First watched : 1975
After two series of Clunk Click it was clear even to himself that Jimmy Savile was not a very skilled chat show host so he came up with a new format, a show where kids could write in with requests and he would make their dreams come true. It was a runaway success and ran for 20 years making its host an A-list celebrity.
Apart from the cub scouts eating on the roller coaster the moments I remember are
- Status Quo giving a guitar to a young lad who'd jammed with them
- a young lad teaming up with Big Daddy in a tag team bout
- a girl ordering "follow that cab" and ending up in Paris
I don't recall watching it after the early eighties.
Of course the programme is now under the same cloud as anything else connected with Savile which is sad although few of the accusations against him are connected with this particular programme and one of those that has is dubious - see here.
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