Sir Jimmy Savile at the BBC: How's About That Then?

January 1, 1964 the day when it all started.

Let's look back over our shoulder at it.

Right. Now then, here's me from the very first show.

MUSIC: "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin

Now then, now then, now then.

My goodness gracious. How about that?

Wahey! There you go. Goodbye.

We have a letter here.

"Dear Jimmy, my special thing

"is that I would of licked to be a dog."

HONKS

You are known as the Greatest, correct?

The greatest boxer.

Music, Maestro, if you please.

Why am I standing like this? As it happens, I don't know.

I have been struck on the chin by the master!

Goes on there, like that...

Fred, I love you.

They're trying to get me to stop smoking.

Ladies and gentlemen, from Top Of The Pops,

we hope it's not too late to wish you a Happy New Year.

That Mary Whitehouse is concerned for the moral fibres

and the well-being of this beloved country.

Never mind about "pfft"!

It's being rotted away by corrupt films

and your telly and your bloody BBC's the worst of the lot

with that Top Of The Pops

and the evil painted youths dressed up like girls

and that middle-aged peroxide albino "Clunk Click" ponce they've got in charge of it!

How about that?

APPLAUSE

I'll tell you what we'll do now, ladies and gentlemen.

There are top groups, top records, top everything.

So how's about we have a nice record now

by what is definitely one of the top groups.

In fact, they've been voted the top group

in the rhythm and blues section this year, 1967.

No other than the one and only, The Rolling Stones.

And here they come right now.

MUSIC: "Let's Spend The Night Together"

# Ba-da-da-da ba-da da-da-da

# Ba-da-da-da ba-da da-da-da

# Ba-da-da-da Ba-ba

# My, my, my, my

# Don't you worry about what's on your mind

# Oh, my

# Ba-da-da-da ba-da da-da-da

# I'm in no hurry, I can take my time

# Oh, my

# Ba-da-da-da ba-da da-da-da

# I'm going red and my tongue's getting tied

# Tongue's getting tied

# I'm off my head and my mouth's getting dry

# I'm high but I try, try, try

# Oh, my

# Let's spend the night together

# Now I need you more than ever

# Let's spend the night together now

# Ba-da-da-da Ba-ba

# My, my, my, my

# I feel so strong I can't disguise

# Oh, my

# Let's spend the night together

# But I just won't apologise

# Oh, no, I won't

# Let's spend the night together... #

Here we are, back home again, with today's edition of Savile's Travels.

Down at the bottom...

Whatever you may think of Jimmy Savile, you can't ignore him.

Spending a day with him

has all the frenzy of an American election campaign.

And Jimmy Savile himself has all the instincts of a natural politician.

How are you, ladies? All right, darlings?

Oh, Jimmy!

Give us a kiss, then.

My word, my word!

They'll not believe me that I've kissed Jimmy Savile.

You may love him, you may hate him

but you can't deny he's a man with style - his style.

Good evening. Welcome. Another edition of Top Of The Pops.

Lots of nice young ladies about with us this evening

and lots of nice records we've got, so we're going to start with...

This girl is crazy about this group. It's number 19.

-It's called Co-Co. What's the name of the group?

-Sweet.

She's crazy about them. Here they are.

# Co-Co would dream of dancing

# At midnight beneath the stars

# Cos when it comes to dancing

# Co-Co's a star

# He danced in a ring of fire

# That circled the island shore

# And as the flames got higher

# They all called for more and more

# Ho-chi-ka-ka-ho, Co-Co

# Ho-chi-ka-ka-ho, Co-Co

# Ho-chi-ka-ka-ho, go-go, Co-Co

# Ho-chi-ka-ka-ho, Co-Co

# Ho-chi-ka-ka-ho, Co-Co

# Ho-chi-ka-ka-ho, go-go, Co-Co... #

I know there are people who think my appearing

on Top Of The Tops in all the hair and clothes,

they think that's a bit vulgar, but on the long journey through life,

like this long bike ride to John O'Groats,

a man has to do what he has to do.

I know that I live and work in a candyfloss type of business.

I know they think I do all these things for publicity.

All I can say about the wild hair and the wild clothes

is that no man need be ashamed of his working clothes

and I looked a lot funnier when I was coming back from the pits.

I looked like a one-man Black & White Minstrel Show.

I looked very strange then and I suppose I look very strange now.

I wasn't ashamed then, nor am I ashamed now.

You made a name for yourself in the early days,

-being outrageously different.

-Really? Really?

Yes, of course. But when was the first time before

you got into show business

that you sort of challenged the norm and dressed up differently?

One of the times was when I was working down South Kirkby colliery,

near you of course...

The cages that dropped the men also dropped the coal,

so you have to go down what's called a man drop

because they have to alter the cage for safety reasons to take tubs of coal.

If you missed the last man drop, you'd had it.

