title: Evacuation

type: Backdrop

type: Poster

status: Ended

Season 1

title: Arrival at Castle Farm

title: Arrival at Castle Farm

title: Collecting Eggs

title: Collecting Eggs

title: Postcards Home

title: Postcards Home

title: The Anderson Shelter

title: The Anderson Shelter

title: The Warden

title: The Warden

title: Wash Day

title: Wash Day

title: Private Pickard

title: Private Pickard

title: The Vicar Comes to Tea

title: The Vicar Comes to Tea

title: American Dancing

title: American Dancing

title: The End of the War

title: The End of the War

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: Arrival at Pradoe Hall

title: Arrival at Pradoe Hall

title: Lunch with Lady Olstead

title: Lunch with Lady Olstead

title: School with Miss Young

title: School with Miss Young

title: Miss Young's PE Lesson

title: Miss Young's PE Lesson

title: A Night in the Cellar

title: A Night in the Cellar

title: Pheasant Shooting Season

title: Pheasant Shooting Season

title: The New Arrival

title: The New Arrival

title: The Upper Class

title: The Upper Class

title: Season 2

overview: Evacuation was a children's reality television series presented by Matt Baker which was broadcast on CBBC between September 2006 and February 2008 where six boys and six girls from across the United Kingdom experienced living as evacuees in World War II.

title: Evacuation

title: Evacuation

original_title: Evacuation

original_language: en


title: Penn & Teller: Bull!

Specials

title: The Ghost Segment

overview: Season 1 DVD Special Feature.  A cable-access ghost hunter and his psychic sidekick travel to Oklahoma City to investigate a ghost sighting in a car wrecking yard.

title: The Ghost Segment

title: James Randi Interview with Penn & Teller

overview: Season 1 DVD Special Feature.  Penn & Teller interview legendary magician and renowned skeptic James Randi.

title: More Bullshit!

overview: Season 1 DVD Special Feature.  A collection of deleted scenes from Season 1 featuring many of your favourite bullshitters!

title: More Bullshit!

title: Bullshitting Around

overview: Season 1 DVD Special Feature.  Season 1 blooper reel.

title: Bullshitting Around

title: Behind The Scenes

overview: Season 1 DVD Special Feature.  Some behind the scenes footage from the filming of Season 1.

title: Behind The Scenes

title: Wraparounds

overview: Season 1 DVD Special Feature.  A compilation of Penn & Teller's wraparounds which for one reason or another never made it in to the final shows.

title: Wraparounds

title: Naked promo

overview: Season 1 DVD Special Feature. Promo for Season 1 Episode 6.

title: Naked promo

title: An Important Message From Penn & Teller

overview: Season 2 DVD Special Feature. Penn makes a correction to an error about the Salem witch trials made in Season 1 Episode 12.

title: An Important Message From Penn & Teller

title: Season 0

Season 1

title: Talking to the Dead

type: Still

overview: A look into the practices of popular psychics of today reveals how those who claim to be in contact with the dead are actually performing an age-old trick called "cold reading."

title: Talking to the Dead

title: Puhutaan kuolleiden kanssa

overview: Ensimmäisessä jaksossa amerikkalaiset taikurit Penn & Teller paljastavat, miten kuolleihin ystäviin ja sukulaisiin yhteyttä ottavat meediot huijaavat ihmisiä.

job: Writer

department: Writing

type: Crew

character: Self

type: GuestStar

title: Alternative Medicine

overview: A look at chiropractic medicine, reflexology, magnet therapy,and a trip to an alternative medicine fair that ends in a "sting" operation at a crowded mall.

title: Alternative Medicine

title: Vaihtoehtolääketiede

overview: Voiko munasarjoja hieroa jalanpohjan kautta? Refleksologien mukaan voi. Entä miten toimivat magneettiterapia ja kiropraktiikka? Penn & Teller tutkivat, voiko sairauksistaan parantua ilman lääketieteen apua.

title: Alien Abductions

overview: This show features three days spent at a UFO convention and a visit to an alien abduction group therapy session. It also explores the psychological explanations, and the influences of pop culture, on the typical abduction story.

title: Alien Abductions

title: Ufosieppaukset

overview: Penn & Teller vierailevat ufomessuilla Kaliforniassa selvittämässä, onko ufojen olemassaolosta löydettävissä tieteellisiä todisteita. Ufouskovaisilla on tarjota jos jonkinlaisia tarinoita ja selityksiä. Harva meistä onkaan huomannut, että George W. Bush on todellisuudessa ihmiseksi naamioitunut lisko.

title: End of the World

overview: A look at "The Sky is Falling" people from Nostradamus and his misinterpreted quatrains, to the "Left Behind" publishing phenomenon, to various crackpot rapture groups. Also featured is a survivalist who has converted 40 school buses into an elaborate underground compound that he and his friends will escape to when the bombs start dropping.

title: End of the World

title: Maailmanloppu

overview: Maailmanloppua on ennustettu koko tunnetun historian ajan. Tähän asti kaikki ennustukset ovat menneet pieleen. Penn & Teller tutkivat, miten Nostradamuksen ennustuksia kuuluu tulkita, ja onko Hillary Clinton Antikristus.

title: Second Hand Smoke / Baby Bullshit

overview: We'll go to a hearing in NYC, where the dangers of second-hand smoke, and legislating human behavior, is being hotly debated and stage a hidden-camera sting that shows just how rabid people are about this topic. Also, a look at smart videos, teaching babies to read, the "Baby Whisperer," and the baby product industry that preys on guilt ridden parents with money to burn.

title: Second Hand Smoke / Baby Bullshit

title: Passiivinen tupakointi ja vauvahömppä

overview: New Yorkin ravintoloissa ei enää saa polttaa, koska passiivinen tupakointi aiheuttaa syöpää. Vai aiheuttaako? Entä mitä kaikkea tuoreet vanhemmat ovat valmiita tekemään vauvansa hyväksi?

title: Sex, Sex, Sex

overview: This show checks out penis and breast enlargement products, techniques and myths. Also aphrodisiacs: do they work? Expect some graphic and jaw-dropping visuals.

title: Sex, Sex, Sex

title: Seksiä, seksiä

overview: Koolla tuntuu olevan väliä. Miehet murehtivat elimensä koosta, naiset rintojensa. Penn & Teller tutkivat, voiko ruumiinosia suurentaa pumpulla, pillereillä tai hypnoosilla.

