Jimmy Savile Video - Jimmy Savile Net Worth Jimmy Savile Video Read more... Jimmy Savile Jimmy Savile Net Worth is $30 Million. Jimmy Savile is Presenter | Disc jockey. Jimmy Savile Date of Birth is 1926-10-31. Jimmy Savile Nickname is Jimmy Saville, James Wilson Vincent Savile, Savile, Jimmy. Jimmy Savile Height is 1.74 m. Jimmy Savile Country is Leeds.. Sir James W... Jimmy Savile Net Worth is $30 Million. Jimmy Savile Net Worth is $30 Million. Jimmy Savile is Presenter | Disc jockey. Jimmy Savile Date of Birth is 1926-10-31. Jimmy Savile Nickname is Jimmy Saville, James Wilson Vincent Savile, Savile, Jimmy. Jimmy Savile Height is 1.74 m. Jimmy Savile Country is Leeds. Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG , known professionally as Jimmy Savile, was an English DJ, television presenter, media personality and charity fundraiser.

He hosted the BBC television show Jim'll Fix It, was the first and last presenter of the long-running BBC music chart show Top of the Pops, and raised an estimated ??40 million for charities. A year after his death, hundreds of allegations of child sex abuse and rape became public, leading the police to believe that Savile was a predatory sex offender, and may have been one of Britain's most prolific sexual offenders. Savile was conscripted to work in the coal mines as a Bevin Boy during the Second World War. He began a career playing records in, and later managing, dance halls. His media career started as a disc jockey at Radio Luxembourg in 1958 and on Tyne Tees Television in 1960, and he developed a reputation for eccentricity and flamboyance. At the BBC, he presented the first ed...

Jimmy Savile, TV Personality, Dies at 84 - The New York Times The New York Times Television |Jimmy Savile, TV Personality, Dies at 84 Search Continue reading the main story Jimmy Savile, an acclaimed English television host whose dress, hair and verbal flummery made all other comers in a nation renowned for eccentrics look like Puritans, was found dead last week at his home in Leeds, in the north of England. He was 84. A puckish man, he years ago erected a memorial bench to himself in Scarborough, also in the north, bearing a plaque reading, “Sir Jimmy Savile (but Not Just Yet).” That eventuality came on Saturday. The West Yorkshire Police told The Associated Press that they had been called to Mr. Savile’s home that day and found him dead from what appeared to be natural causes. Mr. Savile was the longest-serving host of “Top of the Pops,” broadcast on the BBC from 1964 to 2006 and featuring the chart-topping singles of the week. He was seen regularly from its debut until 1984 and returned for the valedictory episode after it was cancelled.

Artists appearing on the show included the Beatles , the Rolling Stones , Chubby Checker, Barry Manilow, Green Day and thousands of other marquee names. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Early on, the show relied on lip-syncing, though the practice was later abandoned. A blunt if hyperbolic Yorkshireman, Mr. Savile (the name rhymes with “gravel”) was simultaneously revered and ridiculed. On the air he served up patter that in its manic opacity verged on Dada. He also yodeled — often. To Britons, though, Mr. Savile was ultimately better known for “ Jim’ll Fix It ,” a BBC television show broadcast from 1975 to 1994. On the show he granted supplicants (usually children) their dearest wish: to tame lions, to fly the Concorde, etc. This despite the fact that by his own account, he did not care for children. “I couldn’t eat a whole one... . I hate them,” he once said in a widely quoted interview. Mr. Savile came from a threadbare background but seemed to have transcended his roots, even those on his head.

His hair was often a bright cascade of platinum , though as a young man, according to many news items, he once dyed it tartan plaid. No details are available about which clan’s tartan he chose. His default outfit was a shiny tracksuit, though at least once, it was reported, he hosted “Top of the Pops” in a banana suit of some kind. Immense sunglasses, often with rose-colored lenses, were a frequent accessory. Mr. Savile’s signature embellishment was a tangle of gold: medallions, chains and rings. His head-to-toe ensemble, including his ever-present cigar, can be bought as a costume , authorized by him and in its way remarkably true to life. Photo The eccentric Jimmy Savile with Prince Charles in 2007. Credit Press Association, via AP Images Mr. Savile was also widely known for charity work, and was reported to have raised more than £30 million (about $48 million) for hospitals and other causes. This, apparently, gave Queen Elizabeth II plausible deniability for knighting him in 1990 . He also belonged to Mensa and the Knights of Malta. Throughout his career Mr.

Savile was a Zelig — or maybe a Walter Mitty — in gold lamé . Interviews he gave contained a torrent of claims, some true, some false and others occupying the vast limbo of credibility in between. Among them: ¶ He was the first D.J. to use a double turntable, for continuous play. (Doubtful: Advertisements for such turntables date to at least the early 1930s.) Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up ¶ He ran more than 200 marathons, the last when he was 78 (true), and was once a professional wrestler (true: won-lost record 7-100). Advertisement Continue reading the main story ¶ He played marriage counselor to Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, as their relationship waned. (Dubious, though he did count them as coveted acquaintances. In a statement, Prince Charles expressed sorrow at Mr. Savile’s death but made no mention of counseling.) ¶ He spent 11 Christmases as Margaret Thatcher’s guest.

(Hugely false, her daughter, Carol, told The Daily Mail of London in 2008.) ¶ He lived with his mother, Agnes, from his father’s death in the early 1950s to hers in 1972; for years they occupied his suede-walled flat in Scarborough. After she died he kept her body tenderly in the flat for five days and maintained her bedroom with curatorial rectitude ever after. (All true.) The youngest of seven children, James Wilson Vincent Savile was born in Leeds on Oct. 31, 1926. His father, Vincent, was a miserably paid bookmaker’s clerk. At Christmastime the children’s present was a trip to a department store to see the toys. Jimmy left school at 14 and during World War II was conscripted to work in British coal mines . A few years later he suffered severe spinal injuries in a mine explosion. After a grueling recuperation he began managing dance halls and was later a radio disc jockey. “Top of the Pops” was first broadcast on Jan.

