Post by sazzy on Apr 8, 2008 14:00:57 GMT
For all those fan fic writers out there I have made a character timeline for each major character. Each one can be found on the appropriate character forum. I have also made a episode by episode rundown to help make the timelines to make sense (you can find this on The Brittas Empire section. Just a note of warning though: If you are writing fan fic with the info I gave you I may have spelt the odd character (not the main characters) name incorrectly. I have a few problems with my hearing at the mo and it is possible that I may have heard the odd name wrongly. 
Gordon Brittas
Series 1
Ep 1 We meet Gordon Brittas at home. It is his first day at Whitbury Newtown Leisure Centre. He gets the job because he gave a good interview and had a ‘wonderful reference’ from Aldershot. Brittas also speaks about his ‘dream’. Some members of staff resign, he offends the builders and comes home with his car full of concrete.
Ep 2 Brittas causes disaster in the run up to the opening ceremony when the duchess of Kent came to open the centre.
Ep 3 Wife goes to care for ‘Uncle Simon’ but Gordon thinks their marriage is successful. He decides his marriage scores 89/90 in magazine questionnaire: how strong is your marriage.
Ep 4 Helen explained to her neighbour how she and Gordon met: They met on the hard shoulder of M6 just outside Birmingham when her car broke down. Her boyfriend, Terry, was taking her to the Caravan Show. Gordon appeared carrying a set of socket spanners. Terry told her to shut up and Gordon told her women deserved better than that. Helen said she got fond of Gordon whilst visiting him in hospital whilst he was drifting in and out of a coma with his jaw wired up. Brittas also discusses his time at Loughbough University when he used to coach for an ‘underprivileged football team’.
Ep 5 His wife tells the doctor that Gordon trained as a Samaritan. He only worked for one evening known as Black Friday when they lost four people in an hour and a half.
Ep 6 Brittas has great difficulty believing that anyone is trying to kill him even though his brakes on his car have been cut. He also shares his suspicions that Tim is showing signs of being ‘a bit’ gay. At end of ep he was run over by treacle lorry and ends up in hospital.
Series 2
Ep1 Brittas is believed to have been killed in Bulgaria. He returns to find his wife in a wedding dress ready to marry another man. He wants to thank the man for wanting to marry Helen and take on his family.
Ep2 Brittas is on the warpath in an effort to keep the centres wholesome image. He ends up getting photographed in a cupboard with Carol which lead to his marriage guidance session being cancelled. We find out that he is probably the father of Carol’s baby… but he doesn’t know this.
Ep3 The centre is inspected Brittas expects to be fired. His wife tries to leave him but decides she can’t bring herself to. He is not fired as the inspector is like him.
Ep4 Brittas has his feet stuck in concrete after annoying the Rotarians. Laura tries to teach Brittas how to not upset everyone. He uses his new skills on the stone mason who came to rescue him.
Ep5 Gordon’s father appears and discusses Gordon’s upbringing with Laura and Helen. He talks about Gordon’s twin brother Horatio who caused a knife fight in a Lenten vigil. His community raised money to send Horatio to the Lebanon. His father said its important to give his son lots of praise so he has an shakeable faith in himself.
Ep6 During a picnic (in his office) with his wife Brittas tells her that he has a mistress. She finds it very difficult to believe him until he explains that the centre is his mistress and it needs his time too. He then goes on and tells his wife that she’s more important. He tells Julie he is not to be disturbed for the next 35 minutes unless there is a disaster. Of course there was a disaster and the centre caught fire.
Ep7 Gordon discovers Carol is pregnant, then helps the vet deliver her twins not realising that he is the father. He is determined to find out who the father is threatening male staff with blood tests and hypnotism. He also discovers that his wife is pregnant with twins.
Series 3
Ep1 Brittas found himself up in court on a long list of charges. He finally got off the charges when one of the gang turned up in court after being given a new belief in himself by Brittas.
Ep2 The staff sends Brittas to Coventry and only start speaking to him again once he saved Colin’s life. He also received a parcel from South America through the post containing a poisonous spider.
Ep3 Gordon looses it in the reception when Laura is out on a job interview. He ends up sacking Carol and then needed Laura’s help because he didn’t want to go back on his sacking.
