Note: episode from 1986, but previously mislabeled as 1985. Identifier still shows 1985, but item title, date field and file name now corrected to 1986
An episode of Australian music TV program Countdown. Originally
broadcast on the 5th of October, 1986. Featuring Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce as guest hosts
Taken
from a later re-showing on an episode of "rage", the ABC's late night
music video show, on the 6th of January, 2007. Digital TV recording
from ABC TV in Perth, Australia
Segments:
Chartbuster: The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way (music video)
Molly Meldrum introduces guest hosts Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce, plus cross to Cyndi Lauper on the Gold Coast
Chartbusters (Dragon, Tina Turner, The Reels, Talking Heads)
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life (music video)
The Cockroaches - Wait Up (mimed performance in the Countdown studio)
US Top 5
Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You (music video with interview clips)
Matt Moffitt - All That Stuff (music video)
John Fogerty - Eye of the Zombie (music video)
Oz Top 5
Pseudo Echo - Try (mimed performance in the Countdown studio)
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name (music video)
UK Top 5
Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill from Simple Minds introduce video
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - (Forever) Live and Die (music video)
Kings of the Sun - Bottom Of My Heart (mimed performance in the Countdown studio)
Madonna - True Blue (music video)
National Top 10
Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill interviewed by Molly Meldrum
Cyndi Lauper introduces video
Cyndi Lauper - True Colours (music video - plus live footage)
