Each episode featured a mix of live performances, music videos, other youth-relevant pop culture segments and comedy sketches.

Once production moved to Melbourne, the show was co-hosted by Lewis and Tamara Rewse, who was to be replaced by Jane Gazzo, and was shot entirely before a live studio audience.

Vince Perry judged home made versions of popular films that would be submitted weekly by viewers in a segment called Cinema Amateur.

This format would last until November 1998, whereupon Gazzo moved to the United Kingdom (UK), while Lewis pursued other interests, including his band The Brown Hornet.

Not a business suit, mind you - a dapper number of the type worn by guys who go drinking with Nick Cave in darkened Berlin bars.

I would never have given me a job, but he did.As a result of many attempts by ABC TV to cut production costs, Recovery would dramatically change its format at least three times until it was finally cancelled in April 2000.

[1] In 2006, jtv was launched as a successor programme; however, Rage has re-broadcast episodes of Recovery each year, since early-2004, to make up for the lack of video clips from the ABC at that time.