1, 1964; that episode, which included four sleek-haired Liverpool lads singing “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” was presented by Mr. Savile and the D.J. Alan Freeman. Mr. Freeman was one of a rotating cast of co-hosts and guest hosts that over time included Davy Jones of the Monkees and Elton John. This arrangement, Mr. Savile often said, was to avoid overexposing himself. Mr. Savile never married, though in talking of women he often described himself as a Lothario who could never be trapped into staying all night. “Good heavens,” he said in a 2000 BBC television profile , “anything more than two hours — brain damage!” Information on survivors was unavailable. Next Tuesday, the day before his funeral in Leeds, Mr. Savile is scheduled to repose in a local hotel “in the manner of a dead monarch lying in state,” as The Daily Mail of London reported. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The coffin, alas, will be closed.

A version of this article appears in print on November 3, 2011, on Page A29 of the New York edition with the headline: Jimmy Savile, TV Personality, Dies at 84. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe The 'butterfly effect' and the crisis at the BBC | Daily Maverick 20 January 2017 06:39 (South Africa) World The 'butterfly effect' and the crisis at the BBC Kevin Bloom Kevin Bloom Kevin Bloom has written for a wide array of South African and international publications, including Granta, the UK Times and the Guardian, and is an Honorary Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa, having completed the fall residency of the International Writing Program in 2011. Kevin’s first book, Ways of Staying, won the 2010 South African Literary Award for literary journalism, and was shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award. He is currently working on a book about a changing Africa.

World 24 Oct 2012 09:22 (South Africa) The British Broadcasting Corporation has weathered other scandals during its long history, but none as severe as the Jimmy Savile affair, a sordid case that involves allegations of a paedophile ring. With its director general battling to answer the questions of a parliamentary committee, public confidence in the Beeb is at an all-time low. And the storm only looks like getting worse. By KEVIN BLOOM. As with most reputation-destroying scandals, the debacle that may well annihilate the credibility of the British Broadcasting Corporation has its roots in mundane details which, in other circumstances, would barely have caused a stir. The Profumo affair, for instance, began with a lover’s tiff, and soon escalated into one of the most explosive scandals in British political history. Likewise, the series of events that eternally sullied News Corp’s name started with what appeared to be the actions of a single “errant” journalist at the News of the World. In chaos theory, it’s called the “butterfly effect”—where a small change at a certain place in a deterministic system can result in large differences to a later state.

The scientific metaphor is simple and elegant: a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, resulting in a tornado in Texas. In the BBC’s case, that butterfly appears to be one Peter Rippon, who began his career with the broadcaster as a trainee reporter in 1989. A journalist who won numerous awards for his organisation, including a Sony Gold for interactivity in 2007, Rippon was promoted to editor of BBC Two’s Newsnight programme in November 2008. By all appearances, his continued ascendance through the ranks seemed a fait accompli. Then, in early October 2012, Rippon wrote a blog to explain why his show had dropped an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against Jimmy Savile. If you searched for the blog on 23 October, you wouldn’t have been able to access it. This was partly because the BBC’s top executives felt that it was “inaccurate or incomplete in some respects,” but mainly because the broadcaster’s director general, George Entwistle, was on Tuesday facing questions from a UK parliamentary committee on what he really knew about the original Newsnight investigation.

At which point the brewing tornado takes in the character and personality of Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG, an English disc jockey, television presenter and media personality who was best known during his lifetime (Savile died in October last year, at age 84) for hosting both the BBC television show Jim’ll Fix It and the BBC music programme Top of the Pops. To the BBC’s credit, on Monday night it aired for the first time, via its hard-hitting current affairs programme Panorama, an interview Newsnight had filmed last November with Karin Ward, an ex-pupil at a school for girls in Surrey. “Ms Ward said she had been abused by Savile and recalled seeing Gary Glitter, now a convicted paedophile, having sexual intercourse with a girl from the school in Savile's dressing room,” BBC News reported on Tuesday, adding that Ms Ward, who was battling cancer at the time, had been angered when Newsnight did not air the original interview. "I'd gone through all that stress when I really needed to concentrate on getting well, and then they never used it—because somebody higher up didn't believe me," she said.

Of course, the key question that members of the Commons Culture Committee wanted answers to on Tuesday concerned the extent to which Entwistle, and by implication the entire BBC senior management, knew of Rippon’s decision to can the Newsnight investigation. Before the MPs gathered, British journalists were all asking some variation on the following: was Rippon subjected to pressure from his BBC superiors? Did the Jimmy Savile tribute that was scheduled for airing on the BBC over Christmas have any connection to the show being ditched? In the event, Entwistle told the MPs that blame for the decision not to broadcast the Newsnight investigation must be heaped on Rippon alone. The director-general denied that he had personally failed to show leadership, and said to the MPs: “The system failed.” But there were other factors causing the wind to whip up to gale force—like the fresh allegations of a cover-up that appeared in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday morning, just a few hours before Entwistle’s public appearance. “The Daily Telegraph has learnt that a series of emails sent by the BBC reporter Liz MacKean to an unnamed friend were blocked from featuring in a Panorama investigation into the BBC’s treatment of the scandal, which was broadcast last night,” the report began.

“In one, sent on Nov 30, she described how Peter Rippon, the Newsnight editor, was having a ‘panic attack’ about the affair. He allegedly told Ms MacKean it was ‘a very long political chain’.” Time to declare a tornado warning and evacuate the premises? Perhaps. Thing is, while Monday night’s Panorama programme was a smart and well-timed move to calm the storm, it doesn’t look too good that the BBC’s lawyers blocked information from airing on the very same “mea culpa” platform. Sure, we now know—because the Beeb has told us—that Jimmy Savile targeted both boys and girls for sexual abuse, and that when victims came forward no action was taken. We also know, thanks to Panorama, that there are serious allegations of a paedophile ring operating at the broadcaster. And yet, what don’t we know? Although Entwistle acknowledged to MPs on Tuesday that Savile's behaviour had been possible only because of a "broader cultural problem" at the BBC, he claimed there was still insufficient evidence to say whether or not abuse was "endemic".

