It's been a couple of years since I have done this so I hope my record keeping was OK over the interim period - this is largely a cut and paste with an update.

Of the 47 surviving 1970's episodes, all have been shown (multiple times quite often) except for the following 4:

Dec 26 1976 Top 100 clips No78-64 (only the clip inserts tape exists)
Dec 11 1977 Top 100 clips style show (only the clip inserts tape exists)
ep 142 March 19 1978 Adelaide Festival (faulty audio - cannot be broadcast)
ep 159 July 16 1978 hosted by Jon English (exists as off air recording only)

The 43 broadcast quality surviving 70's episodes have been shown a combined total of 76 times with Aug 31 1975 (Sherbet) airing 5 times, July 8 1979 (Iggy Pop) 4 times, 6 others 3 times, 12 others have been shown twice and the rest at least once. As much as I love 70's episodes I do not want to keep seeing these episodes being repeated over and over when there are still so many from the 80's that have never aired on Rage, although I was glad to see 6 episodes shown on Sept 24 2016 for the Michael Shrimpton tribute.

For the 1980's I think it is as follows (Countdown Awards and Summer shows were not included in the numbering of episodes):

1980 47 episodes made, 38 shown, 2 believed missing with 7 still to air

226 February 10 1980 Ted Mulry (Ted Mulry Gang)
237 April 27 1980 Gil Tucker (Cop Shop actor)
240 (May 18 1980) Steve Gilpin (Mi-Sex) from Brisbane *****lost episode******
241 (May 25 1980) Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats) replaced Gary Numan***lost ep***
243 June 8 1980 Darryl Cotton
245 June 22 1980 James Reyne (Australian Crawl)
247 July 6 1980 Patrick and Rockpile (Ol’ 55)
253 August 17 1980 Radio DJ’s in lead up to Xanadu
256 September 7 1980 Steve Gilpin (Mi Sex) + live bands

1981 46 episodes made, 39 shown with 7 still to air

272 February 15 1981 Dennis and Ray (Dr Hook)
275 March 8 1981 Molly (insert show due staging assistants strike)
290 June 21 1981 Jon English
296 August 9 1981 Craig Johnston (Mother Goose)
- September 29 1981 Wendy Stapleton (Wendy & The Rocketts) (standby program)
304 October 4 1981 Swanee
314 December 13 1981 James Reyne (Australian Crawl)

1982 52 episodes made (summer shows pre-recorded in 1981), 42 shown with 10 still to air. Also at least 3 episodes - No. 10, 19 and 20 - of Countdown Friday (clip show hosted by John Peters) exist

- January 10 1982 Molly (Summer Special #4 Export bands)
316 February 21 1982 Alex Smith (Moving Pictures)
330 May 30 1982 Ray and Dennis (Dr Hook)
341 August 15 1982 Greedy and Peter (Mental As Anything)
344 September 5 1982 Billy Miller (The Great Blokes/ex Ferrets)
346 September 19 1982 Globos
351 October 31 1982 no host (Advance Australia theme - songs introduced by live acts)
355 November 28 1982 Tim Finn
356 December 5 1982 Wendy Stapleton (Wendy & The Rocketts)
358 December 19 1982 Mental As Anything

1983 46 episodes made including two standby that were not aired at the time but one (ep 91 with Molly in vaults) since shown on Rage, 34 shown with 12 still to air assuming ep 367 exists. A few off air recordings of episodes of Countdown Flipside known to exist.

367 April 24 1983 episode not confirmed to exist - possibly missing
371 May 22 1983 no host
373 June 5 1983 Wendy Stapleton (Wendy & The Rocketts)
374 June 12 1983 Tim Finn
376 June 26 1983 Greedy Smith (Mental As Anything)
378 July 10 1983 John Hood (EONFM) and Keith Neill (Muir?) (7HT)
388 September 18 1983 James Reyne and Brad Robinson (Australian Crawl)
389 September 25 1983 Pat Wilson
392 October 16 1983 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)
398 November 27 1983 James Reyne (Australian Crawl)
399 December 4 1983 Ross Wilson (Mondo Rock)
- December 5 1983 standby program of Molly’s favourite bands/videos

1984 48 episodes made, 42 shown with 6 still to air. Ep 432 Thriller Dance competition episode only known to exist in an off air recording, it may not be in the ABC archives.

