Brass
Brass is just actually a British comedy-drama show produced by Granada Television for ITV and Channel 4.
Found mostly a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, in Utterley, Brass was a comedy satirising the American supersoaps such as Dynasty and Dallas and the period dramas of the 1970s. Unusually there clearly was no laughter track and the humour deliberately kept exceptionally dry, with subtle and elaborate wordplay comment. Brass is northern English slang for"currency" as well as for"effrontery". The show gleefully parodied the 1977 Granada television dramatisation of all Dickens' Hard Times, which also starred Timothy West.
The show, developed Julian Roach and by John Stevenson, has been place around two feuding families--the poor, working class Fairchilds, who lived at a terraced house leased from the Hardacre tribe as well as the Hardacres. The Hardacre family was headed by the business man Bradley, who espoused rhetoric when discovering different harebrained strategies to create his companies more efficient therefore he could bag workers, and his aristocratic wife Lady Patience. The mind of this Fairchilds has been the stern"Red" Agnes, who spread militant socialist rhetoric round the Hardacre mine, mill along with munitions factory, and also her doltish, forelock-tugging husband George, who is dominated by his own wife and his manager. In a spin, Agnes was the mistress of Bradley Hardacre.
Released: 1983-02-21
Genre:
Comedy