TV series · 1983
Brass
First aired 21 February 1983 Comedy TMDB ↗
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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Geoffrey Hinsliff
as George Fairchild
Barbara Ewing
as Agnes Fairchild
Geoffrey Hutchings
as George Fairchild
Patrick Pearson
as Austin Hardacre
Gary Cady
as Matthew Fairchild
Gail Harrison
as Isobel Hardacre
Shaun Scott
as Jack Fairchild
Robert Reynolds
as Austin Hardacre
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Raymond Huntley
as Judge
John Hollis
as Arthur
Caroline Blakiston
as Lady Patience Hardacre
Christopher Benjamin
as Sir Dudley Tilstock
Timothy West
as Bradley Hardacre
Timothy West
as Winston Churchill
Ann Rye
as Miss Penelope Betterway
Ian Richardson
as Marshall Snelgrove, QC
David Ashton
as Dr McDuff
David Ashton
as Inspector Hamish McDuff
John Grillo
as Seymour Pugh
Anthony Smee
as Guy Baggers
James Saxon
as Morris Hardacre
David Bamber
as Heseltine
Bill Monks
as Job Lott
Stephen Bill
as Young Scargill
Emily Morgan
as Charlotte Hardacre