405 February 26 1984 Alex Smith (Moving Pictures)
417 May 20 1984 Marc Hunter (Dragon)
425 July 15 1984 State Heats Beatstreet competition
430 August 19 1984 David Reyne (Takeaways)
432 September 2 1984 Thriller Dance competition (not in ABC archives?)
442A November 17 1984 U2 Special


1985 47 episodes made, 31 shown with 16 still to air

450 February 17 1985 Richard (No Nonsense) and Eric (Mondo Rock)
451 February 24 1985 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)
452 March 3 1985 Marc Hunter (Dragon)
460 April 28 1985 Ben (teenager)
463 May 26 1985 Meatloaf
464 June 2 1985 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)
468 June 30 1985 Molly interviews David Lee Roth
469 July 7 1985 Angry Anderson
471 July 21 1985 Dave and Brad (Hoodoo Gurus)
478 September 8 1985 Richard Bruce (No Nonsense)
480 September 22 1985 no host
481 September 29 1985 Greedy Smith (Mental As Anything)
483 October 13 1985 Lyn Buckfield (Electric Pandas)
485 October 27 1985 Kids In The Kitchen
489 November 24 1985 Brian Canham (Pseudo Echo)
- December 29 1985 Summer Show No 1

1986 51 episodes made (with 4 summer shows pre-recorded in 1985), 23 shown with 28 still to air. Ep 515 June 29 may be missing and ep 520 not made due to Commonwealth games.

- January 5 1986 Summer Show No 2
- January 12 1986 Summer Show No 3
- January 19 1986 Summer Show No 4
- January 26 1986 Summer Show No 5
496 February 16 1986 Martin Plaza (Mental As Anything)
499 March 9 1986 Molly (interviews Stevie Nicks)
501 March 23 1986 Bernie Lynch and Grace Knight (Eurogliders)
502 March 30 1986 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)
505 April 20 1986 Live program prior to Countdown Awards
506 April 27 1986 Robert Blackwood (Molly chose him at a Sting concert)
508 May 11 1986 Molly (interviews Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
510 May 25 1986 Video Story Board Competition
511 June 1 1986 Martin Plaza (Mental As Anything)
513 June 15 1986 Brian Canham (Pseudo Echo)
514 June 22 1986 Replacement program - Oz For Africa highlights
515 June 29 1986 not known to exist but probably in ABC archives
516 July 6 1986 Molly (interviews in London)
521 August 10 1986 Molly (interviews Elton John re. Tour)
522 August 17 1986 Molly (interviews Elton John re. marriage)
523 August 24 1986 Molly (interviews Bananarama)
524 August 31 1986 Molly (interviews Neil Finn and Paul Hester)
525 September 7 1986 Molly (interviews Red Symons)
527 September 21 1986 Gavin Wood (live Uncanny X-Men, Dragon, Hoodoo Gurus, Reels)
528 September 28 1986 Stephen Cummings (insert show)
531 October 19 1986 Angry Anderson and Joe Cocker
532 October 26 1986 Molly (from Adelaide Grand Prix)
534 November 9 1986 Molly (interviews David Sylvian)
538 December 7 1986 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)

1987 24 episodes made, 18 shown with 6 still to air

542 February 22 1987 David Reyne
547 March 29 1987 Mondo Rock
548 April 5 1987 Paul Young
552 May 3 1987 Molly (Georgia Satellites interview)
557 June 7 1987 Molly (live bands intro next segment)
559 June 21 1987 Greedy Smith and Red Symons

I believe there are 399 episodes of Countdown that definitely exist with possibly 404 if 5 episodes that had not been archived actually do exist as we saw in 2017 with the missing James Freud and Lene Lovich episodes airing.

Rage have aired 310 episodes after the 2019 Retro season which will leave between 89 and 94 (depending on missing episodes) still to air. If Rage continue to show around 15 episodes per year we could see the remaining ones that haven't aired in the next 6 years but that may be being a little optimistic, particularly seeing how many episodes from 1986 are yet to air.

