Brass
Brass

Brass

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1983- 1990
3 Seasons
32 Episodes
5.8(8 votes)
Ended
Comedy

Overview

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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Production Companies

Granada Television

Cast & Crew

11 members
Acting

Timothy West

Bradley Hardacre

Timothy West
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Caroline Blakiston

Lady Patience Hardacre

Caroline Blakiston
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James Saxon

Morris Hardacre

James Saxon
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Gail Harrison

Isobel Hardacre

Gail Harrison
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Emily Morgan

Charlotte Hardacre

Emily Morgan
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Barbara Ewing

Agnes Fairchild

Barbara Ewing
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Shaun Scott

Jack Fairchild

Shaun Scott
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Gary Cady

Matthew Fairchild

Gary Cady
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David Ashton

Inspector Hamish McDuff

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Patrick Pearson

Austin Hardacre

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Geoffrey Hutchings

George Fairchild

Geoffrey Hutchings

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