Rain was falling when I arose, nonetheless, it had begun to clear by half past eight. I paid our monthly contribution of $40.56 to the Medical Benefits’ Fund, inside the store, Waltons, in Caringbah.
Undersea killers, such as the cone shell, are revealed in this evening’s programme in the series, “Last Of The Wild”, on Channel Two, from six o’clock. “Doctor At Sea”, a British comedy series from 1974, which screens from half past seven on Channel Seven, is set aboard the ‘M.S. Begonia’. Robin Nedwell is cast as Dr. Duncan Waring, Geoffrey Davies as Dick Stuart-Clark, John Grieve as the ship’s purser and Ernest Clarke as Captain Norman Loftus. Another British comedy series, “Mother Makes Three”, follows on this same channel. It has Wendy Craig playing the role of the ‘Mother’, Sally Harrison, while Robin Davies and David Parfitt are cast as her sons, Simon and Peter.
We remained on Channel Seven to witness the film, “Home From The Hill”, which bears the copyright of 1960 and contains amongst its cast: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George “Banacek” Peppard and, a young, George Hamilton. Channel Nine opposed it with “In Like Flint”, a film from the mid-sixties, with James Coburn cast in the title role.