Thanks Armin!

Thanks to Michael noticing that I had forgotten that the Sept 21 1986 episode aired in February 2015 this is the amended list (cut and paste with correction) of what Rage have yet to air.



It's been a couple of years since I have done this so I hope my record keeping was OK over the interim period - this is largely a cut and paste with an update.

Of the 47 surviving 1970's episodes, all have been shown (multiple times quite often) except for the following 4:

Dec 26 1976 Top 100 clips No78-64 (only the clip inserts tape exists)
Dec 11 1977 Top 100 clips style show (only the clip inserts tape exists)
ep 142 March 19 1978 Adelaide Festival (faulty audio - cannot be broadcast)
ep 159 July 16 1978 hosted by Jon English (exists as off air recording only)

The 43 broadcast quality surviving 70's episodes have been shown a combined total of 76 times with Aug 31 1975 (Sherbet) airing 5 times, July 8 1979 (Iggy Pop) 4 times, 6 others 3 times, 12 others have been shown twice and the rest at least once. As much as I love 70's episodes I do not want to keep seeing these episodes being repeated over and over when there are still so many from the 80's that have never aired on Rage, although I was glad to see 6 episodes shown on Sept 24 2016 for the Michael Shrimpton tribute.

For the 1980's I think it is as follows (Countdown Awards and Summer shows were not included in the numbering of episodes):

1980 47 episodes made, 38 shown, 2 believed missing with 7 still to air

226 February 10 1980 Ted Mulry (Ted Mulry Gang)
237 April 27 1980 Gil Tucker (Cop Shop actor)
240 (May 18 1980) Steve Gilpin (Mi-Sex) from Brisbane *****lost episode******
241 (May 25 1980) Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats) replaced Gary Numan***lost ep***
243 June 8 1980 Darryl Cotton
245 June 22 1980 James Reyne (Australian Crawl)
247 July 6 1980 Patrick and Rockpile (Ol’ 55)
253 August 17 1980 Radio DJ’s in lead up to Xanadu
256 September 7 1980 Steve Gilpin (Mi Sex) + live bands

1981 46 episodes made, 39 shown with 7 still to air

272 February 15 1981 Dennis and Ray (Dr Hook)
275 March 8 1981 Molly (insert show due staging assistants strike)
290 June 21 1981 Jon English
296 August 9 1981 Craig Johnston (Mother Goose)
- September 29 1981 Wendy Stapleton (Wendy & The Rocketts) (standby program)
304 October 4 1981 Swanee
314 December 13 1981 James Reyne (Australian Crawl)

1982 52 episodes made (summer shows pre-recorded in 1981), 42 shown with 10 still to air. Also at least 3 episodes - No. 10, 19 and 20 - of Countdown Friday (clip show hosted by John Peters) exist

- January 10 1982 Molly (Summer Special #4 Export bands)
316 February 21 1982 Alex Smith (Moving Pictures)
330 May 30 1982 Ray and Dennis (Dr Hook)
341 August 15 1982 Greedy and Peter (Mental As Anything)
344 September 5 1982 Billy Miller (The Great Blokes/ex Ferrets)
346 September 19 1982 Globos
351 October 31 1982 no host (Advance Australia theme - songs introduced by live acts)
355 November 28 1982 Tim Finn
356 December 5 1982 Wendy Stapleton (Wendy & The Rocketts)
358 December 19 1982 Mental As Anything

1983 46 episodes made including two standby that were not aired at the time but one (ep 91 with Molly in vaults) since shown on Rage, 34 shown with 12 still to air assuming ep 367 exists. A few off air recordings of episodes of Countdown Flipside known to exist.

