If Labour is taking us back to the 1970s – and the recent strike-secured pay rises and mass rage about immigration suggest more than a nodding similarity between our own time and that one – anyone wanting a deeper insight could do no better than watch Bill Brand. This 11-part series, written by playwright Trevor Griffiths (who died earlier this year) and broadcast by ITV in 1976, explores the working and personal life of a newly elected Labour MP, and was once called by the Sunday Times ‘the most remarkable series ever seen on the box’.