title: Feng Shui / Bottled Water

overview: Penn & Teller put three Feng Shui home consultants to the test and feature a visit to a Feng Shui hairstylist. Also, the craze of bottled water is a national obsession but tap water is usually safer for you, and often better tasting too. Using a hidden camera, we'll take a look at the obsession.

title: Feng Shui / Bottled Water

title: Fengshui ja pullovesi

overview: Penn & Teller palkkaavat kolme asiantuntijaa sisustaman saman kodin fengshuin mukaisesti. Tekevätkö he samat ratkaisut, ja kasvaako kodin omistajan vauraus? Entä erottavatko ravintolavieraat, tarjoillaanko heille vettä vuoristopurosta vai puutarhaletkusta?

title: Creationism

overview: This episode takes a look into a Georgia school board debate about whether or not they should teach what's in the Bible about the creation of living things.

title: Creationism

title: Kreationismi

overview: Joissakin Amerikan kouluissa halutaan opettaa biologiantunneilla luomiskertomusta mahdollisena selityksenä elämän synnylle. Penn & Teller haastavat kreationistit todistamaan Jumalan luomistyön tieteellisesti.

title: Self-Helpless

overview: Motivational speakers, books, videos, relationship seminars, do they really help? We'll take a look. Also, the popular motivational activity of firewalking - which is no more dangerous than walking across hot sand at the beach - is debunked.

title: Self-Helpless

title: Oma apu, turha apu

overview: Penn & Teller tarkastelevat erilaisia itseapuoppaita. Voiko ihminen voittaa pelkonsa kävelemällä tulisilla hiilillä? Entä onko Dr Phil vain hyvää tarkoittava hölmö?

title: ESP

overview: We'll attend a class in "remote viewing," a form of ESP that is all the rage. We'll test the teacher and the students to reveal that the "hits" they get are so vague, it's all nonsense.

title: ESP

title: ESP

overview: Lusikantaivutusta, selvännäkijöitä poliisin apuna, lemmikkien kanssa keskustelua ajatusten voimalla - Penn & Teller selvittävät, onko aistien ulkopuolinen havaitseminen eli ESP totta vai täyttä huuhaata.

title: Eat This!

overview: Penn & Teller will try to prove that many diet products and diet claims are complete nonsense. Also, a look at the obsession with products that claim to be healthier for you such as organic foods, fat free foods, etc.

title: Eat This!

title: Ihmedieetit ja geenimuuntelu

overview: USA on ihmedieettien luvattu maa, mutta laihtuuko ihminen vaikkapa lipittämällä viikonlopun ajan Hollywood-mehua? Muualla maailmassa nähdään nälkää, mutta geenimuuntelu voisi pelastaa tilanteen. Miksi sitä siis vastustetaan?

title: Ouija Boards / Near Death Experiences

overview: There's a physiological explanation that debunks it all. We'll switch the letters around on the board and see how the "spirits" like that! Also, the "tunnel of light" and what it really is when coupled with a look at the Oklahoma centrifuge study that created NDE-like results.

title: Ouija Boards / Near Death Experiences

title: Ouija-laudat ja rajakokemukset

overview: Elävä voi tutustua kuolemanjälkeiseen elämään ouija-laudan avulla tai saamalla rajakokemuksen. Penn & Teller kysyvät, onko tunnelin päässä näkyvä valo portti taivaaseen, ja miksi Maggie-koira syntyy aina vain uudelleen koirana.

title: Environmental Hysteria

overview: Here Penn & Teller explore the truth behind fears about global warming, air quality, water quality, acid rain, species extinction, and take a look at Greenpeace's activities.

title: Environmental Hysteria

title: Ympäristöhysteria

overview: Ihmisiä on peloteltu ympäristökatastrofeilla jääkaudesta kasvihuoneilmiöön jo 1970-luvulta asti. Penn & Teller selvittävät, onko paniikkiin todella syytä, mitkä ovat ympäristöjärjestöjen todelliset agendat, ja allekirjoittavatko ympäristöaktivistit kyselemättä minkä tahansa vetoomuksen.

title: Season 1

title: P.E.T.A.

overview: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is against all forms of medical testing involving animals - regardless of the potential benefits to human beings. PETA supports banning the ownership of pets and advocates releasing them into the wild. It's enough to make a vegetarian eat meat!

title: P.E.T.A.

title: PETA

overview: Eläinoikeusjärjestö PETA:lla on lähes miljoona kannattajaa ympäri maailmaa, mutta tietävätkö he tosiaan, mitä kannattavat? Penn ja Teller löytävät PETA:n kaapista kaikenlaisia luurankoja.

title: Safety Hysteria

overview: We're being told that, in order to keep us safe, we need everything from anti-terrorism gas masks to paper toilet seat covers. Crime rates are going down, not up. You're four times more likely to get struck by lightning than to be violently killed at school. And, once and for all, cell phones don't give you cancer!

title: Safety Hysteria

title: Turvallisuushysteria

overview: Amerikkalaiset pelkäävät terroristeja, bakteereja, hullun lehmän tautia, terroristeja, kännykän säteilyä, kouluväkivaltaa, terroristeja. Penn ja Teller selvittävät, onko pelkoon todella syytä, ja onko ihmisen takapuoli todella likainen vai vain seksikäs.

title: The Business of Love

overview: Romantic love - it's a fantasy akin to believing in Santa Claus. Here's the truth - the first blush of love is a chemical reaction. And, like all drugs, it wears off after a while! We'll look into the myth of monogamy, and the industry mining for people looking for love and relationships. That comprises just about all of us, folks!

title: The Business of Love

title: Rakkauden ammattilaiset

overview: Rakkauden vuoristoradalla voi silloin tällöin olla töyssyistä. Penn ja Teller esittelevät koko joukon helppoheikkejä, jotka osaavat ratkaista kaikki parisuhdeongelmat, kuka planeettojen, kuka tiukkojen sääntöjen avulla. Vai onko koko touhu kenties huuhaata?

title: War on Drugs

overview: America is waging a massive war on its home soil, a war it is losing. Our country spends $20 billion a year in drug enforcement, but the illegal drug industry is thriving. Should we even be waging this war, when alcohol is legal and pushed every night on network TV? By criminalizing drugs, we just turn non-violent citizens into criminals. And medicinal uses of marijuana are being blocked by crusading moralists yelling "family values."

