History Series / JimmySavileABritishHorrorStory

* LongRunners: Savile was a fixture of British television for over 50 years. He hosted nearly a quarter of the episodes of ''Top of the Pops'' during its 42 year run and hosted ''Jim'll Fix It'' for 19 years.

* BrokenPedestal: One of those interviewed helped Savile during his appeal to rebuild Stoke Mandeville. She saw him do good and says in a way that she loved him for doing so much good. Once the scandal erupted, she felt betrayed.

* MeaningfulEcho: Savile's gravestone is marked with the words "It was good while it lasted!", intended as a comment on his life. As the allegations come out, it takes on a new meaning as everyone's image of him as a beloved icon is destroyed forever.

* RefugeInAudacity: Savile was able to get away with his crimes for so long by being openly leering, inappropriate and generally creepy and always making reference to unspecified shady acts but in a theoretically harmless way, acting more like an lovably eccentric grandparent who tells raunchy jokes and is a bit behind the times, and would often speak about his offenses in a manner that everyone assumed was simply self-depreciating humor as people assumed that if Savile actually was engaged in such acts, he'd likely try to distance himself from such rumors as much as possible. Added to this was his knowledge that anyone who did come forward would be dismissed right away due to his public image, allowing Savile the confidence to engage in his acts of abuse.

* SelfDeprecation: Horrifyingly used by Savile who would regularly admit to being less than trustworthy and using his positions of power for nefarious ends. It was generally assumed that this was simply good-natured joking but now in hindsight comes across as him openly flaunting his crimes, both as a tactic and because he knew he could get away with it.

!!!''Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'' is a documentary covering real events. This page exists to trope that documentary, not the real events it's based on or the people in it.

* HateSink: All in all, the documentary paints Savile as a vile sadistic creature who's potential redeeming qualities were a front for him to carry out his vile deeds. The documentary will make you wish he died strangled to death in prison instead of from old aged in his sleep in the comfort of his home. He is now viewed one the level of UKs worst ever criminals.

* MissingEpisode: Invoked. Meirion Jones explains that he interviewed one of Savile's victims, a woman named Karin Ward. Savile extorted sexual favors from her so that she could appear on one of his shows, which was called ''Clunk Click''. Unfortunately, it aired during the 1970s, when the BBC still routinely wiped their tapes. Jones and his team managed to find a handful of surviving tapes for ''Clunk Click'', and happened to find Karin on a "best of" episode, thereby substantiating her story and broadening the picture that there had been abuse everywhere Savile went.

For nearly 60 years, Sir Jimmy Savile had been a fixture of British media. Known for his eccentric mannerisms and dressing in outlandish outfits, he hosted the music program ''Series/TopOfThePops'' during much of its 42-year run and was the most popular DJ in the country. On ''Jim'll Fix It'', he granted the wishes of countless British children. He raised millions of pounds for charity, rebuilt hospitals, and was recognized with a knighthood. When he died, he received the kind of funeral that was reserved for royalty. But a year after his death, allegations emerged that he had used his long career to abuse children. This documentary interviews Savile's colleagues, friends, and members of the British media and establishment, all of whom had no idea what a monster he was, while a handful of his victims discuss the horror they experienced.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Part of Savile's popularity came from just how radically different he was from other TV presenters of the time. In sharp contrast to the immaculately groomed and respectable looking presenters who wore suits and spoke in upper class dialects, Savile kept his peroxide colored hair long, wore colorful track suits and spoke in a Northern accent, making him stand out from everyone else on British television at the time.

* FriendToAllChildren: Savile cultivated this image through ''Jim'll Fix It''. At one point, he is shown delivering presents while dressed as Father Christmas. He even wrote the preface to a book meant to warn children about stranger danger. The whole of Britain viewed "Uncle Jim" as a safe person.

* OpenSecret: Allegations of Savile being a sexual predator follow him throughout his career, from as early as the 1960's, and his behavior is known among those at the BBC and various institutions and are even asked about openly by a few journalists but aren't openly confirmed until after his death.