Then, in an apparent attempt to further batten down the hatches, the BBC announced on Tuesday afternoon that nine allegations of sexual harassment regarding current BBC staff and contributors were being investigated. None of which changes the fact that Entwistle struggled, later in the parliamentary proceedings, to answer questions about his prior knowledge of the dropped Newsnight report, and about why he did not make more inquiries into Rippon’s investigation. If it emerges in the coming weeks that the director general knew more than he is letting on—and on that score, Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph expose doesn’t augur well—the punishment meted out by the British government could be severe. After all, it’s not as if Prime Minister Cameron is philosophically opposed to crippling publicly funded institutions. Also, as with the News Corporation scandal, which started in the United Kingdom and soon moved like a tsunami across the Atlantic, the effects of the Savile case are now being felt in New York. Mark Thompson, Entwistle’s predecessor at the BBC, is due to take over as chief executive of the New York Times in November—but the newspaper’s public editor is now asking questions about what he knew and when he knew it, arguing in a blog this week that his “integrity” is under question.

Already, Thompson is having to deal with his own contradictory statements in the British press, one saying he was aware of the Newsnight investigation (Thompson was director general at the time the show was canned) and the other denying all knowledge. As police prepare to make their first arrests, the storm doesn’t look like letting up. And with a Conservative MP comparing Entwistle to James Murdoch, the magic ingredient that will make it all go away—a restoration of British public confidence in the credibility of the BBC—appears with each passing day a more remote prospect. DM Read more: “Jimmy Savile: BBC’s lawyers blocked emails on decision to drop Newsnight expose,” on the Daily Telegraph Photo: Floral tributes and a piece of turf mark the spot where the headstone was removed from the grave of British television star Jimmy Savile at a cemetery in Scarborough, northern England October 10, 2012. The late BBC TV star at the centre of a child sex scandal that has shaken Britain's state-funded broadcaster, may have abused up to 25 victims some as young as 13 over four decades, police said on Tuesday.

REUTERS/Phil Noble Kevin Bloom Kevin Bloom Kevin Bloom has written for a wide array of South African and international publications, including Granta, the UK Times and the Guardian, and is an Honorary Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa, having completed the fall residency of the International Writing Program in 2011. Kevin’s first book, Ways of Staying, won the 2010 South African Literary Award for literary journalism, and was shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award. He is currently working on a book about a changing Africa. Get overnight news and latest Daily Maverick articles Email Address Series 1: Episode 7 (Ashes to Ashes) | Life on Mars Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Series 1: Episode 7 (Ashes to Ashes) 326pages on Alex's Big Day The seventh episode of the first series of the British time travel police procedural television series, Ashes to Ashes , was first broadcast on 20 March 2008 . The episode, known erroneously as "Charity Begins At Home", was produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One . Contents Edit A man who raised twenty thousand pounds for charity is the victim of an armed robbery.

Pressure from senior officers in the station cause Gene Hunt to go "the extra mile" but despite his efforts the only leads are pointing to the man who raised it himself - Gil Hollis. Alex Drake is convinced that he knows more than he lets on and tries to help him regain his memory with no success. Gene is humiliated on the live TV show Police Five attempting to appeal to the public to come forward and help with the investigation. In his frustration he attempts to beat information out of Gil. Alex has Hunt removed from the case and discovers evidence that Gil shot himself and faked the robbery to keep the money for himself. Unfortunately Gil has fled and is nowhere to be found. That night, while the team update Hunt on their hidings, Gil confronts them and shoots at the restaurant. After a face off with Gil and Gene, they give chase, with Shaz first on the scene. Shaz attempts to arrest Gil and in doing so ends up getting stabbed with a briefly seen knife that Gil is still holding after using it to recover the stolen money from behind the advertising board. When the rest of the team arrive, with uniformed back-up, they find Shaz wounded and apparently close to death. Chris is distraught.

Although Gil is already in custody, and in handcuffs, Gene stands by and allows Chris and Ray to beat up their prisoner, despite the objections of Viv. Chris punches Gil in the face and he falls to the floor. Chris and Ray then violently kick him again and again as he lies on the floor. Alex, refusing to lose control and to give in to death, continues to perform CPR until Shaz revives. Sharon complains to Alex that she 'doesn't like clowns' and Alex realises that Sharon is seeing the same clown that haunts her. Cultural references Edit Police Five, presented by Shaw Taylor, with police officers in the studio asking for the public's help in catching criminals, was a five-minute show screened at Saturday teatime just before the news. It began on ATV London in 1962 and was quite revolutionary for the time. The Saturday version was a London-specific regional programme. ATV ran a Midlands-only version during the week and later many other regions copied the format for their own local shows. Granada TV called theirs Police File. In 1968 it transferred to LWT, after ATV lost the London franchise.

LWT moved the programme to Sunday afternoons at 1.00pm and in the mid-70s, added an expanded 15-minute version before News At Ten appropriately titled, Police One Five. The show ran successfully until it was cancelled in 1992. During the run, it also spawned a for-kids version, Junior Police Five for which Shaw Taylor originated the catchphrase, "and remember, keep 'em peeled!" which he later also used on the adult version. During his Police Five appearance Gene says, "Don't have nightmares; no, do have nightmares" referencing the catchphrase used on the series, Crimewatch, a later BBC version of the Police Five idea/format with police officers in the studio asking for the public's help to catch criminals. The BBC version usually lasted an hour or more. It originally aired as Crimewatch UK. in 1984 (and was spoofed by UK comedian Bobby Davro as "Crimewatch O.K.") and was presented by Nick Ross and Sue Cook. Sue left in 1995. Her replacement was Jill Dando, who was murdered in 1999.

