I echo the thanks to those sharing these episodes...

I've been ripping / saving Countdowns since the mid 2000's and have quite a few now.

I'll try and find some time soon to start getting some in a file share.

Thanks to all those who share. I'm still looking for the following:

1st June 1980 - Village People (Ep. 242)
15th June 1980 - Skyhooks (Ep. 244)
24th August 1980 - Xanadu Dance (Ep. 254)
21st September 1980 - James Freud (Ep. 258)
26th October 1980 - The Romantics (Ep. 263)
16th November 1980 - Annie Lennox (Ep. 266)
30th November 1980 - Bette Midler (Ep. 268)
14th December 1980 - Neil & Tim Finn (Ep. 270)
1st March 1981 - Russell Morris (Ep. 274)
12th April 1981 - Dave Mason (Ep. 280)
19th April 1981 - Joe Dolce (Ep. 281)
12th July 1981 - Molly Meldrum (Ep. 292)
19th July 1981 - Marcia Hines (Ep. 293)
26th July 1981 - Kim Wilde (Ep. 294)
20th September 1981 - Adam Ant (Ep. 302)
29th November 1981 - Cher & Fee Waybill (Ep. 312)

I hope someone can help. Thank you in advance.

I have a lot of my RAGE Countdowns still sitting on VHS tapes. I was also taping from 1993 onwards.

Although I did make the mistake for the first year or two, of only recording stuff I liked.

I just haven't had the time to sit down and transfer them to digital format.

Brett, thank you for letting me know. Australia is a big country. Is there not even one person, a collector, who has this episode in very good quality and can share? I live in Poland. I'm a collector. I have a lot of rare videos and I can share. At the same time I'm looking for The Geordie "She's a teaser" video from GTK. I think there was a promo version there. Maybe someone will help me and post it for me? I would be very grateful

Thank you very much all who answered me. The Geordie was twice in GTK that was showed last year in Australian TV. One include video Black Cat Woman (GTK 1974) and second She's a teaser. Black cat woman I have got but this second video NOT.
If someone recorded both, please share for me. Thanks again and greetings from Poland

Hi Jan,

I've had a look and I think I've found the GTK episodes featuring Georgie that you're looking for.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmE5hleMzCmIqVTpHh_QjOB9Xi19?e=WGEJvW

Have a look in the Requests folder.

Enjoy!

Grant

Wow, I knew that are good people in the world yet. Thank you so much. If you are looking for something, please say, maybe I have it, then I upload it.

Hi everyone. I have resurrected an old Topfield set-top box and I'm back in action grabbing Countdown episodes from rage!

Unfortunately the recorder I used last year let me down with some crazy encryption that I could not hack. Does anyone have the episodes that were aired last summer (2021)?

Also, any opinions on sharing files from OneDrive? Is it a good platform to use? I want archive the episodes I have in the cloud, OneDrive seems convenient but expensive.

Cheers!
Ross

Hi Ross,

I have last year's episodes here:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmE5hleMzCmIqVTpHh_QjOB9Xi19?e=WGEJvW

Look in the folder "HDTVRips - Untouched".

I've used OneDrive for years and it has served me well. Thanks to a free 200GB bonus for being a Telstra customer many years ago I've never had to pay for it. :)

Grant

Hi Grant, my one drive access to the files has stopped working, are you able to send me a new link please,

Hi grant, I had access till this morning, but its expired for some reason , are you able to provide me with an upnto date link to the countdown episode.

Cheers

Thanks bruva😉👊👊💯✌

Does anybody have all the week 2 countdown episodes, as only 2 episodes have been uploaded, if anybody has an alternative link it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers✌💯👊😉

So which episode is supposedly missing then? ❓🙀🖐🤷‍♀️💥🎵👀

It's working again now, dont know why uts stopping and starting, must be a technical issue at my end.
Episode wise, there's 9nly 3x episodes from week 1 2022, and 2 from weekb2?

