Not my Daryl Cotton requested episode but looks greaaat!!!! 😃

The episode with Daryl Cotton with Kim Carnes interview hasn’t been played before, so WOW 😎Can’t wait for this very BLISS on Saturday night this weekend ❤️

Totally agree Nathan - thats the way facebook is unfortunately. Dont think Rage staff pay too much attention to all the drivel posted there.

Looking forward to George Harrison 'All Those Years Ago'. I've never been sure if the one I have is an internet-age creation, but whatever is on a 1981 Countdown will be the real deal.

Week Two is mid-to-late 80s. The blurb is already up on the Rage website, strange they would post this before even week one has finished. The confirmed episode is 1st March 1987. another one that has not been repeated before. Others are hosted by Bob Geldof, John Farnham and Derek Pellicci (of Little River Band fame). Ill let others try to work out what they may be, the later period of Countdown does not hold the same interest for me as the early 80s. Dull as dishwater and full of video clips especially most of 1985 and all of 1986/87.

I wouldn't be so sure. Countdown have aired at least part of 'All Those Years Ago' before, on a retro month repeat in the last few years, and it looks to me like they just re-used footage of one of his other videos (though I don't know which one). This, I think, was when it was a chart buster and they played about 90 seconds of the clip.

When rage have aired 'All Those Years Ago' as a standalone clip, from memory (I should check), it's just a bunch of stills set to the music; similar to the "video" rage air for Diana Ross's 'Upside Down' or Barbra Streisand's 'Woman In Love'.

A shame George never make an official video for "All Those Years Ago". The 1981 episode looks fantastic. The Stockings:sunglasses: Always enjoy seeing the obscure bands that never made it

Yeah, I expect it will just be a "slideshow" video, but what I meant is that all the images used will at least be pre-mid 1981. The clips on youtube could use post-1981 images.

I'm pretty sure I used some of the Countdown 'video' for 'All Those Years Ago', when it was shown as a chartbuster, in my Australian top 100 singles of 1981 (100 to 51) YouTube video. From memory, it was placed somewhere in the 60s or 70s (on the annual chart, I mean).

I agree Nathan. Some of the Facebook comments are so annoying asking for Recovery, Countdown Revolution and The Factory. I remember trying to endure this tripe back in the day ... very tedious and uninteresting.

Good to see that most comments on Facebook, in relation to Retro Month, are pro-Countdown from some very excited fans.

I'm quite interested to see what videos air on Saturday morning during the 1 hour preview segment. I hope they've dug out some rare videos.

yes well
some great music so far
hope we see 70s dedicated music specials week 3

Well I was looking forward to a 70s week in the third week, how disappointing! Well I am hoping this decade wont be forgotten in the final week ....

There isn't much left from the 70s to play. it's pretty much exhausted. There isn't much left at all

No unrepeated Countdown's but there are other things like Flashez inserts (and a couple of full episodes?) Hit Scene's, various video's and other random documentaries. Doesn't have to be a dedicated 70's night just include some of the above in the mix.

Some of us have not seen all of these 70s eps of Countdown, Flashez etc....but if not played on Retro month would be good to see in another slot...