Nick was replaced in 2007 because of his age. The current host is Fiona Bruce. Nick Ross's catchphrase at the end of each edition was, "Don't have nightmares". As Gene's look-alike on the Police 5 programme puts on sunglasses, Chris says, "Move over, Lewis Collins, eh?” Lewis Collins (1946–) is an English actor best known for his tough-guy role as Bodie in the crime drama, The Professionals (1977–83). When Ray’s look-alike on the Police 5 programme appears, wearing jewelry, Chris does a Jimmy Savile impression: " Jingley jingley. Jingle jangle…" Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG (1926–2011) was a British disc jockey, television presenter, and tireless charity fundraiser. In 1980, he was well known for his BBC television show Jim'll Fix It, (1975–84) which granted the wishes of several viewers (usually children) on each programme.

Savile was frequently spoofed for his distinctive appearance, which almost always consisted of a track suit or shell suit, along with gold jewellery. Savile also fronted a series of commercials promoting seatbelt use which used the phrase “Clunk! Click! Every trip.” Ray recites the slogan in Series 1: Episode 8 of Life on Mars and DI Alex Drake would say the same thing to Ray in Series 1: Episode 8 of Ashes to Ashes . Jimmy Savile's voice on the radio gives DI Sam Tyler information on his condition in Series 2: Episode 8 of Life on Mars . Chris mentions that he has recorded the Police Five show on his Betamax VCR. Betamax (or "Beta") was Sony's home videotape format. Although slightly smaller and slightly better than Beta, it was eventually squeezed it out of the market by JVC's VHS format. Gene says, "Raymondo, pull in all our regular snouts." A "snout" is a police informant.

Ray says, "be all over it like red dots on a tart's mini." This is a play on the expression, "all over it like a rash," and "mini" is UK slang for a woman's genitals. Leaving with Alex to try to jog Gil Holis's memory, Gene says, "I'm going to go and do a bit of mind-reading with Uri Geller here." Uri Geller (1946–) is a self-proclaimed psychic known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other supposed psychic effects, from the 70s onward. Geller has been accused many times of using simple conjuring tricks to achieve the effects of psychokinesis and telepathy. Shaz says, "Ding Dong, Avon calling" referencing the catchphrase of the Avon perfume company adverts (the doorbell rings, ding-dong—"Avon calling"). Their salespeople, working on commission, sold perfumes and cosmetics door to door. Gene uses the same phrase in Series 1: Episode 8 of Life on Mars .

Ray says of his TV double on Police Five, "I don't look like Eddie Yeats." Eddie Yeats was a loveable, overweight binman played by Geoffrey Hughes on Granada TV's soap opera Coronation Street. Eddie lodged with Stan and Hilda Ogden and appeared on the show from 1974–1983. Terry Wogan is heard on the radio twice in this episode. Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE, DL (1938–) known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the BBC in the UK for most of his career. Before he retired from the weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 on 18 December 2009, Sir Terry had a regular 8 million listeners, making him the most listened-to radio broadcaster of any European nation. Sir Terry has been a leading media personality in the UK since the late 1960s and is often referred to as a national treasure.

He is perhaps best known in the UK for his BBC1 chat show Wogan, for his work presenting Children in Need, and as the host of Wake Up to Wogan, which he was still hosting in Alex's time. The Chief Superintendent says he is a friend of "Syd Little". Syd was the guitar-playing straight man to Eddie Large who formed the comedy duo Little and Large who were famous in the late 70s and 80s. Syd was tall and skinny with glasses and Eddie was short, fat, and curly haired. Chris and Ray stand in front of a poster of them at the TV studio, indicating that they are the Little and Large of Fenchurch East. The Chief Super also mentions Juliet Bravo, and The Gentle Touch which starred the curly haired Jill Gascoine. Juliet Bravo was the first BBC cop show to feature a uniformed female police chief as the lead character, and The Gentle Touch on ITV was their first to feature a female police detective inspector as the lead character. Alex refers to the thieves as "hoodies", a term Gene is unfamiliar with (see below).

The term "hoodies" was first used in the UK during the 90s when the sweatshirt with attached hood became popular amongst teenagers. Young troublemakers are often referred to as "gangs of hoodies". When Alex calls the thieves "hoodies", Gene responds, "they're blaggers, not characters from Watch with Mother." Watch with Mother was a banner title used from 1955 to early 1973 in BBC Radio Times TV listings for a number of different BBC shows aimed at pre-school kids that were stripped Monday to Friday on BBC1. Notable series include: Andy Pandy, The Woodentops, The Flower Pot Men (known as Bill and Ben), Pogle's Wood and Camberwick Green . The programmes continued to be shown after the name, "Watch with Mother" was dropped, and were replaced in 1980 by See-Saw. Gene says to Gil Hollis, "whilst we're tripping the light fantastic of your mind…" "Tripping the light fantastic" is a term that means to dance nimbly or lightly.

Roger De Courcey and his cheeky hand-puppet Nookie Bear became well known in the UK in 1976 when Roger won ITV talent show New Faces. Roger and Nookie appeared in their own ITV children's series in 1981 titled Now for Nookie made by Southern TV. Gene says, "were talking about villians, not the bloody Waltons", referring to the US TV series The Waltons (1972–1981) about a wholesome family growing up in rural Virginia during the depression, and in later episodes, the second world war. Each episode finished with a shot of the house at night with the family saying goodnight to each other: "goodnight Mary Ellen, goodnight John Boy," etc. It was screened on BBC2 in the UK. Gene and co. use Dinky toy cars when plotting out Gil Hollis's attackers' escape route. Dinky toy cars were originally manufactured by the Meccanno company in 1934. The range became popular from 1954 when for the first time the cars were sold in individual boxes. Their main rival from 1956 were Corgi toy cars manufactured by the Mettoy's company.