If you missed it, you didn't get any wages and in those days,

you could get fined for not being at work.

A far cry from today.

I nearly was too late

and I had arrived, funnily enough, in a navy blue suit,

which we were allowed one best suit in those days, if you remember.

I had my best suit on and suede shoes, a white shirt.

And so I just had time to get my two lamps,

because I had a job where I had two lamps, rushed down the pit

and stood at the bottom of the pit to get the lamps checked,

dressed immaculate.

So the man who checks all the lamps, never looked at the punter,

used to go...

Suddenly sees the crease in the trouser and suede shoes

and he goes...

And a white shirt and a tie... And a Bevin boy. He went...

So I had a job on my own, a mile and a half away

from the pit bottom and two miles from the coal face.

So I took all my clothes off because it's very warm down the pit.

I took my clothes off and folded them in a newspaper

and worked in the noddy. Right?

And I saved a little bit of water in a bottle

and just before it were knocking off time,

I cleaned my hands off and cleaned my face off, right.

I got back into the pit bottom immaculate.

Now then, nobody but nobody ever did eight hours down a pit

and came back as immaculate as they set off with a white shirt

and everything like that.

They were quite convinced I was a witch.

And I never said a word and I suddenly realised,

that if you were different and you didn't say anything about it,

this had a tremendous effect on people

and that stayed with me for ages.

If you go to South Kirkby now, get some of the old miners...

When you say, "Jimmy Savile's done well, hasn't he?"

Oh, and he'll look around and he'll say,

"He's not what you think, you know."

"The forces of darkness are at work there."

So that was the first time that I realised to be different

made you different.

-You don't have a lead without collar, do you?

-Sometimes.

-Do you?

-That's good. Is that your husband behind?

-Almost.

Oh, ladies and gentlemen, I'll tell you what we'll have now,

as number 19, ladies and gentlemen, Part Of The Union from the Strawbs.

APPLAUSE

# Now I'm a union man

# Amazed at what I am

# I say what I think

# That the company stinks

# Yes, I'm a union man

# When we meet in the local hall

# I'll be voting with them all

# With a hell of a shout

# It's out, brothers, out

# And the rise of the company's fall

# Oh, you don't get me

# I'm part of the union

# You don't get me

# I'm part of the union

# You don't get me

# I'm part of the union

# Till the day I die

# Till the day I die

# As a union man, I'm wise

# To the lies of the company's spies

# And I don't get fooled by the company rules

# Cos I always read between the lines... #

Why the blonde hair? Why the pink hair?

It all started off with a casual conversation with a young fellow

who was a hair stylist.

So I said, "Turn me into a raving blonde." He said, "Yeah, sure."

I went back and sprang onto the stage of my dance floor,

to see how my disc jockeys were going on

and it brought the place to a standstill.

Everybody gathered round.

They were going, "Oh, oh." There was this enormous reaction, you see.

I thought, I've stumbled on something here.

You look as though you're in jail with all this wire.

You're not a monkey, are you? Are you a monkey through the bars?

You're a monkey through the bars, you are.

You are on television at this moment.

A stray television crew, a dozen reporters, 1,000 autographs.

He attracts attention like a Roman candle.

Jimmy Savile feeds off people.

Jimmy, it's nearly two o'clock in the morning,

it's absolutely chucking it down.

What are we doing it for?

I know what I'm doing it for.

This is what's called the moment of truth, you see.

After all the fun and games, of all the people during the day,

you've still got to do the miles to get to Land's End

and even though it snows and even though there's nobody about,

it's the moment of truth. This is what it is.

And how long do you go on walking? Do you walk like this every night?

You've got to walk like this to get the miles in,

on account of you see what it was like in the day with the autographs and that.

I got the impression that the toughest part of the walk

is fighting your way through the crowds.

Yeah, you can tell how many miles you've done

by the amount of pen ink on your hands after you've stripped off

the million bits of paper and signed it like that.

After a scene like that, very nice to see, all them lovely people,

but this to me is the great part of the night

because it's peaceful, it's quiet, everybody is in bed.

You're walking along, you're soaked to the skin, your feet hurt

and it's good for you.

I think I am round the bend.

Now then, yes, sir.

Number five in the hit parade, Tami Lynn - I'm Gonna Run Away From You.

# Why don't I run away from you?

# Everybody say run away, find another boy to play with

# That's not easy to do-oo-oo

# With someone new-oo

# Uh-ho, yeah

# You know I do

# Why don't I run away and hide?

# Oh, it's very nice, their advice I've already done it twice

# They don't know how I've tried

# I've lost my pride... #

-One more time.

-Jim.

What do you feel about having the medal?

It's fantastic. Can you see my heart beating under it?

-Yes, I can.

-That's my heart beating under it.

I'm so proud of it, I'm going to sleep in it.

