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It also starred pippa haywood as helen, gordons longsuffering wife, with leisure centre staff of harriet thorpe as carole, michael burns as colin, tim marriott as gavin, russell porter as tim, jill greenacre as linda, judy flynn as julie and julia st john as laura. The brittas empire to make a tv comeback as the cast of. Star chris barrie, who played pompous centre boss gordon brittas in 53 episodes of the sitcom, revealed at a comic convention that a new script now exists. Nov 17, 2018 download everybody loves raymond season 1 full episodes to any device, both android and ios, mac and pc, and enjoy watching them later. This is the story of one of my least favourite endings to a sitcom ever. Chris barrie plays gordon brittas, the wellmeaning but incompetent manager of whitbury new town leisure centre.
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Despite his ambition and good intentions, everything seems to go wrong when hes around, despite the best efforts of the leisure centre staff and his longsuffering wife, helen. Chris barrie played gordon brittas, the wellmeaning but incompetent manager of whitbury new town leisure centre. The scarlet letter 1995 web dl x264 rarbg resync film 16. Apr 12, 2014 the britass empire is a show that many people probably remember nostalgically as being good, and im happy to say that for me personally revisiting the show as a whole confirms its comedy still works.
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The brittas empire, the longrunning sitcom set in a leisure centre, looks set to return to tv after a break of 18 years. Perhaps its plots were too outlandish and cartoonlike for bbc one at 8. The brittas empire was a popular bbc1 television programme that ran from 1991 to 1997 with two christmas specials and various variety shorts including get fit with brittas, six 10minute. He means well, wants to do well, and wants to be a good manager. With our episode date counter you wont miss tv programs. Chris barrie played gordon brittas, the wellmeaning but incompetent manager of whitbury new town leisure centre the show ran for seven series and 52 episodes including two christmas specials from 1991 to 1997 on bbc1.
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