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''Jim'll Fix It'' is a long-running British television show, broadcast by the BBC between May 1975 and June 1994. It was devised and presented by Jimmy Savile and produced by Roger Ordish and encouraged children to write in to have their wishes granted.〔Gould, Lara. ''RIP Sir Jimmy: it's all over now'' Mail on Sunday 30 October 2011〕 The show is hosted by Savile, who would "fix it" for the wishes of several viewers (usually children) to come true each week. The producer throughout the show's run was Roger Ordish, always referred to by Savile as "Doctor Magic". 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 viewer himself as a voice-over. Savile would then introduce the Fix, which would either have been pre-filmed on location or take place "live" in the studio. 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. 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. 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. Some children apparently thought that Savile's first name was "Jim'll", so some letters shown on the programme started "Dear Jim'll". Early series saw Savile distributing medals from a "magic chair" which concealed the medals in a variety of compartments. The "magic chair" was invented by Tony Novissimo and was built for the BBC by him at his workshops in Shepherd's Bush. The chair had first appeared on Savile's earlier Saturday night TV series, ''Clunk, Click''. 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. The arm for the chair was an RTX, designed by Roy Levell at Universal Machine Intelligence in Wandsworth around 1985.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/File:RTX_Inside.pdf )〕 Internally, the BBC were concerned that the show was providing excessive product placement for corporations. Eighteen years after the show ceased airing, allegations of child sex abuse were made against Savile (who by then had died), including claims that special episodes of ''Jim'll Fix It'' were devised by Savile in order to gain access to victims. ==Well known "Fix-its"== A group of Cub Scouts from the 2nd Sutton St Mary’s troop, who wrote to the programme asking to have a meal in an unusual place. The show opted to send them, complete with packed lunch, to ride the Revolution rollercoaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach — the result, thanks to the force of gravity and momentum, being lots of little faces full of food and drink. This was repeated with the same former Cubs in 2007 for ''Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again'', with similar results. The Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, appeared in the second episode, where he tore off and handed away the frayed ends of his scarf to girls visiting the studio. Ten years later, a young ''Doctor Who'' fan, Gareth Jenkins, was able to take part in a short adventure titled ''A Fix with Sontarans'' with Colin Baker and Janet Fielding. Veteran actor Peter Cushing wrote to the show in 1986 to ask if a variety of rose could be named after his late wife; the 'Helen Cushing Rose' was the result. In the 1980s a young girl wrote to ask if she could "accidentally" drop and smash a seemingly valuable vase on an edition of ''Antiques Roadshow''. This was broadcast as part of a regular edition of ''Antiques Roadshow'' (as well as in the ''Jim'll Fix It'' episode), with many of the crowd at the Roadshow looking on, horrified, until the antiques expert explained the ruse. In the 1980s a young boy called Dom Lawson, who now works for ''Kerrang!'' and ''Metal Hammer'' magazines, got his wish to be Iron Maiden's tech for the day and meet the band. The incident was described in Iron Maiden's ''A Matter of Life and Death'' tour book, where Dom Lawson speaks about Iron Maiden and his history on the band.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Metal Hammer Iron Maiden – Jim'll Fix It – Dom Lawson Music Video on )〕〔(Jim Fixed It For Iron Maiden And Me ) The Guardian, 2 November 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2012〕 In 1976 Muhammad Ali was on a world tour to promote his book, ''The Greatest''. Landing in London, catching the BBC by surprise, and with no time to bring the thousands of hopeful letter writers to a meeting with the legend, the TV company nipped next door "borrowing" three schoolboy boxers from the school (Christopher Wren). Vince, Andly and Nigel were whisked off to meet Ali. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim'll Fix It」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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