
Brass
Brass is a British comedy-drama series made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Set mostly in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass was a comedy satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s a...
Brass
Brass is a British comedy-drama series made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Set mostly in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass was a comedy satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s and the American supersoaps such as Dallas and Dynasty. Unusually for ITV comedies of the time, there was no laughter track and the humour deliberately kept extremely dry, using convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. Brass is northern English slang for "money" as well as for "effrontery". The series also gleefully parodied the 1977 Granada TV dramatisation of Dickens' Hard Times, which also starred Timothy West. The series, created by John Stevenson and Julian Roach, was set around two feuding families—the wealthy Hardacres and the poor, working-class Fairchilds, who lived in a small terraced house rented from the Hardacre empire. The Hardacre family was headed by the ruthless self-made businessman Bradley, who espoused Thatcherite rhetoric while coming up with various harebrained schemes to make his businesses more efficient so he could sack workers, and his alcoholic aristocratic wife Lady Patience. The head of the Fairchilds was the stern "Red" Agnes, who spread militant socialist rhetoric around the Hardacre mine, mill and munitions factory, and her doltish, forelock-tugging husband George, who is dominated by his wife and his boss. In a twist, Agnes was also Bradley Hardacre's mistress.
Brass
Brass is a British comedy-drama series made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Set mostly in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass was a comedy satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s a...

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Episode 1: Hospital Destruction
We meet the Hardacre and the Fairchild families in the town of Utterly. Bradley Hardarce has a monum...
Episode 2: Cambridge
Bradley builds a memorial bath house for the town, and Austin has ambitions to rule the entire Harda...
Episode 3: Blackleg
Tragedy befalls the Memorial Bath House, and Isobel is having an affair with one of the miners. Hard...
Episode 4: Silent Hooter
Isobel wants to marry Jack Fairchild, and Morris has his sights set on young Matthew Fairchild, but...
Episode 5: Pit Collapse
Bradley floods the mine to kill Jack Fairchild so he can't marry Isobel. Jack and the other miners a...
Episode 6: Silent But Deadly
Jack is saved from the mine and falls in love with Charlotte. Isobel and Charlotte fight over Jack....
Episode 7: Back Home
Bradley tries to use SBD (Silent But Deadly) to blow up the cottage hospital. He tricks George Fairc...
Episode 8: Walking Time Bomb
The SBD is under the Cottage Hospital, and Austin wants his cut of the action. Bradley refuses the o...
Episode 9: Poor Hesketh
Bradley panics when he finds himself in the Cottage Hospital, and begs to be released. Bradley is re...
Episode 10: Bouncing Bomb
The SBD did not go off, because George put them in cold tea. Bradley and Austin must get those lumps...
Episode 11: The Forge Anger
Jack is discharged from the hospital a changed man, and now he is in love with Charlotte. Isobel doe...
Episode 12: Hypnosis
Bradley wants to be ennobled as a lord, and Jack sells his interest in Isobel to set up his own forg...
Episode 13: The Prince's Visit
Doctor McDuff thinks he has cured Lady Patience now that she can walk. The King is on His way to lay...
Episode 1: Rent Protest
As the Prince lays the new stone at the Cottage Hospital, McDuff drops his trousers and Isobel and C...
Episode 2: Inheritance
Charlotte inherits a large sum of money on her birthday. Jack refuses a deal with Austin. Guy tells...
Episode 3: Hallucinogen
McDuff decides SBD is a hallucinogen. Bradley pays Jack for his work on Big Tom and offers him the l...
Episode 4: Jack Loves Charlotte
Morris confronts Matthew about his homosexuality, who doesn't deny it but declares himself celibate....
Episode 5: Is Bradley Insane?
Austin tells the family he thinks Bradley is insane. An epidemic is raging and McDuff says the cause...
Episode 6: Election
Bradley gets out of being certified and turns the tables on Austin. George, blackened but alive, is...
Episode 7: By-Election
Austin hears Lord Sodbury has died at the chiropodist's which means Seymour Pugh will go to the Hous...
Episode 8: Jack's Proposal
Bradley tells Austin he has to marry Cynthia Dudcock. Bradley offers to send Man to Paris to paint,...
Episode 9: Inspector McDuff
Hardacre looks at Mountfast's body. Sgt Pepper says a tramp will have done it. McDuff says his broth...
Episode 10: Marshall Snelgrove
Charlotte and Isobel visit Patience in prison and tell her she's to have the finest defence lawyer....
Episode 11: The Trial
During round table discussion Bradley tells George pithead baths will be installed in order to get l...
Episode 12: Charlotte's Letter
Charlotte receives a solicitor's letter saying she will inherit Mountfast's money. Bradley is inform...
Episode 13: Arms Sales Boost
Bradley and Jack rejoice in the arms sales boosted by the Spanish civil war but Bradley feels a worl...
Episode 1: Bradley Pulls It Off
London 1939: Bradley Hardacre has much to gain from another war and prevents his son Austin from ret...
Episode 2: Bradley Sticks It Out
When Bradley Hardacre hears of the government's plan to scrap the production of his latest invention...
Episode 3: Bradley Gets on Top
When Bradley Hardacre hears of the government's plan to scrap the production of his latest invention...
Episode 4: Bradley Holds His Own
Bradley Hardacre and Winston Churchill share their opinions on how the war is being conducted. Jack...
Episode 5: Bradley Does His Bit
Bradley purchases a country estate. Inspector McDuff has new evidence implicating Matthew. Jack Fair...
Episode 6: Their Finest Half Hour
Bradley prepares the grounds at his new country estate for a cricket match. Morris and Matthew meet...
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