Sir Jimmy Savile, who died at the weekend at the age of 84, will be fondly remembered for “fixing it” for kids across Oxfordshire.

A dip into the Oxford Mail archives reveals just how many young faces the tracksuit-wearing eccentric lit up with a smile thanks to his hit TV show and tireless charity work.

The Jim’ll Fix It star, who was found dead at his home in Roundhay, Leeds, on Saturday, made dreams come true each week for a host of children.

One of them was 12-year-old Paul Trigg, of Folly Cottage, Moreton, near Thame, who appeared in an episode of his favourite TV show Grange Hill in 1980 thanks to the broadcaster.

Youngster Robert Wood, from Wallingford, wrote to Sir Jimmy in 1983 asking for a woodland adventure so that he could study moss.

The unusual request was soon fixed, and the five-year-old St Andrew’s School pupil was off on a field trip to explore the Devil’s Punchbowl conservation area in Surrey with David Bellamy and a camera crew in tow.

Ickfield School pupil Victoria Benford, aged 13, played with the Chris Barber Jazz Band on BBC TV after she wrote to the show.

Another young musician, Daryl Bennett, from Carterton, sang a solo in St Paul’s Cathedral thanks to a letter to Jim’ll Fix It.

And it didn’t stop there, as eight-year-old Gudrun Moseley found out in 1985 when she appeared on the show as a cuckoo in a cuckoo clock. Computer trickery was used to shrink the Didcot youngster into a clock on her bedroom wall.

Perhaps one famous fix that Oxford United fans may care not to dwell on was the 1984 match between the U’s and Arsenal.

When 10-year-old Stephen Gray from London asked to referee a game where he could make sure his team won, Jim arranged for him to take charge of a clash between the two clubs here in Oxford.

The youngster was able to send off every Oxford player to ensure a 6-0 victory for the visitors.

In 1977, the presenter didn’t let a recent ankle injury put him off fixing it for children of staff at Broadmoor Hospital to visit Burford’s Cotswold Wildlife Park, hobbling in on crutches.

Two years later he ran 12 miles around the city as part of a month-long charity run.

And when he wasn’t making magical TV moments, the former DJ and marathon runner was busy backing charity campaigns.

One such venture was his £10m appeal for the Stoke Mandeville spinal injuries centre which saw him team up with Bicester firm the British Soap Company to produce novelty soaps in the shape of his trademark badge, with the proceeds going to the cause.