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Episode number: 1

Overview: 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

Episode number: 2

Overview: Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.

Yarn

Episode number: 3

Overview: 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

Episode number: 4

Overview: Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.

August for the Party

Episode number: 5

Overview: Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.

Resolution

Episode number: 6

Overview: Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.

Tranquillity of the Realm

Episode number: 7

Overview: 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

Episode number: 8

Overview: 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

Episode number: 9

Overview: Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.

Revisions

Episode number: 10

Overview: 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

Episode number: 11

Overview: Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.