Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: January 3, 1991
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 50
Networks: BBC One
Genres: Comedy

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The Brittas Empire(1991)

TMDB Rating: 6.6 (40 votes)

Overview

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.

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Season 1

6 episodes • 1991

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Laying the Foundations	Jan 3, 1991
2	Opening Day	Jan 10, 1991
3	Bye Bye Baby	Jan 24, 1991
4	Underwater Wedding	Jan 31, 1991
5	Stop Thief	Feb 7, 1991
6	Assassin	Feb 14, 1991

Season 2

7 episodes • 1992

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Back from the Dead	Jan 2, 1992
2	Temple of the Body	Jan 9, 1992
3	An Inspector Calls	Jan 16, 1992
4	Set in Concrete	Jan 23, 1992
5	Mums and Dads	Jan 30, 1992
6	Safety First	Feb 13, 1992
7	New Generations	Feb 20, 1992

Season 3

6 episodes • 1993

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Trial	Jan 7, 1993
2	That Creeping Feeling	Jan 14, 1993
3	Laura's Leaving	Jan 21, 1993
4	Two Little Boys	Jan 28, 1993
5	Sex, Lies and Red Tape	Feb 4, 1993
6	The Stuff of Dreams	Feb 11, 1993

Season 4

8 episodes • 1994

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Not a Good Day ...	Jan 10, 1994
2	The Christening	Jan 17, 1994
3	Biggles Tells a Lie	Jan 24, 1994
4	Mr Brittas Changes Trains	Jan 31, 1994
5	Playing With Fire	Feb 7, 1994
6	Shall We Dance?	Feb 14, 1994
7	The Chop	Feb 28, 1994
8	High Noon	Mar 7, 1994

Season 5

8 episodes • 1994Avg: 1.0Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Old, Old Story	Oct 31, 1994	0.0
2	Blind Devotion	Nov 7, 1994	0.0
3	Brussels Calling	Nov 14, 1994	0.0
4	The Lies Have It	Nov 21, 1994	1.0
5	The Boss	Nov 28, 1994	0.0
6	Pregnant!	Dec 5, 1994	0.0
7	UXB	Dec 12, 1994	0.0
8	The Last Day	Dec 19, 1994	0.0

Season 6

7 episodes • 1996

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Back with a Bang	Feb 27, 1996
2	Body Language	Mar 12, 1996
3	At the Double	Mar 26, 1996
4	A Walk on the Wild Side	Apr 2, 1996
5	We All Fall Down	Apr 9, 1996
6	Mr. Brittas Falls in Love	Apr 16, 1996
7	Snap Happy	Apr 23, 1996

Season 7

8 episodes • 1997

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Elephant's Child	Jan 6, 1997
2	Reviewing the Situation	Jan 13, 1997
3	http://etc.	Jan 20, 1997
4	Wake Up the Lion Within	Jan 27, 1997
5	The Disappearing Act	Feb 3, 1997
6	Gavin Featherly RIP	Feb 10, 1997
7	Exposed	Feb 17, 1997
8	Curse of the Tiger Women	Feb 24, 1997

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