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Bill Brand

Bill Brand

1976 - 1976

In

7th June 1976
Episode 1
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.

You Wanna Be a Hero, Get Yourself a White Horse

14th June 1976
Episode 2
Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.

Yarn

21st June 1976
Episode 3
Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.

Now and in England

28th June 1976
Episode 4
Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.

August for the Party

5th July 1976
Episode 5
Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.

Resolution

12th July 1976
Episode 6
Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.

Tranquillity of the Realm

19th July 1976
Episode 7
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.

Rabbles

26th July 1976
Episode 8
Brand's love story with Alex ends, while he is censured by his constituency over his behaviour on the Prevention of Terrorism Act Committee.

Anybody's

2nd August 1976
Episode 9
Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.

Revisions

9th August 1976
Episode 10
Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.

It Is the People Who Create

16th August 1976
Episode 11
Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.
Top Cast
Writer
Trevor Griffiths
Drama

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

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