Brass

The story

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 & crew

Timothy WestBradley Hardacre

Caroline BlakistonLady Patience Hardacre

James SaxonMorris Hardacre

Gail HarrisonIsobel Hardacre

Emily MorganCharlotte Hardacre

Barbara EwingAgnes Fairchild

Shaun ScottJack Fairchild

Gary CadyMatthew Fairchild

David Ashton

David AshtonInspector Hamish McDuff

Patrick Pearson

Patrick PearsonAustin Hardacre

Geoffrey HutchingsGeorge Fairchild