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Episode Count: 52
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Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Laying the Foundations
Original Air Date: 3 January 1991Season 1, Episode 2: Opening Day
Original Air Date: 17 January 1991Season 1, Episode 3: Bye Bye Baby
Original Air Date: 24 January 1991Season 1, Episode 4: Underwater Wedding
Original Air Date: 31 January 1991Season 1, Episode 5: Stop Thief
Original Air Date: 7 February 1991Season 1, Episode 6: Assassin
Original Air Date: 14 February 1991Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Back from the Dead
Original Air Date: 2 January 1992Season 2, Episode 2: Temple of the Body
Original Air Date: 9 January 1992Season 2, Episode 3: An Inspector Calls
Original Air Date: 16 January 1992Season 2, Episode 4: Set in Concrete
Original Air Date: 23 January 1992Season 2, Episode 5: Mums and Dads
Original Air Date: 30 January 1992Season 2, Episode 6: Safety First
Original Air Date: 13 February 1992Season 2, Episode 7: New Generations
Original Air Date: 20 February 1992Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: The Trial
Original Air Date: 7 January 1993Season 3, Episode 2: That Creeping Feeling
Original Air Date: 14 January 1993Season 3, Episode 3: Laura's Leaving
Original Air Date: 21 January 1993Season 3, Episode 4: Two Little Boys
Original Air Date: 28 January 1993Season 3, Episode 5: Sex, Lies & Red Tape
Original Air Date: 4 February 1993Gordon Brittas has the whole staff raise £2500 for a new trampoline by various sponsored activities, such as hunky Gavin allowing people to throw him wet. Of course things go wrong, e.g. Collin's juggling lands a ball in a high tension wire. Meanwhile Mrs. Brittas runs around scared to death after relapsing in the worst possible pregnancy habits: shoplifting! Gordon's own sponsored silence-marathon is challenged to the limit when a certain Michael T. Farrell III from Chicago insists to talk to assistant manager Laura on her birthday, even if that means paying the whole target sum in cash just to get in, but why?
Season 3, Episode 6: The Stuff of Dreams
Original Air Date: 11 February 1993In preparation for the week of the elderly, Gordon Brittas has disguised himself as an obnoxious senior citizen, but is soon recognized by most staff members. Next they receive a questionnaire (except Laura, who is 'too old and has the wrong attitude', though not in her face) to find out who might be fit to succeed him later. Carol insists Laura should drive her to hospital instead of Gordon, as she doesn't want to be the next woman he lands having her baby delivered by a vet, but faith decides daddy to be Brittas gets to, who of course still sticks to every rule in the law book, has a car accident so they get stranded in High Street, but then a frat parade passes...
Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Not a Good Day
Original Air Date: 10 January 1994Veteran running star Sebastian Coe, MP, is in the leisure center for a grand opening, but not only finds it's just a toilet they name after him, everybody keeps running off, chasing an 8-year old boy for not paying a 20 cent ticket; Coe even gets caught with his foot in a dead man's bicycle lock while he must urgently get to parliament. Meanwhile Carol's toddler son Ben has escaped by sawing his way out of the cupboard she keeps him in while trying desperately to apply Mr. Brittas' countless tariff rules, so she and Helen bait a trap cage for him. The arrested kid's father mobilizes his friends in an Ancient Warfare Society where he is centurion to literally lay siege on the center, and the police refuses to turn up again for at least a week. As Gordon refuses to surrender the boy, the Ancient troops take and damage the center by force.
Season 4, Episode 2: The Christening
Original Air Date: 17 January 1994Now his twin sons are born, Gordon Brittas makes the whole staff study in detail the perfect christening service. However his brother Horatio, a clergyman who is to preside, tells him he fell in love with a girl but has a problem- before he can elaborate, Mrs. Helen Brittas, who was too busy pondering which hat to wear to notice earlier, bursts in having forgotten the kids somewhere, so everyone is send out searching. Horatio's dear Philippa Belmont proves obnoxious enough to infuriate both Brittas spouses at her very first conversation with either. After someone else brings in the babies, the feast goes ahead, but while he's looking for Philippas lost ring, Gordon must advise Horatio whether to propose marriage, and receptionist Carole Parkinson owns up what she did to the cake...
Season 4, Episode 3: Biggles Tells a Lie
Original Air Date: 24 January 1994On a rare day when Gordon Brittas is out, everybody is surprised to see his office taken by 'manager' Colin Weatherby, almost unrecognizably well-dressed, no smell. The reason sits there too: his daughter Stephanie from a brief affair, visiting for the first time ever, all the way from Tasmania, expecting the perfect father as he wrote her over the years to have various talents and occupations, such as an author pen-name and a TV show. Mr. Brittas was just returning a pen he had taken with him, but can't resist helping Tim with a boiler problem- which happens to be receptionist Carole's missing and clandestine kitten Biggles. Meanwhile the staff has seen a photograph of Mrs. Brittas someone send to Plaything magazine; when Gavin tries to burn it in the boiler, Gordon finds it and Colin's manager name plate on his desk...
