Julian Roach
Director
Brass (1983)
Season 1
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.
Released Feb. 21, 1983
Episode 30 min
10+
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: tmdb.working-class, tmdb.family-feud, imdb.north-of-england, imdb.industrial-action, imdb.mill-owner, imdb.industrialist, imdb.cleavage + 15 more, imdb.breaking-fourth-wall, imdb.northern-accent, imdb.scottish-accent, imdb.teddy-bear, imdb.multiple-actors-for-one-character, imdb.woman-uses-a-wheelchair, imdb.spoof, imdb.industry, imdb.poverty, imdb.parody, imdb.social-realism, imdb.infidelity, imdb.family-secrets, imdb.marriage, imdb.parody-comedy
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Hospital Destruction
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.
Feb. 21, 1983, midnight
S1E2 - Cambridge
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.
Feb. 28, 1983, midnight
S1E3 - Blackleg
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.
March 7, 1983, midnight
S1E4 - Silent Hooter
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.
March 14, 1983, midnight
S1E5 - Pit Collapse
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.
March 21, 1983, midnight
S1E6 - Silent But Deadly
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 Matthew's father.
March 28, 1983, midnight
S1E7 - Back Home
Bradley tries to use SBD (Silent But Deadly) to blow up the cottage hospital. He tricks George Fairchild to be right under it, and gives him the explosive in sugar lumps. Meanwhile, Lady Patience is teaching young Matthew Fairchild all about the facts of life.
April 4, 1983, midnight
S1E8 - Walking Time Bomb
The SBD 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 to recover. Bradley wakes up just in time to panic.
April 11, 1983, midnight
S1E9 - Poor Hesketh
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 Hospital does not blow up, and both Bradley and Austin seek answers from George Fairchild.
April 18, 1983, midnight
S1E10 - Bouncing Bomb
The SBD did not go off, because George put them in cold tea. Bradley and Austin must get those lumps out of George. Doctor McDuff finds an old stomach pump, and George has to cough up the sugar lumps.
April 25, 1983, midnight
S1E11 - The Forge Anger
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 Jack's mother.
May 9, 1983, midnight
S1E12 - Hypnosis
Bradley wants to be ennobled as a lord, and Jack sells his interest in Isobel to set up his own forge. George has another accident with the new Bouncing Bomb. Matthew tells Charlotte a lie to spare her feelings, and Bradley thinks Lord Mountfast would be the perfect husband for Isobel.
May 16, 1983, midnight
S1E13 - The Prince's Visit
Doctor McDuff thinks he has cured Lady Patience now that she can walk. The King is on His 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 Brass Beauty. Isobel is determined to join the protest, but Big Tom, the huge chimney, is starting to wobble with Matthew and Jack sitting on top.
May 23, 1983, midnight
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Feb. 21, 1983
Last Air Date: May 28, 1990, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR / 10+
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