The Reckoning (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (2023)

Steve Coogan: Jimmy Savile

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Quotes 

• [Jimmy is being interviewed for a job as presenter of the new "Top of the Pops" programme that the BBC is planning] 

  Jimmy Savile : I have a connection with the youth.

  Tom Sloan : You have children?

  Jimmy Savile : Being a Yorkshireman, I didn't fancy the expense. But they trust me and they follow me. Like the Pied Piper.

• [Jimmy is helping out on the wards of the Leeds General Infirmary. A young girl has just run away from him in tears] 

  Charles Hullighan : I don't like you wandering these wards without permission.

  Jimmy Savile : I have got your permission.

  Charles Hullighan : No, you haven't. Don't keep cracking on you have. There have been complaints. Messing about with nurses. I'm not having it.

  Jimmy Savile : I'm just trying to cheer people up.

  Charles Hullighan : Yeah, well, I'm sorry, but I've got responsibilities here.

  Jimmy Savile : You know, if I wasn't a good Catholic, I might tell you to go fuck yourself.

• [Jimmy is making is way through the studio audience of "dolly bird" young women, as Top of the Pops is about to go live] 

  Jimmy Savile : Oh, dollies to the left of me, dollies to the right of me! I'll have dollies underneath me if I'm not careful.