367 April 24 1983 episode not confirmed to exist - possibly missing
371 May 22 1983 no host
373 June 5 1983 Wendy Stapleton (Wendy & The Rocketts)
374 June 12 1983 Tim Finn
376 June 26 1983 Greedy Smith (Mental As Anything)
378 July 10 1983 John Hood (EONFM) and Keith Neill (Muir?) (7HT)
388 September 18 1983 James Reyne and Brad Robinson (Australian Crawl)
389 September 25 1983 Pat Wilson
392 October 16 1983 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)
398 November 27 1983 James Reyne (Australian Crawl)
399 December 4 1983 Ross Wilson (Mondo Rock)
- December 5 1983 standby program of Molly’s favourite bands/videos

1984 48 episodes made, 42 shown with 6 still to air. Ep 432 Thriller Dance competition episode only known to exist in an off air recording, it may not be in the ABC archives.

405 February 26 1984 Alex Smith (Moving Pictures)
417 May 20 1984 Marc Hunter (Dragon)
425 July 15 1984 State Heats Beatstreet competition
430 August 19 1984 David Reyne (Takeaways)
432 September 2 1984 Thriller Dance competition (not in ABC archives?)
442A November 17 1984 U2 Special


1985 47 episodes made, 31 shown with 16 still to air

450 February 17 1985 Richard (No Nonsense) and Eric (Mondo Rock)
451 February 24 1985 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)
452 March 3 1985 Marc Hunter (Dragon)
460 April 28 1985 Ben (teenager)
463 May 26 1985 Meatloaf
464 June 2 1985 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)
468 June 30 1985 Molly interviews David Lee Roth
469 July 7 1985 Angry Anderson
471 July 21 1985 Dave and Brad (Hoodoo Gurus)
478 September 8 1985 Richard Bruce (No Nonsense)
480 September 22 1985 no host
481 September 29 1985 Greedy Smith (Mental As Anything)
483 October 13 1985 Lyn Buckfield (Electric Pandas)
485 October 27 1985 Kids In The Kitchen
489 November 24 1985 Brian Canham (Pseudo Echo)
- December 29 1985 Summer Show No 1

1986 51 episodes made (with 4 summer shows pre-recorded in 1985), 24 shown with 27 still to air. Ep 515 June 29 may be missing and ep 520 not made due to Commonwealth games.

- January 5 1986 Summer Show No 2
- January 12 1986 Summer Show No 3
- January 19 1986 Summer Show No 4
- January 26 1986 Summer Show No 5
496 February 16 1986 Martin Plaza (Mental As Anything)
499 March 9 1986 Molly (interviews Stevie Nicks)
501 March 23 1986 Bernie Lynch and Grace Knight (Eurogliders)
502 March 30 1986 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)
505 April 20 1986 Live program prior to Countdown Awards
506 April 27 1986 Robert Blackwood (Molly chose him at a Sting concert)
508 May 11 1986 Molly (interviews Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
510 May 25 1986 Video Story Board Competition
511 June 1 1986 Martin Plaza (Mental As Anything)
513 June 15 1986 Brian Canham (Pseudo Echo)
514 June 22 1986 Replacement program - Oz For Africa highlights
515 June 29 1986 not known to exist but probably in ABC archives
516 July 6 1986 Molly (interviews in London)
521 August 10 1986 Molly (interviews Elton John re. Tour)
522 August 17 1986 Molly (interviews Elton John re. marriage)
523 August 24 1986 Molly (interviews Bananarama)
524 August 31 1986 Molly (interviews Neil Finn and Paul Hester)
525 September 7 1986 Molly (interviews Red Symons)
528 September 28 1986 Stephen Cummings (insert show)
531 October 19 1986 Angry Anderson and Joe Cocker
532 October 26 1986 Molly (from Adelaide Grand Prix)
534 November 9 1986 Molly (interviews David Sylvian)
538 December 7 1986 Brian Mannix (Uncanny X-Men)

1987 24 episodes made, 18 shown with 6 still to air

542 February 22 1987 David Reyne
547 March 29 1987 Mondo Rock
548 April 5 1987 Paul Young
552 May 3 1987 Molly (Georgia Satellites interview)
557 June 7 1987 Molly (live bands intro next segment)
559 June 21 1987 Greedy Smith and Red Symons

I believe there are 399 episodes of Countdown that definitely exist with possibly 404 if 5 episodes that had not been archived actually do exist as we saw in 2017 with the missing James Freud and Lene Lovich episodes airing.

