The Brittas Empire

branie2 · 21-02-2017 2:41pm #1

Anyone here ever watch this comedy about a leisure centre under the management of the well-meaning but incompetent Gordon Brittas?

jimgoose · 21-02-2017 2:48pm

Yup, loved it. Pippa Haywood was great as the long-suffering foil to Chris Barrie's over-confident semi-buffoon. :pac:

Tayschren · 21-02-2017 2:49pm

Yep, loved it back in the day

smilerf · 21-02-2017 2:54pm

Never missed it. Colin and Carol were gas

jameorahiely · 21-02-2017 3:04pm

I think I have the boxset on video somewhere. It's Classic comedy

Since I have been manager, I am proud to say there have only been twenty-three deaths. And not one of them was a staff member.

Lorelli! · 21-02-2017 6:07pm

Always remember the poor receptionist Carol who would hide her babies in the drawers

I just Googled her character in wikipedia and I didn't realise or maybe I just forgot but Mr Brittas was the father of two of her children???

jimgoose · 21-02-2017 6:18pm

Semper Omnibus Facultas!

smilerf · 21-02-2017 8:23pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

Always remember the poor receptionist Carol who would hide her babies in the drawers

I just Googled her character in wikipedia and I didn't realise or maybe I just forgot but Mr Brittas was the father of two of her children???

Jesus's I didn't realise that myself

Tom Mann Centuria · 21-02-2017 8:27pm

"Witbury new town Leisure Centre"

jameorahiely · 21-02-2017 9:07pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

Always remember the poor receptionist Carol who would hide her babies in the drawers

I just Googled her character in wikipedia and I didn't realise or maybe I just forgot but Mr Brittas was the father of two of her children???

You know what Brittas said: if he found it in here again, he'd confiscate it.

:pac:

smilerf wrote: »

Jesus's I didn't realise that myself

Neither did Mr. Brittas

branie2 · 21-02-2017 10:14pm

Colin must have had every skin disease known to man!

whiskeyman · 22-02-2017 9:46am

Brilliant show!
So much comedy gold on tv around that time... or so it seemed?

smilerf · 22-02-2017 10:19am

whiskeyman wrote: »

Brilliant show!
So much comedy gold on tv around that time... or so it seemed?

there was but the don't make them nowadays because people prefer all reality ****

Lorelli! · 22-02-2017 12:41pm

I remember my parents also liked Drop the Dead Donkey which i think had a similar kind of humour but was set in a news room.

Aglomerado · 22-02-2017 3:49pm

It was one of my favourites, especially the one where Colin rigged up the toilets to generate electricity!!!

An Riabhach · 01-03-2017 11:16pm

My favourite episode was when they tried to arrange for the members of the leisure centre to swim in the pool with a dolphin,but of course amid all the comedy of errors,the "dolphin" they were swimming with was actually a shark!!

Zaph · 02-03-2017 12:03am

Lorelli! wrote: »

I remember my parents also liked Drop the Dead Donkey which i think had a similar kind of humour but was set in a news room.

Drop the Dead Donkey was quality comedy, one of the smartest shows of its time. But The Brittas Empire just never did it for me, and tbh I wouldn't put them in the same category at all.

Lorelli! · 02-03-2017 9:10am

Zaph wrote: »

Drop the Dead Donkey was quality comedy, one of the smartest shows of its time. But The Brittas Empire just never did it for me, and tbh I wouldn't put them in the same category at all.

Ah yea I only vaguely remember it tbh and it probably was a superior comedy but I just meant it as that both programmess were set as a mix of colleague's with a few oddball characters trying to keep things ticking over with eccentric bosses.

I also probably connect the two because my parents watched them and they were running around the same time as well.

ArthurG · 07-03-2017 1:44pm

Haha I remember it. Didn't one of them pronounce is name as though there was no space... as in misterbrittas said really quickly

jimgoose · 07-03-2017 2:09pm

ArthurG wrote: »

Haha I remember it. Didn't one of them pronounce is name as though there was no space... as in misterbrittas said really quickly

IIRC that was poor put-upon Carole, the secretary. She was the one who brought her small children to work but hid them in her desk drawers in case Gordon confiscated them. :pac:

ohnonotgmail · 14-03-2017 1:12pm

ArthurG wrote: »

Haha I remember it. Didn't one of them pronounce is name as though there was no space... as in misterbrittas said really quickly

jimgoose wrote: »

IIRC that was poor put-upon Carole, the secretary. She was the one who brought her small children to work but hid them in her desk drawers in case Gordon confiscated them. :pac:

Was it not colin, the guy with the hygiene problem, who said his name that way?

smilerf · 14-03-2017 4:05pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Was it not colin, the guy with the hygiene problem, who said his name that way?

ye it was

Cazale · 14-03-2017 6:46pm

ohnonotgmail wrote:

Was it not colin, the guy with the hygiene problem, who said his name that way?

smilerf wrote:

ye it was

It was the receptionist Carol who said it like that.

smilerf · 15-03-2017 8:18pm

Cazale wrote: »

It was the receptionist Carol who said it like that.

it was colin

Cazale · 16-03-2017 9:23am

smilerf wrote:

it was colin

He called him Mr Brit Ass. Carol used to say it quickly because she was shy or nervous he would see her kids.

Aglomerado · 16-03-2017 10:06am

Definitely Carole.

Go to 8.15 in this clip:

smilerf · 16-03-2017 10:24am

Cazale wrote: »

He called him Mr Brit Ass. Carol used to say it quickly because she was shy or nervous he would see her kids.

ye you're right. I misread

Skid X · 02-10-2017 8:39pm

The cast reunited today at the re-opening of the Leisure Centre where it was filmed

https://twitter.com/BrittasEmpire/status/914933864992305152

https://chrisbarriefans.wordpress.com/2017/08/11/brittas-empire-cast-to-reunite-for-ringwood-center-re-opening/

Skid X · 19-01-2021 12:14pm

The Brittas Empire cast are doing a reunion on Facebook Live next week

https://www.comedy.co.uk/online/news/6170/brittas-empire-reunion/

The Brittas Empire

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