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Brass

  • 1983 –1990
  • Ended
  • PG

★ 6.1 TMDB Rating · 9 votes

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.

Created by
John Stevenson, Julian Roach
Seasons
3
Episodes
32
Episode length
~30m
First aired
Feb 21, 1983
Networks
ITV1, Channel 4
Original language
English
Origin
United Kingdom

Cast of Brass

  • Portrait of Timothy West

    Timothy West

    Bradley Hardacre

  • Portrait of Caroline Blakiston

    Caroline Blakiston

    Lady Patience Hardacre

  • Portrait of James Saxon

    James Saxon

    Morris Hardacre

  • Portrait of Gail Harrison

    Gail Harrison

    Isobel Hardacre

  • Portrait of Emily Morgan

    Emily Morgan

    Charlotte Hardacre

  • Portrait of Barbara Ewing

    Barbara Ewing

    Agnes Fairchild

  • Portrait of Shaun Scott

    Shaun Scott

    Jack Fairchild

  • Portrait of Gary Cady

    Gary Cady

    Matthew Fairchild

  • David Ashton

    Inspector Hamish McDuff

  • Patrick Pearson

    Austin Hardacre

  • Portrait of Geoffrey Hutchings

    Geoffrey Hutchings

    George Fairchild

Seasons

  • Series 1

    Feb 21, 1983

    13 episodes

  • Series 2

    May 21, 1984

    13 episodes

  • Series 3

    Apr 23, 1990

    6 episodes

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