In 1964, Tri-ang toys took over the parent Meccano company. Dinky cars stopped being made in November 1979. Also during the above scene, Gene, Chris, Ray, and Shaz mention the names of eighties, nineties and noughties boy-bands: New Kids on the Block, Take That, East 17, Backstreet Boys, and Busted. Chris impersonates Miss Jones and Rigsby from the YTV sitcom Rising Damp (1974–1978). Miss Jones was played by Frances De La Tour and Rigsby by Leonard Rossiter. Commenting on the idea that one of Gil's attackers was female, Chris says, "think she wears heels or comfortable shoes?", intimating that she may be a lesbian. Alex says the robbers are suffering from "Bonnie and Clyde Syndrome". Bonnie and Clyde were notorious depression-era bank robbers who were shot to death by US law officers in 1934.

And Gene says "syndromes are named after films?", refering to the 1967 US film Bonnie and Clyde starring Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker and Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow, and directed by Arthur Penn. Ray mentions "Roadrunner Syndrome" referencing the famous Warner Brothers cartoon character created by Chuck Jones in 1947, always foiling Wile E. Coyote, running away after using his trademark "beep-beep" sound. Shaz quotes the line, "Diligence is the mother of good fortune," correctly identifying it as being form Don Quixote. Don Quixote is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes in the early 1600s. It is considered to be a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the greatest works of fiction ever published. Shaz says she learned the quote from University Challenge, a British quiz programme featuring university teams competing against each other. Produced by Granada Television and filmed at Granada Studios in Manchester since its inception, University Challenge aired for 913 episodes on ITV from 1962 to 1987, presented by quiz master Bamber Gascoigne.

Alex mentions that her father used to read her to sleep with extracts from The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe, part of the famous Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. Songs of Praise is mentioned. This was a religious TV programme featuring hymns sung at various churches around the UK and screened on Sunday evenings on BBC1. Thora Hird is most commonly associated with the show. Ray says Alex is like "Quincy". Quincy M.E. was a US pathologist/detective show in the 80s starring Jack Klugman as the title character (the M.E. stood for Medical Examiner). Chris mentions Friday the 13th Part 2, a US slasher film released on 1 May 1981, about the ski-masked Jason Voherheas killing students at Camp Crystal lake. At the crime scene, Gene says, "examine some sheep's entrails, see what we can learn from them", refering to the anceint practice used by the Babylonian and Roman civilizations to gain insight into a question or situation by literally examining the intestines of an animal.

As Gil Hollis does a little dance by the billboard, Gene says, "he's turning into Al Jolson now." Al Jolson (1886–1950) was an American singer, comedian, and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer". OCD is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, an anxiety disorder in which repeating actions such as closing a door a certain number of times, or placing objects in a certain order, work to calm the sufferer's anxiety. OMD is Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark, a synth-pop group founded in 1978. Their first hit record was "Enola Gay" in the mid-eighties. FYI means, "for your information". It is a common form of modern internet slang/jargon, though like a lot of this jargon, it first originated in the late 50s/early 60s between scientists working on computer research at MIT in the US. An early example of its use in popular culture can be seen in the Twilight Zone episode, "One for the Angels" made in 1959.

FBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the American national police force. Garfield suction-cupped plush toys for car windows first appeared in 1988 in the US, and were a phenomenon across America. Gil mentions "picking windfalls", referring to apples (or other fruit) that has fallen from trees. Alex mentions Glastonbury 1992, referring to the annual music festival of contemporary Performing Arts held on Michael Eavis estate in Plimpton, Somerset. It was first held on 19th September 1970. Gene quotes the lyrics of the Vera Lyn song, "We'll Meet Again". Ray says to Alex "if you were a bloke I'd knock ten bells out of you", referencing the old nautical term for a punch up, "to knock seven bells out of you", which later became "to knock (or kick) seven shades of shit out of you". After Gene is suspended for attacking Gil Hollis, he says he will go to Bognor. When he returns to the station, he is asked, "not off to Bognor then?" to which he replies, "bugger Bognor!", quoting the famous alleged last words of King George V.

When Chris invites Shaz to go with the team to check the portaloo he says, "we can fight crime together, like MacMillan and Wife", to which Ray remarks, "more like B.J. and the Bear". MacMillan and Wife was, like Columbo, a part of the NBC Mystery Movie series, before becoming a series of its own. It starred Rock Hudson as MacMillan, a police commisioner, and Susan St James as his wife, and was very popular in the 1970s. B.J. and the Bear was a short-lived late-70s US series about a truck driver and his pet chimpanzee named Bear. Gene mentions Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and Junior Choice. Ed Stewart was a disc jockey on BBC Radio 1 who in February 1968 took over from Leslie Crowther as the presenter of Junior Choice, a programme that played requested songs and records from children of all ages. He stayed as host for eleven years until Tony Blackburn took over in 1980. His time on the show is remembered for the often played link/jingle of a cockney boy saying "'Allo Darling" and laughing, which became a trade mark of his.

Also during this time he presented, from 1975–1979, the Friday kids TV show Crackerjack on BBC1. Gene says, "according to the great British public, Gil Hollis is Britain's answer to Mother Theresa." Mother Theresa was a Roman Catholic nun who spent much of her life working among the poor. Gene calls Sam Tyler "Mother Theresa" in Series 2: Episode 6 of Life on Mars . Ray says, "not gonna do these telethons too often, or I'll be skint," to which Chris remarks, "nah, people aren't gonna do this daft rubbish every year are they?" an ironic comment on the BBC's annual Children In Need programme which started in 1980 and did continue every year. Sir Terry Wogan, who is heard in this episode, (see above) is a regular presenter of Children in Need. Ska music originated in Jamaica in the early 60s. It was revived in the UK in the late 70s and early 80s by such bands as Madness and the Specials who were part of the 2Tone movement.

