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The Brittas Empire: Complete BBC Series 1-7 Box Set [1991]
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This set features in entirety the 7 series that comprise The Brittas Empire.
RRP: £49.99
Our Price: £34.98 (subject to change)
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DVD Description
In this classic TV sitcom, Gordon Brittas (Chris Barrie) is the manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. He means well, wants to do well and desperately wants to be a good manager. Unfortunately his best talent is to continually create recipes for total disaster But Deep down Brittas cares for his staff, but all he ever seems to do is to make their lives more difficult. Trying to rise above this, and to keep the Centre running smoothly, are his assistant Laura (Julia St. John) and of course Colin, complete with boil! Behind every good man, so the saying goes, is a good woman, and behind every maniac, is a good woman losing her sanity! Helen Brittas (Pippa Haywood) is no different as she struggles to cope with her husband's misplaced enthusiasm.
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Synopsis
Manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre, Gordon Brittas, has a natural ability to create havoc wherever he goes. His long suffering wife, Helen, struggles to retain her sanity and his staff try to keep the leisure centre running smoothly despite Gordon's best efforts... Features the complete episodes from series one to seven.
Perfection in a box
Review date: 2008-04-17 Rating: 10 out of 10
ok this is simple, just buy this, dont think, just buy :)
Perfect collection of Brittas :)
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Reviews
Another good comedy from the BBC
Review date: 2007-05-27 Rating: 8 out of 10
The Brittas Empire is based around a Leisure centre with a new manager taking over, all seams rosy, but the manager Gordon Brittas has a dream ( Chris Barrie) he wants to use the centre to bring the people together using the centre and it's activities to pursue his goal.
Gordon tries to make a good manager but his attention to detail causes disastrous results as he insist on going by the rules .
He cares about his staff a great deal and tries to help them in the difficulties they face but he just upsets them even more he cannot see the upset he causes with his straight talking.
The first episode will give you a good indication of the way things are .
A receptionist that always seams to be upset because her husband has left her homeless with a baby that she hides in a draw under the counter ( later in the series she has twins the farther works in the centre).
A technical assistant that has more skin dieses than you care to imagine.
Two gay lifeguards.
A secretary that dose the opposite of what Gordon asks for.
An assistant manager that tries to keep the centre running smoothly despite Gordon's interfering antics .
And a wife that is loosing her sanity and is a walking drug store of anti depressants because of Gordon .
I find this funny because I work in a leisure centre and the red tape in the series is very close to the way things are in leisure centres, the writers have done there homework for this series .
No we don't have as many accidents as this I`m glad to say but the innuendos are very similar
I Got in trouble one day for jokingly calling my boss Mr Brittas but he got me back by calling me Colin (the technical assistant)
As good as it is stopping at series seven was the correct decision you can only take a situation so far .
Unlike Allo Allo you get all the episodes ever made and you aren't waiting for what seams like years for the next series to be released.
To sum up a funny series something to laugh at in every episode but not quite as good as allo allo
But to run for seven series the writers must have been doing something right .
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Stephen Churchett
Julia St. John
Tony Arunah Abbey
Creators:
Tony Arunah Abbey (Primary Contributor)
Stephen Churchett (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Eureka Entertainment Ltd
Manufacturer: Eureka Entertainment Ltd
EAN: 5060000500233
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 7
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2007-10-08
Number of discs: 7
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 1433 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1991-01-03
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)