JIM'LL FIX IT

BBC1 Transmission: Saturday 28th February 1976, 6.10-6.45pm
Programme Number: LLV1732P

Notes:

Programme presented by Top of the Pops presenter Jimmy Saville, in which he 'fixed it' for children of all ages to have their dreams come true. This edition featured, among other things, Jim fixing it for 20 year old Louis Manning to play an It's A Knockout game with boxing legend Henry Cooper. They have a pillow fight whilst balancing on a plank over a swimming pool. Commentator for the It's A Knockout sequence was Eddie Waring.

Made in Colour • This programme exists in the BBC Archives

BEHIND THE KNOCKOUT SCENE

BBC1 Transmission: Sunday 19th September 1976, 3.45-4.10pm
Programme Number: LON5010S

Notes:

“In two weeks’ time, the final of this season’s Jeux Sans Frontières will be televised from Blackpool. During last summer’s series, film cameras joined the Outside Broadcast units at Southport for the final four days of ‘organised shambles’. They watched the piecing together of the many parts and the resolution of the endless problems before the show was ready for its 200 million audience in Europe.” (Radio Times magazine)

This behind the scenes look into the organisation of the British heat of the 1975 JSF series was produced by Tony Salmon and narrated by Terry Wogan. This programme was shown regionally by BBC Wales a week earlier than the London broadcast. Welsh viewers got to see it on Sunday 12th September 1976 between 7.35 and 8.00pm.

The question remains, however, why this film took over a year to be edited and transmitted...

Made in Colour on 16mm Film • This programme exists in the BBC Archives

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