title: War on Drugs

title: Sota huumeita vastaan

overview: Amerikalla on huumeongelma. Ongelman ytimessä vaikuttaa olevan se, että huumeet ovat laittomia. Penn ja Teller tutkivat kannabiksen positiivisia vaikutuksia ja kysyvät, onko huumeiden kiellossa enempää järkeä kuin alkoholin kieltolaissa.

title: Recycling

overview: Here's the truth: recycling is garbage. The recycling industry creates pollution, has to be subsidized by the government because it's cost ineffective, and is completely unnecessary. Contrary to popular belief, our landfills are not running out of space - we have enough room to last for thousands of years! So how did the bullshit of recycling get started?

title: Recycling

title: Kierrätys

overview: Kierrätys on koko kansan lempiharrastus. Tulee hyvä mieli, kun tietää tekevänsä hyvää. Mutta onko kierrätys todella niin hyödyllistä kuin väitetään? Voisiko se olla suorastaan haitallista ympäristölle?

title: The Bible: Fact or Fiction?

overview: We take on the most sacred of sacred cows: The Bible! We'll reveal the many discrepancies and contradictions in THE GOOD BOOK. Why all the confusion? Shouldn't anything that is "divinely inspired" be crystal clear? Did Noah build an ark big enough to hold all those animals? Did Moses part the Red Sea? Did Jesus even exist? Tune in to find out!

title: The Bible: Fact or Fiction?

title: 12 askelta parannukseen

overview: Anonyymit Alkoholistit on maailman tunnetuin raittiusjärjestö, jonka 12 askeleen ohjelman sanotaan olevan tie pysyvään parannukseen. Moni ei tiedä, että järjestö on vahvasti uskonnollinen. Penn ja Teller tarkastelevat, miten hyvin 12 askelta toimii, ja miten moraalista on määrätä ihmisiä osallistumaan tähän uskonnolliseen toimintaan.

title: Yoga, Tantric Sex, Etc.

overview: The New Age is a marketeers dream. From aromatherapy dishwashing liquid to yoga to crystals, herbs and tarot, we're swallowing it all! Join us as we travel to the Mecca of New Age, Sedona, Arizona, where we'll chant, sing, and seek a higher consciousness from hill to dale to parking lot. And stay for our big climax! They say Maui's the place to achieve a cosmic orgasm while holding a tantric pretzel pose. Watch out! It's a flying vortex!

title: Yoga, Tantric Sex, Etc.

title: New Age

overview: Hippiliike ei ole kuollut. Nykyään sitä kutsutaan nimellä New Age. Penn ja Teller kurkistavat yrttiparannuksen, tarot-korttien, magneettipyörteiden ja tantraseksin huuhaamaailmaan.

title: Fountain of Youth

overview: The good news: we're living longer. The bad news: the older we get, the more we're made to feel that there's something wrong with that, and so we make futile efforts to turn back the clock. Wacky diets, worthless creams, Botox, Collagen, lipo, plastic surgery... none of it will stop the advancing years, except in your own mind! Aging is inevitable. Get used to it.

title: Fountain of Youth

title: Nuoruuden lähde

overview: Ikääntyminen on luonnollinen asia, mutta monet eivät pidä siitä. He haluaisivat elää ikuisesti ja pysyä nuorena. Tähän pyrkimykseen on tarjolla keinoja kosmetiikasta kauneusleikkauksiin. Voiko nuoruuttaan pidentää, vai ovatko kaikki apukeinot huuhaata?

title: Death, Inc.

overview: We're afraid of death. But all of us have to face it at least once, and maybe more if someone we care about happens to die on us. But what are we so freaked out about? We'll show you that, yes, even with death, there's much to laugh about. As we know, the only thing to fear is fear itself... and having to sit across the desk from funeral director intent upon selling us an airtight, waterproof vault!

title: Death, Inc.

title: Oy Kuolema Ab

overview: Kuolemasta on tullut kulttuurissamme lähes tabu. Monet haluavat jopa kieltää sen olemassaolon. Toiset taas lyövät rahoiksi käyttämällä hyväkseen surevien omaisten herkkää mielentilaa. Penn ja Teller puhuvat kuolemasta avoimesti ja antavat neuvoja eläville.

title: Profanity

overview: A whole show on words and the power we give them, focusing on the latest actions of the FCC and other anti-profanity groups. The First Amendment is under attack. Hey, what country do we live in?

title: Profanity

title: Raamattu

overview: Monet väittävät, että Raamattu perustuu tositapahtumiin. Miten suuri osa Raamatusta on todistettavasti totta? Entä saako kirjasta yksinomaan hyviä elämänohjeita? Kaiva esiin oma Raamattusi, jos sellaisen omistat, ja tarkista itse Pennin ja Tellerin opastuksella.

title: 12-Stepping

overview: There's no proof that AA or any other 12-Step program is any more effective than going cold turkey, doing things in moderation or getting medical help. And there's a debate raging whether alcoholism is even a disease! The quasi-religious 12-step groups have America brainwashed into believing that a higher power will take care of everything. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?!

title: 12-Stepping

title: Kiroilu

overview: Yhdysvaltain telehallintovirasto FCC on antanut tiukat määräykset valtakunnallisille radio- ja televisiokanaville: kiroilua ei sallita. Penn ja Teller tekevät ohjelmaansa kaapelikanavalle, joten he voivat sanoa, mitä lystäävät. Illan jaksossa he tutkivat, rikkooko kiroilun rajoittaminen sananvapautta.

title: Exercise vs. Genetics

overview: Exercise Schmexerise. Here's the shocker: the power of genetics determines your body type. Throw away all those fitness machines, gym memberships and exercise manuals, the size and shape of your body was decided the moment you were conceived. A look at the huge amount of bullshit behind the exercise industry. Gym memberships, fat-burning, muscle-building supplements, exercise tapes and equipment - we're fair game... and so are they!

title: Exercise vs. Genetics

title: Kuntoilu vs. geenit

overview: Ostoskanavilla pyörii mainoksia, joissa luvataan kuntolaitteen ostajalle täydellinen vartalo. Penn ja Teller selvittävät, onko sellainen kenen tahansa saavutettavissa, vai määräävätkö geenit ruumiinrakenteemme.

