Brass (TV series)

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Brass
Genre	Comedy-Drama
Directed by	Les Chatfield
Starring	Timothy West Caroline Blakiston Barbara Ewing David Ashton James Saxon Geoffrey Hinsliff Gary Cady
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	32
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Granada Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	21 February 1983 (1983-02-21) – 20 August 1984 (1984-08-20)
Network	Channel 4
Release	23 April (1990-04-23) – 28 May 1990 (1990-05-28)
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Brass is a British television comedy drama, made by Granada Television for ITV and eventually Channel 4. "Brass" is northern English slang for "money" as well as for "effrontery". The series was set primarily in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass satirized working-class period dramas of the 1970s, most significantly When the Boat Comes In. Unusually for ITV comedies of the time, Brass eschewed a laugh track and used a dry sense of humour based in part on convoluted wordplay and subtle commentary on popular culture. The series also parodied the 1977 Granada TV dramatisation of Dickens' Hard Times, which also starred Timothy West.