
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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Air Date: 1983-02-21
Bradley Hardacre has risen from poverty to become the wealthy owner of mine, mill and munitions works in Utterly. The...
Air Date: 1983-02-28
Austin gets a nasty shock when he walks into his new office. Matthew is excited at the thought of going to Cambridge ...
Air Date: 1983-03-07
Agnes encourages the now-hungry strikers, whilst Charlotte is 'doing good' at the soup kitchen. As Bradley makes sure...
Air Date: 1983-03-14
Lady Patience tells Bradley that his daughter is carrying on with a miner. Agnes informs George that the person Isobe...
Air Date: 1983-03-21
As Agnes and other women awaiting news of the trapped miners, the miners themselves are settling to life underground....
Air Date: 1983-03-28
With Jack unconscious in hospital, Bradley orders Austin to continue with the tunnel, until he reaches the Cottage Ho...
Air Date: 1983-04-04
George is home from hospital and Agnes tells him that Matt has gone to kill his father, Bradley, so they both go to t...
Air Date: 1983-04-11
Austin celebrates Bradley's demise, unaware that Bradley has in fact bought himself out of hospital, only to find tha...
Air Date: 1983-04-18
Morris, ashamed at Lady Prudence's affair with Matt, decides to shoot himself but instead takes it out on Hesketh, hi...
Air Date: 1983-04-25
Jack proposes Bradley to sell Isobel off. Bradley agrees but Lady Patience informs him that he'd lost interest in her...
Air Date: 1983-05-09
Everyone's angry with everyone! Bradley with Jack over the forge; Agnes with Jack, again for buying the forge; Isobel...
Air Date: 1983-05-16
Bradley reluctantly agrees to using Jack's truss ranges to hold up the chimney, Big Tom. Guy arrives to help Morris, ...
Air Date: 1983-05-23
Bradley and Austin lecture peasants on proper behaviour for the Prince's visit. Lady Patience gives Agnes a book of M...