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For those of you old enough to remember...What unfulfilled desire did YOU/ would you write to 'Jim'l Fix It' about??

I was in Ireland last week and I finally got to milk a cow by hand.

I can die happy now.

I was too old for Jim'll Fix It, even when it was on!!!

I wrote and asked to kiss Thereza Bazar from Dollar I was about 6. My mum even let me post the letter for god's sake.

I also asked for a tour of (where they made) Ceefax.

Jon Corby wrote:I wrote and asked to kiss Thereza Bazar from Dollar I was about 6. My mum even let me post the letter for god's sake.

I also asked for a tour of (where they made) Ceefax.

You could try writing to her now - I reckon she'd be up for it (And I've heard she now runs the Ceefax factory)

Did 'Jim'll Fix It' ever get brought back in any guise? I thought I heard some rumours a few years back...? It's such a solid concept for a kids show it's hard to believe it's not around in some form or another? Or are there equivalents which I'm forgetting about?

Jon Corby wrote:Did 'Jim'll Fix It' ever get brought back in any guise? I thought I heard some rumours a few years back...? It's such a solid concept for a kids show it's hard to believe it's not around in some form or another? Or are there equivalents which I'm forgetting about?

Yeah, it rings a bell that there was talk about bringing it back but it wouldn't work for those of us who remember the original - like Dick and Dom doing Ask the Family. Anyway - who could they get who would have that slight child catcher/kiddy stalker menace of the Savmeister?

My fave Savmeister story is that he once came third in a Jimmy Saville 'lookilikey' competition.

Now then, now then, jewellry, jewellry.

Looking at the amount of Obese children in the country how about Gym'll fix it

There was a show in 1997-2000 with Gaby Roslin, which was more or less a Jim'll Fix it remake. http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.p ... r_You_Want

Edit: Haha well done Marc.

Sue Sanders wrote: My fave Savmeister story is that he once came third in a Jimmy Saville 'lookilikey' competition.

This is a true story about Charlie Chaplin, which I suspect has (like the rib removal legend) been repurposed for many later celebrities.

Jon Corby wrote:Did 'Jim'll Fix It' ever get brought back in any guise? I thought I heard some rumours a few years back...? It's such a solid concept for a kids show it's hard to believe it's not around in some form or another? Or are there equivalents which I'm forgetting about?

There've been a few that shared the concept. The ones I know about were presented by Gabby Roslin and another was presented by Ian Wright.

Ben Hunter wrote:

Jon Corby wrote:Did 'Jim'll Fix It' ever get brought back in any guise? I thought I heard some rumours a few years back...? It's such a solid concept for a kids show it's hard to believe it's not around in some form or another? Or are there equivalents which I'm forgetting about?

There've been a few that shared the concept. The ones I know about were presented by Gabby Roslin and another was presented by Ian Wright.

In 2007, it was brought back on UKTV Gold as something like "Jim'll Fix It Strikes Again", which was hosted by Sir Jimmy. I believe they got some of the people who were on it during its heyday and let them recreate their wishes again.

One of them was allowing the Scouts on the rollercoaster again!

Ben Hunter wrote:

Jon Corby wrote:Did 'Jim'll Fix It' ever get brought back in any guise? I thought I heard some rumours a few years back...? It's such a solid concept for a kids show it's hard to believe it's not around in some form or another? Or are there equivalents which I'm forgetting about?

There've been a few that shared the concept. The ones I know about were presented by Gabby Roslin and another was presented by Ian Wright.

But isn't his real name...Ian Wright Wright Wright?

Sue Sanders wrote:
My fave Savmeister story is that he once came third in a Jimmy Saville 'lookilikey' competition.

Now then, now then, jewellry, jewellry.

I can well believe that, he is acomplete caricature of himself. Met him once at the cricket, quite amusing, too much chest hair though!

BTW, apart from Jon C confessing his 6 year old self's desire to snog the lollipop bimbo from Dollar, no-one has answered the question.

Sue Sanders wrote:BTW, apart from Jon C confessing his 6 year old self's desire to snog the lollipop bimbo from Dollar, no-one has answered the question.

I wrote in asking to have the ad for Green Giant sweetcorn taken off the air because I was terrified of the Green Giant. Every time I hear that "Ho-ho-ho (Green Giant)" I soil myself.

Sue Sanders wrote:BTW, apart from Jon C confessing his 6 year old self's desire to snog the lollipop bimbo from Dollar, no-one has answered the question.

Umm . . . okay, if I could write to him I'd probably ask to go up in a hot air balloon. It's something I've always wanted to do, but still not got around to yet.

Derek Hazell wrote:

Sue Sanders wrote:BTW, apart from Jon C confessing his 6 year old self's desire to snog the lollipop bimbo from Dollar, no-one has answered the question.

Umm . . . okay, if I could write to him I'd probably ask to go up in a hot air balloon. It's something I've always wanted to do, but still not got around to yet.

Hmm. I think, Dezzy, that the criteria for having your dream selected for the programme would be it's not something that your friends could just club together to buy for a 40th birthday present

Sue Sanders wrote:Hmm. I think, Dezzy, that the criteria for having your dream selected for the programme would be it's not something that your friends could just club together to buy for a 40th birthday present

Oh right - I must be too young to remember the concept properly.
Maybe not if you're implying I'm nearly 40 though . . .

Derek Hazell wrote:

Sue Sanders wrote:Hmm. I think, Dezzy, that the criteria for having your dream selected for the programme would be it's not something that your friends could just club together to buy for a 40th birthday present

Oh right - I must be too young to remember the concept properly.
Maybe not if you're implying I'm nearly 40 though . . .

You're 32 Dez; your boyish charm has not gone by unnoticed!

The co-creator and producer of Jim'll Fix It was a contestant on Countdown. Yes.

Derek Hazell wrote:The co-creator and producer of Jim'll Fix It was a contestant on Countdown. Yes.

Ooh. I never realised you could create a YouTube link that would jump straight to a specific number of seconds into the clip. (A shame that you've linked to Joyce's intro rather than Roger's, but I worked out what was going on eventually.)

I'm losing my virginity to a few new computing techniques this week.

Derek Hazell wrote:I'm losing my virginity to a few new computing techniques this week.

Hope you enjoy the hard drive with an extended RAM.

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Derek Hazell wrote:The co-creator and producer of Jim'll Fix It was a contestant on Countdown. Yes.

Ooh. I never realised you could create a YouTube link that would jump straight to a specific number of seconds into the clip. (A shame that you've linked to Joyce's intro rather than Roger's, but I worked out what was going on eventually.)

Ballsacks, it didn't work for me. I even let the clip load until 2:37 (presuming that's what the t=157 was marking) had pre-loaded but it didn't jump straight to it even then. Shame as I didn't know you could do this either and that'd be quite sexy.

It does work for some of us though.

I just tried changing the number at the end of my link from 157 to 113, and it went straight into the bit where he introduced Roger as a TV producer then.

Yeah that is funky. I run a Greasemonkey script called YouTube HD Ultimate and it turns out that that was what was causing the conflict. Hopefully they'll fix the issue for the next version.