[720p/50p] BBC1 | Jim'll Fix It and continuity | Christmas Day 1981 | Part 1 of 2

© BBC TELEVISION 1981

A poll I held some time ago told me that you lot wanted to see this so here it is. I've decided to post this now as something instinctively just didn't feel right with me publishing a programme presented by Savile on Christmas Day itself. For some, Christmas can be depressing enough without this being available!

One half of me didn’t want to publish this because he’s probably the most toxic of the [unprintable word] that were “outed” as unsavoury people around 2013. The other half of me wanted to publish this because it’s a historical TV artefact and my strategy for non-news programmes on this channel has been for me to act as a kind of “curator” of TV for me to present on here. To present TV as it was, warts and all. The aforementioned poll was held and a large majority of people voted for me to publish this.

Sometimes programmes I present on here will be stuff that was popular, stuff that wasn’t and - like this one - programmes that were once popular but for one reason or another are not popular now. I never upload episodes of a series that has already been commercially released.

I suggest you all book four hours sometime in your schedule and watch The Reckoning on BBC iPlayer!

End of In Search of the Castaways
BBC1 Christmas slide: How The West Was Won
BBC TV Christmas slide: Jim'll Fix It/Sounds of Christmas
BBC1 Christmas promo: Christmas Day evening
BBC1 Christmas globes: Jim'll Fix It
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End of Jim'll Fix It
BBC2 Christmas slide: The Queen
BBC1 electronic clock (06:25pm): BBC News