List of The Brittas Empire episodes
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This is a list of all episodes of the British sitcom The Brittas Empire. More information about the programme can be found at The Brittas Empire. Dates below are the original BBC airdates.
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[edit] Series 1 (1991)
- Laying The Foundations (3 Jan 91)
Synopsis: The first episode. Mr Brittas arrives to find a very enthusiastic staff, and a depressed Carole, and promptly makes everyone want to leave. He causes a strike amongst the construction workers, and creates very complicated rosters. He is attacked by a table tennis champion with specially sharpened table tennis raquets.
- Opening Day (10 Jan 91)
Synopsis: The Duchess of Kent is coming to officially open and tour the Whitbury Newtown leisure centre. He creates a rift in Gavin and Tim's relationship, insists on having a black person in the line up to show that he employs staff of 'all colours and creeds'. The pool is leaking, the boiler man thinks he's on a ship, Helen tries to warn Laura that there will almost certainly be things that go wrong. First it is too cold, then the heaters are on overdrive. And the faulty doors will not open.
- Bye Bye Baby (17 Jan 91)
Synopsis: Carole is still keeping her baby in the drawers of the reception desk. Her husband is coming home. Laura moves Ben to the baby changing area to hide him from Brittas, but Brittas knows the baby is there, so asks Colin to go into the women's toilets and find a baby. Colin gets the wrong one, panicking the baby's mother, and Carole discovers the empty drawer and goes crazy with a fireaxe on the search for Brittas. And Carole's husband is introduced to his 'son', who is the other baby. And it's a different race.
- Underwater Wedding (24 Jan 91)
Synopsis: An underwater wedding is being held at the leisure centre and the best man is stuck at the bottom of the pool. There is a drunk physically disabled man on the loose, Colin shoots Gavin with a harpoon gun, Tim gets hysterical and threatens Brittas with a screwdriver, chlorine gas is released.
- Stop Thief! (7 Feb 91)
Synopsis: Brittas is convinced there is a thief in their midst. He has a series of methods to find out who the culprit is. Everyone is a suspect.
- Assassin (14 Feb 91)
Synopsis: Someone is out to kill Brittas, injuring Helen by accident, and wants Gavin to help him do the deed.
[edit] Series 2 (1992)
- Back From The Dead (2 Jan 92)
Synopsis: The leisure centre is quiet, until the word gets out that Mr Brittas is away in Bulgaria, whereupon it gets very busy. Helen arrives and informs the staff that Mr Brittas is dead.
- Temple Of The Body (9 Jan 92)
Synopsis: Mr Brittas is horrified to discover women's underwear in his office, and is convinced that the staff are using the facilities for 'worshipping in each other's temples'. He segregates the sexes. He becomes convinced that the culprit is Gavin. At the same time, Julie is being hounded by some reporters for rescuing a dog from the river in the nude.
- An Inspector Calls (16 Jan 92)
Synopsis: Brittas fears for his job when the Southern Area Inspector visits. Colin accidentally causes a pidgeon to set up home in the gymnasium, whilst Helen is insulted by a badly chosen birthday present.
- Set In Concrete (23 Jan 92)
Synopsis: An extreme argument with the Rotary Club leads Brittas to consider the problem of Sick Building Syndrome; but will the specialist find anything wrong?
- Mums And Dads (30 Jan 92)
Synopsis: The centre is gearing up for a concert by Vladimir Petrov, a visiting pianist from the Leningrad Conservatory. When Mr Brittas Snr arrives with his old piano, things descend into chaos. The end of this episode features one of the most memorable scenes in the series.
- Safety First (13 Feb 92)
Synopsis: Brittas has closed the centre for a fire drill. Colin refuses to die; and Brittas's attempts to convince Councillor Dapping to install a new fire escape interfere with his lunch with Helen, who is attempting to give up her pills.
- New Generations (20 Feb 92)
Synopsis: Carol is nearly due, but Brittas has only just realised she's pregnant. When a farmer with a prize-winning cow arrives, Colin's "herbs" accidentally send both it, and Carol, into labour.
[edit] Series 3 (1993)
- The Trial (7 Jan 93)
Synopsis: an enemy of Brittas's is coating random items with glue and shady characters keep appearing in the centre. Of course, this can only lead to a bloody massacre in the squash courts, the felling of several OAPs and Brittas facing trial for multiple murder and drug-running.