Ep4 Gordon is found discussing his dreams with his brother Horatio in this episode. Just before his brother went to theological college and he went to Loughbough College of Physical Education they wrote down their aims in life. There were 14 aims in all including, setting up a world government; promoting team spirit; a religious revival and end of war. Gordon managed to talk his brother (who was having a crisis of confidence) around. His brother in this episode was due to fly to the Lebanon to become Dean of Beirut but was concerned if he was up to the job as he had hecklers in his congregation amongst other crises.
Ep5 Brittas is on a sponsored silence. He meets Laura’s husband and takes an instant dislike to him although later apologises to Laura when he realises Michael T Farrell the third is her husband. Laura shouts at him then kisses him. Brittas questions whether Laura is in love with him.
Ep6 Brittas dressed up as an OAP to test staff. He looks for someone who can follow his dream after he has retired. He drives Helen to the hospital whilst she is in labour but manages to get the car stuck, she ends up giving birth to twins in the high street and he discovers that his children can follow his dream.
Series 4
Ep1 Brittas causes a riot after making a citizen’s arrest of an 8 year old. The classical war society bombards the centre with bricks and arrows before finally catapulting an engine block of a Morris marina through the wall of the centre.
Ep2 Gordon’s twins are due to be christened but his wife manages to loose them. Gordon also meets Horatio’s girlfriend, Philippa. He takes a dislike to her but tells Horatio that if he loves her they should be together.
Ep 4 Brittas is trying to get a job as the British Representative in the European Leisure Industry Standards Commission. He gets the job after attending a meal/interview with them as Laura had arranged for him to be hypnotised to act normal for the evening.
Ep5 Helen has taken the children off on holiday claiming to have booked the wrong week leaving Gordon at home. Laura invites him over to supper that evening; he first sends her a note to say he isn’t able to come but later changes his mind.
Ep6 Rumours fly around the centre about Brittas’ relationship with Laura as he has been helping her with her garden. When her husband turns up and she takes him back Brittas tells her that she could do better for herself (something I’ve been shouting at the screen for years). Helen arrives back from her holiday covered in sick.
Ep7 Brittas resigns rather than allowing his wife getting into trouble for taking money from petty cash.
Ep8 Brittas is working at a garage as a traffic attendant he causes major traffic jams before being sacked. He returns to the centre to give the staff a clock. The cuckoo clock gives off sparks which causes an explosion which blows up the centre. Brittas is hailed a hero as he manages to rescue a couple of school girls and Carol’s son Ben.
Series 5
Ep1 Brittas has kept the centre closed after its rebuilding because of faulty pigeon holes. Councillor Druggit wants him to get a job as a European Commissioner for leisure and asks Laura to let Brittas find out about the job which she eventually does. Carol talks a lot about Brittas’ book which he had written called I Believe, the profits of which will go to his new charity Leisure in the Third World.
Ep2 Brittas tries to sack a blinded Colin on his birthday. Helen doesn’t want to go to Brussels so Gordon says if she doesn’t want to go they won’t go but she tells him she’s changed her mind and wants to go.
Ep3 Gordon spends the episode phoning the centre to relay instructions from his interview in Brussels.
Ep4 The staff lie to Brittas that they all went to a party.
Ep5 Brittas watches over Gavin as he runs the centre insisting that everyone calls him Gordon as he is one of the workers. He tells everyone he is leaving to go to work in Brussels.
Ep6 Gordon tells most of the staff that they are pregnant, they aren’t only Julie.
Ep7 Gordon has a dream in which he sees Laura tell him she loves him and has always loved him then she kisses him in the dream. He is rather disappointed when she comes in and his dream doesn’t come true. He later tells a confused Helen that if she doesn’t want to go to Brussels they won’t go they won’t.
Ep8 Brittas has a disagreement with the Germans and is unsure whether he is going to take the job in Brussels. Later he pushes Carol out of the way of a falling tank of water the tank of water crushes him to death. At the gates of heaven they say that he has caused 4 suicides, 115 acts of manslaughter and driven 23 people clinically insane. After a few days in heaven they send him back, awaking him mid funeral banging on his coffin.
1994 Christmas Special
We meet Brittas in 2019 who is still the same as he ever was, but now he’s working as a UN peace envoy.
Series 6
Ep1 Brittas returns to the centre unaware that he has been dead, until Helen tells him which sends him into a state of shock, he complains about feeling cramped in the coffin says they were not up to European standards. He discovers he and Helen owe the life insurance £88,000.
Ep2 Brittas is determined to teach everyone about body language. He uses his skills to talk to a block of ice which Colin has convinced him is an alien.