Season 4, Episode 4: Mr. Brittas Changes Trains
Original Air Date: 31 January 1994Gordon is most eager to depart to press his candidacy for a European Comittee on the Leisure Industry at a dinner, but finds his wife Helen -who tells Laura he always drives waiters so furious they throw food at them- has psychosomatically blocked muscles and various staff members are programmed to make wacky responses to certain signals -Colin even drops trou- by a hypnotist. So Gordon asks him to cure Helen, but when he also goes in trance Laura convinces the therapist to temporarily remove his need to change the world...
Season 4, Episode 5: Playing with Fire
Original Air Date: 7 February 1994As Helen has (conveniently?) booked a week in Cornwall a week before Gordon's leave, he's even more focused on the job, notably energy conservation week, producing a mountain of forms to be filled in (five page) at every use of electric equipment. Colin build a complete methane digestion system for human bio-waste. Gavin's fiancée Jenny turns up after five years abroad, and has amnesia. His gay colleague, house-mate and partner Tim goes trough hell while Mr.Brittas champions the welcome committee. When Gavin tells she was in psychiatric therapy for years after her parents' traumatic accident which turned her into a pyromaniac, Laura realizes the importance of Linda's discovery that Jenny's suitcases contain fuel and lighters. Then Colin reports she's in the basement, admiring his methane experiment; she may not be angered but Gordon is there too...
Season 4, Episode 6: Shall We Dance
Original Air Date: 14 February 1994Gordon Brittas sees the annual official dance as a rare occasion for his staff to mix with society, but is gravely disappointed when many seem unable or unwilling to get a suitable partner. Colin asks his milk delivery woman. Carol places an add and gets an answer from her first teenage boy friend, who is now wealthy but gets his hand stuck in the suggestion box, and gets into worse trouble. Laura's Texan ex-partner Michael T. Farrell turns up, disinherited and broke. Gordons wife has rushed back home, but in what state. The weather isn't festive either.
Season 4, Episode 7: The Chop
Original Air Date: 28 February 1994Mr. Brittas has the staff play an intricate board game which paints a grim vision on life, seemingly designed to show hard work pays, but as Tim finds out only demonstrates life is not fair. Councilor Jack Drugget, the new man in charge of sports, announces the council simply is no longer prepared to foot the bill for the leisure center's enormous deficit, and offers Brittas a generous pension with a bonus if he leaves the county, but he won't hear of it. Receptionist Carol asks Laura to help convince Gordon her son Ben needs a larger cupboard. Helen brings in a dog which only knows nasty tricks, such as biting the tops off swimsuits, so telling him is out of the question. Druggett finds a note that 'H.' took all the petty cash; he realizes Helen used it to buy the dog, she grumbles he takes away the first thing ever she really wanted, and goes missing. The councilor insists to press charges- except if he takes the blame, as pretext to sack him. The dog proves a lovely pet, but stays out of his dog house- Helen was hiding there! Gordon packs his things, but on the way out finds Carole also sacked and therefore homeless, joining his guillotine nightmares.
Season 4, Episode 8: High Noon
Original Air Date: 6 March 1994Since the last disaster actually got Gordon fired, he took a new job, as attendant in a petrol station, where Laura isn't surprised to witness his obsession for rules causes endless lines of unhappy clients. An hour later, Helen tell Laura Gordon has already been sacked; only Colin misses his endless staff meetings and other nonsense. The new manager of the leisure center, Alan Digby, has got a daily visit and unwanted detailed 'suggestions', but this time Gordon delivers a weather clock, installs it personally, tinkers with the time table and manages to exasperate a gas delivery truck driver enough to be declared persona non grata and cause a really dangerous incident in the center during Alan's short absence...
Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: That Old, Old Story
Original Air Date: 31 October 1994The Whitbury New Town Leisure center is just rebuild and may host an episode of the national TV religious musical program "Hymns of Praise", but Gordon feels allowing use of the sanitary facilities by the mainly elderly public constitutes a safety risk as long as the staff pigeon holes are not draft-proof, so now for once droves of people are flocking in, the staff is ordered to keep them out! Councillor Jack Drugett feels, after Gordon refused 600 paratroopers to train there till the new barracks are finished 'not to scare of families', Brittas must go, but this time by offering him an irresistible challenge: European Commissioner for Leisure, only Laura is unwilling to pretend she got the idea from the press. A TV interview must wait, probably forever, when people get attacked and fecal heaps are found, but Helen Brittas saw it was an emu, which indeed escaped from the safari park, which is next to- the regiment Gordon refused to let in. Gordon won't evacuate, but nobody else dares to face the bird, and they were right...
Season 5, Episode 2: Blind Devotion
Original Air Date: 7 November 1994Colin is due for the sack and despite his blindness due to his garden exploding and his aunt dying, Mr Brittas is determined to fire him!
Season 5, Episode 3: Brussels Calling
Original Air Date: 14 November 1994Mr Brittas is in Brussels, but that doesn't stop him running his Leisure centre.
