Jim fixed it for me to guess the weight of two snooker balls in a leather pouch. Blindfolded. I never sent him a single letter. Serious commitment from the man.
I was born in the late fall of 1978! Awesome Artwork! Awesome Harmonizing! Awesome Orchestrations! Awesome Cartoon Televison Show! Awesome Cartoon Televison Theme Song! Awesome Recording! Awesome Vocalizations!
Interestingly this wasn’t even composed for the show! It was a piece of production music called “Piano Parchment” on the KPM label years earlier. And was by Johnny Pearson who is better know for writing “Heavy Action”, the theme for the UK’s “Superstars” and the US’s “Monday Night Football”.
The only thing I liked about Jim'll Fix It as a child in the 1980s, was this theme tune. I hated the programme truth be told. It bored me. Savile always did creep me out too. But, I thought he was odd, or as adults put it, 'eccentric'. My late Mother and Father admired him back then, for all his charitable work, for everything he did for Stoke Mandeville Hospital, which my late Mother also stayed at as a patient after some surgery. I don't know if he visited whilst she was there for some months. My Mother even admired him for being dedicated to his Mother and his Faith. She would have been horrified had she lived long enough to know the truth. Its strange for those of us who grew up in the 1970s and 80s to realise a man who had been so prolific on television was an aberrant paedophilic monster in reality hiding in plain sight all those years. A theme tune to a programme many of a generation grew up watching, can never really be played on television or radio now because of the Savile revelations. It also really angers me that he lived to 84, whilst my Late Mother died at the age of 57 and then my Late Father died aged 76 - if there is a 'God' why did he take my parents and allow this monster to even reach the age of 84 - and go unpunished?
I work as a caregiver for the elderly and whenever my client is asleep I sit on the couch and watch this. I never got a chance to watch it before then, and I love it. Daria is who I thought I was in highschool lol.
The world was a chaotic mess even back then, if you go back and read the contemporary newspapers, but as kids we weren't aware of it, and shows like this presented a sort of idyllic world to us.
Daria TV-14 DLSV Since Paramount Plus iCarly was canceled. We are bringing back to back episodes on Daria. It's now on Paramount & Disney Network Plus.