People have said to me, "Here, what about all this hospital work?

"Surely this has to be a publicity gimmick."

Five minutes in a hospital

is a gimmick,

if you've got the newspapers there, if you've got the television there.

Five minutes is a gimmick.

Five years...it's not a gimmick.

Some years ago, in my copious fan mail,

I got a notice telling me that I was an honorary member

of Nutters Incorporated, run by some of the patients

at the world-famous Broadmoor Hospital.

So, I've been there, on and off, every week since.

So much so that about 18 months ago,

the hospital actually officially whether I would join the staff

and I am now honorary assistant entertainment officer.

This is the world-famous Stoke Mandeville hospital. It's two hospitals in one.

On the left-hand side, there's a large general, medical and surgical hospital,

on the right-hand side is the most famous spinal unit in the whole world.

Are you taking my pulse?

Naturally, people say to me,

"Has all this working in different kinds of hospitals done you any personal favours?"

And I say that the whole pattern of that which I do

has done me tremendous favours,

because I feel I am filling all my spare days with great joy.

I've met some super people and being with them is far better for me

than being in any pub.

I am enriched by being there, being with the patients.

I'm not doing them any favours, they're doing me the favour.

And at number 10, Elton John, Daniel.

# Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane

# I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain

# Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye

# Oh, it looks like Daniel

# Must be the clouds in my eyes

# They say Spain is pretty, though I've never been

# Daniel says it's the best place he's ever seen

# Oh and

# He should know, he's been there enough

# Oh, I miss Daniel

# Oh, I miss him so much... #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Super, super, super.

Also just back off a long trip from Australia, New Zealand

and Japan as well, The one and only, Slade.

APPLAUSE

# Every day, when I'm away,

# I'm thinking of you

# Everyone can carry on,

# Except for we two

# And you know that our love

# And you know that I

# And you know that our love won't die

# And it won't even show

# And no-one will know

# One little wave

# To say you'll behave... #

Have you ever had any chance to use these powers

-for the good of people?

-Mankind.

-Yes.

-Well, Jimmy,

I don't think today I can already use these powers

to the good of people because I have no final explanation to them

and I hope in the near future,

I could put this power to good use somewhere.

-I mean, not technically more but to help people more.

-Good, I like it.

You like it but right now, many people who are watching me don't like it

because they immediately think, this guy wants to take over the world if he has this power.

So Jimmy, you see, you have your views, but other people have their views.

-Sure.

-That's why I can't go healing around.

Listen, if the good Lord, when he was doing his thing,

if he bothered about people not seeing eye to eye with him, he would've got nowhere

and a lot of us would've got nowhere into the bargain.

Therefore, you've got to square your shoulders and stand up to be counted.

You haven't got to pay too much attention

to whether people think you're not doing the right thing.

As long as your conscience is clear, you're OK.

Should you, for all the ladies and gentleman here

and all those watching, should you feel

if you want to do anything at all before we finish, feel free to say so,

feel free to do so, you can do with me what you want.

Um, all right. I'll turn around,

I won't look, I'll close my eyes.

-Huh?

-You draw and this is your paper, your pen,

you draw here something but don't make it complicated. Simple.

Make it very simple.

And what I want you to do is concentrate on what you drew.

Finished?

-Yes.

-Cover it so I won't see it.

Look, I'm not giving my time to it.

If I fail, I fail, if I'm right, I'm right. I got something from you,

it doesn't make sense to me.

The first thing that started coming were three lines like that

and nothing really... It does not make sense.

Yes, it does.

LAUGHTER

No, I'm concentrating on this day and night and, and...

LAUGHTER

-So, you've got...

-Can I see this?

-Yes. Yes.

LAUGHS

-You see, my mind is not rude!

-Yes!

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

APPLAUSE

First, tell the ladies and gentleman how old you are.

-12 years old.

-12?

-Yes.

How long have you been playing piano?

-About five years now.

-Five years?

If I'd been playing for 12 years, and I was five years old, I still couldn't play like that.

Are you... this uniform you've got, which school is this?

Cheetham's Hospital School of Music in Manchester.

-The famous one?

-Yes.

-How many guys and girls have you got there?

-About 400.

Yes? All musically inclined?

Some of them, not all of them but most of them.

See, culture is a very big thing.

I was starved of it for many years, so I'm making up for it now.

And if I'd known, why did you pick that piece of music?

Well, it's called La Chasse and it's about a hunt

and I think you always seem to be chasing around the place.

Eh? Eh?

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Friends, Dr David Bellamy.

APPLAUSE

Roll him down here.

There we are.

-Can I come out?

-I was just going to go over there.

-You come out over here.

-There we are.

You've got some Bellamy botany round your foot.

-That will make me feel at home.

-What is this?

-That's ivy.

-Ivy? Ivy!

-Who's she?

