Watching the new Netflix documentary, which does briefly cover this one also, made me think about this. When I first watched it, it was the year 2000. I watched it with a friend and both of us were of an age were we'd grown up watching "Jim'll Fix It!" and of course we had dreamed of one day being featured on the show.
The initial excitement of watching some lucky reporter spend a few days with someone we idolized slowly gave way to first confusion, then we just got more and more disturbed as the documentary progressed. Of course, at the time we had no idea of Savile's true depravity. We both concluded he was hiding something truly awful, and I never looked at him in the same way again.
Watching it now in context, it was clearly obvious the man had some very dark secrets that were barely concealed under the surface. I would recommend watching this then the Netflix documentary.
The initial excitement of watching some lucky reporter spend a few days with someone we idolized slowly gave way to first confusion, then we just got more and more disturbed as the documentary progressed. Of course, at the time we had no idea of Savile's true depravity. We both concluded he was hiding something truly awful, and I never looked at him in the same way again.
Watching it now in context, it was clearly obvious the man had some very dark secrets that were barely concealed under the surface. I would recommend watching this then the Netflix documentary.