Marcus Parks

Yeah.

If a man can be compared to a few serial killers, that sounds kind of casual, you know, like a few, no.

But several holds weight.

Several is a word that, you know, when you need a little bit of oomph.

We can all be compared to a few serial killers.

Yeah, because I think, didn't Thoreau say that Jimmy Savile was one of his heroes?

Yes.

Yeah, he looked up to him.

He wanted him.

Even fucking Louis Thoreau wanted him to be a good man.

Yeah.

But once Jimmy Savile's grieving period was over, he was more popular than ever.

And after the wild success of the eight-episode-long seatbelt safety show Clunk Click, the BBC offered Jimmy Savile an ongoing show all his own.

Just after the death of his mother, Savile took a meeting with a BBC executive who said that Savile had been fixing things for people all his life.

That's all he does.

He's talking about his charity work.

So why don't they try a program where Savile fixes things for people on film?

Without a pause, Jimmy Savile agreed to do the show, saying, We'll call it Jim'll Fix It.

J-I-M apostrophe double L. As Savile put it in the meeting, the double L made the title, quote,

come easily off the tongue.