City Lights
1986
📺 5 Seasons
🎬 30 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Comedy
Hapless bank clerk Willie Melvin dreams of being a successful writer but is held back by his own incompetence, the dodgy dealings of his best friend Chancer, and lack of support from his mother, the bank's manager Adam McLelland and his obsequious fellow teller, Brian.
Seasons
Season 1
Willie contemplates leaving his position at the Bank after seemingly managing to sell one of his short stories.
Season 2
Moving on from his mother's into his own swanky flat Willie appears to be moving up in the world. That is until Chancer, freshly released from her majesty's pleasure, reappears dragging Willie into trouble with a figure from Glasgow's criminal underworld.
Season 3
Willie is stood up by Janice at the alter and discovers she has gone to extreme measures to avoid life with the would be author. Mr McClelland meanwhile shockingly discovers why he has been unable to contact Mrs McClelland.
Cast
Network
BBC One
Keywords
banksitcom