The Dish (Never heard of this one, so I looked it up):
Australia's involvement with the 1969 Apollo moon mission arrived with an unexpected wallop when its radio telescope in rural Parkes was elevated fron the Southern Hemishpere's backup broadcaster to primary broadcaster of Neil Armstrong's "one giant leap for mankind'. It is a modern wonder that the ten-year-old multibillion-dollar program became solely reliant on an untested crew based in a sheep paddock to capture this priceless moment in history."
DVD & Video Guide, Martin & Porter, 2004
Here's an interesting challenge for you folks that liked the movie, "The Dish".
The element sets for Apollo 11 are written on the left side of the blackboard, except for Mean Anomaly. You have to wait for a shot of the upper right hand side of the blackboard to get that (and it is the Mean Anomaly for the epoch time listed on the left - don't get confused by the drawing).
Calculate the look angles for 19 Jul 1967 at 02:37:00 UST, then check your calculations against acquisition later in the movie. For bonus points, calculate your look angles using a slide rule, like Glenn did.
They don't show the acquisition elevation in the movie, but the antenna is so big (210 feet across) that it can't reach an elevation of less than about 29.6 degrees, in spite of the antenna tower reaching 90 feet above the ground. With an off-axis receiver mounted on the antenna and the antenna rotated just so, you can pick up an object about 1.4 degrees from the main beam. (In other words, don't think your calculations are wrong just because you get such a high elevation).
If you treat it strictly as a two-body problem, your calculations should match the movie exactly. And Glenn's a whiner - it only takes a couple hours by hand, and only that long if you're prudent enough to do some double checks along the way. The azimuth of the Moon is even correct (although it was a quarter moon on that date, not a full moon).
If you want to get picky, the azimuth in the movie can't be exactly correct since there's been no accounting for precession/nutation, nor orbital perturbations ... and the orbital perturbations by then should be severe. Apollo 11 is just hours away from crossing over to the region where the Moon's gravitational attraction is stronger than Earth's. Still, Apollo 11 is so far away that the two-body look angles would still be within a couple degrees at worst - definitely close enough to find Apollo 11.
Even without accounting for precession, perturbations, etc, that seemed like a lot of detail work for a completely fictitious anomaly (although I don't know what they were doing with that "parrallax" stuff - they didn't even spell it right).