Brass (1983)

Genre

comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Length

3 seasons, 32 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a British comedy drama set in a 1930s Lancashire mining town. It makes fun of earlier working-class TV shows and uses wordplay and clever jokes instead of a laugh track.

satiricaldrywittynostalgiccleverperiodplayfulsharp

What happens

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, and also the 1977 Granada TV dramatisation of Dickens' Hard Times, which also starred Timothy West. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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