It has been a cool, sunny day. “The Bugs Bunny Show”, at 5.00 p.m., was followed by “The Flintstones”. A repetition from Bill Peach’s series, “Holiday”, was screened on Channel Two from six o’clock. It conveys the viewer to Noumea, New Caledonia, and thence to the Wrest Point Casino, which was under construction when I visited Hobart, in January of 1972.
At seven o’clock, on “Willesee”, Paul Makin interviewed a seemingly drunk Joe Cocker. “This Day Tonight”, at half past seven on Channel Two, concentrates on the strike at the Mount Newman Mine, near Port Hedland in Western Australia, which has lasted for five weeks. “In The Wild” with Harry Butler follows from eight. Harry ventures to Barrow Island, which is just off the north-west coast of Western Australia, where, among other things, he catches a goanna, or monitor lizard, to mark it with paint from an aerosol container. This will allow him to identify it in the future. Goannas are capable of growing to a length of nine feet.
Channel Seven, from half past eight, is showing the second episode of “Captain And The Kings”. We missed the first, last Monday, as we paid a visit to some friends of ours. The miniseries stars Richard Jordan and Barbara Parkins.