The Brittas Empire - Season 1 - Eps 2: Opening Day

1991-01-1030 min⭐ 6.6/10

I'ts Opening Day at Whitbury Leisure Centre and Gordon is getting ready to meet the Duchess of Kent. But things are going wrong when the electric doors aren't working properly and the water from the swimming pool is disappearing and the temperature rises. Will Gordon sort it all out before the Duchess of Kent arrives?

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About The Brittas Empire

The Brittas Empire

Title: The Brittas Empire

First Air Date: 1991-01-03

Last Air Date: 1997-02-24

Status: Ended

Rating: 6.6/10 (from 39 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 8

Total Episodes: 50

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show. The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained itself large mainstream audiences. In 2004 the show came 47th on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and all series have been released on DVD. The creators Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen often combine farce with either surreal or dramatic elements in episodes. For example in the first series, the leisure centre prepares for a royal visit, only for the doors to seal, the boiler room to flood and a visitor to become electrocuted. Unlike the traditional sitcom, deaths were quite common in The Brittas Empire.

Cast

Chris Barrie

Chris Barrie

Gordon Brittas

Michael Burns

Michael Burns

Colin

Julia St. John

Julia St. John

Laura

Pippa Haywood

Pippa Haywood

Helen Brittas

Tim Marriott

Tim Marriott

Gavin

Harriet Thorpe

Harriet Thorpe

Carole

Russell Porter

Russell Porter

Tim

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