-Who's she?

We've got some gunge along because you told us

-you lived off the land in... Was it Ireland?

-In Iceland, actually.

-Iceland!

-I lived for ten days...

I had no money at all so I had to eat what I could find. I didn't eat terribly much.

You'd be much, much better living off the land round about the British Isles.

-There's nice things on here.

-Where is this? Where did we get this from?

This all comes from virtually any bit of seaside round about.

In amongst here, we've got one we can really have a go at.

I don't want you to chew the wrong one. There you are.

-That's not a bad one. A nice crunchy bit, OK?

-Give us some.

-Right. Is it genuine seaweed, this?

-Genuine seaweed.

Is any seaweed poisonous, first of all?

-There is one poisonous seaweed in the British Isles.

-Ah.

-I promise you that isn't it.

-No, I'm not so much bothered about me. When my time comes, it comes.

But I wouldn't like a lot of guys and gals to rush off on their holidays this year

and start consuming seaweed, cos there's poisonous ones.

You really have got to be an expert if you're going to start eating things in our countryside.

-Take primroses...

-I haven't got rid of this yet. I won't die, will I?

No, no, no. Promise.

LAUGHTER

-Camera two.

-Go away, so he can spit it out.

Which now brings us right into the time for A Song For Europe.

APPLAUSE

# Long, long live love

# Love is to care

# Caring and sharing

# Long, long live love. #

COMMENTATOR: Jimmy Savile is public property.

He is everybody's cousin, everybody's blood brother.

He has to be jolly, zany, "our Jim", whether he likes it or not.

Lorry drivers, autograph hunters,

television interviewers - he takes them all in his stride.

Haydon Bridge, a small town between Brantham and Hexham,

has not exactly been inundated with disc jockeys doing marathon runs.

The reception as the Jimmy Savile road show bowled into town

proved that the occasion was the biggest the town had seen in years.

The look in the eyes of the fans never admits that JS is anything but superhuman.

And accordingly, no-one thinks to let him get his breath back.

He's straight into the autograph scene he knows so well and values so much.

For Jim is nothing if not publicity conscious.

Gimmicks have made him the success he is

and he'll never stop believing in them.

Now then, just hold on and I'll sign this lot and you can get the next lot.

When you get yours, go round to the back, all right?

# I want to drive in a big black Rolls

# And I want to score one of Liverpool's goals

# Jim'll Fix It

# Jim'll Fix It

# If there's anything you want to do

# Like be rescued by a lifeboat crew

-# Jim'll Fix It

-Jim'll Fix It

-# Yes, he'll fix it

-Jim'll Fix It

-# Fix it for you now

-Jim'll Fix It

# Just for you now... # APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen, it so happens I've spent a greater part of my life

fixing things for people, you see.

So the BBC decided, "Why not put it all on film?"

Which is why we call it Jim'll Fix It.

We have been getting all sorts of letters in.

We've got about 9,000 letters up to press.

The sorts of letters that we got to fix was this one from Wendy of Weybridge.

She says, "Dear Jimmy,

"I've always wanted to versus someone in boxing..."

That means box somebody else, obviously.

That's all right. So we might be able to do something there.

Number two here. Paul from Kensington.

There's a message for Paul just now.

HORN HONKS

Because Paul has made a spelling mistake.

Any spelling mistakes we get in letters gets one of these.

Don't worry too much. I make mistakes in spelling as well, but I'm not proud of them either.

Right, we'll try and sort that out.

Now, then, Simon writes to us from Leicestershire and he says...

So that means to say that the other four are giving him a bit of this

and he wants to surprise them with a bit of that.

Right. We'll try and fix all those things for them.

As it happens, ladies and gentlemen, we are now going to show you

a film of a gentleman diving into a swimming pool. Just like this.

That was Gary Smart from Windsor Safari Park,

riding on the back of his killer whale.

But we got a letter from Mhairi Reid from St Albans and she says,

"Dear Jim, I have always had an itching to ride on a dolphin's back.

"I can swim very well. I'm 14 years old.

"Please could you try and fix it for me?"

Mr Smart, do you think I could swim with one of the dolphins?

-Yes, Jim asked me to fix it, so certainly, yes, OK.

-Thank you.

Right, there it is.

# Jim'll Fix It

# Jim'll Fix It... #

All I said was, "Who would like to be on television?"

That's all I said. They all came and crushed in like this.

As it happens, it's the number one sound, it is Dancing Queen, it's ABBA,

and my friends, from left to right,

it's Mary, Marge, Ruth, Fred, Harry, Dick, Tom, and they all say hello.

# You can dance

# You can jive

# Having the time of your life

# Oooh, see that girl

# Watch that scene

# Digging the dancing queen

# Friday night and the lights are low

# Looking out for a place to go

# Where they play the right music

# Getting in the swing

# You come to look for a king

# Anybody could be that guy

# The night is young and the music's high... #

How many requests do you get on this programme?

