8.0/101 votes#1 - In
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/7/1976
First episode of a TV series about a young working-class lecturer with an uncompromising commitment to socialism who is elected to Parliament as a Labour MP.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#2 - You Wanna Be a Hero, Get Yourself a White Horse
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/14/1976
Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#3 - Yarn
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/21/1976
Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/108 votes
#4 - Now and in England
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/28/1976
Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#5 - August for the Party
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/5/1976
Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#6 - Resolution
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/12/1976
Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#7 - Tranquillity of the Realm
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/19/1976
Brand surprises and alarms his colleagues on the standing committee for an anti-terrorism bill by using it as a platform from which to berate the Government.
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#8 - Rabbles
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/26/1976
Brand's love story with Alex ends, while he is censured by his constituency over his behaviour on the Prevention of Terrorism Act Committee.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/108 votes
#9 - Anybody's
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/2/1976
Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/108 votes
#10 - Revisions
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/9/1976
Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.
Director: Stuart Burge
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/101 votes
#11 - It Is the People Who Create
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/16/1976
Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: N/A
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Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.
Genre:Drama
Network:ITV1
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"In" is the best rated episode of "Bill Brand" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and written by N/A, it aired on 6/7/1976. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "You Wanna Be a Hero, Get Yourself a White Horse".