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| Brass - The Complete Series [1983] | ![Brass - The Complete Series [1983]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gSflJRdVL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actor: Timothy West; Caroline Blakiston; Geoffrey Hinsliff; Barbara Ewing; Emily Morgan
Studio: Network
Category: DVD
List Price: £39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3315
Format: Box Set, Pal
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 800 minutes
Number Of Items: 5
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.9
EAN: 5027626267049
ASIN: B000NTPCJW
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: February 21, 1983
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 Fun at Mill July 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
br /The nineteen seventies was a great time for series set between the wars in the North of England. When the Boat Comes In, Sam and The Stars Look Down spring to mind. Worthy as they may have been, and When the Boat Come Comes In would get my vote as the best British Tv series ever, Brass means that it will be a long time before we see the genre again.br /br /Brass does for the flat cap drama what Mel Brookes did to Westerns and Frankenstein and did it in just as funny a way. Timothy West is supurb as Bradley Hardacre the ruthless owner of the mine, the mill, the munitions factory and the crutch factory. The story revolves two families, Bradley his crippled wife (or is she), two daughters and two sons named believe it or not Austin and Morris are one. The second are the working class Fairchilds, George who is loyal to Bradley and as thick as a plank, his firebrand wife Red Agnes, who hates Bradley but cannot help sleaping with him or as she puts it pressing his trousers and their two sons, who fall in love with Bradley's two daughters.br /br /The humour is not subtle and is a send up of other nineteen thirties dramas. George for instance is pathetically grateful when Austin gives him a suger lump, 'Me own suger lunp and they said I'd never amount to anything'br /br /Agnes has a job testing ballons by blowing them up one at a time. Bradley enquires about the dangers of ballon testers lung. Elseware Bradley complains that men trapped down the mine has spent their time waiting to be rescued rather that digging out his coal.br /br /All in all a very funny series with Timothy West at his best as Bradley Hardacre one of the great TV comic figures.br /
 Carry on Up North? February 28, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
br /Timothy West is splendid as the hard-nosed mill owner whose attitude is summed up by the sentiment: "I'm a fair man: I believe in a proper day's wages in return for a proper week's work." The script is full of references to film and novel cliches, tv programmes and current affairs both at the time it is set and at that when it was shot. There really ought to be some sort of glossary to help younger viewers. However, don't let that put you off as it is never too clever for its own sake and there are also a lot of double entendres, references to phallic imagery etc for which the only background required is having seen and chuckled at a few Carry On films. The rest of the characters are all well cast with Gary Cady being possibly the prettiest man ever to appear on prime time tv. Production values are decidedly mixed - on the one hand a lot of it has an authentic Northern feel - as you would expect from a Granada production but on the other hand there are a few instances of wobbly sets - unless of course this was a deliberate allusion to contemporary low budget tv soap operas?br /The five discs have been packaged so as to take up very little space and there is a plot summary. However, only 4 stars as I feel that it is over-priced as the picture quality of the first two series leaves a lot to be desired and there are no extras on the discs or even sub-titles. br /
 There's sum as'd say January 13, 2008
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
that ther's been a bit of a fast one pulled here. Nowt against t'series, but a bit of a mucky trick to release series 1 by itseln, then the complete series. So those who parted wi' their hard-earned brass the first time around might be forgiven for feeling hard done by.br /Bradley Hardacre would be proud, black-hearted rascal that he were.
An everyday tale of northern folk October 23, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I very much enjoyed this series when it was on the 1980s, so I was pleased to see all three series in one DVD set. I was keen to see the third series in particular as, for various reasons, I never got to see it when it was originally broadcast. The DVDs were a bit of a disappointment in that they didn't have any additional features and hadn't been digitally remastered in any way. Better sound quality, or sub-titles, would have been useful as, in many cases, the actors' more dramatic lines are drowned out by the music, or made indistinct by their extravagant delivery - or perhaps I'm getting a bit deaf. I loved seeing the first two series again (26 episodes in total) and the third (6 episodes) was fun in places but by this time they'd lost two of the regular cast members: Geoffrey Hinsliff who played George Fairchild and Robert Reynolds who played Autin Hardacre. Their replacements do a reasonable job, but it's impossible to compete with the originals. I wish Granada had spent a bit more money when creating this set, but I'd still recommend buying it, it's classic TV.
brass October 4, 2007
1 out of 31 found this review helpful
taken adverts out and left end of part one and part two still in do not bye
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