We average about 20,000 letters a week.

-A week?

-Yes.

-Strewth.

-Winter and summer.

If you misbehave at the BBC, they put you on opening the Jim'll Fix It mail.

-A penance.

-After four hours,

-you run down the corridor, "Jim'll Fix It!"

-HE JABBERS

Danny Slater and Gwen Charlton were a young gentleman and a young lady

and we were able to fix them both together, because quite coincidentally,

from different parts of the country, Danny wanted to read the news

and Gwen wanted to ride a white horse through the newsroom

at the back of the newsreaders without them knowing.

We did have a few problems,

because the newsroom happens to be on the sixth floor of Television Centre.

Good evening. World-famous concert pianist John Lill stormed out of the BBC this evening,

saying, "This piano ain't big enough for the both of us."

The world-famous detective Mr Moon has done it again.

Earlier today, he arrested the notorious bank robbers

Polaroid Cairns and Stocky McDonough.

At a hastily assembled press conference, Mr Moon said,

"I don't know why you are hastily assembling this press conference

"because my statement is, I have no statement to make."

IN DANNY'S ACCENT: Good news for the Post Office...

IN HIS OWN ACCENT: I mean, good news for the Post Office.

The Jim'll Fix It office has received over 40,000 letters,

representing at least £3,000 in stamp revenue alone.

Said a BBC postman, "Tut, tut, tut, dear, oh, Lord."

At last night's film premiere of The Fastest Gun In West Suffolk,

sensational new screen idol Bill Lloyd Peacock

arrived in a blaze of publicity.

Mounted police had to restrain a surging crowd of nearly three.

Inside the cinema, there were further violent scenes

when the ice-cream lady ran out of Raspberry Ripples.

Now, here's a late news item.

Gwen Charlton of Morpeth, Northumberland, is missing.

She was last seen riding a white horse in the vicinity of the BBC Television Centre.

And that's all for the moment. So from Danny Slater and me, good night.

APPLAUSE

How about that? Riding a white horse through the newsroom

when they're not looking is really a wild idea.

If you should have any wild ideas of your own that you would like us to fix,

do let us know, really wild ones,

because when the show comes back, God willing it will be coming back,

then we'd like, the more the merrier, really wild ideas like that.

Not just meeting people, they're OK, but we want some really wild ones.

Excuse me, Mr Gerbil? Can I ask you to come and stand by me, please?

Because this is becoming very amazing, is this.

Do you like being a gerbil?

That's very lovely.

I'm going to let everybody into a secret,

because I'm going to go like this.

Ta-da! Ta-da!

A real live young lady in there.

APPLAUSE

# Lazybones Sleeping in the sun

# How you going to get your day's work done? #

How about this one? It's Human League. Thank you.

# When you're in love, you know you're in love

# No matter what you try to do

# You might as well resign yourself

# To what you're going through

# If you're a hard man or if you're a child

# It still might get to you

# Don't kid yourself you've seen it all before

# A million mouths have said that too

# I've had my hard times in the past

# I've been a husband and a lover too

# I've lain alone and cried at night

# Over what love made me do

# And the loved ones who let me down

# And couldn't share my point of view... #

Shall I tell you a good Fix It I did with a young lady at Buckingham Palace? I was at a reception there.

-That's the place where the Queen lives...

-They keep the Queen there.

It's not an easy gaff to penetrate.

-Very, very...

-What's that? Not an easy...?

-Not an easy place to get into.

-Aha!

-So I was at this reception

and there was a very nice lady and gentleman said to me,

"My daughter would be so pleased to know that I've met you," and this that and the other.

I said, "Oh, yes? Where is she?" She said, "In the back of the car."

I said, "What, in the boot?"

She said, "No, we sneaked in the back of the car so she can say she's been in the Palace courtyard."

I said, "You've got her stuck out there?" I said, "Leave it to me."

They went, "No, please, don't!"

So I went to see a minder and said, "We've got this situation and I'm bringing a friend in."

They said, "Nobody is going to object to you." I said, "All right."

The Palace staff are the most excellent people. On the way out,

I explained very briefly. They said, "Leave it to us."

I went out into the car park, which is a courtyard inside the Palace,

and I shouted the young lady's name.

Next minute, she's holding my arm, and we're marching up the steps into the Palace.

Two footmen opened the doors, there were majors and colonels and household staff -

it's the most elegant situation and tremendously rewarding.

When she sees the spectacle of the carpet and the people there,

and they all gave a graceful dip as she walked by.

She was now hanging on to me like a lifebelt!

And we walked up the steps and into the room where the reception was,

in a room called the Bow Room.

Prince Philip, who's a marvellous geezer,

happened to be just standing inside the door, parroting to somebody.

