Brass

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.

Cast

Timothy West

Bradley Hardacre

Caroline Blakiston

Lady Patience Hardacre

James Saxon

Morris Hardacre

Gail Harrison

Isobel Hardacre

Emily Morgan

Charlotte Hardacre

Barbara Ewing

Agnes Fairchild

Shaun Scott

Jack Fairchild

Gary Cady

Matthew Fairchild

David Ashton

Inspector Hamish McDuff

Patrick Pearson

Austin Hardacre