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Bill Brand

Season 1 1976

  • 1976-06-06T23:00:00Z on ITV
  • 1h
  • 11h (11 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.

11 episodes

Series Premiere

1976-06-06T23:00:00Z

1x01 In

Series Premiere

1x01 In

  • 1976-06-06T23:00:00Z1h

First episode of a TV series about a young working-class lecturer with an uncompromising commitment to socialism who is elected to Parliament as a Labour MP.

Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.

1976-06-20T23:00:00Z

1x03 Yarn

1x03 Yarn

  • 1976-06-20T23:00:00Z1h

Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.

1976-06-27T23:00:00Z

1x04 Now and in England

1x04 Now and in England

  • 1976-06-27T23:00:00Z1h

Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.

1976-07-04T23:00:00Z

1x05 August for the Party

1x05 August for the Party

  • 1976-07-04T23:00:00Z1h

Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.

1976-07-11T23:00:00Z

1x06 Resolution

1x06 Resolution

  • 1976-07-11T23:00:00Z1h

Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.

1976-07-18T23:00:00Z

1x07 Tranquillity of the Realm

1x07 Tranquillity of the Realm

  • 1976-07-18T23:00:00Z1h

Brand surprises and alarms his colleagues on the standing committee for an anti-terrorism bill by using it as a platform from which to berate the Government.

1976-07-25T23:00:00Z

1x08 Rabbles

1x08 Rabbles

  • 1976-07-25T23:00:00Z1h

Brand's love story with Alex ends, while he is censured by his constituency over his behaviour on the Prevention of Terrorism Act Committee.

1976-08-01T23:00:00Z

1x09 Anybody's

1x09 Anybody's

  • 1976-08-01T23:00:00Z1h

Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.

1976-08-08T23:00:00Z

1x10 Revisions

1x10 Revisions

  • 1976-08-08T23:00:00Z1h

Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.

1x11 It Is the People Who Create

  • 1976-08-15T23:00:00Z1h

Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.

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