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Bill Brand
Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1976
Bill Brand
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Episode 160 min1976-06-07
In
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 260 min1976-06-14
You Wanna Be a Hero, Get Yourself a White Horse
Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.
Episode 360 min1976-06-21
Yarn
Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.
Episode 460 min1976-06-28
Now and in England
Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.
Episode 560 min1976-07-05
August for the Party
Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.
Episode 660 min1976-07-12
Resolution
Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.
Episode 760 min1976-07-19
Tranquillity of the Realm
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 860 min1976-07-26
Rabbles
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 960 min1976-08-02
Anybody's
Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.
Episode 1060 min1976-08-09
Revisions
Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.
Episode 1160 min1976-08-16
It Is the People Who Create
Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.
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