City Lights (1984 TV series) Cast THEN and NOW, The cast is tragically old!!
It starred 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, however his efforts are continually thwarted by both his own incompetence and overall gullibility. He also occasionally gets involved in the antics of best friend Chancer Andy Gray, who has a penchant for get-rich-quick schemes and dodgy dealings that backfire, and Willie often gets caught up in the resulting mess. None of this ingratiates Willie with his long suffering boss and bank manager McLelland (who is always looking for an excuse to fire him), and constantly exasperates his mother, played by Jan Wilson.
