In an effort to find out which Countdown episodes people would like to see that have never been shown on Rage Retro, I am asking anyone who is interested to name their favourite unrepeated episodes.

The following is a list of 1981 Countdowns that have never been shown on Rage. The episode details can be found in the "Countdown Archives" section of this site. Please select any 3 in the order of your preference for votes towards 1981 episodes.

272 February 15 1981 Dennis and Ray (Dr Hook)
273 February 22 1981 Little Nell (Rocky Horror Show)
276 March 15 1981 Jermaine Jackson
282 April 26 1981 Steve Kilby (The Church)
283 May 3 1981 Greedy Smith (Mental As Anything)
284 May 10 1981 Sheena Easton
285 May 17 1981 Ignatius and Joylene (Jimmy & The Boys)
286 May 24 1981 James Reyne (Australian Crawl)
288 June 7 1981 Broderick Smith
289 June 14 1981 Marc Hunter
290 June 21 1981 Jon English
291 June 28 1981 Daryl Cotton
295 August 2 1981 no host (live acts intro next segment)
296 August 9 1981 Craig Johnston (Mother Goose)
298 August 23 1981 Paul Northam (MEO 245)
301 September 13 1981 Chris Atkins (Blue Lagoon actor)
- September 29 1981 Wendy Stapleton (Wendy & The Rocketts) (standby program)
304 October 4 1981 Swanee
305 October 11 1981 Daryl Somers & Ossie Ostrich (Hey Hey It’s Saturday)
307 October 25 1981 Sharon O’Neill
308 November 1 1981 Renee Geyer
309 November 8 1981 Russell Hitchcock (Air Supply)
314 December 13 1981 James Reyne (Australian Crawl)

My three 1981 requests are:

22/2/81:
HOST: Little Nell (Rocky Horror Show). REASON: I'm a big Rocky Horror fan and have very fond memories of the Rocky Horror craze from this period and thinks this ep. looks fantastic.

10/5/81:
HOST: Sheena Easton. REASON: Has some very fine live performances on it including Mi-Sex singing Fallin' In and Out.

17/5/81:
HOST: Ignatius Jones and Joylene. REASON: Two words - Ignatius and Jones!! Enough said!

My preferences:

1 10/5/81 hosted by Sheena Easton - Mi-Sex, Christie Allen, Sports and Street Angel live plus Sheena Easton, Status Quo, The Quick and Rupert Hine clips

2 17/5/81 hosted by Ignatius Jones - apart from Ignatius hosting also Jimmy & The Boys, Pop Mechanix, Spandau Ballet and Boomtown Rats

3 8/11/81 hosted by Russell Hitchcock - 5 live acts including Jimmy & The Boys, Sunnyboys and Men At Work with clips from Greg Kihn Band, Charlie Dore, Def Leppard, Pointer Sisters and Hazell O'Connor

Apologies to Rocky Horror, Renee Geyer and Marc Hunter eps.

My three picks:

1. 17/5/81 - Ignatious Jones (of course). Jimmy and the Boys performing, as well as early Spandau Ballet.

2. 25/10/81 - Sharon O'Neil hosting and performing, as well as the Sherbs

3. 15/3/81 - Suzy Quatro IV and performance, Fade to Grey by Visage.

10/5/81 - Hosted by Sheena Easton with 2 performances live in the COuntdown studio PLUS Mi-Sex, Christie Allen, Sports and Street Angel live plus Sheena Easton, Status Quo, The Quick and Rupert Hine clips




17/05/1981 - Hosted by Ignatius Jones and Joylene.
I LOVE any Ignatius Jones hosted Countdown's BUT this one would be even more special as Joylene the drag queen/keyboardist in 'Jimmy & The Boys' is also hosting with Ignatius, HOW COOL!




02/09/1981 - Features the very CAMP Hot Shot with "Fire In The Night" PLUS Lene Lovich, Classix Nouveaux, Meo 245, Sunnyboys....