COUNTDOWN: Do Yourself a Favour (ABC, Sunday) brought back so many memories.
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Without fail our family gathered around the television on Sunday nights and, in glorious colour, watched as bands and individual artists sang and gyrated in front of a shrieking audience mostly made up of teenage girls.
There were also music videos and of course Molly Meldrum, the bumbling host, whose mistakes endeared himself to all - well, perhaps not all.
His interview with Prince Charles was a scream, and His Royal Highness remembered it well, and said so when he appeared in the first episode of Do Yourself a Favour.
The importance of Countdown to Australian music was highlighted as many, many bands would have never made their name without their appearances on the nation-wide program.
Not only Australian bands, but ABBA too, for that matter.
Forty years on it is fun nostalgia and there's one episode left.
GO BACK to Where You Came From was a huge success for SBS in bringing together a group of people to go through the refugee experience to see how and if their opinions on refugees changed.
Now it has done the same with Indigenous Australians, with First Contact run over three nights last week.
It chose six people, four women and two men, to meet with Indigenous families all over the country to see if their ideas about Indigenous Australians altered after the experience.
I don't know how SBS auditioned its participants, but I have a feeling that Queensland businesswoman Sandy put on an act to make sure she would get a place in the program.
Her racist comments, especially on the intelligence of Indigenous people were so way out, that had I been with SBS I would have twigged to what she was all about.
Anyhow Sandy lasted only half the show because she was “bored”.
Two of the other women, Bo-Dene and Jasmine, had the usual complaints – they drink too much, get more benefits than we do and far more governmental handouts.
Hosted by Ray Martin, the group was first hosted by middle-class Indigenous families in Sydney, then they went and stayed on an Indigenous reserve where they had to harvest and hunt their food, a mining town, a jail and a community where the women took charge of the alcohol and domestic violence situation.
Bo-Dene and Jasmine questioned all the way, but at the end realised what so many Aborigines and their families were up against.
Trent, a policeman, had a better understanding of the problems.
I don't think First Contact was as good as Go Back to Where You Came From, but it certainly had its moments and evidently it went viral on social media, so that has to be a good thing,