Ep3 Brittas is slightly confused when his double appears and people talk to him about things he has done but which was done by his double. He is also baptised against his will by members of the first church of Chatham Newgun when he jumps into the pool to escape a brown bear which is on the loose in the centre.
Ep5 Brittas manages to electrocute the children of Whitbury as they stand hand in hand around the centre.
Ep6 Brittas saw the healing qualities of a dolphin whilst on holiday in Norway with his wife. He plans to bring a dolphin to the centre but a shark is ordered by mistake.
Ep8 Helen speaks about their honeymoon in Croydon. Mr Humphreys has come to the centre because Brittas has made an application to his office at the English heritage as Brittas thought that the building should become grade 1 listed. He also planned for a photograph of all the staff.
Series 7
Ep1 Gordon helps Julie to give birth in the basement; she names her son after him. When talking to the crowds at the start of the bungee jump he gets knocked off the stand and ends in the elephant dung swallowing the missing engagement ring.
Ep2 Brittas ignores Tim who he says doesn’t exist when he discovers Tim’s real name. He is also shot but the cigarette case in his pocket given to him by his wife saves his life.
Ep3 Brittas gets the centre computerized. When he realises that his staff don’t like the new system and has tried to break it he tells them that he will send it back.
Ep4 Brittas is tricked by Carol into losing his job so that she could become manager. He asked her for any job in the centre as any job was better than no job, she said no. Helen counselled her husband and convinced him that there was life outside the centre and that they should put the children into boarding school and emigrate to Kathmandu. Carol then tells him she tricked him and he became manager again.
Ep5 Counsellor Druggit brings in an employee of the month prize, Brittas does not approve. He tries to support his wife in her dreams workshop.
Ep6 Gavin is thought to have drowned so Brittas plans the funeral.
Ep7 Brittas allows a journalist to visit the centre and prepares scripts and rehearsals for all the staff except Colin who got a stunt double. When disease broke out in the centre Brittas held a press conference to quell any fears that a contagious disease had spread having an opposite effect.
Ep8 Brittas discovers that he is the father of Carol’s twins. A gypsy lady puts a curse on him and anyone who eats his food will die so Councillor Druggit, his friend Harold and numerous animals die as they eat his food. At the very end of the ep it turns out that the past 7 years was all a dream and Brittas actually dreamt it all up on a train on his way to an interview.
1996 Christmas Special
Brittas spends the episode on a team building exercise in the welsh hills escaping from attempts on his life by Father Christmas whom he had offended at the centre.
Gordon Brittas
Series 1
Ep 1 We meet Gordon Brittas at home. It is his first day at Whitbury Newtown Leisure Centre. He gets the job because he gave a good interview and had a ‘wonderful reference’ from Aldershot. Brittas also speaks about his ‘dream’. Some members of staff resign, he offends the builders and comes home with his car full of concrete.
Ep 2 Brittas causes disaster in the run up to the opening ceremony when the duchess of Kent came to open the centre.
Ep 3 Wife goes to care for ‘Uncle Simon’ but Gordon thinks their marriage is successful. He decides his marriage scores 89/90 in magazine questionnaire: how strong is your marriage.
Ep 4 Helen explained to her neighbour how she and Gordon met: They met on the hard shoulder of M6 just outside Birmingham when her car broke down. Her boyfriend, Terry, was taking her to the Caravan Show. Gordon appeared carrying a set of socket spanners. Terry told her to shut up and Gordon told her women deserved better than that. Helen said she got fond of Gordon whilst visiting him in hospital whilst he was drifting in and out of a coma with his jaw wired up. Brittas also discusses his time at Loughbough University when he used to coach for an ‘underprivileged football team’.
Ep 5 His wife tells the doctor that Gordon trained as a Samaritan. He only worked for one evening known as Black Friday when they lost four people in an hour and a half.
Ep 6 Brittas has great difficulty believing that anyone is trying to kill him even though his brakes on his car have been cut. He also shares his suspicions that Tim is showing signs of being ‘a bit’ gay. At end of ep he was run over by treacle lorry and ends up in hospital.
Series 2
Ep1 Brittas is believed to have been killed in Bulgaria. He returns to find his wife in a wedding dress ready to marry another man. He wants to thank the man for wanting to marry Helen and take on his family.
Ep2 Brittas is on the warpath in an effort to keep the centres wholesome image. He ends up getting photographed in a cupboard with Carol which lead to his marriage guidance session being cancelled. We find out that he is probably the father of Carol’s baby… but he doesn’t know this.