title: Hypnosis

overview: There are some topics that are complete nonsense, and there are others, like Hypnosis, that combine an element of truth with a generous helping of bullshit. We'll go under the "spell" and show you just where the bullshit lies. The bottom line: you never give up control when under an hypnotic spell. But you will give up your money to smooth-talking hypnotists who claim they can enlarge your penis or achieve the ultimate orgasm. When they count to ten, hold onto your wallet and run for the door!

title: Hypnosis

title: Hypnoosi

overview: Hypnoosia tarjotaan nykyään patenttiratkaisuksi jos johonkin ongelmaan: laihtumiseen, tupakoinnin lopettamiseen, kaljuuden estämiseen, peniksen suurennukseen, syöpään. Penn ja Teller tutkivat, voiko ihmisen kehoa ja mieltä hallita hypnoosin avulla.

title: Season 2

Season 3

title: Circumcision

overview: Finally, an episode that will make every man feel regret, cringe with pain, and grab their genitals. What would make the male sex react like this? Two words - snip and chuck. If this alone doesn't make you cringe then this will: when your foreskin was removed thirty percent of your sexual pleasure went with that little piece of skin. Ouch! We'll examine the historical, religious, medical and ethical arguments associated with circumcision. And we'll have a little hidden-camera fun with the topic, as well. After all we are talking about dick!

title: Circumcision

title: Family Values

overview: There's a hysteria in America. A hysteria about what's become known as "the traditional family" and the desperate urgency to "save" it. And this rallying cry is not just coming from right wing conservatives and religious groups in the Red States (although, they're doing their share of tub-thumping.) The media (advertisers) and the government also have a vested interest in perpetuating the traditional concept of family: mother, father, two kids, dog and picket fence. But this hysteria is ignoring a key fact, the "traditional family" is bullshit. The traditional family structure may be for some, but it isn't for everyone. Shouldn't we stop trying to jam square pegs into round holes? Isn't it time for "Bullshit" to redefine the definition of "family?"

title: Family Values

title: Conspiracy Theories

overview: Conspiracies have been around for as long as there have been people to plot them. They are everywhere! In the age of the Internet, rumors circulate at the speed of a mouse click. Millions of people have lost trust in our scientific, military, and government establishments, so they seek to find the "truth" themselves. This leads to shadowy rumors of world domination, corruption, and evil plots behind every corner. We will look at some of the more current and sinister conspiracies. Did a missile shoot down TWA Flight 800 and did President Clinton try to cover it up? Was 9/11 plotted by rogue elements of our own government in cahoots with Al Qaeda? Both of our Presidential candidates were members of a secret organization that's rumored to be running the world. And then there are the favorite conspiracies that refuse to go away, who killed JFK or Princess Di? Did we really land on the moon?

title: Conspiracy Theories

title: Life Coaching

overview: Today, it's hip to have a therapist. In fact, you're really "in" if you skip doc's diagnosis and head straight to a "Life Coach" for motivation. The training of psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health "professionals" does little or nothing to make them better equipped as counselors or therapists. We'll reveal the bullshit that Freud made famous, and we'll find out what the experts think about the degree to which drug therapy is being used. Is it really helping? Or, are we over-medicating our way to an unknown future. We'll expose the truth behind the lucrative mind games industry, tracing its history to the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. We'll weave our way through all the trends in psychobabble, including the latest scam, life coaching. We'll catch coaches in action as they celebrate International Coaching Week with an array of events and activities. To top it all off, we'll create our own psychotherapist and thread him throughout the show. Skip the therapy & coaching, talk to a good friend and take some notes during this episode of Bullshit!

title: Life Coaching

title: Holier Than Thou

overview: To most of the world, highly revered figures such as Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama are larger-than-life symbols of love, peace and charity. But how much of our perception of "sainthood" is built on hype and not facts? This episode reveals the dark side of the so-called enlightened ones and delves into why we're so susceptible to buying into their bullshit.

title: Holier Than Thou

title: College

overview: College degrees will lead us to future happiness, enlightenment, fun, preparation for life, a fulfilling job, as well as national prosperity. At least, that's what we've been told and sold. That's brochure bullshit! Been to a college lately? Rather than beacons of enlightenment, colleges have become bloated 400 billion dollar a year corporations, islands isolated from the real world, treacherous minefields where free speech and individual liberty often get trampled. And not only that, but going to college offers no sure path to an enriching life…or even a blue-collar job!

title: College

title: Big Brother

overview: Has our surveillance society made our lives more convenient? Has it succeeded in deterring crime and terrorism? Are the watchers just a bunch of incompetents as prone to distraction as the two bit rent-a-cop security guards at your neighborhood mall? Have the freedoms guaranteed us by the Constitution become just another load of Bullshit? In this episode, we'll watch the watchers and discover what role human nature plays in data mining and surveillance. We'll unveil the latest, and scariest, technologies and prove just how easy it is to get the goods on anyone - even you. Security? Freedom? There's bullshit on all sides!

title: Big Brother

title: Hair

overview: The business of hair is a billion dollar industry. People who don't have it, want it. People who have it in the wrong spots, want to get rid of it, or move it to other areas of their anatomy. Hair unites the genders. We're all obsessed with it. From the tops of our heads to the nooks and crannies down below, we'll get into every vain detail…and every sweaty crevice. Styling, waxing, shaving, cutting, extending, replacing…even one of the greatest magic tricks of all time - Johnny Thompson's comb-over technique! And that's no bullshit!

title: Hair

title: Gun Control

overview: Many Americans will fight to the death to defend their right to bear arms. They say guns don't kill people - people kill people. A well-armed citizenry prevents crime. If the weak carried weapons, crime would go down. For gun control advocates, it's all heresy - guns don't belong in the hands of everyday citizens. Guns kill people. Period. Guns in homes get into the hands of people who shouldn't have them - children and criminals primarily. Fasten your seatbelts and put on your ear protectors. It's going to be a bumpy and noisy ride as we take on the facts, the stats and the truth to find out who's dishing up the bullshit on our episode about Gun Control!

title: Gun Control

title: Ghost Busters

overview:
It's scary to know in today's Age of Enlightenment, the world's fascination with the "paranormal" is at an all-time high. And where there are gullible believers, you can bet there are hordes of "experts" lurking, ready to sell something to them.

