This is a list of characters from The Brittas Empire, a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1991-1997. Gordon Brittas Gordon Wellesley Brittas GM (born 1958) is the manager of the ill-fated Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. Brittas is dedicated to his job and cares dearly for everyone around him, including his unstable wife Helen. He has grand ambitions of making the world a better place, and aims to fulfill his dream of bringing people together through sport. But despite his noble and well-meant intentions, Brittas' management only ever causes disaster and chaos, resulting in pathetically low attendance rates, catastrophic fires, floods, injuries and even deaths on several occasions. In typical bureaucratic style, he is obsessed with paperwork and forces his staff and customers to fill in thousands of different forms for the most banal of details, such as lost property claims. Throughout the entire series, he remains blissfully unaware of his total incompetence as a manager and the negative effect he has on everybody around him. An example of Brittas's tactlessness is in the episode "Temple Of The Body", where he suspects someone is having sex in the centre, telling Carole that she has nothing to worry about, because whatever is happening is only with 'the younger and more attractive women, such as Linda, Julie and Laura'. Brittas is also extremely petty and pedantic, insisting on over-complicated forms at reception, and ridiculous rules on what not to wear in the centre, only serving to frustrate potential customers and centre staff. In the last series, Brittas rigs up a computer system to control every aspect of the centre, which over-complicates even the simple task of distributing floats by the swimming pools, and results in someone drowning. Brittas is also accident-prone, and often make careless mistakes, sometimes with fatal consequences. For example, in "Laura's Leaving", Brittas tugs at a wire which drops a live electric heater into the main swimming pool. This electrocutes a group of Pentecostal Christians performing a baptism ceremony in the water. Alternatively, if a small problem does develop without his doing, Brittas will try to solve it, thus creating a much larger problem. Helen points out in the second episode that 'once [Gordon] starts dealing with little problems, they don't go away; you just get bigger ones' and then in series three, the disasters in the centre always start with something trivial going wrong. Also