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Summary
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
Michael Burns
Julia St. John
Pippa Haywood
Tim Marriott
Harriet Thorpe
Russell Porter
Judy Flynn
Jill Greenacre
Andrée Bernard
David Crean
Jo Kendall
Richard Braine
Ian Bleasdale
Frances Low
Roy Alon
Colin Pinney
Stephen Churchett
Al Hunter Ashton
Roger Sloman
Guy Siner
Perry Fenwick
Lucy Briers
John D. Collins
Damien Thomas
Derek Benfield
Alan David
Rob Jarvis
Leslie Schofield
Pip Torrens
Peter Cleall
Sheila Keith
John Pirkis
Luisa Bradshaw-White
Joanne Heywood
Ross McCall
George Sweeney
David Ross
Alexandra Gilbreath
Terry Kyan
Donald Pickering
Mark Lindsay Chapman
Hugh Walters
Tony Steedman
Felix Bowness
Terrence Hardiman
Tim Poole
Kim Hartman
Michael Fenton Stevens
Declan Mulholland
Bruce Alexander
Zander Ward
Mark Chapman
Veronica Doran
Gary Whitaker
Rory Murray
Ruth Silvestre
David Webber
Davidson Knight
David Dexter
Maureen Morris
Tony Millan
Jo Martin
Brian Stephens
Tony Kirwood
Karan Bidmead
Geoffrey Banks
Richard Lumsden
Charlotte Kasner
Jake Abraham
Steve Edwin
Mike Carnell
Andrew Bradley
David Delve
Phoebe Gilpin
David Thorpe
Brenda Cavendish
Karl Moffatt
Martino Lazzeri
Geoffrey Drew
Graeme Smith
Samantha Perkins
Amanda Edwards
Heidi Gjertsen
John Baker
Judith Pearson
Patrick Monckton
Philip Shelley
Michael Crossman
Tracey Eddon
Peter Schofield
Robin Parkinson
Vanessa Latarche
Jonathan Stratt
Annabel Lambe
Lee Fyles
Ian Lindsay
Brian Gwaspari
Michael Fleming
Harold Innocent
Tony Alleff
Tim Kirby
Andrew Hilton
Lucy Hancock
Paul Humpoletz
Jamie De'ath
Andrew Barclay
Peter Cockett
Freddie Stuart
Ray Burnside
Arthur Whybrow
Sean Gascoine
Alexander Mallen
Jack Thorpe-Baker
Sebastian Coe
Chris Underhill
Rosie Timpson
Colin Spaull
Jemma Churchill
Beth Buchanan
Robin Yarnton
Helen Patrick
Donald T. Allen
Henry Cole
Paul Mari
Lloyd Harvey
Hugh Dickson
Adjoa Andoh
Paul Simpkin
Miranda Forbes
Jack Raymond
Martin Hyder
Mike Sherman
Robin Fegen
Jonathon Norriss
Peter Godwin
Donald Morley
Carole Garcia
Bobby Bragg
Jasper Jacob
Andy Smart
Crew
Creator
Andrew Norriss
Status:
Ended
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
Networks:
Keywords
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