I could not sleep and so I arose at ten to four and switched on Channel Nine. The film, “The Woman Hunter”, from 1972, featuring Robert “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” Vaughn, Barbara “I Dream Of Jeannie” Eden, Stuart Whitman and Michael “Broken Arrow” Ansara, was being screened. The break of dawn heralded a sunny morning and a temperature of just seven degrees Celsius.
This evening, after “Flashez”, I watched “The Big Match”: West Ham and Derby (pronounced as “Darby”) County drew two-all. Both teams are in danger of being relegated to Division 2.
“Willesee”, at seven o’clock, includes an item on a female rower who has been banned from competition because of her alleged loose morals. She used the word “shit” on the show. Another segment includes reporter Paul Makin’s coverage on the new sport of grass skiing.
After “The Dick Emery Show”, we turned to the ABC’s Channel Two to view “In The Wild”. In this evening’s edition adventurer, Harry Butler, the presenter of the series, traces the Canning Stock Route in Western Australia and walks on Lake Disappointment — a salt lake — in the process.
We returned to Channel Seven, at half past eight, for Episode 19 of “Rich Man, Poor Man: Book 2”.