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Brass

Brass

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Worth a look

1983–1990 · TV · 3 seasons · 32 episodes

The read

The series ran 3 seasons across 32 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

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.

Ratings

IMDb8.1/10

9 audience votes

Seasons

1Series 113 ep1983
2Series 213 ep1984
3Series 36 ep1990

Key crew

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Themes

satireparodybreaking the fourth wallworking classpovertysocial realismsitcomfamily dynamicsnorth of englandfeuding familiesdrama comedy