Category: My Diary

It is an absolutely glorious autumnal day; about the tenth in succession.

Nancy Kovack guest stars as a singer under threat in “Mannix”.

“A Current Affair” may be viewed from seven o’clock this evening on Channel Nine. ABC-TV’s Channel Two screens “T.D.T.” (This Day Tonight) for thirty minutes from half past seven. “Rich Man Poor Man: Book 2” continues for an hour on Channel Seven, from half past eight.

There is an article in today’s edition of “The Sun” which states that forty cane toads, from Queensland, that were let loose at Sydney University on Christmas Eve, are said to be responsible for the deaths of a cat and a dog at Kellyville, a western suburb of Sydney.

The cane toad, a native of South America, was introduced to Australia, from Hawaii, in 1935, to eat the beetle which was attacking crops of sugar cane. However, upon its release the poisonous cane toad decided that it was not as fond of the cane beetle as scientists had been led to believe.

In response to Hawaii allowing Australia to import the cane toad the archipelago was sent the tree that bears the macadamia nut.

In the centre of this same newspaper there is a photograph of tennis champion, Evonne Cawley (nee Goolagong), who, despite the fact that she is eight months pregnant, is clad only in a bikini.

Bill Collins introduced the motion picture, “This Is My Love” (1954), at noon, on Channel Seven. It stars the late Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue — whose character’s husband, played by the late Dan Duryea, is confined to a wheelchair — as sisters, who are both vying for the love of the same man, portrayed by Rick “Combat” Jason.

From two o’clock, in a programme of the series, “Medical Center”, actor, Peter Haskell, who plays Charles Estep, in “Rich Man Poor Man: Book 2”, is cast as a fellow who leads a young woman, with a tumour, into thinking he will take her on a trip to Australia. The show concludes with Chad Everett’s character, Dr Joe Gannon, declaring: “Who needs Australia?”

Anne Baxter guest stars on “Mannix”, at 3.00, as an actress who is haunted by her ‘dead’ husband, and sister.

I paid one dollar and twenty-five cents for a two-litre, plastic bottle of Sunburst orange juice; having ducked out between showers on a day of intermittent rain.

At 7.00, on Channel Nine, we watched “A Current Affair”. If this evening’s programme is indicative of the norm then it cannot hold a candle to “Willesee”! John Laws, a local radio personality and close mate of the American singer, songwriter, Roger Miller, is back in hospital. He was last admitted in March of 1974.

A concert by famed American, pianist and showman, Liberace, screens from half past seven. It was recorded in Melbourne last year. “The Amazing Howard Hughes: Part 2”, which stars Tommy Lee Jones, follows, at half past eight.

I paid twenty-five cents for a single red carnation.

This evening’s edition of the series,”Policewoman”, is about a rapist who possesses a scar on his shoulder.

We have had the papers, which pertain to our application for a mortgage, in order that we might purchase a house of our own, signed by a Justice of the Peace.

“Tubarubba” and “Swiftly Ann” finished second and third respectively, at the races in Sydney this afternoon.

Rex “Moose” Mossop provided the commentary on Channel Seven’s “Big League” programme as I watched Canterbury-Bankstown defeat South Sydney, by thirteen points to twelve, in the inaugural “League-a-thon” match; played at the Sydney Cricket Ground before a crowd of just thirteen thousand spectators.

Greek songstress, Nana Mouskouri, sings on ABC-TV, this evening from half past seven.

The New Zealand pacer, “Stanley Rio”, has finished second in a heat of the Inter-dominion series being held at Albion Park, in Brisbane. It has paid a return of twenty-six cents, on the place tote, on the N.S.W. T.A.B.

As both of the trousers to my pyjamas are on the clothes line, I have donned Tiki’s old blue nightie and, much to her amusement, am wearing it to bed.

Steve McGarrett, played by Jack “Stoney Burke” Lord, is framed for his girlfriend’s murder on this evening’s edition of the perennial series, “Hawaii Five-O”, from half past seven. The series was first screened, in Sydney, on ABC-TV.

The comical British film, “Carry On Camping”, screens from half past eight.

We left for the Illawarra Golf Club, which is situated on the Princes Highway between Sydney and Wollongong, at 3.00 p.m. Although Sydney experienced a maximum of twenty-six degrees Celsius, it was extremely cold down there. The wind blew and the sun was low to the horizon.

On the par 5 first, I carded a bogey after having hit both of my approach shots from behind trees. In spite of this I was still pin-high in three, only to then three putt. My four iron, on the par 3 second, left me twenty metres short of the green, however, I struck the ball cleanly with my sand iron and it rolled up the green, hit the pin and followed it down into the hole for a birdie.

The excitement of being even with par after two holes proved to be too much for me, for on the par 4 third, alongside the highway, I sprayed the ball all over the place and nearly hit a passing car. I had to ignominiously cross the road to retrieve it. A chap, who was a member of the group in front of us, actually had his ball stolen by a crow!

“Little Ben” ($1.60 and $0.55) won the last at Randwick, with “Butch Cassidy” ($2.10) and “Leica Lover” ($0.60) filling the minor placings. Among those to finish behind this trio were “Bold Mayo” and “Duke Ellington” — minus his piano! The trifecta paid approximately two thousand two hundred dollars for the investment of one dollar. The N.S.W. T.A.B., which is owned by the government, opened its first branch, in Manly, in 1964.

Eastern Suburbs thrashed Manly-Warringah by twenty points to nil at the Sydney Cricket Ground and the latter now sits in seventh place on the ladder in the Sydney premiership. The first “League-a-thon” at the S.C.G. has not been a success with an aggregate attendance of only sixty-six thousand at the six games over the three days.

Today is a public holiday to commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and those who have fallen in war.

At half past seven: “The Dick Emery Show”; 8.00: “Love Thy Neighbour”; 8.30: Episode 14 of “Rich Man, Poor Man: Book 2”.

This morning was a sunny and chilly one.

“Willesee”, at 7.oo p.m., devotes a portion of its thirty minutes to the severe strike, in Victoria, which is crippling the supply of petrol to the public. It is followed by the American comedy series, “Good Times”, which is also on Channel Seven. In this evening’s edition J.J., played by the exceptionally thin Jimmie Walker, learns that his fiancee is addicted to drugs.

“Holiday”, on Channel Two, at 8.00, looks at how one can holiday on a farm at Adaminaby; ski at Coronet Peak on New Zealand’s South Island; as well as the ins and outs of duty free shopping.

Later tonight, Vincent Price stars as Dr. Phibes, in the movie of that name.

Sydney received fifteen millimetres of rain overnight; the city’s first worthwhile fall in fifty-one days.

The edition of “Behind The News”, which screened from 10.00 a.m. on ABC-TV, includes segments on the U.S. Energy Crisis, ‘Heart Week’, and a ‘dry’ suit — as opposed to a wetsuit — the invention of a resident of Hobart.