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Countdown Revolution - the infamous on-air protest (1990)

Since 1974, popular Australian pop music program Countdown (and the later known as Countdown Revolution) had most of their musical guests mime on the show. On June 22nd, 1990 Countdown Revolution...  
 
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80sOldSkool (4 months ago) Show Hide
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The "live" show bits on Countdown weren't recorded on Sunday's. They were recorded on week days. The show, most of the time, was all pre-recorded.
80sOldSkool (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Recovery was a great concept show, the enforcer, jane gazzo and of course dylan. It was a lot of fun! (but only the first few years).
80sOldSkool (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Tania, this show wasn't "axed" until December 1990. Did they give you two the flick straight after this? And if so, who replaced you? And was this show done live - I'm guessing obviously, otherwise they would have never shown it?! On another note, I remember watching a show called "Infinity Limited" with Mark - and they were called Vortex and Plankton!
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Yes, we were fired by fax (how 80's) a few days after the mock strike. Two of the other hosts, whose names escape me, were in the make-up chair before we had time to clear out our lockers. What we found out after the strike and our sacking was that the show was in fact going to be axed. The powers-that-be decided to keep it going, many theories abound as to why. It ran until December with a succession of different hosts.
80sOldSkool (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Thanks Tania, ABC should find a new spot for you on tv today! Maybe even a stint at Spicks and Specks. I was always a fan of Countdown Rev. when yourself and Mark hosted. I even have a Countdown Rev. "production crew" t-shirt, black with white and red print. It is my favourite t-shirt still to this day.
pandaeyes42 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Countdown Revulsion!
pnnews90 (6 months ago) Show Hide
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like guests were ever not going to mime on this show? The most I ever saw on countdown was live vocals with a backing track. What's the point of even protesting this when the show had been doing it for 15 years at that point? The music scene sucked then anyway, it's all pretty pointless.
80sOldSkool (7 months ago) Show Hide
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compared to what exactly?
80sOldSkool (7 months ago) Show Hide
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But...... this is not the final show, so it was n't axed at this point, which is 22/6/90.Countdown Rev. still aired until December 1990... (and you spell turd without an "e")...
AustralianYouthMedia (8 months ago) Show Hide
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Good onya Tania!

Glad you've come to set the record straight and not allow some people to make up their own stories.

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