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Release year: 1991

Storyline

Gordon Brittas is the manager of the Whitbury-Newtown Leisure Centre. Despite his good intentions, everything seems to go wrong when he's around, despite the best efforts of the center staff and his long-suffering wife, Helen.

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Cast

Chris Barrie — Gordon Brittas, Vlad
Harriet Thorpe — Carole, Carole and her Alter-ego
Michael Burns — Colin
Tim Marriott — Gavin

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Did you know

• Though The Brittas Empire was predominately filmed in a studio, Ringwood Health & Leisure Centre in Hampshire - a fully functioning leisure centre - was used for many of the interior and all of the exterior shots. After extensive refurbishments in 2017, the Centre was re-opened with a full reunion of all of the original cast & writers.

• Has a high body count for a situation comedy. Causes of death include multiple instances of electrocution, poisoning, gunshot and decapitation by chainsaw. Brittas is even responsible for Santa Claus drowning in a bog!

• Though Chris Barrie was filming The Brittas Empire alongside Red Dwarf (1988), there is only one very subtle crossover reference. Both Brittas & Rimmer spent one day working on The Samaritans switchboard. All the people both characters spoke to killed themselves, and both included one wrong number.