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9 Episodes 1994 - 1994
Episode 1
30 mins
Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre has just been rebuilt, and is hosting an episode of the national TV religious musical program "Songs of Praise". However, 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 draught-proof, so now for once people are flocking in but the staff are ordered to keep them out. Councillor Jack Drugett feels Brittas must go, but this time he plans to offer him an irresistible challenge: European Commissioner for Leisure. Matters become further complicated when an escaped emu is discovered to be loose in the building.
Episode 2
30 mins
Now Gordon is preparing to go to Brussels, he tells Gavin there may be room for a promotion for him too - if he sacks useless Colin. Alas telling Colin he's out proves heart-breaking as Colin befalls numerous problems: he is blinded; he looses his aunt, surrogate mother and all his money; finally Gordon squashes his pet canary. Still, when the eager beaver goes on lifeguard duty in the pool and fails to save anyone, including Tim, Brittas orders his dismissal typed. The staff (including the union reps, Tim and Laura) revolt.
Episode 3
30 mins
Gordon is in Brussels, making a hotel manager's life hell and hoping for an EU post. Everybody expected Laura to run the center better than Gordon, but it all goes as wrong as usual: there's a rat plague that only Ben's flute can control; Colin monumentally misunderstands Gordon's order to kill some grass; Tim grudgingly plays clown at a birthday party for the son of Graham Furber, the teacher Helen nearly 'accidentally' ran over with her car in his classroom, but Julie calls in an ex, ruthless lawyer John Rawlinson, who flirts with willing Helen.
Episode 4
30 mins
To cover up another adulterous night out, Helen gets all the staff to lie to Gordon that they attended a fictitious birthday party for Carole, but they soon get caught-up in incompatible details. Insisting Colin should wear a helmet to attend his building site security lecture, Gordon causes an unnoticed accident. This keeps causing more builder victims, all unable to say anything and warn anyone. Meanwhile Gordon fanatically opposes Laura's US husband Michael's desperate attempt to save his inheritance and marriage by postulating as junior pool attendant. Gordon also manages to tell Tim Gavin's secret he's studying management, causing the gay lovers to fist-fight
Episode 5
30 mins
Gordon tells everyone that he and Laura are leaving Gavin in charge for a day as practice, but only Laura knows that Gordon wants to see if the team can 'do without him' - he should start in Brussels in six weeks. As if Gavin's boy-friend Tim's bitter attitude doesn't make it hard enough, Gordon compounds disaster scenarios, oblivious that this actually causes quite serious real problems, which Gavin gets blamed for by everyone else. Meanwhile Carole hesitates whether to become the 'kept woman' of rich old gentleman Gerald, but the matter is dramatically decided for them. Helen is desperate to get rid of most ill-considered tattoo.
Episode 6
30 mins
Just when Gavin was to get his last test before his hoped-for promotion to Assistant Manager, the Centre's medical tests introduced to fight drugs cause hysteria: as there is a positive pregnancy test, suggesting that Linda is pregnant by 65-year-old headmaster Edward, Julie is pregnant by a Baronet, Carole is pregnant by Colin!--and there's an even more surprising pregnancy, and Brittas puts the suspect through a humiliating test. While Carole and Colin willingly consider marriage, Helen reveals to Laura that she swapped samples--it's possible that she's the one expecting.
Episode 7
30 mins
People 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...
Episode 8
30 mins
It's Mr Brittas' last day, but anything could happen!
Episode 9
30 mins
This 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.