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@kate Michael Grade bizarre hero arc???

Background:

Savile used to host a TV show called JIM'LL FIX IT, in which he'd "grant the wishes" of a number of viewers each week, usually kids.

A kid called Gareth Jenkins wished to be on DOCTOR WHO, so in 1985, DOCTOR WHO did a JIM'LL FIX IT crossover special, "A Fix with Sontarans". The special features the incumbent Doctor (Colin Baker), returning companion Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding), and Savile and Jenkins as themselves, facing regular villain species the Sontarans.

The plot of the episode is largely irrelevant. However, one thing about it is that Baker mentioned he disliked Savile and found working with him a thoroughly unenjoyable experience. This wasn't something Baker, who hadn't been privy to the allegations, came up with after they broke to look enlightened. In a featurette on the DVD release that included the episode — a release went on sale in 2006, several years before Savile's death and the subsequent headlines — he mentions he found Savile "non-inclusive," "self-congratulatory," and, somewhat less seriously, "much more frightening than the Sontarans".

This 100% comes through in the episode. There's one point at which Savile kisses Tegan's hand and the Doctor noticeably winces. Also, during the sequence with Savile at the end of the episode, as Savile is interacting with Jenkins, the Doctor draws closer to Jenkins, seemingly intending to protect him. Notwithstanding that Baker didn't know about the allegations, the overall effect very much makes it seem like the Doctor did — and, since the Doctor is a time traveller semi-permanently based in the vicinity of London, he probably would have.

Americans: Why didn't (time traveller) warn them about 9/11

Commonwealth: Why didn't the Sixth Doctor warn the BBC about Jimmy Savile

@julieofthespirits Ephebophilomorphophobia
@julieofthespirits technically it's ephebophilophobophilia
Thinking about how canonically Maglor of THE SILMARILLION remains in Arda and possibly in Middle-earth as of the 2026th year of the Seventh Age (i.e., the modern day)
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I hate being a British coloniser. The summers are too hot because I'm bred for cold rainy temperate zones, but the houses and clothes are underbuilt to account for that, so the winters are too cold.
It's currently 6°C (43°F). By world standards, that's not very cold. In Australia, where all housing and clothing is engineered for the purpose of surviving a ~45°C (~110°F) summer, indoor heating (and cooling) is optional, and insulation is near-nonexistent, it's ... too cold for my blood, anyway.
Walking around in my bright yellow Crocs because I'm a circulationmaxxing little shoecuck