The Brittas Empire

At Whitbury New Town's leisure centre there are wet sports and dry sports - and it's a manager's job not to confuse the two. When new man in charge Gordon Brittas arrives harbouring dreams of perfect harmony, he sees the centre as a force for good; but his plans for world peace are set to be disrupted when he puts the non-swimming table tennis coach on poolside duty.

Brittas finalises meticulous plans for the royal opening.

Brittas attempts to keep the staff at Whitbury Leisure Centre happy and fulfilled, while his wife finds her own fulfilment.

Brittas has to cope with an underwater wedding and a drunken customer.

The leisure centre closes as Brittas investigates a case of staff pilfering.

Brittas is more concerned about falling attendance at Whitbury Leisure Centre than any attempt to murder him.

Gordon Brittas is the energetic young manager of a leisure centre. Gordon Brittas is a man with a mission, a man with a dream. Gordon Brittas is dead! But everyone is taking the news rather well, and the public are flocking to use the amenities.

Leisure centre manager Gordon Brittas is a shocked man. He has found an item of ladies' foundation wear behind his office sofa, put two and two together and determined to catch the offenders. Carole the homeless receptionist is pregnant again, with only dim memories of a leopard skin suit on New Year's Eve. She is keeping her first child in a drawer under the reception desk and now sets up home in a store cupboard.

The local authority is becoming increasingly concerned by the falling attendances at Whitbury leisure centre. An inspector is dispatched, sending Brittas into overdrive mobilising his staff to get the place clean.

Brittas decides his leisure centre has "sick building syndrome", and looks for a cure.

Brittas has organised a concert recital to attract new clientele.

Brittas closes the leisure centre in order to train his staff how to cope with emergencies, be they "fires, earth tremors, outbreaks of contagious diseases in the toilets, poisonous gases or chemical spillages". Unfortunately, the staff don't take the exercise seriously. Meanwhile Helen Brittas is trying to cope with life without the aid of tranquilisers.

Brittas tries to track down the father of Carole's baby from among the staff.

Brittas stands accused of murdering several men. The evidence against him seems overwhelming. But could it be that he is, in fact, an unwitting hero?

The staff stop talking to Gordon after he devises detailed personal fitness programmes for all of them.

Gordon Brittas is about to host a conference for leisure centre managers, and hopes to use the occasion to spread his dream of universal brotherhood. Laura has applied for a job elsewhere, and Helen Brittas is convinced disaster will befall the centre. She is not far wrong.

The Whitbury Leisure Centre is celebrating its first birthday with a series of special events. Meanwhile, Brittas's twin brother, Horatio, looks for advice about his vocation in the church.

Gordon Brittas is trying to raise funds to buy a second trampoline so that Whitbury Leisure Centre can advertise "synchronised trampolining". To raise the money needed, Tim and Gavin are sitting in stocks having wet sponges thrown at them and Colin is attempting a marathon juggle. Brittas himself is on a sponsored silence, an idea suggested by his secretary Julie. Then a wealthy American turns up - but who is he?

Helen is about to give birth, and she wants everything to be just right. But events don't turn out quite as she expects. Meanwhile, Colin is having a strange recurring dream, and Gordon is preparing for the leisure centre's Elderly Week.

The manager of the Whitbury Leisure Centre, Gordon Brittas, invites Sebastian Coe to promote fitness in "Life Cycle Week."

The Whitbury Leisure Centre prepares for the christening of the Brittas twins.

Brittas has decided he needs a day off and takes his dinghy to the coast to go sailing with Helen.

Brittas applies for a new job - as British representative on the European Leisure Industry Standards Committee.

When Helen takes the children to Cornwall for a holiday, Gordon is left at home on his own - during energy conservation week at the leisure centre.

Whitbury Leisure Centre is closing its doors early to the public so that the staff can attend the Southern Area Leisure Centres Staff Gala Ball. It promises to be a glittering occasion for both staff and "partners", but getting a partner seems to be where the problems begin for everyone, including Brittas.

Brittas has spent days devising a board game for his "plan for the future" fortnight and expects the staff to join in with gusto.

Brittas has been sacked as manager of Whitbury Leisure Centre but has managed to get a job at a local garage.

Songs of Praise is to be presented from the newly rebuilt Leisure Centre, but a series of accidents leads Brittas to believe that a serial killer may be at large.

Brittas decides someone has to go from the staff at Whitbury Leisure Centre, so tact and sensitivity are the order of the day.

Brittas is in Brussels being interviewed for a new job as European Commissioner for Sport. Meanwhile, things at the Whitbury Leisure Centre are not going as smoothly as might be expected in his absence - almost as if an invisible force was at work.

Laura's wealthy American husband Michael T Farrell III turns up at Whitbury Leisure Centre to apply for a job as junior pool attendant. Helen Brittas gets into deep water when she is spotted at a restaurant drinking champagne with her lawyer. However, a cleverly concocted story about a surprise birthday party for Carole almost saves the day.

Gavin takes over as trial manager fort he day as Brittas tests his abilities with intriguing problems.

Brittas insists on. compulsory urine drug tests for all his staff at the Whitbury Leisure Centre. However, the results would seem to reveal that Carole has been made pregnant by Colin after drinking a cocktail of hallucinogenic gases.

As Brittas packs in preparation for his move to Brussels, Helen decides she would prefer to stay at home and look after the dog. Meanwhile, Colin discovers a bomb at work - something he feels should concern Mr Brittas.

As Brittas prepares for his departure to Brussels as European commissioner for sport, he decides that an emergency watertank should be installed as an extra fire precaution.

The staff at Whitbury Leisure Centre prepare a red-carpet welcome for the indestructible Gordon Brittas.

When a mysterious green block of ice crashes through the roof, Colin suspects an alien take-over bid from outer space. Meanwhile, Brittas tries to explain the benefits of matching and mirroring body language.

Gordon invites members of the Ruthenian State Circus to perform at the center. A group of US evangelists want to baptize Gordon in the pool after reading of his coming back from the dead.

Brittas proves he is not always a walking disaster when his new campaign becomes a European directive.

Brittas plays with fire once again, organisingthe eternal flame forthe leisure centre's World Peace and Hunger Day celebrations.

Brittas believes that swimming with a dolphin at the leisure centre will bring peace, relaxation and happiness to all the inhabitants.

When Brittas tries to organise a simple staff photograph, what can go wrong?

Gordon Brittas organises a sponsored bungeejump, while several tons of manure are delivered to the centre.

Brittas organises a staff review with everyone reporting on their immediate junior. Julie is under police protection after receivingthreatening letters, and Helen studies to be a therapy counsellor.

Brittas computerises the leisure centre, hoping it will make things more efficient.

Brittas returns revitalised from a management course in Miami and encourages his staff to release their own potential.

The staff at the leisure centre are competing forthe title Employee of the Month.

When Gavin goes missing on a staff weekend, Brittas starts to organise his funeral.

Investigative journalist, Roger Ferguson, is preparing to make a television expose of the goings on at Whitbury Leisure Center. Gordon is led to believe this will be a serious documentary. An outbreak of Bobula fever causes panic.

Brittas is in a celebratory mood, but Councillor Drugget has some bad news for him.