The 2Tone record label was created by Specials keyboardist Jerry Dammers. The label promoted racial unity at the time when racial tensions were running high in the UK. After Gil is harangued by the ska boys, Gene says, "turn that racket down, otherwise I'm gonna pull you in and force you to listen to Val Doonican 'til you top yourselves, got it?" Val Doonican was an Irish singer who regularly appeared on UK TV (1965–1968) on ITV/ABC and from (1970–1986) on BBC1. He often sang songs sitting in a rocking chair. "Top" is UK slang for "kill". At Luigi's, when Alex, Ray, Shaz, and Chris arrive to give their findings to him, Gene says, "what is this? Scooby Doo?" and Luigi says, "You pesky kids have solved the crime", again referencing the Hannah-Barbera cartoon series, Scooby Doo, Where are You? and its sequels. As Gil Hollis shoots up the restaurant, Luigi is puzzled when Chris says they're under attack. Ray yells, "Attack! Attack! Tora!

Tora! Tora!" Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatized the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The title is made up of the code-words that were used by the Japanese to indicate that complete surprise was achieved, "tora" meaning "tiger". On 5 October 1981 (very close to the date of this episode), UK group Depeche Mode would release their first album, Speak & Spell containing a the song, "Tora! Tora! Tora!" Gene says to Viv, "he's 'ell of a batsman that Gordon Greenidge", refering to the former member of the West Indies cricket team. He played from 1974–1991. Cast British celebrity Jimmy Savile – Britain’s most prolific sexual predator | Altered Dimensions Paranormal British celebrity Jimmy Savile – Britain’s most prolific sexual predator // January 12th, 2013 // Strange , Strange Persons Long known to be an odd and eccentric character, famous British celebrity Jimmy Savile was accused of sexually abusing hundreds of children and raping more than thirty people during his tenure as Britain’s popular media personality.

The abuse, in which nearly 75% of the victims were children, spanned a period of six decades from 1955 to 2009 and was carried out at children’s hospitals, schools, and on the sets of television productions, including BBC’s studios. It is believed that occasionally, other “pedophile” celebrities, such as flamboyant pop musician Gary Glitter, are alleged to have participated with or accompanied Savile in his acts of abuse. According to a report released in early 2013, called Giving Victims a Voice, 450 victims came forward to allege incidents of sexual abuse or rape. The report indicates Savile committed 214 criminal offences in 28 areas of England and Wales. Most of the victims were between 13 and 16 years old but some were as young as eight years old. The victims included both boys and girls. Savile died in October 2011 at the age of 84. Police believe there were almost certainly many more incidents of sexual abuse than have been publicly reported but even if you consider only the official reports received, the scale of his assaults was unprecedented in UK history.

Who was Jimmy Savile Sir James Wilson Vincent “Jimmy” Savile was an English disc jockey, television celebrity, and media personality who was very popular in England (some considered him to be a “national treasure”). Savile hosted the popular BBC television program, Jim’ll Fix It and the long-running hit BBC show, Top of the Pops. He was famous for his yodel and catchphrases such as “how’s about that, then?” and “goodness gracious”. Savile was frequently spoofed for his distinctive appearance, which usually featured a track suit or shell suit, gold jewelry, and a large Cuban cigar. Highly intelligent, Savile was a member of Mensa. A lifelong bachelor, Savile lived with his mother and for 27 years, and after her death, kept her bedroom and wardrobe exactly as it was when she died. Savile was found dead at his home in Roundhay, Leeds, on October 29, 2011, two days before his 85th birthday. After his death, his satin gold coffin was displayed at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, along with the last cigar he smoked. Around 4,000 people visited to pay tribute.

His funeral was held at Leeds Cathedral on November 9, 2011, and he was buried at Woodlands Cemetery in Scarborough. As specified in his will, his coffin was inclined at 45 degrees to fulfill his wish to “see the sea”. The coffin was encased in concrete “as a security measure”. Suspicions are raised but accusations are ignored During Savile’s lifetime, sporadic allegations of child abuse were made against him. In retrospect, all the signs were there and tragically, ignored. Seemingly as a means to proclaim his innocence, Savile claimed that the key to his success on Jim’ll Fix It had been that he disliked children. He later admitted to saying this to deflect scrutiny of his personal life.

“We live in a very funny world and it’s easier for me as a single man to say I don’t like children because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.” In April 2000, in a documentary by Louis Theroux, When Louis Met Jimmy Savile, Savile acknowledged others had raised rumors about whether he was a pedophile, to which he responded, “I know I’m not.” In 2009, when all the world was aghast at his crimes, Savile publicly defended the convicted pedophile pop star, Gary Glitter, saying: “He just watched a few ‘dodgy films’ and was only vilified because he was a celebrity… It were for his own gratification. Whether it was right or wrong is up to him as a person. But they didn’t do anything wrong.” In 2012, Sir Roger Jones, former BBC governor for Wales and chairman of BBC charity Children in Need, disclosed that more than a decade before Savile’s death he had banned Savile from involvement in the charity, because he felt Savile’s behavior was “strange” and “suspicious”, and had heard unsubstantiated rumors about his activities.

The public would soon learn that Jones was dead on – Savile had used his celebrity status to hide in plain sight while abusing children and adults over a span of six decades. Minor investigations ensue In 2007, Savile was interviewed “under caution” by police investigating an allegation of indecent assault in the 1970s at the now-closed Duncroft Approved School for Girls, where he was a regular visitor. It was determined that there was insufficient evidence to take any further action and no charges were brought. In March 2008, Savile started legal proceedings against The Sun newspaper which had linked him in several articles to child abuse at the Jersey children’s home Haut de la Garenne. Savile flatly denied visiting Haut de la Garenne, but later admitted that he had visited the home after the publication of a photograph showing him at the home surrounded by children. It was clear that Savile used his celebrity status and its inherent power to sidestep accusations of rape and sexual abuse. In one instance, it was noted that Savile told police he had a “policy” for dealing with sexual assault complaints made against him.

