Overview of 'Bill Brand' Season 1

Bill Brand (1976)

Drama

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

Writing:

Trevor Griffiths

Stars:

Release Date: 1976-06-07
Seasons: 1

6.5/10

Country: GB
Language: English
Runtime: 60

Season 1 Episode List

Episode 1 - In
Release Date: 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.
Episode 2 - You Wanna Be a Hero, Get Yourself a White Horse
Release Date: 1976-06-14
Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.
Episode 3 - Yarn
Release Date: 1976-06-21
Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.
Episode 4 - Now and in England
Release Date: 1976-06-28
Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.
Episode 5 - August for the Party
Release Date: 1976-07-05
Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.
Episode 6 - Resolution
Release Date: 1976-07-12
Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.
Episode 7 - Tranquillity of the Realm
Release Date: 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.
Episode 8 - Rabbles
Release Date: 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.
Episode 9 - Anybody's
Release Date: 1976-08-02
Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.
Episode 10 - Revisions
Release Date: 1976-08-09
Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.
Episode 11 - It Is the People Who Create
Release Date: 1976-08-16
Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.