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'''Jimmy Savile''' ([[31 October (people)|31 October]] [[1926 (people)|1926]]-[[29 October (people)|29 October]] [[2011 (people)|2011]]) was the host of ''[[Jim'll Fix It]]'', and thus a participant in ''[[A Fix with Sontarans]]''. | '''Jimmy Savile''' ([[31 October (people)|31 October]] [[1926 (people)|1926]]-[[29 October (people)|29 October]] [[2011 (people)|2011]]) was the host of ''[[Jim'll Fix It]]'', and thus a participant in ''[[A Fix with Sontarans]]''. | ||
Revision as of 09:26, 13 December 2014
Jimmy Savile (31 October 1926-29 October 2011) was the host of Jim'll Fix It, and thus a participant in A Fix with Sontarans.
He was one of the BBC's main personalities — particularly popular in the 1970s and 1980s. In the autumn of 2012, a year after his death, ITV journalists broke the news that he was a serial paedophile, and had abused his position as a popular BBC television personality throughout his long career.[1]
The BBC's response to this revelation, as well as a subsequent act of incompetent journalism related to the Saville investigation, led directly to the resignation of the newly-installed Director-General George Entwistle.
It also lead to A Fix with Sontarans being deleted from later pressings of the DVD release of TV: The Two Doctors, which had included it since the DVD's original 2003 release.[2]
Footnote
- ↑ Rushe, Dominic. "Jimmy Saville and the BBC: the story so far". The Guardian. 24 October 2012.
- ↑ Doctor Who News, "The Two Doctors: revised release clarification", 22 September, 2014; accessed 22 September, 2014