He reminded them that he had sued five newspapers in the past for bringing up such allegations. A police log of the interview quotes Savile as saying: “If these allegations do not disappear then my policy will swing into action.” “His force of personality was powerful. He dismissed his victims afterwards; he did what he wanted to do and then just discarded them… and the victimes were too frightened to speak out.” Victims come forward After his death in October 2011, hundreds of allegations of child sex abuse and rape became public, leading the police to believe that right under their noses, Savile held the distinction of being Britain’s most prolific sex offender. The saga began when an ITV documentary, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, examined the claims of sexual abuse made against Savile. The documentary led to broad media coverage and a substantial and rapidly growing body of witness statements and sexual abuse claims, including accusations against public figures and corporate organizations for covering up the accusations while Savile was alive. In the documentary, ten women, including one aged 13 when the incident occurred, claimed that Savile had sexually molested or raped them during the 1960’s and 1970’s.

The documentary aired on October 3, 2012. By October 19, 2012, two weeks after the documentary aired on British television, Scotland Yard launched a criminal investigation into the allegations of child sex abuse describing Savile as a “predatory sex offender” and stating that they were pursuing over 400 lines of inquiry based on the testimony of 300 potential victims via fourteen police forces across the UK. The scale and duration of his crimes was mind boggling. In the report, several victims explained how their sexual abuse had come about: Ms. Ward, who was a pupil at Duncroft approved school for girls in Surrey, alleged that she was sexually abused by Savile during her time there. And on occasion she recalled seeing singer Gary Glitter, now a convicted pedophile, having sexual intercourse with a girl from the school in Savile’s dressing room (despite being convicted of possession of child pornography and being deported from several countries for incidents of child abuse, Glitter denies the accusation). Ward said the room was “packed” with people when the incident took place and Savile, who was present when the abuse was taking place, “laughed about it”.

Kevin Cook is another to have come forward with claims against Savile. He alleges that as a a nine-year-old cub scout in 1976 he was abused by the entertainer at BBC Television Centre (BBC’s headquarters), in west London. “He was almost God-like. He was so famous. Everyone was writing to ‘Jim’ll Fix It.’ When I told people at school, they just didn’t believe it. When they knew we was going on, he was just fantastic. He was the person every child, certainly, wanted to know.” After the show, Cook presented a tie to Savile as a present. That’s when he says Savile asked him if he would like his own “Jim’ll Fix it” badge. According to Cook, with the promise of his own badge, Savile lead him backstage at BBC studios into a small, cluttered, “dingy” dressing room and sat him down in a chair. “That’s when he put his hand on my knee and started touching me and then at the same time he grabbed my hand and forced my hand on top of his trousers.

He said to me: ‘You want your own badge?’ I said: ‘Yeah.’ He said: ‘You want to earn your badge?” Savile proceeded to molest him, he says, undoing his boy scout uniform and fondling him. It was only interrupted when someone opened the door and peeked in, apologized and immediately walked out. Tragically, it became clear that many of the sexual abuse incidents occurred at children’s hospitals including Leeds general infirmary, Great Ormond Street, Exeter hospital, Saxondale mental health hospital in Nottinghamshire, and Wheatfield hospice in Leeds, a Sue Ryder hospice for dying children. In at least one case, and likely many more, the victim of the abuse died soon after the incident and was unable to report it (other witnesses subsequently came forward and reported the abuse after the victim’s death). David Gray, who led the inquiry into Savile’s crimes, said: “He has spent every minute of every working day thinking about this. Whenever an opportunity came along he took it.

He picked on vulnerable victims and he was clever enough to choose people who he knew would not speak out.” The Aftermath Within a month of the child abuse scandal breaking, many places and organizations named after or connected to Savile were renamed or removed altogether. A memorial plaque on the wall of Savile’s former home in Scarborough was removed in early October 2012 after it was defaced with graffiti. A wooden statue of Savile at Scotstoun Leisure Centre in Glasgow was removed around the same time. A sign on a footpath in Scarborough bearing Savile’s surname was removed. Savile’s Hall, the conference center at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, was renamed New Dock Hall. Two registered charities founded in his name to fight “poverty and sickness and other charitable purposes” announced they were too closely tied to the Savile name and would therefore close and distribute their funds to other charities. On October 28 it was reported that Savile’s cottage in Glen Coe had been spray-painted with slogans and the door badly damaged. On October 9, 2012, after a police press conference, relatives stated that the triple headstone marking Savile’s grave would be removed, destroyed and sent to landfill.

The family expressed their sorrow for the “anguish” of the victims and in a statement by a nephew said that: “We recognize that even our own despair and sadness does not compare to that felt by the victims … How could the person we thought we knew and loved do such a thing? … Our thoughts and our prayers are with those who have suffered from every kind of abuse over so many years and we offer our deepest sympathy in what must have been a terrible time for all of them … We can understand their reluctance to say anything earlier and can appreciate the courage it has taken to speak out now.” In February 2016, a BBC-commissioned investigation by former High Court judge Dame Janet, found Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall were allowed to operate within the BBC with impunity between 1959 and 2006. In the report, Janet called Savile and Hall “serial sexual predators” and said the BBC missed five opportunities to stop their misconduct, which persisted for decades.

Timeline of Jimmy Savile’s life Below is a timeline from BBC outlining the events that marked Jimmy Savile’s life: October 14, 2012 One of Sir Jimmy Savile’s former bosses at Radio 1 says he questioned the DJ about rumors over his private life more than 20 years ago. Derek Chinnery, Radio 1 controller from 1976-85, said he asked the entertainer about “these rumors we hear”. Savile responded, “That’s all nonsense,” Mr Chinnery told BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House, adding “there was no reason to disbelieve” the late DJ. October 13, 2012 Metropolitan Police say allegations are likely to span six decades from 1959-2006. Commander Peter Spindler, head of specialist crime investigations, says he estimates the number of likely victims to be about 60. Twelve complaints of sexual offences have been made to the police and 14 forces are involved. October 12, 2012 At a news conference, BBC director general George Entwistle announces two inquiries to be launching regarding the sex abuse claims made against Savile.

