City Lights - S2E1 "The Longest Day" Part 1
"City Lights" was a Scottish sitcom set in Glasgow starring Gerard Kelly as Wullie Melvin, a banker with dreams of becoming a novelist. The show piloted in 1985, and after initial success, it was screened across the UK on BBC2.
At last on Youtube, we have rare full episodes of the TV series, which despite being a mainstay for the last half of the 80's, has not been released on DVD. This is the first episode of the 2nd series (might be the 3rd series though) and the episode is entitled "The Longest Day". The 3 first 3 episodes of this series are on Youtube. The theme tune is pretty good with an echoing guitar, that does it a dated feel for these days, but it's got a very Scottish feel, it has "Proclaimers" feel to it. The guitar also sounds in the same vein as the one in the iconic "Arena" documentary series theme. It features some of the soon-to-be main, cream of Scottish up-coming talent, featuring Elaine C. Smith as banking associates Irene, and Johnathan Watson as smug, slimy and always-gets-his-just-desserts Brian, a bank stooge to manager Mr McLelland (played by Dave Anderson).
In this episode, we see Wullie realise his dream of having his "My Childhood Up a Close"novel published andto be premiered in top Glasgow book shop, "John Smith & Son". As he arrives gracefully and fans are queueing up applauding his appearnce, awaiting their own copies to be autographed by the one and only, is this too good to be true?
Other characters featured were, Wullie's scheming, common mate, Chancer (Andy Gray), Chancer's mate dim-witted Tam (Ian McColl) and his awful mother (Jan Wilson).
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