Ep3 The centre is inspected Brittas expects to be fired. His wife tries to leave him but decides she can’t bring herself to. He is not fired as the inspector is like him.
Ep4 Brittas has his feet stuck in concrete after annoying the Rotarians. Laura tries to teach Brittas how to not upset everyone. He uses his new skills on the stone mason who came to rescue him.
Ep5 Gordon’s father appears and discusses Gordon’s upbringing with Laura and Helen. He talks about Gordon’s twin brother Horatio who caused a knife fight in a Lenten vigil. His community raised money to send Horatio to the Lebanon. His father said its important to give his son lots of praise so he has an shakeable faith in himself.
Ep6 During a picnic (in his office) with his wife Brittas tells her that he has a mistress. She finds it very difficult to believe him until he explains that the centre is his mistress and it needs his time too. He then goes on and tells his wife that she’s more important. He tells Julie he is not to be disturbed for the next 35 minutes unless there is a disaster. Of course there was a disaster and the centre caught fire.
Ep7 Gordon discovers Carol is pregnant, then helps the vet deliver her twins not realising that he is the father. He is determined to find out who the father is threatening male staff with blood tests and hypnotism. He also discovers that his wife is pregnant with twins.
Series 3
Ep1 Brittas found himself up in court on a long list of charges. He finally got off the charges when one of the gang turned up in court after being given a new belief in himself by Brittas.
Ep2 The staff sends Brittas to Coventry and only start speaking to him again once he saved Colin’s life. He also received a parcel from South America through the post containing a poisonous spider.
Ep3 Gordon looses it in the reception when Laura is out on a job interview. He ends up sacking Carol and then needed Laura’s help because he didn’t want to go back on his sacking.
Ep4 Gordon is found discussing his dreams with his brother Horatio in this episode. Just before his brother went to theological college and he went to Loughbough College of Physical Education they wrote down their aims in life. There were 14 aims in all including, setting up a world government; promoting team spirit; a religious revival and end of war. Gordon managed to talk his brother (who was having a crisis of confidence) around. His brother in this episode was due to fly to the Lebanon to become Dean of Beirut but was concerned if he was up to the job as he had hecklers in his congregation amongst other crises.
Ep5 Brittas is on a sponsored silence. He meets Laura’s husband and takes an instant dislike to him although later apologises to Laura when he realises Michael T Farrell the third is her husband. Laura shouts at him then kisses him. Brittas questions whether Laura is in love with him.
Ep6 Brittas dressed up as an OAP to test staff. He looks for someone who can follow his dream after he has retired. He drives Helen to the hospital whilst she is in labour but manages to get the car stuck, she ends up giving birth to twins in the high street and he discovers that his children can follow his dream.
Series 4
Ep1 Brittas causes a riot after making a citizen’s arrest of an 8 year old. The classical war society bombards the centre with bricks and arrows before finally catapulting an engine block of a Morris marina through the wall of the centre.
Ep2 Gordon’s twins are due to be christened but his wife manages to loose them. Gordon also meets Horatio’s girlfriend, Philippa. He takes a dislike to her but tells Horatio that if he loves her they should be together.
Ep 4 Brittas is trying to get a job as the British Representative in the European Leisure Industry Standards Commission. He gets the job after attending a meal/interview with them as Laura had arranged for him to be hypnotised to act normal for the evening.
Ep5 Helen has taken the children off on holiday claiming to have booked the wrong week leaving Gordon at home. Laura invites him over to supper that evening; he first sends her a note to say he isn’t able to come but later changes his mind.
Ep6 Rumours fly around the centre about Brittas’ relationship with Laura as he has been helping her with her garden. When her husband turns up and she takes him back Brittas tells her that she could do better for herself (something I’ve been shouting at the screen for years). Helen arrives back from her holiday covered in sick.
Ep7 Brittas resigns rather than allowing his wife getting into trouble for taking money from petty cash.
Ep8 Brittas is working at a garage as a traffic attendant he causes major traffic jams before being sacked. He returns to the centre to give the staff a clock. The cuckoo clock gives off sparks which causes an explosion which blows up the centre. Brittas is hailed a hero as he manages to rescue a couple of school girls and Carol’s son Ben.
Series 5
Ep1 Brittas has kept the centre closed after its rebuilding because of faulty pigeon holes. Councillor Druggit wants him to get a job as a European Commissioner for leisure and asks Laura to let Brittas find out about the job which she eventually does. Carol talks a lot about Brittas’ book which he had written called I Believe, the profits of which will go to his new charity Leisure in the Third World.
