But they’ve done that every year on Rage over summer.
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The ones I recorded from Rage a couple of summers ago weren’t like that… I think they were just the clips with no intros from Molly or some of the other studio bits.
1980 narrated by James Rayne.
1981 narrated by Steve Kilbey from The Church.
1982 narrated by Shane Howard from Goanna.
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What an awesome era for music and the golden age for Countdown.
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Eleven should play some of those movies. I think they could find an audience like The Wog Boy and other Aussie movies they have screened recently.
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Narrated by :
1984 - Grace Knight
1985 - Kate Ceberano
1986 - Deb Conway
I was just about to post 1985. The Year of the Mullet. 
How do you know about 1986 already?
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Also
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I had to look up that Paul Stewart was from Painters and Dockers.
1987 was the last year of Countdown and the last year mullets were fashionable. 
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@Radiohead Hopefully you’ve noticed that rage has been showing classic episodes on Saturday nights on ABC and repeated on ABCME during the week these past couple of weeks. They continue through the rest of January.
Tonight they had:
COUNTDOWN May 11, 1980 (239: Bob Geldof - Boomtown Rats) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN November 23, 1980 (267: Ross Wilson - Mondo Rock) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN October 25, 1981 (307: Sharon O’Neill) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN August 29, 1982 (343: Annalise Morrow - The Numbers) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN October 2, 1983 (390: Marc Hunter - Dragon) (ABC)
Last week:
COUNTDOWN March 16, 1980 (231: Steve Gilpin - Mi-Sex) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN May 3, 1981 (283: Greedy Smith - Mental As Anything) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN July 11, 1982 (336: James Reyne - Australian Crawl) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN August 11, 1985 (474: Howard Jones) (ABC)
COUNTDOWN April 13, 1986 (504: Spencer and Billy - The Johnnys) (ABC)
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Thanks, yes the ones I saw a few months ago weren’t quite what I was hoping for, which was for the full original epiosdes exactly as aired in their entirety back in the 1980s.
Is that what these are?
Yes, these are the full episodes. There is also a website for Countdown Archives where you can search each episode in advance to find out who will be on the show.
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The rage playlist page also gives an indication of which episode is coming up and who hosts.
And, as usual, anything before 1980 is ignored. And they do have complete episodes of the show from the 70s. They just choose not to show them anymore.
Thanks for that!
I will certainly be checking them out, particularly the ones from 1984 onwards, as that’s when I really started getting into Countdown.
In all fairness, the 80s were better. 
But seriously, they don’t have as many complete episodes from the 70s remaining and whatever they do have has probably already been screened.
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