City Lights (TV series)

This article is about the BBC Scotland show. For the ITV show, see City Lights (ITV series). For the Canadian show, see City Lights (1973 TV series).

City Lights
Genre	Comedy
Written by	Bob Black
Directed by	Ron Bain Colin Gilbert
Starring	Dave Anderson Andy Gray Gerard Kelly Iain McColl
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	37
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Original run	1984 – 1991

City Lights is a Scottish television sitcom made by BBC Scotland and set in Glasgow. It ran from 1985 to 1991 (networked 1987 to 1991) and was written by Bob Black. Two stage shows, featuring the original cast, toured Scotland.

It starred the late Gerard Kelly as Willie Melvin, a bank-teller at the fictional Strathclyde Savings Bank (whose logo was very similar to the TSB), with dreams of becoming a novelist. Most of the plots revolved around his attempts to get his book, the autobiographical My Childhood Up A Close, published.

He was held back in this by his own incompetence, the dodgy dealings of his best friend Chancer (Andy Gray), and the lack of support he gained from his mother (Jan Wilson), the bank's manager Adam McLelland (Dave Anderson) and his obsequious fellow teller, Brian (Jonathan Watson). Other recurring characters included Chancer's friend Tam (Ian McColl) and Willie's love interests, Vicki (Louise Beattie, Series 1) and Fiona (Ann Bryson, Series 4 and 5).

External links

• City Lights at BBC Online Comedy Guide
• City Lights at the Internet Movie Database
• City Lights at British TV Resources