The Brothers (1972 TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Gerard Glaister & N.J.Crisp |
| Written by |
N.J. Crisp Eric Paice John Pennington Simon Raven Elaine Morgan Brian Finch |
| Directed by | Philip Dudley Lennie Mayne Ronald Wilson Timothy Combe Mary Ridge Quentin Lawrence Eric Price Roderick Graham Vere Lorrimer Christopher Baker |
| Starring |
Jean Anderson Glyn Owen Richard Easton Robin Chadwick Patrick O'Connell Jennifer Wilson Derek Benfield Gabrielle Drake Colin Baker |
| Theme music composer | Dudley Simpson |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 92 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Gerard Glaister |
| Location(s) | Greenwich, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC1 |
| Original release | 10 March 1972 – 19 December 1976 |
The Brothers is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976.
The series was based around conflict within the Hammond family over the direction of the family firm, a London-based road haulage business called Hammond Transport Services, after the death of patriarch Robert Hammond. The eldest son, Edward (played by Glyn Owen during the first series and by Patrick O'Connell for the remainder of the show's run), prepares to take over the running of the business, only to find that his father has left equal shares to his two other sons, Brian (Richard Easton), a dull accountant and David (Robin Chadwick), a young graduate - and to his mistress and secretary Jennifer Kingsley (Jennifer Wilson). Storylines throughout the series dealt with plans to expand the business into an international concern, coupled with more family-oriented plots as Edward and Jennifer fall in love and marry.
Other prominent characters included Hammond's hard-faced widow and the mother of the three brothers, Mary (Jean Anderson), who is determined to continue exercising her own influence over her family, Brian's shrewish wife Ann (Hilary Tindall) and David's girlfriend then wife Jill (Gabrielle Drake). Later characters to be introduced included the loathsome financial whizzkid and proto-yuppie Paul Merroney (Colin Baker); April Winter, who became his wife, (Liza Goddard), and Jane Maxwell (Kate O'Mara), the tough female boss of an air freight business. (Baker and Goddard later married in real life but subsequently divorced.)
Bill, the foreman (Derek Benfield), demonstrated how the workplace of the 1970s was changing. His elevation from the shop floor to a key member of the board was met with resistance from both ends, and the subsequent decades allow this to be seen in context, one way that management and workers may work closer together to maintain the company's competitive outlook. The character of Paul Merroney can in hindsight be viewed as a prototype for the new Thatcher-inspired generation of corporate go-getters.
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