So I went, "Pssst!"

LAUGHTER

It was a prearranged signal, no doubt!

There's not a lot of people go, "Psssst!" inside the Palace!

So he slung a butcher's, like this,

sees me, and I do the nod. I went...

He doesn't know where this young lady's appeared from,

with a long coat on and bumpy shoes,

but he has given the beautiful smile, and she's gone...

That was a Fix It that I really enjoyed, and I think she might remember it.

If her parents and herself are watching tonight,

she might remember it to this day, and I think a lot longer.

(Go over there, like that. You go over there like that.)

(You come here. Now then, you can knock on the door.)

-Hello! Welcome! Come in.

-I must introduce our friends.

-I'm Lucy.

You're Lucy!

When you were small, did you want to be the Prime Minister?

No. When I was small, I don't think one ever thought there could ever BE

a woman Prime Minister of Britain.

-We didn't, Jimmy, in those days, did we?

-No, but we always hoped.

We always hoped, all right. Women have come on so much during my lifetime.

I still haven't quite made it to Number Ten Downing Street,

but I hope that I'll do one day.

The young people have had a marvellous time.

These are Jim'll Fix It badges.

When they've had it fixed for them, they get them awarded.

-Might I ask you to hand them one each?

-Of course.

-It's Jane's first.

Jane. Can you pop it over your head?

Let's have it facing front.

-One for Philip.

-Philip.

I think they might have got two with blue ribbon on, don't you?

-But still.

-Oh, sorry about that! That was a slip-up, wasn't it?!

-Never mind.

-One for Alice. Lean forward.

-The colour of the red rose. That's right.

-You stand up.

-One for Charlie from China.

-There we are. That's fine. Don't I get one?

Well, actually...

-I thought you were going to fix my getting into Number Ten!

-I've already done so!

I was going to see you privately about that, cos I wouldn't want people realising how I'd done it.

-Then you can give me a "Jim Has Fixed It" for me.

-Indeed.

I'm going to teach you to yodel, like Jimmy Savile.

HE YODELS

THEY ALL YODEL IN THE SAME WAY

Oh, dear! One down here.

-Fantastic!

-Come on!

-Ladies and gentlemen, we've got to go now!

# And you, and you

# There must be something that you always want to do... #

APPLAUSE Hello, how are you?

Every time this lady sees you on the TV, according to her daughter,

she climbs up the wall and round the ceiling!

-Ever think you'd end up next to Mr Doonican?

-No, I didn't.

She's holding onto her heart here!

# Ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-ba

# Ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-ba-ba

# Ba-ba-ba

# Jim has fixed it for you

# And you, and you, and you... #

# Ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-ba

# Ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-ba-ba

# Ba-ba-ba... #

Let's see if you've got a head.

Where is the head? It should be here.

There we go, one head.

Yes!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Tremendous!

Ready, steady, go! Wheee!

Wheeeee!

# I feel beneath the white There is a redskin

# Suffering from centuries of taming... #

Can you say "stethoscope"?

No.

# It's not like the West End in London

# Oh, no way

-# Nobody give a damn

-When you're down on your luck

-# Nobody understands

-When you're down on your luck

-# Nobody give a break

-When you're down on your luck... #

I trust that our musical item at this assembly will meet with your approval.

Because for you this morning, Jim has fixed it.

School, I would like to introduce Culture Club.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Downtown, we'll drown We're in our never splendour

# Flowers, showers Who's got the new boy gender?

# I'll be your baby I'll be your score

# I'll run the gun for you And so much more

# I'll tumble for ya I'll tumble for ya

# I'll tumble for ya I'll tumble for you

# I'll tumble for ya I'll tumble for ya

# I'll tumble for ya... #

DRUM ROLL AND APPLAUSE

# 853-5937

# Angela can't make it to the phone

# If you care to leave your name and number

# Please speak clearly after the tone

# She'll give you a ring when she gets home. #

# The Locomotion!

# Everybody's doing a brand-new dance now

# Come on, baby, do the Locomotion!

# I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now

# Come on, baby, do the Locomotion!

# My little baby sister can do it with ease

# It's easier than learning your ABCs

# So come on, come on Do the Locomotion with me. #

-How is all your collection going on for your sale of work?

-Beautifully.

-Tell me the sort of things you've got.

-Album from Tom Jones, and Val Doonican.

-All the stars.

I'm waiting for my name to appear.

I didn't like to ask you because you're always here, you do such a lot for us.

-You didn't like to ask?

-No.

-I'm very hurt now.

-Oh, Jim.

-Do you know something else?

-Yes.

-That is a see-through nightie!

-Don't! SHE LAUGHS

-Is there ever a time when you don't raise money, at all?

-There is a need.

If there is a need, it means that somebody's got to do it,

and I've got plenty of time because I don't work any more.