We will delve into the realm of the "spirits" and take a look at the revived interest ghost hunting. We'll spend time with so-called parapsychologists as they track ghosts with their new-fangled, pseudoscientific equipment. Will they find something? Yeah, right! We'll show you how some of them bullshit themselves as much as their clients as they try to get to the bottom of nonexistent mysteries.

title: Ghost Busters

title: Endangered Species

overview: In over 30 years, the Endangered Species Act has cost taxpayers billions of dollars, but it has saved next to no endangered species! Its major accomplishment? Lining the pockets of environmental lawyers who know how to manipulate it for huge fees. And it's an excuse for a governmental land grab. We'll meet activists on all sides - from passionate believers who'll do anything to enforce the ESA, to a strong-willed, good-natured lady in a wheelchair who's homeless. The ESA won't let her build on her suburban lot in a neighborhood surrounded by houses and within rock throwing distance of a WalMart Supercenter! ESA our ass! Here's the simple fact: human beings and industrialization are not the sole impetus for extinction and if you hear anything different… it's bullshit!

title: Endangered Species

title: Signs From Heaven

overview: The Virgin Mary...or a grilled cheese sandwich? Just a recent example of the public's willingness to believe ordinary statues, icons, relics pictures, stains on tortillas, and burn marks on a piece of greasy white bread are signs from Heaven. Bullshit! We'll examine the way preachers, faith healers, psychic researchers, and everyday folk continue to prey on those who pray. And we'll talk to scientists, historians, philosophers, and literary figures that will explain why humans are wired to attribute meaning to random patterns and events. We'll also show you how easy it is to find people who will find God wherever they look...even if it's in a photograph of...headcheese.

title: Signs From Heaven

title: The Best

overview: Penn and Teller skewer our pursuit of "the best" in everything, from neighborhoods to electronics to automobiles to spouses, and demonstrate how such rampant consumerism is a race designed so that the runners never win.

title: The Best

title: Season 3

Season 4

title: Boy Scouts

overview: The Boy Scouts of America restricts scout membership and leadership opportunities to homosexuals and straight males who DON'T believe in God. According to the BSA, atheists and gays don't make good scouts or good role models. If the Boy Scouts of America were a privately funded group, it could discriminate against and hate anyone it damn well wanted to. But the Boy Scouts of America is dependent upon Federal, State and local government handouts. So, the BSA and their intolerance… are BULLSHIT!

title: Boy Scouts

title: Prostitution

overview: Everyone knows that prostitution is practiced throughout the land. Where it is legal - in only a few Nevada counties, prostitution is vigorously regulated and monitored by the State of Nevada Health Department. The women submit to compulsory medical tests for STDs. No one is forced to work as a prostitute. Pimps don't exist. HIV has never been detected. The women earn regular paychecks and tips. Some even get vacation and sick days. And they pay taxes! It's BULLSHIT that it's illegal for two consenting adults to have sex with each other!

title: Prostitution

title: The Death Penalty

overview: We understand the feelings of rage felt by crime victims and their families. But - studies show there is no deterrent effect to State executions. And, DNA evidence has exonerated 122 men formerly on death row! If we're killing inmates to satisfy a primitive emotion, if we can't be sure the criminal is guilty as charged, and we have ways to keep someone locked up and out of circulation for life and for less cost, why does our government still support the archaic, primitive, cruel and costly BULLSHIT known as the Death Penalty?

title: The Death Penalty

title: Cryptozoology

overview: BULLSHIT tours Inverness, Scotland, the home of the Loch Ness Monster, with two "cryptozoologists" who try to lure the mythical giant of the deep to the surface... with a bag of fish guts. Later, we investigate the latest mysterious Bigfoot footage posted on the internet. In between, we check in with some credentialed scientists for their take on the bullshit "science" of Cryptozoology. Will our scientific experts conclusively debunk the existence of mythical creatures? Here's a hint: Crypto means "hidden" while zoology stands for the study of animals. Put them together and what do you get? BULLSHIT!

title: Cryptozoology

title: Ground Zero

overview: It has been over four years since the worst terrorist attack on American soil and the only reminder is a big gaping hole in the middle of New York's financial district. Disgruntled family members of the victims want to memorialize the fallen, big corporations want to get back to business, local residents remain concerned over the health risks of living and working nearby, and politicians blather on, afraid of making politically incorrect moves. Everyone it seems is angling for a piece of the multi-billion dollar federal government pie to rebuild the site. BULLSHIT! takes on the fight for Ground Zero from street level to New York's towers of power.

title: Ground Zero

title: Pet Love

overview: BULLSHIT takes its cameras inside the world of extreme pet lovers where we'll meet reptile enthusiasts, show-cats and their owners, and a man who claims to have revolutionized veterinary medicine. We'll visit a woman who shares her home with 25 cats and an artist who creates pet memorials that will blow you away. We'll even get all scientific and figure out why we are biologically attracted to puppies and kittens. Finally, we'll get to the bottom of the diseases our four legged, fine-feathered friends are spreading, like West Nile Virus and Monkeypox. Go ahead love your pet if you feel like it. But c'mon, let's draw the line at rubbing noses and swapping saliva... Now that's doggy BULLSHIT!

title: Pet Love

title: Reparations

overview: Slavery, the slaughter of Native Americans (and the confiscation of their tribal land) and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II are three tragedies from this nation's past. However, are those who suffered as a result of these government policies, deserving of money - lots of money? They're called "reparations" and like the Indians and the Japanese before them, today many African Americans think the Federal Government (meaning Mr. And Mrs. Tax Payer) owes them money because their ancestors were once slaves. In this episode, BULLSHIT goes inside the reparations movements and uncovers the truths about the internment of Japanese Americans, Indian Casinos and the Federal Government's long history of correcting the historical wrongs associated with its institutional racism.

title: Reparations

title: Manners

overview: According to a recent poll, 8 out of 10 people in the US think Americans are ruder today than any time in history. Is that even possible? Are we really ruder and less well mannered? On this episode of BULLSHIT, we'll find out that our contemporary ideas about manners date back about 120 years to the Victorian period, a time when there wasn't indoor plumbing an people used to urinate in the street, we'll meet an etiquette expert who knows which fork to use when eating salad and visit with a stripper who puts the entire issue of manners into perspective. Saying "please" and "thank you" are good social lubricants and help you avoid getting beat up... the rest of manners, are pretty much BULLSHIT.

title: Manners

title: Numbers

overview:
They say numbers don't lie, but in the hands of the media, politicians, pollsters and salesmen, numbers can be downright subversive. BULLSHIT meets the author of Damned Lies and Statistics - he tells us how numbers are craftily manipulated based on political affiliation and agenda. The numerically ambiguous world of Vacation Time Shares leaves our undercover operative dazed and confused. We also take street cons to Las Vegas - a town built on Numbers - and reveal how readily most of us can be cheated. And we look into the bullshit behind political polls, gambling odds and state lotteries.