Rage have aired 311 episodes after the 2019 Retro season which will leave between 88 and 93 (depending on missing episodes) still to air. If Rage continue to show around 15 episodes per year we could see the remaining ones that haven't aired in the next 6 years but that may be being a little optimistic, particularly seeing how many episodes from 1986 are yet to air.

From sources such as Jason’s database, I know about the following episodes in the 1970s which I can’t see referenced in this, nor the other thread on transmitted episodes.

29 Jun 1975 1975 26 "Bob Hudson, co-host Normie
[lost episode found FM simulcast audio cassette recording 95% complete]"
18 Jul 1976 1976 72 Sherbet live at Festival Hall
1 Jul 1979 1979 200 Marc Hunter

Do these also exist? Do I have correct information?

OK, continuing with my own reconciliation, here are the 80s by year, that I cannot tell if they EXIST or NOT SHOWN. I’ve added hyperlinks to Jason’s site where I could.

1980

9 Feb 1980 1980 230 This show Ellen Foley and co-Molly Meldrum (without hat).

11 Oct 1980 1980 388 "End Of A Decade" Molly with a Summary of the 1970's. The program progresses through each year of the decade both musically and historically

1981

I know you said you weren’t listing Rock Awards, but I don’t have a date.
22 Mar 1981 1981 241 The 1980 Tv Week Rock Music Awards

1982

Do they or don’t they exist? I can’t find any rage air dates.

1983

28 Jan 1983 1983 unknown 1983 COUNTDOWN TITLES, (35MM NEG. DUE TO LACK OF 35MM FACILITIES UNABLE TO VIEW)

5 Dec 1983 1983 unknown THIS STANDBY SHOW WAS HOSTED BY MOLLY MELDRUM. THE SHOW NUMBER AND THE DATE OF TRANSMISSION IS UNKNOWN THE DATE OF TRANSMISSION SHOWN ABOVE IS THE RECORDING DATE. VIDEO CLIPS:

I wasn't aware of those 3 70s episodes existing. Certainly if one is only an audio recording then it wouldn't ever make it to air but great to know that it exists. Ep 200 I think they showed a documentary on the making of that episode a few years back but I don't know of the actual episode existing. Sherbet live might exist if it is a live concert that wasn't identified as Countdown.

As for the 80s questions:
Ep 230 with Ellen Foley was shown in 2017
Ep 388 was an Australian Crawl hosted show from 1983 which exists but hasn't aired as yet. The End Of The Decade Show (recorded in lists at Oct 11 1980) is actually the same as episode 224 (Dec 16 1979) which was used as an emergency standby tape as industrial action was common in this period. I'm not sure if it was shown on Oct 11 1980 as that was a Saturday but may have been shown instead of the usual repeat from the previous week. Ep 262 (Oct 19 1980) is not known to exist and it may be that they showed ep 224 that week. I should really add ep 262 to possible lost episodes for 1980 as I have no information for Oct 19 1980 and assumed that is when they showed a repeat of 224. If they didn't then there is a missing episode.

1981 - I do list Rock Awards, its just that the ABC didn't always give the episodes an episode number. The awards shows were numbered in 1980 (235) and 1981 (277) but after that it went a bit odd. In 1982 it was unnumbered but there is also no No 324 and the previous week (Duran Duran) was numbered 323/1 for some reason. In 1983 it is unnumbered but there is no ep 367 so it may have been that one. In 1984 it is unnumbered but there is no Ep 412. It had no number in 1985, 1986 or 1987 with only standard episodes having numbering in those years.

1982 - I assume you are asking whether the Countdown Fridays exist. I know that at least 3 episodes certainly exist but I don't know if any more do. There was a thread about Countdown Fridays on here once where we discussed that in detail.

1983 - I have no idea what that Jan 28 item is.
The Dec 5 episode was a standby program that they made in case of industrial action or emergency. It is just a clips episode that definitely exists that was made but never aired as it wasn't required. Maybe they aired it over the summer of 1983-84 but I am not aware of that.

So thorough! Many thanks - this has sorted out my own spreadsheet!