- That Creeping Feeling (14 Jan 93)
Synopsis: offended by his "individual figure and fitness targets", the staff are refusing to speak to Brittas; his diplomatic response is bringing in a psychiatrist to check anxiety levels. Meanwhile, a deadly tropical spider is roaming the centre and it's only a matter of time before it attacks.
- Laura's Leaving (21 Jan 93)
Synopsis: while Brittas prepares to welcome Sebastian Coe to the Expansion in the Leisure Market Conference, Laura is off to a job interview. Helen is terrified that her absence will lead to disaster but, as Julie says, it's a quiet day and there's only the baptism in the pool to see to. It should be simple enough once Brittas has got Colin to turn up the heat in the pool - but unfortunately a concussed Colin doesn't approach the task in quite the best way.
- Two Little Boys (28 Jan 93)
Synopsis: it's a busy day: the centre is gearing-up for anniversary celebrations, Gordon's brother - the Reverend Horatio Brittas - is visiting and 36 staff from a leisure centre in Guildford are visiting for their annual staff outing. Two problems though: Horatio is having second thoughts and the centre's oil tank is leaking. Brittas is concerned that the oil may seep into the water table and "poison small children swimming in the canal", so Colin decides it's safest to store it in the disused Weights Room.
- Sex, Lies and Red Tape (4 Feb 93)
Synopsis: Laura's estranged Husband, Michael T Farrell is on the scene, desperate for an heir to secure his fortune. Brittas isn't happy and endeavours to get rid of him, despite being on a sponsored silence and finding out that Helen's about to be charged with shoplifting. The episode also sees the staff hooked on the drafts of a novel that Carole's just written - but her hopes of publication are dashed and the manuscript ends up as nothing more than colouring paper for Ben.
- The Stuff of Dreams (11 Feb 93)
Synopsis: troubled by dreams about his own mortality and the future of "The Dream", Brittas is pushing age awareness and resorts to disguising himself as an elderly man as an experiment. All he manages is to start a fight in Reception in which he breaks a pensioner's glasses. A disheartened Brittas starts seeking somebody on the staff to pass his mantle on to but is forced to stop when Helen goes into labour early and needs to be dashed to the hospital. Unfortunately, the pensioner with the newly-broken glasses collides with the Brittases' car and strands them. Unable to drive on, the only option is for Helen to give birth to the twins in the middle of Whitbury High Street.
[edit] Series 4 (1994)
- Not A Good Day ... (10 Jan 94)
- The Christening (17 Jan 94)
- Biggles Tells A Lie (24 Jan 94)
- Mr Brittas Changes Trains (31 Jan 94)
- Playing With Fire (7 Feb 94)
- Shall We Dance? (14 Feb 94)
- The Chop (28 Feb 94)
- High Noon (7 Mar 94)
[edit] Series 5 (1994)
- The Old, Old Story (31 Oct 94)
- Blind Devotion (7 Nov 94)
- Brussels Calling (14 Nov 94)
- The Lies Have It (21 Nov 94)
- The Boss (28 Nov 94)
- Pregnant! (5 Dec 94)
- UXB (12 Dec 94)
- The Last Day (19 Dec 94)
[edit] Christmas Special
- In the Beginning ... (27 Dec 94)
[edit] Series 6 (1996)
- Back With A Bang (27 Feb 96)
- Body Language (12 Mar 96)
- At The Double (26 Mar 96)
- A Walk On The Wildside (2 Apr 96)
- We All Fall Down (9 Apr 96)
- Mr Brittas Falls in Love (16 Apr 96)
- Snap Happy (23 Apr 96)
[edit] Short special part of Children In Need
- 22 Nov 1996, BBC1 Fri around 10pm
[edit] Christmas Special
- Surviving Christmas (24 Dec 96)
[edit] Series 7 (1997)
- The Elephant's Child (6 Jan 97)
- Reviewing The Situation (13 Jan 97)
- http://etc (20 Jan 97) (NB:this isn't a link, the title was "http://etc")
- Wake Up The Lion Within (27 Jan 97)
- The Disappearing Act (3 Feb 97)
- Gavin Featherly RIP (10 Feb 97)
- Exposed (17 Feb 97)
- Curse Of The Tiger Women (24 Feb 97)
