Brass

Gritty, Northern mining drama meets Dallas. Bradley Hardacre runs the local mine and has to deal with his very strange family as well as the trouble caused by his workers, led by the redoubtable Agnes Fairchild (she of the heaving bosom). Comedy show full of references to other TV shows as well as various historical events.

Cast

• Timothy West
• Caroline Blakiston
• Barbara Ewing
• David Ashton
• James Saxon
• Gail Harrison
• Emily Morgan
• Shaun Scott
• Gary Cady
• Robert Reynolds
• Geoffrey Hinsliff
• Bill Monks
• Anthony Smee
• John de Frates
• Geoffrey Hutchings
• Patrick Pearson
• John Pickles
• Philip Bird
• Thomas Hannay Matthews
• Joanna David
• John Nettleton
• Alison Lloyd
• Ian Richardson
• Simeon Andrews
• John Pullen

• Season 1
• Episode 1: (#1.1)
  Bradley Hardacre has risen from poverty to become the wealthy owner of mine, mill and munitions work...
• Episode 2: (#1.2)
  Austin Hardacre gets a nasty shock when he walks into his new office. Matthew Fairchild is excited a...
• Episode 3: (#1.3)
  Agnes encourages the now-hungry strikers, whilst Charlotte is "doing good" at the soup kitchen. As B...
• Episode 4: (#1.4)
  Lady Patience tells Bradley that his daughter is carrying on with a miner. Agnes tells George that t...
• Episode 5: (#1.5)
  As Agnes and other women are waiting for news of the miners trapped down the pit, the miners themsel...
• Episode 6: (#1.6)
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• Episode 7: (#1.7)
  George is home from hospital and Agnes tells him that Matt has gone to kill his father, Bradley Hard...
• Episode 8: (#1.8)
  As Austin celebrates Bradley's death, Bradley buys himself out of the hospital only to find that Geo...
• Episode 9: (#1.9)
  Morris is ashamed at Lady P's affair with Matt and so decides to shoot himself but instead takes it ...
• Episode 10: (#1.10)
  Jack has a proposition for Bradley: sell Isobel off. Bradley agrees but Lady P informs him that he'd...
• Episode 11: (#1.11)
  Bradley is angry with Jack over the forge, Agnes is angry too with lack, again for buying the forge....
• Episode 12: (#1.12)
  Bradley reluctantly agrees to using lack's truss Ranges to hold up the chimney, Big Tom. Guy arrives...
• Episode 13: (#1.13)
  Bradley and Austin lecture peasants on how to behave for the Prince's visit. Lady P visits Matt, but...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: (#2.1)
  As the Prince lays the new stone at the Cottage Hospital McDuff drops his trousers and Isobel and Ch...
• Episode 2: (#2.2)
  Charlotte inherits a large sum of money on her birthday. Jack refuses a deal with Austin. Guy tells ...
• Episode 3: (#2.3)
  McDuff decides SBD is a hallucinogen. Bradley pays Jack for his work on Big Tom and offers him the l...
• Episode 4: (#2.4)
  Morris confronts Matt about his homosexuality, who doesn't deny it but declares himself celibate. Ja...
• Episode 5: (#2.5)
  Austin tells the family he thinks Bradley is insane. An epidemic is raging and McDuff says the cause...
• Episode 6: (#2.6)
  Bradley gets out of being certified and turns the tables on Austin. George, blackened but alive, is ...
• Episode 7: (#2.7)
  Austin hears Lord Sodbury has died at the chiropodists which means Seymour Pugh will go to the House...
• Episode 8: (#2.8)
  Bradley tells Austin he has to marry Cynthia Dudcock. Bradley offers to send Man to Paris to paint, ...
• Episode 9: (#2.9)
  Hardacre looks at Mountfast's body. Sgt Pepper says a tramp will have done it. McDuff says his broth...
• Episode 10: (#2.10)
  Charlotte and Isobel visit Patience in prison and tell her she's to have the finest defence lawyer. ...
• Episode 11: (#2.11)
  During round table discussion Bradley tells George pithead baths will be installed in order to get l...
• Episode 12: (#2.12)
  Charlotte receives a solicitor's loner saying she will inherit Monntast's money. Bradley is informed...
• Episode 13: (#2.13)
  Bradley and Jack rejoice in the arms sales boosted by the Spanish civil war but Bradley feels a worl...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: Bradley Pulls It Off
  London 1939: Bradley Hardacre has much to gain from another war and prevents his son Austin from ret...
• Episode 2: Bradley Sticks It Out
  When Bradley Hardacre hears of the government's plans to scrap the production of his latest inventio...
• Episode 3: Bradley Gets on Top
  When Bradley Hardacre hears of the government's plans to scrap the production of his latest inventio...
• Episode 4: Bradley Holds His Own
  Bradley Hardacre and Winston Churchill share their opinions on how the war is being conducted. Jack ...
• Episode 5: Bradley Does His Bit
  Bradley purchases a country estate. Inspector McDuff has new evidence implicating Matthew. Jack Fair...
• Episode 6: Their Finest Half Hour
  Bradley prepares the grounds at his new country estate for a cricket match. Morris and Matthew meet ...