Twenty-Fifth Grand Final: Friday, 16th September, 1977

I awoke before the alarm after a night of tossing and turning. Today’s race in the America’s Cup appeared likely to be abandoned due to a lack of wind. “Courageous” was about ten minutes in front of “Australia”.

“Dad” arrived prior to 7.30, in his red ute, to collect Tiki and transport her to her place of work. He said that he would barrack for St. George tomorrow and, as I have decided to verbally support Parramatta, added that, “We’ll both yell our heads off!”. Frank Hyde, is preparing to broadcast his twenty-fifth grand final tomorrow on the radio station, 2SM.

At noon, I watched a repetition from the series, “The Mod Squad”, on Channel Ten. “Department S”, which screens from three o’clock on Channel Seven, is another series that is being repeated.

Channel Ten’s Kobe Steele counts down this week’s Top 10 on today’s edition of “Right On”. Australian singer and songwriter, Peter Allen, is at No.2, with “I Go To Rio”, and “You’re Moving Out Today” by his American counterpart, Carole Bayer Sager, sits at No.1. Peter Allen was married to Judy Garland’s daughter, Liza Minnelli, from 1967 until 1974.

At half past four, I turned the dial to view “Jeopardy”, which was followed, from five o’clock, by “It’s Academic”. Both programmes are compered by Andrew Harwood. On “Willesee”, this evening, the multi-talented, American recording artist, Janice Ian, talked about how she used to be dependent upon drugs.

Tiki watched “The Muppet Show”, from half past seven, as I washed the dishes. Its guest was the famed English actor, writer and dramatist, Peter Ustinov. She then watched “And Mother Makes Five” and the film, “The Longest Night”, from 1972. David “Richard Diamond, Private Detective”/”The Fugitive”/”O’Hara, U.S. Treasury”/”Harry O” Janssen has a pivotal role in the film. I, on the other hand, chose to listen to music, in bed, until I fell asleep. For a second successive night, I was to be awoken, and kept awake, by a barking dog.

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