Season 5, Episode 4: The Lies Have It
Original Air Date: 21 November 1994Everyone is lying to Mr Brittas about a party that never happened in order to cover up Helen's adultery.
Season 5, Episode 5: The Boss
Original Air Date: 28 November 1994Gavin is in charge of the centre for the day, or so he thinks!
Season 5, Episode 6: Pregnant
Original Air Date: 5 December 1994Just when Gavin was to get his last test before his hoped promotion to assistant manager, the center's medical tests introduced to fight drugs cause hysteria as there is a positive pregnancy test, suggesting Carol is pregnant from Colin, which potential marriage rather suits both of them -for want of better, at first sight- and Linda from 65-year old headmaster Edward, a baronet no less, who dumped her while she loves him; actually Helen has swapped a sample, inseminated while she stayed and was unconscious for days in his house by hallucinogenic gasses around Easter, when Gordon was in Brussels. Gordon thinks Timothy is- not gay as he is, but pregnant too and tries to enforce gender-proof...
Season 5, Episode 7: UXB
Original Air Date: 12 December 1994People are looking forward to Julie's wedding with the baronet, she more to the informal party then the Westminster Abbey ceremony. Colin worries Gavin won't be able to fill Mr. Brittas's shoes, Gavin when he finds out Gordon wants Laura to succeed him. Carol barricades herself when Mr. Trap from Social Services shows a court order to confiscate the children she keeps in drawers and closets, but that works out surprisingly well... Helen hasn't told Gordon, but she isn't planning to follow him to Brussels, supposedly for the family dog and the children's school, but changes her mind when she finds out about an EU commissioner's pay and perks. Gordon insisted everyone has to learn think for himself, but that leaves Colin with an excessive responsibility: an unexploded World War II bomb he dug out...
Season 5, Episode 8: The Last Day
Original Air Date: 19 December 1994It's Mr Brittas' last day, but anything could happen!
Season 5, Episode 9: In the Beginning
Original Air Date: 27 December 1994This Christmas special has all the staff meeting up on New Year's Eve in the future, looking back at their first New Year's Eve together.
Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1: Back with a Bang
Original Air Date: 27 February 1996Season 6, Episode 2: Body Language
Original Air Date: 12 March 1996Season 6, Episode 3: At the Double
Original Air Date: 26 March 1996Season 6, Episode 4: A Walk on the Wildside
Original Air Date: 2 April 1996Season 6, Episode 5: We All Fall Down
Original Air Date: 9 April 1996Season 6, Episode 6: Mr Brittas Falls in Love
Original Air Date: 16 April 1996After touring European leisure centers for the EU, Mr. Brittas is rather poetic, having fallen in love, like his wife, with Ingrid- a dolphin, and he believes in the species' therapeutic powers. Only Linda firmly opposes as 'animal abuse' Gordon's 'healing day' next Tuesday. Tim turns the canteen to culinary heights, alas wasted on the clients, only Carol and her closet kids enjoy the pricey menus. Rosemary Rawlinson, who has a speech - and hearing impediment, is staying two weeks as a learning experience, warmly welcomed by ever disgusting Colin. Alas Julie messes up Gordon's order for live dolphin Wally and Tim's for shark fillet. Meanwhile Linda has mobilized a small army of animal rights activists...
Season 6, Episode 7: Snap Happy
Original Air Date: 23 April 1996Season 7
Season 7, Episode 0: Surviving Christmas
Original Air Date: 24 December 1996Season 7, Episode 1: The Elephant's Child
Original Air Date: 6 January 1997Season 7, Episode 2: Reviewing the Situation
Original Air Date: 13 January 1997Season 7, Episode 3: http://etc.
Original Air Date: 20 January 1997Mr. Brittas had the leisure center renovated and thoroughly computerized, painstakingly detailed and cumbersome to operate when it works and seems to put the staff out of work, even harder to beat when reality doesn't conform to its options. Councillor Druggett trusts Britas will hang himself being given a free hand to spend lottery and European subsidy funds. Tim and Gavin enlist the sabotaging help of a hacking schoolboy, so everything goes wrong even worse then usual...
Season 7, Episode 4: Wake Up the Lion Within
Original Air Date: 27 January 1997Season 7, Episode 5: The Disappearing Act
Original Air Date: 3 February 1997Season 7, Episode 6: Gavin Featherly R.I.P.
Original Air Date: 10 February 1997Season 7, Episode 7: Exposed
Original Air Date: 17 February 1997Season 7, Episode 8: Curse of the Tiger Women
Original Air Date: 24 February 1997After a weird curse from a gypsy about fatal food, the staff is afraid to eat Gordon's self-baked cake to celebrate the leisure center's seventh anniversary; Mr. Brittas's friend Harold ate some kedgeree and dies. Helen and Carol figure out the receptionists' twins were fathered by Gordon -a twin, father of Helen's twins- when everybody was in costume at Julie's party, believing he was with his wife. Councillor Jack Drugget happily reports the municipal council voted Gordon must go on early retirement, but dies himself after enjoying a biscuit in Gordon's office. And yet it keeps getting worse, until...
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