Jimmy Savile
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James Wilson Vincent Savile, also known as Jimmy, (31 October 1926-29 October 2011[1]) was a British broadcaster and media personality. He was the host of Jim'll Fix It, and so appeared in its Doctor Who crossover episode A Fix with Sontarans.
Savile was one of the BBC's main personalities — particularly popular in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, hosting shows such as Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. 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.[2]
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 removed from later pressings of the DVD release of The Two Doctors, which had included it since the DVD's original 2003 release.[3] However, the version of A Fix with Sontarans that was released in Doctor Who: The Collection — Season 22, all of Savile's scenes were cut, with the ending scene being replaced by a CG cliffhanger.
External links
- Jimmy Savile at the Internet Movie Database
- Profile: Jimmy Savile at BBC News (2016)
Footnotes
- ↑ Obituary: Sir Jimmy Savile. BBC News (29 October 2011). Retrieved on 24 November 2016.
- ↑ 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
