during the week instead (as happened to me during the Billy Idol special, where all of the widescreen clips they repeated were affected).

As Guru has said, occasionally rage will air material that was cut from the original Saturday/Sunday programming on the ABC3 repeats, like they aired Rococo's 'Italo House Mix' from the Vault special on a Wednesday night. I did ask them to do so on the Facebook page, which may have helped... or they might have had that scheduled anyway (they didn't air an exact replica of the last hour of the Vault special that night, it was a selection of clips from the last 2 hours from memory).

I think they generally try and keep the ABC3 repeats PG rated, too, so usually they will cut any 'M' rated clips from those repeats (or those timeslots on the original weekend broadcasts will contain only PG-rated clips).

This post informing us "in a nutshell" is very handy and I refer to it very often. I need to copy and paste it somewhere for easy access.
My timer recording ended one minute before the end of COUNTDOWN April 26th, 1987. As you are aware this episode was between 6:00am and 7:00am. Does this mean that I get a second shot at it in on Wednesday night? Hopefully there are no exceptions.
Of course I would trade it off for the COUNTDOWN September 21st, 1986 which was cut. I'm wishfully thinking that it will get considered in the next Retro Month being January 2016.

Yes, it will re-air on Wednesday night on ABC3 from 9:30 - unless they re-arrange what they air (probably on either Tues or Wed night, though it would be nice if they scrapped the needless repeat of new release videos on Monday night) due to the un-aired Countdown.