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From the late 1980s into the 1990s, he hosted a number of TV shows, including ''[[Blah Blah Blah (TV series)|Blah Blah Blah]]'' (1988), ''[[The Money or the Gun]]'' (1989–1990), ''[[Live and Sweaty]]'' (1991–1995), and a comedy talk show, ''[[Denton (TV show)|Denton]]'' (1994–1995), that aired on [[Seven Network]]. These shows were talk-based. ''Live and Sweaty'' focused on sports and was a panel-based television show.<ref name=":1" />
Each week on ''The Money or the Gun'', Andrew had a musical guest play a cover version of [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[[Stairway to Heaven]]" in a different musical style, usually the genre of the guest's own musical style. The most notable being [[Leonard Teale]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-12/tatz-stairway-to-heaven-rock-riff-or-rip-off/7319764|title=Stairway to Heaven: Rock riff or rip-off?|last=Tatz|first=Simon|date=12 April 2016|work=ABC News|access-date=15 May 2019}}</ref>
[[Robert Plant]] and [[Jimmy Page]], musicians from Led Zeppelin, later appeared on ''Denton'' to perform a [[Rolf Harris]] song. (Harris performed a notable version of "Stairway to Heaven", with [[wobble board]] solo.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/the-day-i-ambushed-rolf-harris-and-the-conflicted-personality-he-showed-me/news-story/59edf1bbb3ea3d7916325b24e28c8f69|title=The day I ambushed Rolf Harris|last=Brown|first=Warren|date=4 July 2014|website=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=15 May 2019}}</ref> Denton saw the beginning of the Musical Challenge segment, and challenged musical guests to perform a song from a barrel full of well-known songs. This segment evolved during his time on Triple M, resulting in three albums with tracks including [[Tina Arena]] singing "[[Cheap Wine (song)|Cheap Wine]]", [[The Wiggles]] singing "Long way to the Top", [[Neil Finn]] performing "Sexual Healing", [[James Reyne]] performing [[Kate Bush]]'s "Wuthering Heights", [[Barenaked Ladies]] performing [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s "When Doves Cry" and [[Paul Kelly (Australian musician)|Paul Kelly]] performing Prince's "[[Little Red Corvette]]". Two volumes were released on CD titled ''[[Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge]]''. In the early 1990s Denton was the first guest programmer on [[Rage (TV program)|''Rage'']].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-17/rage-was-never-meant-to-last-30-years/8437704|title='We thought maybe six weeks': Rage was never meant to last 30 years|date=17 April 2017|work=ABC News|access-date=17 August 2018}}</ref>
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