Brass complete series 1 - 3

Brass complete series 1 - 3

Brass was a British television comedy-drama, made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4.

Set mostly in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass was a comedy satirising the working-class period dramas of the 1970s (most significantly When the Boat Comes In) and the American supersoaps such as Dallas and Dynasty. Unusually for ITV comedies of the time, there was no laughter track and the humour deliberately kept extremely dry, using convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. Brass is northern English slang for "money" as well as for "effrontery". The series also gleefully parodied the 1977 Granada TV dramatisation of Dickens' Hard Times, which also starred Timothy West.

The series, created by John Stevenson and Julian Roach, was set around two feuding families—the wealthy Hardacres and the poor, working-class Fairchilds, who lived in a small terraced house rented from the Hardacre empire. The Hardacre family was headed by the ruthless self-made businessman Bradley (Timothy West), who espoused Thatcherite rhetoric while coming up with various harebrained schemes to make his businesses more efficient so he could sack workers, and his alcoholic aristocratic wife Lady Patience (Caroline Blakiston). The head of the Fairchilds was the stern "Red" Agnes (Barbara Ewing), who spread militant socialist rhetoric around the Hardacre mine, mill and munitions factory, and her doltish, forelock-tugging husband George (Geoffrey Hinsliff— Geoffrey Hutchings in the 1990 series), who is dominated by his wife and his boss. In a twist, Agnes was also Bradley Hardacre's mistress.

Series 1 (1983) - 13 episodes
Series 2 (1984) - 13 episodes
Series 3 (1990) - 6 episodes

This is a repackaged torrent of individual series, so that you can download the whole lot in one go. Please seed and share back.

Originally uploaded 14th Aug 2014, but am reindexing after an error wiped out my torrents. This is an old upload, so please be patient as there may only be one or two seeders left out there. I don't have the bandwidth right now to seed again from scratch but will give it a seed over the next week or so