Brass
Brass is actually a British comedy drama series made by Granada Television for ITV and Channel 4.
Set a literary Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, in Utterley, 1970s proved to be a humor satirising the working period dramas of the 1970s along with the American supersoaps such as Dynasty and Dallas. Unusually there clearly was no laughter track and also the humor kept dry, with subtle and convoluted word play commentary on popular culture. Brass is northern English slang for"money" as well as for"effrontery". The series also gleefully parodied that the 1977 Granada television dramatisation of Dickens' Hard Times, which also starred Timothy West.
The sequence, created by John Stevenson and Julian Roach, was place around two feuding families--the Hardacres as well as the poor, working-class Fairchilds, who dwelt at a terraced house rented. The Hardacre family had been led by the businessman Bradley, who espoused Thatcherite rhetoric while discovering different schemes to make his organizations more effective so he could bag workers, along with his alcoholic aristocratic wife Lady Patience. The mind of this Fairchilds was that the stern"Red" Agnes, who spread militant socialist rhetoric round the Hardacre mine, mill and munitions mill, along with her doltish, forelock-tugging husband George, who's dominated by his wife along with his boss. Agnes was Bradley Hardacre's mistress.
Released: 1983-02-21
Genre:
Comedy
