Yesterday’s Music Today
During a news bulletin, I heard that New York was planning to join several other American states by granting its citizens the right to have their deceased bodies turned into soil.
“Knowing your luck,” I remarked to Tiki, “my body would turn into another form of four letters that would also begin with an ess!”.
Tiki had completed telling me of how she would be waiting for me in the park once I had returned from having purchased the Sunday paper.
She had turned to leave, when I informed her that she’d forgotten to hand me the four dollars, I required.
“I don’t want to rob the place”, I exclaimed in jest.
“Oh, I thought you could just show them your body and they’d hand you the paper out of sympathy!”, she cheekily replied.
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, played by 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 has 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 which struck her.
It is only sixteen degrees Celsius with the heavy overcast threatening to dump more rain on Sydney’s southern suburbs.
This year’s winner of the Sydney Cup, “Reckless”, trained by the legendary “Phar Lap’s” then strapper, Tommy Woodcock, started as the even money favourite when he won this afternoon’s running of the Adelaide Cup. “Straight Up” finished second.
Australian singer, Ray Burgess, presents the music that appears in “Flashez”, from half past five, on Channel Two. It is followed by “The Big Match”, in which Ipswich defeats West Ham by two goals to nil.
Cliff Richard is being interviewed by the comical Paul Makin on “Willesee”, at 7.00, on Channel Seven. Cliff, who was born as 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”.
“The Dick Emery Show” followed, also on Channel Seven, and from eight, on Channel Two, “In The Wild”, with Harry Butler, takes the viewer to an oasis in the Great Sandy Desert in order to make one aware of just how many animals have become extinct in the relatively short period of white Australian history.
Episode 17 of “Rich Man Poor Man: Book 2” screens from half past eight, on Channel Seven.