Today is a public holiday to mark Australia Day. Two large bottles of dry ginger ale cost eighty-four cents.
At noon, on Channel Nine, actor Tim “McHale’s Navy” Conway’s character endeavours to break the world’s roller-skating endurance record of one hundred and forty-seven hours, in the film, “Roll Freddie, Roll”, from 1974. Television series screening today include: “Gidget” (5.00 p.m., Channel Seven), “Good Times” (7.30 p.m., Channel Seven), “Charlie’s Angels” (Channel Nine) and the British police drama, “The Sweeney” (10.00 p.m., Channel Seven), which stars Dennis Waterman and John Thaw.