Bill Brand

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

Genre: Drama,

Actor:

Creator: Trevor Griffiths,

Country:

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: N/A

Duration: 60 minutes

Release: 1976-06-07

Rating: 6.3

Season 1 - Bill Brand
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.
1976-06-14
Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.
1976-06-21
Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.
1976-06-28
Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.
1976-07-05
Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.
1976-07-12
Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.
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.
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.
1976-08-02
Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.
1976-08-09
Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.
1976-08-16
Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.