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,…
Caroline Blakiston
Lady Patience Hardacre
Created by
John Stevenson·Julian Roach
Top cast
Caroline Blakiston·James Saxon·Gail Harrison·Emily Morgan·Barbara Ewing·Shaun Scott·Gary Cady·David Ashton