Brass
Brass is a British comedy-drama series created by John Stevenson and Julian Roach, and produced by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. Satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s and the American supersoaps such as Dallas and Dynasty, Brass was unusual for ITV comedies of the time, as there was no laugh track and the humour deliberately kept extremely dry, using convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. Set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, two feuding families—the wealthy Hardacres and the poor, working-class Fairchilds, who lived in a small terraced house rented from the Hardacre empire.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Hospital Destruction
21-02-198326mBradley Hardacre has risen from poverty to become the wealthy owner of mine, mill and munitions works in Utterly. The Fairchild family live in a poor home, so what is their connect...
- Ep 2
2.Cambridge
28-02-198326mAustin gets a nasty shock when he walks into his new office. Matthew is excited at the thought of going to Cambridge with Morris and tells his father whilst he is visiting him in t...
- Ep 3
3.Blackleg
07-03-198326mAgnes encourages the now-hungry strikers, whilst Charlotte is 'doing good' at the soup kitchen. As Bradley makes sure George can leave the hospital (to use him for the SBD experime...
- Ep 4
4.Silent Hooter
14-03-198326mLady Patience tells Bradley that his daughter is carrying on with a miner. Agnes informs George that the person Isobel is carrying on with is their son Jack. Bradley agrees to talk...
- Ep 5
5.Pit Collapse
21-03-198326mAs Agnes and other women awaiting news of the trapped miners, the miners themselves are settling to life underground. Bradley hears that his plans are astray as Charlotte reaches t...
- Ep 6
6.Silent But Deadly
28-03-198326mWith Jack unconscious in hospital, Bradley orders Austin to continue with the tunnel, until he reaches the Cottage Hospital, and then let off SBD (Silent But Deadly) to finish him...
- Ep 7
7.Back Home
04-04-198330mGeorge is home from hospital and Agnes tells him that Matt has gone to kill his father, Bradley, so they both go to the hall to inform Bradley. However, Austin has gone one further...
- Ep 8
8.Walking Time Bomb
11-04-198326mAustin celebrates Bradley's demise, unaware that Bradley has in fact bought himself out of hospital, only to find that George hasn't caused the hospital to blow up by putting the S...
- Ep 9
9.Poor Hesketh
18-04-198326mMorris, ashamed at Lady Prudence's affair with Matt, decides to shoot himself but instead takes it out on Hesketh, his bear. Bradley and Austin discuss the fate of George and the S...
- Ep 10
10.Bouncing Bomb
25-04-198326mJack proposes Bradley to sell Isobel off. Bradley agrees but Lady Patience informs him that he'd lost interest in her anyway. Lady Patience tells Matt should he continue to see her...
- Ep 11
11.The Forge Anger
09-05-198326mEveryone's angry with everyone! Bradley with Jack over the forge; Agnes with Jack, again for buying the forge; Isobel also with Jack when Bradley tells her she was sold to him; and...
- Ep 12
12.Hypnosis
16-05-198326mBradley reluctantly agrees to using Jack's truss ranges to hold up the chimney, Big Tom. Guy arrives to help Morris, who is upset because Matt doesn't fancy him. They discuss plans...
- Ep 13
13.The Prince's Visit
23-05-198326mBradley and Austin lecture peasants on proper behaviour for the Prince's visit. Lady Patience gives Agnes a book of Matt's poems published under her name. Matt discovers it and att...
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