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The Best Episodes of Brass Season 1

Every episode of Brass Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Brass Season 1!

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Brass Season 1 Episode 1 - Hospital Destruction
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    #1 - Hospital Destruction

    S1:E1

    Bradley Hardacre has risen from poverty to become the wealthy owner of mine, mill and munitions works in Utterly. The Fairchild family live in a poor home, so what is their connection to Bradley and why does he wants to destroy the Cottage Hospital?

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Brass Season 1 Episode 2 - Cambridge
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    #2 - Cambridge

    S1:E2

    Austin gets a nasty shock when he walks into his new office. Matthew is excited at the thought of going to Cambridge with Morris and tells his father whilst he is visiting him in the Cottage Hospital; however, he sees Charlotte Hardacre there and the attraction continues, which in turn upsets Morris, who gains revenge by changing Matt's job.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Brass Season 1 Episode 3 - Blackleg
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    #3 - Blackleg

    S1:E3

    Agnes encourages the now-hungry strikers, whilst Charlotte is 'doing good' at the soup kitchen. As Bradley makes sure George can leave the hospital (to use him for the SBD experiments), Jack and Isobel are again found in the stables, and Agnes discovers that Matt has lost his good job and is now digging coal. She then sees her husband George being driven in Bradley's car: a blackleg!

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  4. Brass Season 1 Episode 4 - Silent Hooter
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    #4 - Silent Hooter

    S1:E4

    Lady Patience tells Bradley that his daughter is carrying on with a miner. Agnes informs George that the person Isobel is carrying on with is their son Jack. Bradley agrees to talk to the strikers and offers them a silent hooter — the strike is ended. George tests Bradley's anti-tank boot which explodes, and Bradley manages a pit disaster, in which he knows Jack is involved.

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  5. Brass Season 1 Episode 5 - Pit Collapse
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    #5 - Pit Collapse

    S1:E5

    As Agnes and other women awaiting news of the trapped miners, the miners themselves are settling to life underground. Bradley hears that his plans are astray as Charlotte reaches the miners, but though they manage to escape as Jack supports the roof, Austin tricks Jack into shaking hands and the roof collapses.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Brass Season 1 Episode 6 - Silent But Deadly
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    #6 - Silent But Deadly

    S1:E6

    With Jack unconscious in hospital, Bradley orders Austin to continue with the tunnel, until he reaches the Cottage Hospital, and then let off SBD (Silent But Deadly) to finish him off. Agnes and Isobel fight over Jack but he wakes up besotted with Charlotte.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Brass Season 1 Episode 7 - Back Home
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    #7 - Back Home

    S1:E7

    George is home from hospital and Agnes tells him that Matt has gone to kill his father, Bradley, so they both go to the hall to inform Bradley. However, Austin has gone one further: he knocks Bradley out and orders him to be taken to hospital, due to be blown up at midnight with the deadly SBD.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Brass Season 1 Episode 8 - Walking Time Bomb
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    #8 - Walking Time Bomb

    S1:E8

    Austin celebrates Bradley's demise, unaware that Bradley has in fact bought himself out of hospital, only to find that George hasn't caused the hospital to blow up by putting the SBD in his tea. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Morris discover Matt in bed with Lady Patience, whilst Bradley and Austin try to wrangle the truth from George as to what happened to the SBD, only to discover that George is a walking bomb.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Brass Season 1 Episode 9 - Poor Hesketh
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    #9 - Poor Hesketh

    S1:E9

    Morris, ashamed at Lady Prudence's affair with Matt, decides to shoot himself but instead takes it out on Hesketh, his bear. Bradley and Austin discuss the fate of George and the SBD sugar lumps. McDuff uses a stomach pump to get the SBD from George but instead discovers lots of strange things George has been swallowing.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Brass Season 1 Episode 10 - Bouncing Bomb
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    #10 - Bouncing Bomb

    S1:E10

    Jack proposes Bradley to sell Isobel off. Bradley agrees but Lady Patience informs him that he'd lost interest in her anyway. Lady Patience tells Matt should he continue to see her, she'll have his poems published in her name. Isobel implores Charlotte to sleep with Jack so that he will lose interest. Austin, McDuff and George experiment with the bouncing bomb, with disastrous results.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Brass Season 1 Episode 11 - The Forge Anger
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    #11 - The Forge Anger

    S1:E11

    Everyone's angry with everyone! Bradley with Jack over the forge; Agnes with Jack, again for buying the forge; Isobel also with Jack when Bradley tells her she was sold to him; and Lady Patience when Morris tells her he's taking Matt to Cambridge. Morris appears to Matt in a dress and tells him he is a transvestite, successfully scaring him off.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Brass Season 1 Episode 12 - Hypnosis
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    #12 - Hypnosis

    S1:E12

    Bradley reluctantly agrees to using Jack's truss ranges to hold up the chimney, Big Tom. Guy arrives to help Morris, who is upset because Matt doesn't fancy him. They discuss plans to blow up the Prince with SBD. McDuff tells Lady Patience that hypnotism will help her to regain the use of her legs, but it backfires. She walks away and kicks Bradley to prove it.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Brass Season 1 Episode 13 - The Prince's Visit
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    #13 - The Prince's Visit

    S1:E13

    Bradley and Austin lecture peasants on proper behaviour for the Prince's visit. Lady Patience gives Agnes a book of Matt's poems published under her name. Matt discovers it and attempts suicide atop the big chimney.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Hospital Destruction" is the best rated episode of "Brass" season 1. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/21/1983. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Cambridge".