The first will start immediately, looking at why a Newsnight investigation into the allegations was shelved last year. The second will begin when police give the go-ahead, and examine whether the culture at the BBC in the years Jimmy Savile was there enabled him to carry out the sexual abuse of children. Earlier, The Sun reports that David Nicolson, who worked as a director on Jim’ll Fix It, claimed to have caught Savile having sex with a girl in his dressing room, but was laughed away when he voiced his concerns. A woman tells BBC Radio Leeds that Savile abused a 12-year-old girl during a visit to a children’s home in the 1970s where she was also resident. Police say they have now received 340 potential lines of inquiry. October 11, 2012 Further reports of abuse emerge, relating to Stoke Mandeville hospital, Leeds General Infirmary, Broadmoor secure hospital and Haut de la Garenne children’s home in Jersey.

In addition, Tayside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and North Yorkshire police are among the forces who say they have received allegations of abuse dating back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s. October 9, 2012 More allegations emerge in the days following the ITV broadcast and by 9 October, the Metropolitan Police says it is pursuing 120 leads. Commander Peter Spindler, head of specialist crime investigations, tells the BBC: “It is quite clear from what women are telling us that Savile was a predatory sex offender.” October 3, 2012 ITV airs its investigation: Exposure, the Other Side of Jimmy Savile in which several women allege he sexually abused them when they were under-age. October 2, 2012 Ahead of an ITV program to be broadcast the following day, Newsnight editor Peter Rippon writes in a blog that he was not pressured by BBC bosses into dropping his program’s investigation of Savile. Newsnight’s investigation into Sir Jimmy Savile was dropped in December 2011 December 2011 A six-week BBC Newsnight investigation into claims that Jimmy Savile abused youngsters is dropped.

Tribute programs are aired including Sir Jimmy Savile at the BBC: How’s about that then? October 29, 2011 Jimmy Savile is found dead at his home in the Roundhay district of Leeds. He is buried the following month in the seaside town of Scarborough. 2007 Surrey police question Savile over allegations of child sex abuse in the 1970s. The matter is referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, which advises there is insufficient evidence to take further action. 2008 Sussex police receive a complaint of sexual assault against Savile which allegedly took place in Worthing in 1970. But police later say the victim was “unwilling to co-operate in any investigation”. Savile is also named, although not publicly, during a 2008 police investigation into abuse at Haut de Garenne children’s home in Jersey. 1990 Caroline Moore tells of abuse by Jimmy Savile when she was a patient at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Continues to work as a television presenter and charity fund-raiser. He is knighted in 1990, having already received the OBE in 1971.

1980s Continues as a presenter of Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It, which is broadcast until 1994. In 1988, Savile is appointed chairman of a task force set up to advise on governing Broadmoor. A woman told North Yorkshire Police she was preyed on by Savile in Scarborough A woman who was then aged 15 complained to Lancashire police about an incident in the 1980s 1970s Hosts his own BBC shows, Clunk Click in 1973, followed by the long-running Jim’ll Fix It, in which Savile grants young viewers’ wishes. He also begins charitable work at Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor secure hospital, in addition to his work at Stoke Mandeville. One of the former pupils Karin Ward, who waived her anonymity to appear in the ITV investigation, says that Savile abused her and others from the school at this time. A former resident at a children’s home in Leeds says Savile abused a 12-year-old girl there.

Caroline Moore, who was a 13-year-old patient at Stoke Mandeville hospital in 1971, says Savile “rammed his tongue” down her throat June Thornton says she saw Savile molest a brain-damaged teenage patient at Leeds General Infirmary in 1972 June Thornton said she saw Jimmy Savile kiss a patient who could not defend herself 1960s Savile’s flamboyant personality earns him a role at Tyne Tees television where he fronts a program called Young at Heart. He then becomes the first host of BBC’s Top of the Pops in 1964, and helps present the program for more than 20 years. He joins the fledgling BBC Radio 1 in 1968. Starts volunteering as a porter at Stoke Mandeville specialist spinal injuries hospital in 1969 and will in later years be given a room there. A woman who was 14 in the 1960s made a complaint against Savile to Lancashire police A woman who was a teenager in the late 1960s told North Yorks police she was a victim of a sexual offence by Savile in Scarborough.

Early life Jimmy Savile is born in 1926 in Leeds, the youngest of seven children. During World War II he is conscripted as a Bevin Boy, working in the coal mines. He reportedly suffers spinal injuries in a mining accident aged just 14. In an era dominated by live music, he starts playing records in local dance halls and later claims to have been the first disc jockey to use twin turntables and a microphone. He is later taken on by Radio Luxembourg. Sources: CNN, Wikipedia, BBC, The Guardian No related articles or news found. Books Archives - Page 3 of 5 - Come The Revolution Come The Revolution / Leave a comment There’s sad news about Iain Banks, the Scottish novelist. He has cancer, and only months to live. His brilliantly imaginative novels include The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road, and he can also write in a lighter vein. I liked his satirical post-9/11 thriller Dead Air. There must have been something in the air in… / Leave a comment Half a lifetime ago, when I was a student, I went to Colombia in search of the historical background to the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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Jimmy Savile Country is Leeds. Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG , known professionally as Jimmy Savile, was an English DJ, television presenter, media personality and charity fundraiser. He hosted the BBC television show Jim'll Fix It, was the first and last presenter of the long-running BBC music chart show Top of the Pops, and raised an estimated ??40 million for charities. A year after his death, hundreds of allegations of child sex abuse and rape became public, leading the police to believe that Savile was a predatory sex offender, and may have been one of Britain's most prolific sexual offenders. Savile was conscripted to work in the coal mines as a Bevin Boy during the Second World War. He began a career playing records in, and later managing, dance halls. His media career started as a disc jockey at Radio Luxembourg in 1958 and on Tyne Tees Television in 1960, and he developed a reputation for eccentricity and flamboyance. At the BBC, he presented the first ed...

Question: By what name is the English entertainer and Disc Jockey James Wilson Vincent better known?
Answer: JIMMY SAVILE