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Brett

Drama · 1971

Last aired: S1 E18, All the King's Men · 1971-08-23

Brett was a photographic journalist with a taste for the high life and a penchant for trouble. He was a powerful and ambitious man who would become a tycoon in the Fleming Corporation – but his shady past eventually caught up with him, bringing him into conflict with people he had crossed and crushed on his way to the top.

Cast

Patrick Allen H. Thomas Brett

Season 1

E1 The Moses Basket 1971-04-26 · 50 min When Brett decides to purchase a one-third interest in a West German electronics firm, his enemies are forced to show their colours.

E2 Trial of Strength 1971-05-03 · 50 min

E3 The Ruined Valley 1971-05-10 · 50 min Brett returns to Aberyswen, the village where he was brought up. He meets an old friend and makes two dangerous enemies.

E4 For Political and Public Services 1971-05-17 · 50 min Brett, a reporter on the Aberyswen Gazette, is his own news photographer. But one of Brett's photographs mysteriously disappears before the police can be shown it.

E5 Fit to Print 1971-05-24 · 50 min While working for a small-time news agency Brett makes an enemy of the CID - for life.

E6 A Whole New World 1971-05-31 · 50 min A chance encounter with an American film producer and a mystery painting lead Brett to the threshold of a whole new world.

E7 The Hollow Men 1971-06-07 · 50 min Don't turn your back on a man with a knife - particularly in Hollywood; or tangle with a politician - especially in Washington.

E8 The Saxby Route 1971-06-14 · 50 min Brett is asked to accompany a truck bound for Guatemala. He is persuaded to give a young medical student a lift. As the journey progresses he begins to wonder if the boy and the strange cargo are somehow connected.

E9 The Streets of Laredo 1971-06-21 · 50 min Brett offers to put three young Americans up for the night. He has seen one of them before and when he remembers where he realises that the invitation could well have fatal consequences.

E10 The Day of the Dead 1971-06-28 · 50 min "The Day Of The Dead" is a festival in which life mocks death. When a hearse is hijacked on its way to a burial ground. Brett discovers that death can also mock life.

E11 Welcome to the City 1971-07-05 · 50 min Brett is on his way back to England with enough cash to get him off the ground. But on the boat he meets Caroline. And Caroline means trouble - big trouble.

E12 Never Squeeze a Cherrystone 1971-07-12 · 50 min Brett has been drawn into the web of the Fleming household, where Howard, his father-in-law, sits in the centre like a spider. But Brett, as Howard discovers, is not the man to be eaten alive.

E13 A Little Learning 1971-07-19 · 50 min Brett is faced with the biggest decision of his life. If he goes along with his father-in-law he will be in virtual control of the huge Fleming Corporation. If he doesn't he could lose everything - including his wife.

E14 Full Circle 1971-07-26 · 50 min Brett in prison faces a new charge and finds himself in another court.

E15 The Right Time for Killing 1971-08-02 · 50 min Brett takes the biggest gamble of his life.

E16 Taking a Long Spoon 1971-08-09 · 50 min To be a successful financier one has to be part juggler, part puppeteer. When an old enemy puts a proposition to Brett we soon realise how adept he is at both.

E17 All the King's Horses... 1971-08-16 · 50 min It looks as though Brett's appeal will be successful when Francoise suddenly receives a mysterious letter.

E18 All the King's Men 1971-08-23 · 50 min Brett's freedom, though he doesn't know it, depends on a piece of costume jewellery, a coffin and an assassin.

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