Category: My Diary

At noon, Channel Nine screens a film from 1969, “Seven In Darkness”. It centres upon the crash of a DC3 airliner, which contains seven people who are blind. Milton Berle and Dina Merrill are inclusions in its cast. Another programme in the series, “Medical Center”, which stars Chad Everett, is shown between two and three o’clock. Today’s edition deals with a girl of just eighteen years, who learns that she has to have a mastectomy, and a doctor of seventy-three whom, in spite of having become the recipient of a new heart, refuses to retire from active surgery.

From 9.00 a.m., I listened to Steve Raymond’s show on the radio station, 2UE.

This morning is still and humid. We paid two dollars and forty cents for a pound of king prawns. A fresh lettuce cost us thirty-nine cents.

We were still in bed at 8.00 a.m., when Tiki’s parents — they asked me to call them “Mum” and “Dad”, once we were married — arrived unexpectedly. We leaped out of bed and met them at the front door. “Mum” appeared as though she didn’t know where to look and it wasn’t until I looked down, that I realised why. There, protruding from the fly of my pyjamas, was a tissue.

It was sprinkling a little at Caringbah, at 7.15 a.m., but it did not come to anything. This evening, at half past seven, “This Is Your Life”, looks at that of Ken Rosewall, a champion at tennis. An edition of the so-called comedy series, “The Practice”, with Danny Thomas cast in the principal role, followed from eight o’clock.

We stayed up for a further two and a half hours from half past eight to watch Channel Nine and the drawn-out motion picture, “Airport”, from 1970, which lists Dean Martin, Van Heflin, Burt Lancaster and Jacqueline Bisset among its stars.

Sydney has experienced heavy rain for much of the day. On television, at 4.30 p.m., there is a programme from the series, “To Rome With Love”, which stars John “Bachelor Father” Forsythe, and has as a guest star, Diane “Surfside 6” McBain. John Forsythe also provides the voice of ‘Charlie’ in the series, “Charlie’s Angels”.

Rod Stewart is being interviewed by presenter, Mike Willesee, on “Willesee”; whilst over on Channel Nine’s “A Current Affair” sprinter, Paul Narracott, is being hailed as a champion of the future.

“Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”, which stars Ellen Burstyn and Kris Kristofferson, and “Dog Day Afternoon”, starring Al Pacino, are screening at the Caringbah Drive-in.

This evening Channel Seven is screening the motion picture, “There’s A Girl In My Soup”, from 1970. It stars Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn.

After I had arrived home from work Tiki took me aside to show me the draw in the kitchen where she wants the cups to be kept from now on. “That won’t fit in here!” she exclaimed, referring to the long, tall mug I was about to place in the draw. I looked at her and replied with a wry smile, “That’s what you told me this morning and I proved you wrong.”

There is a shortage of milk, due to a strike by workers within the industry.

It costs thirty dollars to renew one’s driver’s licence for a further three years.

This evening, from half past seven: “Evel Knievel’s Death Defiers”, compered by Telly “Kojak” Savalas and Jill St. John. One fellow falls eighty-four feet on to a rubber sponge.

At half past eight, an edition of the series, “The New Avengers”, on the ABC-TV’s Channel Two. Patrick Macnee still appears as John Steed, while Joanna Lumley plays the part of Purdey.

On this evening’s edition of “Willesee”, a gentleman from Brisbane, who stands just five feet and one inch tall and weighs eleven stone, inflated a hot-water bottle, with the use of his mouth, until it burst.

Angie Dickinson stars as Pepper Anderson, in another programme of the series, “Policewoman”, from half past seven.

I heard Clifford T. Ward’s single, “Gaye”, a hit from 1973, on Sam Gallea’s show on 2UW shortly after noon. It was followed immediately by Cliff Richard’s latest release, “Hey Mr. Dream Maker”.

A repetition from the British comedy series, “Morecambe And Wise”, screened from 7.30 p.m. Its guests include Richard “The Adventures Of Robin Hood” Greene and the Greek songstress, Nana Mouskouri.

“Taras Bulba” bled this afternoon and his career, as a racehorse, is at an end. He won twelve of his forty starts and amassed three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars in prize money.

In ‘The Pools’ I had two of the six score draws and was one off each of the other four. I had the one scoreless draw as well.

We lunched at the Parisienne Pussycat Restaurant on the corner of George and Bathurst streets. Two fruit cocktail drinks, with real fruit, cost sixty cents each. The main courses consisted of king prawn cutlets with vegetables, at a cost of three dollars and fifteen cents, and bream fillets, also with vegetables. The total bill, which included a surcharge of one dollar, came to eight dollars and fifty cents.

It cost us three dollars and fifty cents each to enter the Barclay Theatre, which is located to the south along George Street and on its western side, to view the film, “Two Minute Warning”. In this entertaining movie, a sniper creates havoc at a gridiron match. Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Beau Bridges and David “The Fugitive” Janssen are included in its cast. Films on the country of Jordan, and Cypress Gardens in Florida, as well as a cartoon that featured Barney Bear, preceded the main feature.

An obese teenage boy had a chocolate-coated ice-cream in each hand and alternately proceeded to eat both of them. Some children in the cinema were rowdy and swore at will. A youth seated next to us yelled out an expletive at the top of his voice, then stood up and left, shortly before the conclusion to the film.

“Flip Wilson In Rumania”, is on television this evening from half past six. It features gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, who won gold medals at last year’s Olympic Games, in Montreal. At the time of the programme’s production she was fourteen years of age.

“This Is Your Life”, hosted by Roger Climpson, is on ATN Channel Seven, from half past seven. It is looking at that of politician, Al Grassby, who was born at New Farm, an inner suburb of Brisbane. Mr. Grassby’s electorate is centred upon the town of Griffith, in the south-west of New South Wales, where the population is predominantly of Italian descent.