Gareth Jenkins (actor)

In the 1980s, Gareth Jenkins was a child who wrote into the BBC One audience wish-fulfilment programme, Jim'll Fix It, to ask if they could let him star in his own episode of Doctor Who. As a part of the request, he demonstrated that he already had a complete Sixth Doctor's costume, which had been made for him by his grandmother.

The producers of Jim'll Fix It agreed, and worked with John Nathan-Turner's staff at Doctor Who to create the mini-episode, A Fix with Sontarans. Jenkins — and his kid-sized Sixth Doctor's costume — did indeed play a major role in it, opposite Colin Baker and Janet Fielding. At the conclusion of the episode, Baker presented Jenkins with both a Jim'll Fix It medal and the "meson gun" prop to keep. After pressings of A Fix with Sontarans were pulled from DVD copies of The Two Doctors by BBC Worldwide following the accusations brought against Savile as of 2014 a recut edition of A Fix with Sontarans for the Doctor Who: The Collection — Season 22 blu-ray boxset, a new CG scene replaced the original ending with Savile, thus cutting Jenkins's scene with the individual. This re-release also featured a new commentary with Gareth Jenkins, alongside Colin Baker, Janet Fielding, and Toby Hadoke.

Jenkins reunited with Colin Baker at a signing event in January 2013.

He now works as head of campaigns for the Save the Children charity, and still has his Jim'll Fix It medal. In 2015, he was interviewed by Toby Hadoke for Round 107 of Toby Hadoke's Who's Round. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.