 In March 2007, Oakley announced that he was working on some television programmes about silver surfing.Oakley was part of a BBC documentary in which he was recruited as one of The Zimmers, a group of pensioners whom the documentary maker Tim Samuels brought together to sing The Who's classic "My Generation" to highlight the plight of pensioners in modern Britain.The single was released in May 2007 to raise money for the charity Age Concern.