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Bill Brand
1976 6.3 (3 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
ITV1
Created By
Trevor Griffiths

Bill Brand

Overview

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

Key Crew

Writer: Trevor Griffiths

Top Cast

Jack Shepherd
Jack Shepherd

Bill Brand

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1976)

No overview available.

11 episodes

Episodes
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Now and in England
1976-06-28

Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Resolution
1976-07-12

Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Anybody's
1976-08-02

Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 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.

Runtime: 60 min

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