It has been a pleasantly sunny day. On “Mannix”, an old friend fakes his own death, in the explosion of his personal jet, in an attempt to make off with an attache case that contains one and a half million dollars.
Lorne Greene’s “Last Of The Wild”, from 6.00 p.m., concentrates on the arboreal leaping lemurs of Madagascar, with their lengthy prehensile tails. From half past seven and eight o’clock respectively, we viewed programmes of the British comedy series, “Doctor At Sea”, which stars Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies and Ernest Clark, and “Mother Makes Three”, with Wendy Craig, Robin Davies and David Parfitt.
“After The Fox”, a film from 1966, followed from half past eight. It features Peter Sellers, the Swedish actress Britt Ekland, and Victor Mature — whom Tiki insists on referring to as “Victor Immature”. Anyhow, we thought it was pretty terrible and so we turned off the television.
The Australian tourists have suffered the first defeat of their tour of England. Somerset emerged victorious by seven wickets, in spite of Greg Chappell having scored one hundred and thirteen in one innings and David Hookes one hundred and eight in the other.