Source: http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/prevepisodes.do?episodeid=s4/numbers

title: Numbers

title: Abstinence

overview: BULLSHIT goes on the prowl for virgins! We meet women - and men! - who are saving themselves for marriage. We find out -what the hell for? Then, there's sex education! We find out if it is helping them screw…or screwing them up. And we get really revved up about teaching abstinence only! We meet an expert who encourages multiple sex partners before settling down. He has proof that sex reduces stress and it releases endorphins that make us feel good. The cherry on the top of our cherry is a visit to a masturbation clinic. Now we're talking sex education! We'll also meet up with the former US Surgeon General, Dr. Jocelyn Elders. She was fired for advocating masturbation as an alternative to sexual intercourse to prevent STDS, and that's BULLSHIT.

title: Abstinence

title: Season 4

Season 5

title: Obesity

overview: Penn & Teller reveal truths about the Obesity epidemic. A visit to an Obesity conference exposes the uncomfortably cozy relationships between the medical establishment, the diet companies and the weight loss industry. An advocacy group for overweight people tells us about the hardships and discrimination brought about by their weight. Plus, the first-ever Penn & Teller 'Fat Guy Olympics.'

title: Obesity

title: Wal-Mart

overview: Penn & Teller expose America's love/hate relationship with Wal-Mart. We look at the good and bad sides of the biggest employer in the US. We challenge the director of the documentary, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price," we reveal union efforts to smear Wal-Mart, we meet a chronically unemployed young mother in Chicago to see how her life changed when Wal-Mart came to town and we look for the silver lining behind third world sweatshops.

title: Wal-Mart

title: Breast Hysteria

overview: Penn & Teller look at women's breasts and society's response to them. In New York City, we meet a young mother who inadvertently tested corporate tolerance for breast-feeding in public. Further south, in Daytona Beach, Florida, we meet a woman who challenged the rights to flash her breasts in public. We also meet a breast cancer survivor who is not a supporter of those ubiquitous Pink Ribbons. And, down in the valley of porn, we find a topless porn star/mother of two who philosophizes on the benefits of the La Leche League.

title: Breast Hysteria

title: Detoxing

overview: Penn & Teller expose the truth behind our supposedly toxic insides. We find out about "colonics" and those "cleansing" diets including today's diet darling, the "Neera Super Cleanse." An actual Parasitologist - a scientist who studies parasites - tells us the truth about the parasites among and within us. A visit to the world's largest inflatable walk-through colon rounds out the episode.

title: Detoxing

title: Exorcism

overview: Penn and Teller battle the forces of evil when they witness three modern-day exorcists performing their demonic casting-out duties, then pay a visit to the "Black Pope," the leader of the Church of Satan.

title: Exorcism

title: Immigration

overview: The blizzard of bullshit surrounding immigration melts when Penn and Teller spend some time with the "Minutemen," a militia group dedicated to preventing illegal border crossings, while illegal immigrants demonstrate their fence-jumping techniques.

title: Immigration

title: Handicap Parking

overview:
What's not to like about the Americans with Disabilities Act? After all, it is supposed to improve life for the handicapped. Penn and Teller interview businessmen and women, along with some handicap advocates, who say that the act is a huge asset to greedy lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits against whole towns, claiming that the businesses are infringing the rights of the handicapped. The end result is that fewer handicapped people end up getting hired, and hence the ADA defeats its own purpose.

Penn and Teller claim the act is far too broad, and individual businesses, not the government, should be able to dictate who they will cater to.

title: Handicap Parking

title: Mount Rushmore

overview: Mount Rushmore is usually seen as a symbol of American pride and ingenuity. In an episode that will have American patriots enraged, Penn and Teller interview a native tribesman who sees the monument as a symbol of American sacrilege and imperialism, while Penn and Teller themselves say it is little more than an elaborate tourist trap envisioned by a white supremacist.

title: Mount Rushmore

title: Nukes, Hybrids & Lesbians

overview: Penn and Teller explain the necessity of nuclear power in modern society, advocating that it is both cleaner and safer than the alternatives such as coal. Advocates from the pro-nuke side and anti-nuke side are interviewed. Along the way, they debunk the myth of hybrid car fuel efficiency by having two lesbians take a road trip across southern california.

title: Nukes, Hybrids & Lesbians

title: Anger Management

overview: Penn & Teller look into Anger Management classes and venting.

title: Anger Management

title: Season 5

Season 6

title: War on Porn

overview: In the sixth season premiere, Penn and Teller look at the "War on Porn",a crusade by various special interest groups to restrict free speech and regulate the Internet.

title: War on Porn

title: New Age Medicine

overview: Penn and Teller take a skeptical look at New Age medicine and its outrageous, unsupported claims of healing despite a heap of evidence that it doesn't work.

title: New Age Medicine

title: NASA

overview: In episode 603, it's time to take a closer look at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a government agency that spends scads of taxpayer money to achieve what private industry might be able to do more profitably and efficiently.

title: NASA

title: Dolphins

overview: In episode 604, the cultural mumbo jumbo regarding dolphins is exposed, including New Age-style beliefs about the animals' evolutionary superiority (bunk, say dolphin experts) and the nonsense about dolphin "energy" believed by many.

title: Dolphins

title: Sleep, Inc.

overview: In episode 605, the magicians think twice about the high cost of getting a good night's sleep due to the ever-growing industry of sleep product hawkers trying to convince consumers that a special pillow, mist machine or pill will deliver a magical rest.

title: Sleep, Inc.

title: Being Green

overview: In episode 606, Penn and Teller consider the popularity of the "green" movement, a largely bogus and hypocritical philosophy that links sanctimonious politics to an "ethical" lifestyle while doing little or nothing to actually create a healthier ecosystem.

title: Being Green

title: Sensitivity Training

overview: In episode 607, the mind control courses known as sensitivity training are dissected and their roots in political correctness, an increasingly litigious culture, and the suffocation of free speech, are finally exposed.

