RIP Sir Jimmy Savile

Look North have Christa Ackroyd presenting today. Presumably drafted in due to this news rather than rostered for a Saturday.

I thought he died in 2005... hm.

We'll always have the various Saville impressions to keep his legacy alive.

I remember that slogan at the end of British Rail adverts on ITV in the early 1980s. However, a choirboy sang "This is the age" and Jimmy Savile said "of the train".


That's the song that was sung at the end of Jim'll Fix It, during the closing credits.

At the beginning they used to have a song "If you want to ..." quoting individual fix-its from an earlier series along with brief clips. I think that changed every series. I've found two versions of the opening sequence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz6I60ZVvXM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pptuonv02bU

Can anyone find any others?


Totally agree there, I often watched it as a kid (in monochrome I hasten to add). Here are some fix-its I particularly remember:

The boy who wanted his bedroom given a makeover - this was controversial and some saw it as unfair.
Two children who wanted to build a giant sandcastle on Weymouth beach, with help from Fred Darrington (Weymouth sand sculptor).
The girl who wanted to burn some money, she was invited to incinerate worn-out notes.

why would that be?

Another version by Brum's very own 'Musical Youth' (of 'Pass The Dutchie' fame!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9dwkrSao6E

Not the TV mix obviously, but ISTR a double BB side of one of the Youth's other singles!

By the way, do we have a list of who's paid tribute so far, out of BBC Radio presenters past & present?

I know to Tony Blackburn, David Hamilton via the NC yesterday, David Jensen via 5Live & I heard DLT talking to Ed Doolan on BBC WM this morning.

What about Pete Murray & David Jacobs as the now surviving TOTP presenters from 1964?

Jimmy Savile was a Leeds man, and as such Christa has interviewed him many many times over the years (at Look North, Calendar, Radio Aire etc), so it might be that somebody thought that she could bring something extra to the coverage.

Alternatively Nicola Rees who it appears from Twitter was due to present produced an obituary package, which I think included some vox pops from Roundhay. It might have been felt that using Nicola (a video journalist) for that and then bringing somebody else in to present was the most appropriate use of resources, and it just so happened that Christa was available.

It's funny when you look back and vaguely remember things from your earliest memories. I seem to remember Jim'll Fix It was one of those programmes, in my era sandwiched between the likes of Little and Large and 'Allo 'Allo.

True eccentric of British television, there will never be another one like him.

I always liked John Mitchell's rendering on Calendar a few years ago, on Sir Jimmy's 80th birthday

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z77/demaine_d/jonmitchell.jpg

I remember him always phoning up Real Radio Scotland on a number of occasion mainly to one David Treasure, Good old gentlemen. I wonder if the BBC will broadcast the louis theroux interview

Saying that Can anyone remember Mike yarwood......


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Indeed - and it was Amanda Harper due to be on Friday night and Saturday and Sunday too but she's lost her voice so Nicola Rees was only a last-minute deputy anyway.

That's so sad, I hadn't heard about it. RIP Jimmy.