This Is Your Life: Jimmy Savile 1

Jimmy SAVILE (1926-2011)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Jimmy Savile, DJ and television personality, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Royal Marine Commandos training school in Devon.

In light of what has been subsequently discovered about Savile, it seems inappropriate to celebrate his life in the way that This Is Your Life originally did, and therefore this entry to the website is included for completion purposes only.

Jimmy Savile was a subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions - surprised again by Michael Aspel in December 1990 at Kensington Hilton Hotel.

programme details...

Edition No: 266
Subject No: 268
Broadcast date: Wed 28 Jan 1970
Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
Recorded: Wed 21 Jan 1970
Venue: Euston Road Studios
Series: 10
Edition: 10

on the guest list...

Agnes - mother
Vince - brother
John - brother
Davy Jones
Mary - sister

production team...

Researcher: unknown
Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
Director: Margery Baker
Producer: Robert Tyrrell

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

related pages...

Radio Times

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Life Second Time Around

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The Night of 1000 Lives

a celebration of a thousand editions

Life Is Full Of Surprises

Producer Robert Tyrrell reveals some 'cloak and dagger' tactics

Jimmy Savile with Eamonn Andrews on This Is Your Life

Dan Davies recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in his book, In Plain Sight...

From the table, he picked up the older of his two This Is Your Life books. The cover was brown rather than red.

Disappointingly, it was a shoddily put together album of out-of-focus pictures.

'In those days there were no videos or anything like that so the back page is an LP of the soundtrack of the show,' explained Savile. 'That's my brother Vince and that's John. That's the girl who used to do my hair. That's Davy Jones out of The Monkees. That's my sister Mary from Australia.'

And how appropriate that this elevation should be celebrated in the first month of the new decade with an appearance on This Is Your Life, after Eamonn Andrews surprised him by stepping out of an inspection parade of Royal Marines.

Series 10 subjects