Marcus Parks

I mean, you can't have a show like this that's aimed at teenagers.

You can't have a 50, 60 year old man coming on stage.

You know, he he appeared in the very last episode of Top of the Pops.

I do know that he hosted the very last episode.

He came back.

Now, while Jimmy Savile's reputation as a professional followed him to top of the pops, so too did his reputation for having an insatiable desire to have sex with as many young girls as possible.

Making Savile the host of a show with a live teenage audience was putting the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons.

Because considering how many massively popular bands and artists were constantly performing on top of the pops, I mean, the Beatles were there all the time.

The Rolling Stones were there.

There was no shortage of prey for Jimmy Savile.

Reportedly, from nearly the beginning, Savile would find a teenage girl from the live studio audience and disappear from the set for 20 minutes into a private room.

Once out of sight, Savile, acting off an almost automatic compulsion, would pull down his pants and rape the girl, who was often too shocked or frightened to react.

An hour later, Savile would be ready to go again, and another girl would disappear.

Don't get that away.

And another girl would disappear for another 20 minutes.

And then when the taping was done for the day, there would still be a steady stream of teenage girls in and out of the 38-year-old Jimmy Savile's apartment because his sexual needs were truly bottomless.

But when pressed as to what happened when these girls would be alone with Savile by author Dan Davies, Savile would say he was engaged in, quote, nice friendly things, tea and friendliness.

He also said that he only liked girly girls and didn't have time for girls who were too smart.

Again, this was Savile knowing what he could get away with.

And this was also Savile openly telling people how he did it every step of the way without actually telling them.