Brass

6.11983Comedy

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.

First aired1983-02-21

Runtime30 min

StatusEnded

Seasons3

Episodes32

CountriesUnited Kingdom

Original languageEN

SpokenEnglish

DirectorLes Chatfield

Created byJohn Stevenson, Julian Roach

WritersJohn Stevenson, Julian Roach

NetworksITV1, Channel 4