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The Brittas Empire

Season 6 1996

  • 1996-02-27T20:30:00Z on BBC One
  • 30m
  • 3h 30m (7 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
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.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

1996-02-27T20:30:00Z

6x01 Back with a Bang

Season Premiere

6x01 Back with a Bang

  • 1996-02-27T20:30:00Z30m

After being crushed to death Gordon Brittas has been returned to earth by St. Peter and rebuilt at a Swiss clinic. He returns a day early and misses the red carpet welcome prepared by his staff.

1996-03-12T20:30:00Z

6x02 Body Language

6x02 Body Language

  • 1996-03-12T20:30:00Z30m

Gordon tries to explain benefits of matching and mirroring body language. Colin suspects alien invasion when a green block of ice crashes through the roof, and Helen mistakenly sells the house to a member of the U.S. military

1996-03-26T20:30:00Z

6x03 At the Double

6x03 At the Double

  • 1996-03-26T20:30:00Z30m

Gordon invites members of the Ruthenian State Circus to perform at the center. A group of US evangelists want to baptize Gordon in the pool after reading of his coming back from the dead. (

1996-04-02T19:30:00Z

6x04 A Walk on the Wild Side

6x04 A Walk on the Wild Side

  • 1996-04-02T19:30:00Z30m

Brittas proves he's not always a walking disaster when his new campaign becomes a European Directive

1996-04-09T19:30:00Z

6x05 We All Fall Down

6x05 We All Fall Down

  • 1996-04-09T19:30:00Z30m

Whitbury is celebrating World Peace and Hunger Day, Helen plans revenge on a nappy co that didn't use her children in a TV commercial and Tim discovers the rest of the staff earn more than him...

1996-04-16T19:30:00Z

6x06 Mr. Brittas Falls in Love

Tonight Mr. Brittas falls in love. He believes that swimming with a dolphin at the leisure center will bring peace, relaxation and happiness to all the inhabitants

Season Finale

1996-04-23T19:30:00Z

6x07 Snap Happy

Season Finale

6x07 Snap Happy

  • 1996-04-23T19:30:00Z30m

When Brittas tries to organize a simple staff photograph, what can possibly go wrong? Last in present series.

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