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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]]''.  
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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 Savile investigation, led directly to the resignation of the newly-installed Director-General George Entwistle.

It also led 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]

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