title: Sensitivity Training

title: Stranger Danger

overview: In episode 608, our contrarian hosts argue that the world's never been safer for children, but you'd never know it in our culture of fear, toxic toys and even anti-anxiety medication for kids.

title: Stranger Danger

title: World Peace

overview: In episode 609, Penn and Teller go on a logic spree with their argument that the utopian ideal of world peace is dangerously naive and out of sync with human nature.

title: World Peace

title: Good Ol' Days

overview: In episode 610, the sixth season finale, the merry myth-shatterers puncture the nostalgic but unrealistic tendency of humans to long for an idyllic past - one that, in truth, never really existed.

title: Good Ol' Days

title: Season 6

Season 7

title: Orgasms

overview: On the season seven premiere, Penn and Teller expose the 'Bullshit' behind the people who market and exploit other gullible people by treating them with unorthodox methods to achieve orgasms. Featuring undercover at a 'sex class', interview with the inventor of a 'remote control' orgasm machine, and other segments.

title: Orgasms

title: Astrology

overview: Millions of people believe their destinies are determined by the positions of the sun, moon, and planets. Penn & Teller follow two astrologers as they dole out advice - for a price.

title: Astrology

title: Video Games

overview: Politicians and other alarmists claim that playing violent video games leads to teen violence. Penn & Teller attempt to debunk that theory by handing over a real semi-automatic weapon to a nine-year-old to see if playing video games will turn him into a human killing machine.

title: Video Games

title: The Apocalypse

overview: The world will end on December 21, 2012 - that's according to a growing legion of doomsayers who follow the primitive Mayan calendar. The duo follows a pair of investigators to ancient Mexico to explore the mysterious "Mayan Prophecy".

title: The Apocalypse

title: Lie Detectors

overview: Polygraphs are used in thousands of investigations and job screenings. Can a machine really detect whether someone is lying? Penn & Teller will meet people whose lives were ruined by the faulty tests.

title: Lie Detectors

title: Organic Food

overview: Penn & Teller examine the organic food industry to determine if it is, in fact, more nutritious, and better for the environment.

title: Organic Food

title: Taxes

overview: Penn and Teller visit Congress to discuss the bullshit which is America's complex, unfair tax system.

title: Taxes

title: Lawns

overview: Penn and Teller investigate the lawn care industry, talk to a man whose unkempt lawn landed him in prison and visit a neighborhood where only one strain of grass can be grown.

title: Lawns

title: Stress

overview: Penn and Teller take a skeptical view of stress and how the modern man feels the need to "cure" what should be considered a normal, everyday part of life.

title: Stress

title: The Vatican

overview:
Penn and Teller take on the secretive inner world of The Vatican, the holy city of Catholicism and home of the Pope.

Due to outcries from the public, this episode was not included on the DVD release of Season 7.

title: The Vatican

title: Season 7

Season 8

title: Cheerleaders

overview: In the Season Eight premiere, it's as all-American as apple pie, but cheerleading is also responsible for 65% of all catastrophic female sport injuries, with competitive coaches, fanatic parents, and a multimillion dollar industry concerned with its bottom line.

title: Cheerleaders

title: Fast Food

overview: Hold on to your cheeseburger! Public Health agencies, food activists and special interest groups have launched an all-out war against fast food restaurants. Should the government really be spending our tax dollars to regulate what, where, and how we eat?

title: Fast Food

title: Martial Arts

overview: Thanks to centuries of Eastern mystique, the martial arts may appear spiritual and special. The mischievous magicians take a more skeptical look at a bunch of guys in pajamas breaking boards with their feet and overweight housewives learning to "defend" themselves.

title: Martial Arts

title: Teen Sex

overview: Every generation worries about teen sex, but today's parents are more hysterical than ever. The duo will look at the drastic measures adults are taking to combat the perceived dangers of teenage promiscuity, "sexting," and gay-straight alliances.

title: Teen Sex

title: Easy Money

overview: Everyone wants to get rich quick, but are multilevel marketing schemes really the answer? Penn & Teller reveal the truth about direct-sales companies that market everything from sausages to sex toys.

title: Easy Money

title: Area 51

overview: Is the government hiding alien spaceships? Follow a team of UFO hunters on an overnight expedition in search of mysterious aircraft flying above a secret military facility known as Area 51.

title: Area 51

title: Criminal Justice

overview: Is America's criminal justice system weighed down with bad science, ineffective methods, incompetence and corruption? Penn & Teller set out to reveal that the only thing scarier than crime is America's war on crime.

title: Criminal Justice

title: Old People

overview: According to Penn and Teller, America's seniors are stripped of their dignity thanks to ongoing stereotypes about old people. They investigate the widespread beliefs that old people can't drive, don't have sex, and smell bad.

title: Old People

title: Self-Esteem

overview: Research has proven that self-esteem-building does not work. However, misguided parents, coaches and social workers are using this flawed technique to create a generation of narcissistic losers who believe that they are "special."

title: Self-Esteem

title: Vaccinations

overview: In the Season 8 finale, vaccination is considered modern medicine's greatest weapon against disease but thanks to pseudo-science and public gullibility, the debate over vaccination safety rages on.

title: Vaccinations

title: Season 8

overview: This daring original series stars postmodern bad boys of magic Penn & Teller as they question many of our culture's most cherished and widely held beliefs. From the truth about palm readings and TV psychics to the reality behind Feng Shui and Ouija boards, the archly comic masters of misdirection host this eye-opening analysis of the middle-ground between perception and reality.

title: Penn & Teller: Bull!

title: Penn & Teller

overview: Useita Emmy-ehdokkuuksia kahminut Penn & Teller-sarja sukeltaa isäntäduonsa kanssa mitä erilaisimpiin teemoihin sorkkimalla niitä ennakkoluulottomasti. Paljon puhuva nallekarhumainen Jillette Penn latelee totuuksia ja puhumaton, pientäkin pienempi Teller sävyttää niitä pantomiimilla vierestä. Aiheina on kaikkea pullotetusta vedestä aina ympärileikkaukseen asti.

title: Глупостите на Пен и Телър

overview: Комедийното шоу, уникално с непознатия досега маниер на водене на развлекателно токшоу. Сериозни проблеми от ежедневието и политическия живот на планетата са обърнати наопаки откъм смешната им гледна точка. С много сарказъм, солен език и железни аргументи Пен и Телър разбиват на пух и прах закостенелите шаблонни представи на обществото за всеизвестни факти и личности.

