Internally, the BBC were concerned that the show was providing excessive product placement for corporations. The arm for the chair was an RTX robotic arm, designed by Roy Levell at Universal Machine Intelligence in Wandsworth around 1985. The chair was later replaced by a new computer-controlled robotic "magic chair", the brainchild of Kevin Warwick, built for the BBC by his team at the University of Reading.
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The chair had first appeared on Savile's earlier Saturday night TV series, Clunk, Click. The "magic chair" was invented by Tony Novissimo and was built for the BBC by him at his workshops in Shepherd's Bush.
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Some children apparently thought that Savile's first name was "Jim'll", so some letters shown on the programme started "Dear Jim'll".Įarly series saw Savile distributing medals from a "magic chair" which concealed the medals in a variety of compartments. Savile himself played no part in the filming or recording of the "fix-its", unless specifically requested as part of the letter writer's wish.
Occasionally, other people featured in the "Fix It" (actors from well known series, for example), might also give the viewer an extra gift somehow relating to the Fix. At the end, the viewer would join Savile to be congratulated and presented with a large medal with the words "Jim Fixed It For Me" engraved on it. Savile would then introduce the Fix, which would either have been pre-filmed on location or take place "live" in the studio. The standard format was that the viewer's letter, which described their wish, would be shown on the screen and read out aloud, initially by Savile, but in later series by the viewers themselves as a voice-over. The producer throughout the show's run was Roger Ordish, always referred to by Savile as "Doctor Magic". The show was hosted by Savile, who would "fix it" for the wishes of several viewers (usually children) to come true each week. Shortly after Savile's death in 2011, allegations of child sex abuse against Savile arose relating to the television series. Jim'll Fix It was briefly revived in 2007 as Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again and later had a television special air in 2011. Notable celebrity guests appearing on the show include Muhammad Ali, Tom Baker, and Peter Cushing. The show encouraged children to write in a letter to Savile with a "wish" that would come true at the end of each episode, upon which the child would be granted a medal. Jim'll Fix It is a British television series broadcast by the BBC between May 1975 and July 1994 and was devised and presented by Jimmy Savile and produced by Roger Ordish.
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