Brass

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.

• Les ChatfieldDirector
• John StevensonWriter
• Julian RoachWriter

• 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 AshtonInspector Hamish McDuff
• Patrick PearsonAustin Hardacre
• Geoffrey HutchingsGeorge Fairchild