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TMDB Rating 5.4

Series Details

Seasons: 3

Total Episodes: 32

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Networks: ITV1

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Feb 21, 1983

Recent Air Date: May 28, 1990

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

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Synopsis

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.


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Timothy West

Timothy West

Age : N/A | Popularity : 40%

Caroline Blakiston

Caroline Blakiston

Age : 91 | Popularity : 43%

James Saxon

James Saxon

Age : N/A | Popularity : 10%

Barbara Ewing

Barbara Ewing

Age : N/A | Popularity : 14%

Geoffrey Hinsliff

Geoffrey Hinsliff

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

David Ashton

David Ashton

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%


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