Ep2 Brittas tries to sack a blinded Colin on his birthday. Helen doesn’t want to go to Brussels so Gordon says if she doesn’t want to go they won’t go but she tells him she’s changed her mind and wants to go.
Ep3 Gordon spends the episode phoning the centre to relay instructions from his interview in Brussels.
Ep4 The staff lie to Brittas that they all went to a party.
Ep5 Brittas watches over Gavin as he runs the centre insisting that everyone calls him Gordon as he is one of the workers. He tells everyone he is leaving to go to work in Brussels.
Ep6 Gordon tells most of the staff that they are pregnant, they aren’t only Julie.
Ep7 Gordon has a dream in which he sees Laura tell him she loves him and has always loved him then she kisses him in the dream. He is rather disappointed when she comes in and his dream doesn’t come true. He later tells a confused Helen that if she doesn’t want to go to Brussels they won’t go they won’t.
Ep8 Brittas has a disagreement with the Germans and is unsure whether he is going to take the job in Brussels. Later he pushes Carol out of the way of a falling tank of water the tank of water crushes him to death. At the gates of heaven they say that he has caused 4 suicides, 115 acts of manslaughter and driven 23 people clinically insane. After a few days in heaven they send him back, awaking him mid funeral banging on his coffin.
1994 Christmas Special
We meet Brittas in 2019 who is still the same as he ever was, but now he’s working as a UN peace envoy.
Series 6
Ep1 Brittas returns to the centre unaware that he has been dead, until Helen tells him which sends him into a state of shock, he complains about feeling cramped in the coffin says they were not up to European standards. He discovers he and Helen owe the life insurance £88,000.
Ep2 Brittas is determined to teach everyone about body language. He uses his skills to talk to a block of ice which Colin has convinced him is an alien.
Ep3 Brittas is slightly confused when his double appears and people talk to him about things he has done but which was done by his double. He is also baptised against his will by members of the first church of Chatham Newgun when he jumps into the pool to escape a brown bear which is on the loose in the centre.
Ep5 Brittas manages to electrocute the children of Whitbury as they stand hand in hand around the centre.
Ep6 Brittas saw the healing qualities of a dolphin whilst on holiday in Norway with his wife. He plans to bring a dolphin to the centre but a shark is ordered by mistake.
Ep8 Helen speaks about their honeymoon in Croydon. Mr Humphreys has come to the centre because Brittas has made an application to his office at the English heritage as Brittas thought that the building should become grade 1 listed. He also planned for a photograph of all the staff.
Series 7
Ep1 Gordon helps Julie to give birth in the basement; she names her son after him. When talking to the crowds at the start of the bungee jump he gets knocked off the stand and ends in the elephant dung swallowing the missing engagement ring.
Ep2 Brittas ignores Tim who he says doesn’t exist when he discovers Tim’s real name. He is also shot but the cigarette case in his pocket given to him by his wife saves his life.
Ep3 Brittas gets the centre computerized. When he realises that his staff don’t like the new system and has tried to break it he tells them that he will send it back.
Ep4 Brittas is tricked by Carol into losing his job so that she could become manager. He asked her for any job in the centre as any job was better than no job, she said no. Helen counselled her husband and convinced him that there was life outside the centre and that they should put the children into boarding school and emigrate to Kathmandu. Carol then tells him she tricked him and he became manager again.
Ep5 Counsellor Druggit brings in an employee of the month prize, Brittas does not approve. He tries to support his wife in her dreams workshop.
Ep6 Gavin is thought to have drowned so Brittas plans the funeral.
Ep7 Brittas allows a journalist to visit the centre and prepares scripts and rehearsals for all the staff except Colin who got a stunt double. When disease broke out in the centre Brittas held a press conference to quell any fears that a contagious disease had spread having an opposite effect.
Ep8 Brittas discovers that he is the father of Carol’s twins. A gypsy lady puts a curse on him and anyone who eats his food will die so Councillor Druggit, his friend Harold and numerous animals die as they eat his food. At the very end of the ep it turns out that the past 7 years was all a dream and Brittas actually dreamt it all up on a train on his way to an interview.
1996 Christmas Special
Brittas spends the episode on a team building exercise in the welsh hills escaping from attempts on his life by Father Christmas whom he had offended at the centre.