I awoke at 6.30 a.m. from a deep sleep. A heavy overcast is accompanied by a strong wind but it is not raining. At noon I turned on Channel Nine and “The Mike Walsh Show”. Guests include the Scottish singer, Andy Stewart, who is forty-three years of age and dressed in a kilt, and actress, Elaine “Number 96” Lee. At two o’clock, in today’s edition of the series, “Medical Center”, Dr. Joe Gannon (Chad Everett) falls in love with a nurse (Barbara Anderson), only to learn that her long lost husband has been located in a Vietcong prison camp. The couple had been married for just three days when he left for Vietnam and have a son who is now ten years of age.
The basis of the plot is somewhat like that used in the programme from the series, “Baa Baa Black Sheep”, which was screened last Saturday week.
In “Mannix” — which has Mike “Tightrope” Connors cast in the title role as a private detective — a girl, who has been in a coma for a year, regains consciousness and solves the hit-and-run crime by remembering who was at the wheel of the vehicle that struck her.
It is only sixteen degrees Celsius with a heavy overcast that is still threatening to dump more rain on Sydney’s southern suburbs.
This year’s winner of the Sydney Cup, “Reckless”, trained by “Phar Lap’s” strapper, Tommy Woodcock, started at even money when he won this afternoon’s running of the Adelaide Cup, from “Straight Up”.
On Channel Two, at half past five, “Flashez” features music presented by Australian singer, Ray Burgess. It is followed, at 6.00, by “The Big Match”, in which Ipswich defeated West Ham by two goals to nil. Cliff Richard is being interviewed by funny man, Paul Makin, on “Willesee”, at 7.00, on Channel Seven. Cliff — born Harry Roger Webb, in Lucknow, India — will be thirty-seven years of age in October, but looks a deal younger. His career began in 1958 when he recorded his first hit, “Move It”.
From half past seven, on Channel Seven, “The Dick Emery Show”; 8.00, Channel Two, “In The Wild” with Harry Butler: a visit to an oasis in the Great Sandy Desert makes us aware of some of the animals that have become extinct in the relatively short period of white Australian history. The seventeenth episode of “Rich Man, Poor Man: Book 2” screens, on Channel Seven, from half past eight.