Bill Brand

Synopsis

Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.

First Air Date: 1976-06-07

Last Air Date: 1976-08-16

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 11

Created By: Trevor Griffiths

Networks: ITV1

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Top Cast

Jack Shepherd as Bill Brand
Allan Surtees as Alf Jowett
Lynn Farleigh as Miriam Brand
Rosemary Martin as Winnie Scoular
Douglas Campbell as Reg Starr
Alan Badel as David Last
Cherie Lunghi as Alex Ferguson
Karen Silver as June Brand
Peter Howell as Venables
Peter Copley as Cedric Maddocks

Seasons

Miniseries (1976)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: In (1976-06-07)

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.
Ep. 2: You Wanna Be a Hero, Get Yourself a White Horse (1976-06-14)

Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.
Ep. 3: Yarn (1976-06-21)

Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.
Ep. 4: Now and in England (1976-06-28)

Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.
Ep. 5: August for the Party (1976-07-05)

Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.
Ep. 6: Resolution (1976-07-12)

Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.
Ep. 7: Tranquillity of the Realm (1976-07-19)

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.
Ep. 8: Rabbles (1976-07-26)

Brand's love story with Alex ends, while he is censured by his constituency over his behaviour on the Prevention of Terrorism Act Committee.
Ep. 9: Anybody's (1976-08-02)

Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.
Ep. 10: Revisions (1976-08-09)

Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.
Ep. 11: It Is the People Who Create (1976-08-16)

Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.