-What do you mean you don't work any more?

-I don't work any more.

You literally do not work any more? You mean, you play a lot, do you?

Well, a bit of Jim'll Fix It - that's good fun, it's not work.

Top Of The Pops is fun, that's not work.

Radio 1 is fun, that's not work. So I don't really work any more.

-You're getting some good publicity tonight.

-That's not publicity.

Publicity is when you make money for yourself. We're doing a service to the people of this country.

I'm extremely sorry, I should not have said that.

You can have no more chips for saying that.

Welcome to January 1st, 1964.

It's 6.34pm, and it's a programme you've never heard of before.

It's called Top Of The Pops, and there's the charts.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Haha! It's the future!

First of all,

these are our Top Of The Pops stalwarts. As you can recognise...

every one a household face. Here we have got the four original members.

Mr Jacobs, what does it feel like to be back?

Well, I'm glad they didn't tell you to wear a dinner jacket as well...!

-But it's wonderful.

-Anything you come in is good enough for us. ..Peter, what's it like to be back?

Great to be back. 25 years - seems like yesterday.

-Mr Fluffingtons!

-Mr Savile! It is absolutely fabulous.

We were the lucky ones, we were there at the very start. Not half!

And we're still here today! Now then, ladies and gentlemen, how about this?

How about we have the Swinging Blue Jeans, Hippy Hippy Shake, to start us going?

# For goodness sake

# I got the hippy hippy shake

# Well, I got the shake I got the hippy hippy shake

# Ooh! I can't sit still With my hippy hippy shake

# With my hippy hippy shake

# Well, it's in the bag

# Ooh! Hippy hippy shake

# Shake it to the left Shake it to the right

# Do the hippy shake shake With all your might

# Oh, baby Yeah, you've got to shake

# Well, it's in the bag

# Ooh! Hippy hippy shake Waaaaaaaah!

# You shake it to the left Shake it to the right

# Do the hippy shake shake with all your might

# Oh, baby Hey, I got to shake... #

When somebody can give me a good reason to stop having a good time,

then I'll jack it all in.

Today, though, Sir James was concentrating on the business of joining the ranks of the titled.

It's an experience he clearly enjoyed, but he says it won't change him one little jot.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Well, I've made it! I'm on Jim'll Fix It!

I have to say, I've watched this show every Saturday night for years.

And what a great show it is, making more dreams come true than the National Lottery.

Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce the dream-maker, Sir Jimmy Savile.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

-Carry on with the work.

-I will.

You do the walking and the working, I do the sitting and the smoking.

-Let's walk this way.

-You sit there, I'll sit here.

-OK.

-OK, carry on.

-Tonight, we're going to review...

-Oh, this is the life!

We're going to review some of the highlights of 20 years of Jim'll Fix It.

-Yes, I'm here.

-Do you have any favourite fixes?

As it happens, when I look at the 1,500 fix-its we've done,

they're all like jewels. To the people, they are jewels,

and they're all different colours and different sizes. All I see is a carpet of jewels,

so I don't have a favourite jewel, as such.

You are known as the Greatest, correct?

Greatest boxer - get that straight.

-Not everything, I'm the greatest boxer.

-Thank you.

Not the greatest singer, or dancer or mathematician,

I'm the greatest boxer.

I'm glad about that. You cleared up a point on account of... my own team that run this TV show -

which is watched by millions of people - last year,

in spite of your nomenclature calling you the Greatest, had the temerity

to present me with my own award, which is here,

and this award is called "the Great Chatsby".

If you considered yourself the greatest as a boxer only,

then I can keep this medal. It you consider yourself the greatest as a chat merchant,

-I shall have to hand this medal back to the pawnshop.

-What's a chat merchant?

A chat merchant is one given to plenty spiel-alots.

-Rapido chatty-chatty all the time.

-That might be my title, too.

We could have a duel for the best talker.

First of all, I might ask you

if you could present to these three boys three Jim'll Fix It badges. That's one task.

I have another couple of tasks. These are Jim'll Fix It badges because this morning,

these boys were at school, they knew nothing of the fact that they would be meeting you this afternoon.

I hope one day these develop into Olympic medals. Gold medals.

-This is silver.

-It's kosher silver.

-A little cheap.

One day you might get a real medal.

Minted in Jerusalem. It is mined in Jerusalem.

It is cheap, artificial silver.

So let this make you determined to be a great fighter so you can get some real silver.

-This will make you think about the real thing.

-The next task is this.

These gentlemen have a very important question they would like to ask.

-You go first.

-What will you do when you retire from boxing?

What will I do when I retire from boxing? I really don't know.

I've been offered so many things. They want me to be professor at some colleges,

I don't have time to hang around one campus.

They want me to do a lot in ghettos and problems. I don't really know.

I think I'll be a minister of my Islamic religion.

