Brass
Brass is just a British comedy drama show created Channel 4 and eventually by Granada Television for ITV.
Set in Utterley, a literary Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, 1970s proved to be a comedy satirising the period dramas of the 1970s along with the American supersoaps like Dallas and Dynasty. Unusually there was no laughter track and also the humor deliberately kept extremely dry, with convoluted wordplay and subtle comment. Brass is northern English slang for"currency" as well as for"effrontery". The show also parodied that the 1977 Granada TV dramatisation of Dickens' Hard Times, which also starred Timothy West.
The show, developed Julian Roach and by John Stevenson, was put around two feuding families--the working-class Fairchilds, who dwelt from the Hardacre tribe in a small house rented along with the wealthy Hardacres. The Hardacre family has been headed by the business man Bradley, who espoused Thatcherite rhetoric when coming up with different schemes to produce his organizations more efficient so he could sack workers, and his aristocratic wife Lady Patience. The head of this Fairchilds was that the stern"Red" Agnes, who spread militant socialist rhetoric around the Hardacre mine, mill and munitions mill, and also her doltish, forelock-tugging husband George, who is dominated by his wife and his manager. Agnes was the mistress of Bradley Hardacre.
Released: 1983-02-21
Genre:
Comedy