After making his name on radio and in a long-running show at Glasgow’s famed Pavillion Theatre, Clydebank-born comedian Lex McLean was finally given his own short BBC Scotland series in 1968 at a time when viewers north of the border were waiting to welcome a fresh face among the funny men on the small screen.
Lex was football-mad and supported his local team, the Drumshuckie Rangers.
The cast of supporting players changed weekly and included Walter Carr, Victor Carin, Archie Duncan, Douglas Murchie, Molly Weir and Brian Carey. The variety side of things was handled by Billy Denison and Lex’s stage sidekick, personality girl Margo Bentley.
The series was devised and partly scripted by John G Temple (with Dave Bryson).
McLean returned in 12 episodes of Lex Again in 1969 and 1970.
Lex McLean (born Alexander McLean Cameron) died of pneumonia on 23 March 1975 at his Dunbartonshire home. He had been in ill health since collapsing on stage at the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh in 1971.
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