We've got problems in America, dope, gang problems.

Work with people and problems in the streets,

and with crime and things like that.

-Next question.

-What would you have been if you was not a boxer?

If I was not a boxer,

I don't know what I would have been, cos I started boxing at 12 years old

and that's all I wanted to do was be a boxer after I started.

I don't know, probably everyday working, going to some job every day,

working six, seven hours a day,

coming home in rush-hour traffic.

What type of work I would do, I really don't know.

-Next.

-Did you ever used to get into fights in school?

Yes, I used to get into fights in school. All the time.

And that wasn't good

because there were bullies running around my school,

and they used to always say, "I want you to bring me your lunch tomorrow."

Have you ever heard of fellas doing that? They do that to you.

"If you don't bring me your lunch..." I brought a fella my lunch every day.

One time I got tired, and didn't bring him no lunch. I started fighting.

Another task I have now. I'd like to hand out four books.

That's one, The Greatest: My Own Story by Muhammad Ali,

with a beautiful picture on the back,

with the words "full of wisdom". That's the third book.

And the fourth book, so that when we have our eventual duel, is my own life story, sir,

which you can have as a gift. That is my good self.

-I'd never heard of you!

-I'd never heard of you!

-I only knew a few weeks ago. It seems like years.

-You wrote a book? Who did you ever whip?

-That is what we call a novel smile.

-Can I have your autograph?

Certainly! You're smiling the real smile now,

not the professional smile - the real smile!

And I have one final request. I have one final request.

It says, "To the Master...

.."M Ali..."

That is for you, sir. You're laughing again. I have one request,

because in all seriousness, you can imagine what a thrill it is

for these guys who did not know they were going to meet the Master -

who's now deeply engrossed in my book -

nor did I, as it happens. A great thrill for all of us.

I would like you to strike me on the chin.

Then who will be your beneficiary?

Well, Dr Bottle, possibly.

I have been struck on the chin by the Master! I give up now.

That is the finish, goodbye.

I thought I was crazy, but he is!

Hello! And welcome to the very last Top Of The Pops.

GROANING

42 years ago, I said welcome to the very first Top Of The Pops.

It belongs to the world now.

They're going to carry the Top Of The Pops banner.

I've got some friends who are going to see us out in style.

-Wow, wow! Is this memory lane, or what?

-Yes!

-It is! Good!

Take That were thought by many to be the most successful band since the Beatles.

But one of their members jumped ship. Or was he pushed?

-Some thought that was the end, but he went on to phenomenal success.

-Indeed.

He became one of the UK's most successful solo artists ever,

and still going strong. He's been on the show over 100 times.

Here he is, it's the Robster, Let Me Entertain You.

# Hell has gone and heaven's here There's nothing left for you to fear

# Shake your ass, come over here Now scream

# I'm a burning effigy of everything I used to be

# You're my rock of empathy, my dear

# So come on, let me entertain you

# Let me entertain you

# Life's too short for you to die Grab yourself an alibi

# Heaven knows your mother lied, mon cher

# Look me up in Yellow Pages I will be your rock of ages

# Your see-through fads And your crazy phases, yeah

-# So come on...

-Let me entertain you

# Let me entertain you... #

-Are you still a religious man?

-STILL a religious man?

-Yeah.

You've claimed on many occasions...

-I've not claimed. I've not claimed.

-There's a serviette there.

-Don't wipe it on the paper.

-You can't have serviettes if you have chips in the paper.

That's what the paper's for!

These lowlife southern habits!

LAUGHTER

God is the fabric of everybody's life,

and God is the fabric of my life,

no more religious or less religious than anyone else.

I would not say I'm a religious man, but I do know who the boss is.

Or anywhere. God is all over, not necessarily up there.

It's a strange thing to be in a chip shop on a Thursday night talking about God with Jimmy Savile.

-Not really.

-It's very strange.

People say to me, why do I believe in God?

One could talk a long time about why you believe in God.

But to encapsulate it, I believe in God because,

if nothing else, it's a good gamble.

If we went through life thinking that when we die, we rot,

and that's it gone, finito, that's all right.

But it's much nicer to go through life with a faith,

thinking that maybe when we die, we go on to even a better life than this.

Who knows?

Therefore it follows logically that if you try to live by a decent code,

reasonably decent code,

as well as you can manage, then it is a hope

that when the time comes, that you go off into - for the want of a better word -

a life hereafter and a heaven.

So, at the end of the day, when all the crowds have gone,

and all the frantic has finished, people say,

"What do you find at the end of the day?

"Have you found peace or are you like the clown whose tears come after the show?"

I say that I have found peace because, at the end of the day,

I sleep like a log, and often, so I'm told, with a smile on my face,

thinking about what a great day it's been, so I found peace.

It's not that I'm clever, it's just that I'm lucky.

As it happens...

see you soon.