There were only 2 Countdown episodes aired on Rage this week.

https://www.abc.net.au/rage/playlist/saturday-night-12-february-2022-on-abc-tv/13751054

COUNTDOWN October 16, 1983 (392: Brian Mannix from Uncanny X-Men) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN June 21, 1981 (290: Jon English) (ABC)

Thanks for the clarification, looking fwd to more episodes next week then, cheers Grant. 💯😉👊👊

Hey. For anyone interested (who may not have this).
I made a quick copy of the Countdown VHS released years ago.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r67q4ja10x1lctn/AAD8Bw3O-Otqsnzr-9B_yd3Aa?dl=0

Cover included as a scan.
Enjoy :)

Hi if anyone can provide a decent d/l link for he Beat Box episode which aired last week I would appreciate it. I have it on a HDD recorder but converting that to a digital file is a pain in the ass....

cheers,

kiersey

Uploading Beatbox to my OneDrive now.. Should be there soon..

Just thought I would chime in with some ideas for you all on how to share your recordings.

Onedrive and gdrive links are risky, whilst they work, hosting copyrighted works could be problematic, if they are reported to copyright holders you could have your One Drive or Gdrive account terminated, this would be lower risk if you are not posting those links on a public message board.

In one drive and Gdrive, If you share folders between users, there is a cool Apple TV app called Infuse which, if you use the paid version, will allow you to stream from your cloud drive (Gdrive, OneDrive and pCloud). This could be very handy if you have a lot of recordings on the cloud or if you have been given access to an shared cloud folder (you can just stream the recordings right through your apple TV).

Another option, not using the cloud, could be using something like SoulSeek, it's a simple peer 2 peer program, you share your private folder between authorised users and exchange recordings that way, if you upload speed is slow, it won't really matter as eventually the data will transfer across. There's no risk to your paid cloud storage when sharing, it's also free.

Nothing that's free. Unlisted on Youtube won't work, the music videos will prompt the videos to be blocked.

You could have one Google Workspace account which provides 2TB of storage, but it costs about $18 per month, and if people want to upload or contribute, they can so so by making a free Gdrive (you get 15GB for free), they create an upload folder, upload the video to that, then they share their Upload folder with the Workspace account, then whoever is running that account they can just Copy the video to the main collection, the contributor could then delete their copy, freeing up space in their drive to share more content.

It might be a bit of a learning curve, but whoever is managing the main Workspace account could control who they share the recordings with, but authorised users would be able to access and stream the content freely, they wouldn't have to pay for a workspace account.

Another option could be pDrive, that doesn't have a monthly cost but rather it has a one off, lifetime option, but it's $500 AUD for 2TB (sometimes they do specials), but I guess if you got a few users to contribute, or you charge for access, it could be viable.

Ok put your thinking caps on. Surely in this day and age there is some way for everyone to make their whole collections available in a way that is FREE OF COST for anyone who wants to download the whole thing and preferably without having to interact with anyone and not having to even say so much as a thank you. Do better please it must be possible.

Thank you for those sharing episodes!!! Incredible resource for me as a music teacher and musician (playing with Bob Starkie in his Skyhooks show currently).

I have some previous years Rage broadcasts on an old hard drive, will check if there are any episodes not currently shared and list

OK peeps I am coming to the end of the tunnel with this collecting rage repeated C/D episodes. Only got 4 episodes to go. If anyone can help out with these 4 episodes I would greatly appreciate it. I have stacks of other episodes if anyone wants to trade. Cheers, kiersey....xxx

1. 31/01/1982 Video Rock
2. 27/02/1983 James Reyne
3. 15/04/1984 1983 Rock Awards
4. 19/07/1987 1986 Rock Awards

I just realized I'm missing 18/12/1983 with Pseudo Echo, I saw it on YouTube with the rage logo. How did I miss that one? Anyone have a copy?

Also, I'd love to get my hands on:

* the Ramones episode from 1980
* the B-52s episode where they performed Private Idaho and Rock Lobster.

I seem to remember Molly had a lobster on his head.

Did these episodes make it on to rage?

Thanks in advance. 😎