• 32
    watchers
  • 176
    plays
  • 93
    collected

Brass

Season 1 1983

  • 1983-02-21T00:00:00Z on ITV
  • 30m
  • 6h 30m (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
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.

13 episodes

Series Premiere

1983-02-21T00:00:00Z

1x01 Episode 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode 1

  • 1983-02-21T00:00:00Z30m

We meet the Hardacre and the Fairchild Families in the town of Utterly. Bradley Hardarce has a monument unveiled to his father but, George Fairchild wished he hadn't.

1983-02-28T00:00:00Z

1x02 Episode 2

1x02 Episode 2

  • 1983-02-28T00:00:00Z30m

Bradley builds a memorial bath house for the town, and Austin has ambitions to rule the entire Hardacre empire with the new explosive developed by Bradley in his hands.

1983-03-07T00:00:00Z

1x03 Episode 3

1x03 Episode 3

  • 1983-03-07T00:00:00Z30m

Tragedy befalls the Memorial Bath House, and Isobel is having an affair with one of the miners. Hard times are all around and the miners are now on strike and Agnes is the leader. Bradley must find a way to stop the strike without costing him anything.

1983-03-14T00:00:00Z

1x04 Episode 4

1x04 Episode 4

  • 1983-03-14T00:00:00Z30m

Isobel wants to marry Jack Fairchild, and Morris has his sights set on young Matthew Fairchild, but Charlotte want him too. Bradley settles the miners strike, then has the mine flooded to get rid of Jack Farchild.

1983-03-21T00:00:00Z

1x05 Episode 5

1x05 Episode 5

  • 1983-03-21T00:00:00Z30m

Bradley floods the mine to kill Jack Fairchild so he can't marry Isobel. Jack and the other miners are saved by Charlotte. Austin must make sure Jack doesn't recover.

1983-03-27T23:00:00Z

1x06 Episode 6

1x06 Episode 6

  • 1983-03-27T23:00:00Z30m

Jack is saved from the mine and falls in love with Charlotte. Isobel and Charlotte fight over Jack. Agnes tells Matthew why he can never marry Charlotte. Bradley Hardarce is Matthews father.

1983-04-03T23:00:00Z

1x07 Episode 7

1x07 Episode 7

  • 1983-04-03T23:00:00Z30m

Bradley tries to use SBT, Silent but deadly to blow up the cottage Hospital. He tricks George Fairchild to be right under it, and give him the explosive in sugar lumps. Meanwhile, Lady Patience is teaching young Matthew Fairchild all about the facts of life.

1983-04-10T23:00:00Z

1x08 Episode 8

1x08 Episode 8

  • 1983-04-10T23:00:00Z30m

The SBT is under the Cottage Hospital, and Austin wants his cut of the action. Bradley refuses the offer, and Austin knocks Bradley out and has him taken to the Cottage Hospital is recover. Bradley wakes up just in time to panic.

1983-04-17T23:00:00Z

1x09 Episode 9

1x09 Episode 9

  • 1983-04-17T23:00:00Z30m

Bradley panics when he finds himself in the Cottage Hospital, and begs to be released. Bradley is released and confronts Austin with his attempt to take over the family business. The Cottage does not blow up, and both Bradley and Austin seek answers from George Fairchild.

1983-04-24T23:00:00Z

1x10 Episode 10

1x10 Episode 10

  • 1983-04-24T23:00:00Z30m

The SBT did not go off, because George put them in cold tea. Bradley and Austin must get those lumps out of George. Doctor McDuff find an old stomach pump, and George has to cough up the sugar lumps

1983-05-08T23:00:00Z

1x11 Episode 11

1x11 Episode 11

  • 1983-05-08T23:00:00Z30m

Jack is discharged from the hospital a changed man, and now he is in love with Charlotte. Isobel does not take the news well, and neither does Jacks mother.

1983-05-15T23:00:00Z

1x12 Episode 12

1x12 Episode 12

  • 1983-05-15T23:00:00Z30m

Bradley wants to be a British Lord, and Jack sells his interest in Isobel to set up his own forge. George has another accident with the new Bouncing Bomb. Matthew tell Charlotte a lie to spare her feelings, and Bradley thinks Lord Mountfast would be the perfect future husband for Isobel.

1983-05-22T23:00:00Z

1x13 Episode 13

1x13 Episode 13

  • 1983-05-22T23:00:00Z30m

Doctor McDuff thnks he cured Lady Patience now that she can walk. The King is on the way to lay a foundation stone at the Hardacre Memorial Privy, and Charlotte gets the idea to protest the new rent hikes, by riding through town naked on Black Beauty. Isobel is determined to join the protest, but Big Tom, the Huge chimmeny, is starting to wobble with Matt and Jack sitting on top

Loading...