* RefugeInAudacity: Savile was able to get away with his crimes for so long by being openly leering, inappropriate and generally creepy but in a theoretically harmless way, acting more like an lovably eccentric grandparent who tells raunchy jokes and is a bit behind the times, and would often speak about his offenses in a manner that everyone assumed was simply self-depreciating humor as people assumed that if Savile actually was engaged in such acts, he'd likely try to distance himself from such rumors as much as possible. Added to this was his knowledge that anyone who did come forward would be dismissed right away due to his public image, allowing Savile the confidence to engage in his acts of abuse.

* TheScapegoat: With Savile long dead, people tried to look to his associates to punish, including ''Jim'll Fix It'' producer Roger Ordish and Savile's biographer Alison Bellamy.

''Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'' is a 2022 Creator/{{Netflix}} TrueCrime documentary about the life of Creator/JimmySavile, a popular British entertainer who was revealed to be one of the country's most prolific sexual abusers and pedophiles after his death.

!!!''Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'' is a documentary covering real events. This page exists to trope that documentary, not the real events or people it's based on.

''Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'' is a 2022 Creator/{{Netflix}} documentary about the life of Creator/JimmySavile, a popular British entertainer who was revealed to be one of the country's most prolific sexual abusers and pedophiles after his death.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: When Savile died, he received the kind of praise and honors that one might expect a deceased member of the royal family or a prime minister to receive. However, Meirion Jones's documentary exposed the truth about him, and he is now one of the most reviled men in British history. Many of his honors were posthumously revoked while some, such as his knighthood, technically expired upon his death and had no mechanism for revoking them. His massive headstone was quietly taken away and destroyed, leaving him in an unmarked grave. He may have escaped punishment in life, but his legacy was irreparably shattered.

!!!''Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'' is a documentary covering real events. This page exists to trope that documentary, not the events or the people themselves.

!!!''Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story'' is a documentary covering real events. This page exists to trope that documentary, not the events themselves.

Part 1 ("Making a Monster") covers Savile's rise to fame, with sporadic references to the rumors into his private life. Part 2 features his final years while journalist Meirion Jones describes his investigation which ultimately exposed him.

* BagsOfLetters: Savile is shown surrounded by mail bags on the set of ''Jim'll Fix It'', which received around 20,000 letters a week and upwards of 250,000 letters a year. In one interview, Roger Ordish explains that they don't reply to every letter because the postage would cost more than the show's entire budget.

* BittersweetEnding: The documentary concludes on a particularly bittersweet note for those interviewed. Roger Ordish and Alison Bellamy were scapegoated for years simply because they worked closely with Savile and considered him a friend. Those who helped Savile with his charity work and even benefited from his charity work feel a deep personal sense of betrayal, unable to reconcile how a man who did so much good was so horrendously evil. Andrew Neil comments that the media failed the country by not exposing Savile, but also that it played a role in creating him, turning him into such a beloved figure that he became untouchable. On the other side, Meirion Jones is relieved that the truth finally managed to get out there at all, validating his years of suspicions and investigatory work, and Sam Brown, one of Savile's many victims, is now at peace because she was finally heard.

* LovableSexManiac: Savile ''claimed'' to be this, frequently making vague mention to sexual conquests in interviews. However, Andrew Neil's research team, many of whom were veteran tabloid journalists, were unable to find a single woman he had legitimately dated.

* DepravedKidsShowHost: In a case of DramaticIrony, Part 1 includes both scenes of Savile being superficially loving and caring to children and scenes where he is inappropriately touchy-feely with several female news anchors and interviewers, with several of the women in question knowing that something about this was wrong, but never quite reaching the truth.

* DepravedKidsShowHost: {{Discussed|Trope}} and InvokedTrope - one interviewee notes that the tabloids would have loved to have painted Savile as this, but stopped digging after [[ConfessToALesserCrime Savile claimed that he had a darker side he hid from the public]], feeling that there wasn't anything else to look for. The truth was much, ''much'' worse than they assumed.