title: Пенн и Теллер: Чушь собачья!

overview: Пенн Джиллет и Теллер с помощью экспертов юмористически показывают, что чушь, они трактуют её как враньё, повсеместна (медиумы, говорящие с мёртвыми, фэн-шуй, увеличение пениса и т. п.)

title: Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

title: Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

overview: In deze gedurfde originele serie spelen postmoderne slechte jongens van magie Penn & Teller de hoofdrol, terwijl ze veel van de meest gekoesterde en wijdverbreide overtuigingen van onze cultuur in twijfel trekken. Van de waarheid over handlezen en paranormaal begaafden op tv tot de realiteit achter Feng Shui- en Ouija-borden: de aartskomische meesters van misleiding presenteren deze eye-openende analyse van het midden tussen perceptie en realiteit.


title: Men of the World

Season 1

title: Match of the Day

title: Match of the Day

character: Tommy

type: Cast

character: Mrs Daff

title: The Assessment

title: The Assessment

character: Todd

title: Lost in France

title: Lost in France

title: The Big Fight

title: The Big Fight

title: Team Table

title: Team Table

title: The Runaway

title: The Runaway

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: The Girl I Love

title: The Girl I Love

character: Frank

title: The Walking Wounded

title: The Walking Wounded

title: The Dice of Life

title: The Dice of Life

title: Happy Birthday Kendle

title: Happy Birthday Kendle

title: A Stolen Kiss

title: A Stolen Kiss

title: Farewell My Lovely

title: Farewell My Lovely

title: Season 2

overview: Men of the World is a BBC sitcom which starred David Threlfall and John Simm.

title: Men of the World

character: Kendle Bains

character: Lenny Smart

character: Gilby Watson

character: Becky

original_title: Men of the World


title: The Brittas Empire

name: The Brittas Empire - Electrocution Scene

site: YouTube

type: Clip

Specials

title: In the Beginning...

overview: Beginning 25 years in the future in 2019, the former staff are putting fabulous lives on hold to meet for an annual event. Laura explains to her son why, which returns us to 1989, soon after the opening of the centre. It's only a few days until 1990, but the staff are snowed in with little food and water and no heat. How will they survive?

title: In the Beginning...

job: Director

department: Directing

character: Manager

character: Barney

title: Surviving Christmas

overview: The staff unwillingly go on a Survival and Fitness trip with a vengeful actor on their trail. Meanwhile, a furious Helen believes Gordon is having an affair with Carole.

title: Surviving Christmas

title: Season 4 Outtakes

overview: An 8 minute collection of outtakes/bloopers from Season 4

title: Season 4 Outtakes

title: Good Morning Interview

title: Good Morning Interview

title: Wogan Interview with Chris Barrie

title: Wogan Interview with Chris Barrie

title: Royal Variety Performance

overview: Brittas reveals himself as an enthusiast for conformity with EEC regulations.

title: Royal Variety Performance

title: Season 0

Season 1

title: Laying the Foundations

overview: Gordon Brittas is the manager at Whitbury Leisure Centre. Builders are working in the car-park but Gordon is very rude to one of them and they go on strike. He causes more trouble when he upsets one of the staff and he's in for it when he is having a meeting with the staff.

title: Laying the Foundations

character: Mrs Dapping

character: Foreman

character: Pam's Son

character: Pam

character: Angie

character: Neil

character: Damien

character: Mrs Delgado

character: Linda Perkins

title: Opening Day

overview: It's Opening Day at Whitbury Leisure Centre and Gordon is getting ready to meet the Duchess of Kent. But things are going wrong when the electric doors aren't working properly and the water from the swimming pool is disappearing and the temperature rises. Will Gordon sort it all out before the Duchess of Kent arrives?

title: Opening Day

character: Linda

character: Boy Scout

character: Workman

character: Boilerman Barnes

character: Electrician

character: Michael

title: Bye Bye Baby

overview: Carole has heard that her husband Derek is coming back, after abandoning her. After all these years she will not have to work, Ben will have a father and she will feel much better. Meanwhile her baby goes missing and reception is getting crowded. Gordon tells Colin to find the baby and return it. Unfortunately Colin ends up returning the wrong baby. Then Gordon thinks he's helping a man who has suffered from stress. Will everything go right?

title: Bye Bye Baby

character: Mrs Philips

character: Peter Philips

character: Woman in Queue

character: Ken Owen

character: Mrs Walsh

character: Derrick

character: Rev. Philips

title: Underwater Wedding

overview: While doing an interview with Beverly, Gordon realises that the best man at the underwater wedding taking place in the pool is in trouble. Gavin is asked to help and then a drunk disabled man in an electric wheelchair is on the loose causing havoc. Gordon is ready to stop the drunkard but ends up sending Gavin to hospital.

title: Underwater Wedding

title: Stop Thief!

overview: Things have gone missing and Gordon has closed the centre for the day. He explains that there could be a thief about and sets a trap to catch him. The plan is to hide in a locker and see who takes the bait (his wallet). Meanwhile Helen is suffering more stress then ever and takes Gordon to see the doctor, leaving Colin to hide in the locker. As long as Gordon remembers he's left Colin in there!

title: Stop Thief!

title: Assassin

overview: Someone is out to kill Gordon, injuring Helen by accident after sabotaging Gordon's brakes, and wants Gavin to help him with the foul deed. Gordon and a few others are taken to the hospital's intensive care unit, badly injured by a lorry hitting Gordon as he walked across a zebra crossing.

title: Assassin

title: Season 1

title: Back from the Dead

overview: Gordon is away at a conference in Bulgaria. Meanwhile the Leisure Centre is low on visitors, then news spreads that Gordon is dead. Everyone is happy and the centre is pouring with visitors. All goes well until Gordon returns which shocks everyone, especially Carole who thinks Gordon is back from the dead.

title: Back from the Dead

title: Temple of the Body

overview: Gordon explains to the staff about worshipping other people's temples - his euphemism for the human body. He then finds a cupboard is being slept in when finding a duvet cover sticking out, then Gavin's hat turns up. Gordon tells Tim, who gets cross when he thinks Gavin is sleeping in the centre with someone. Gordon decides to find out what Gavin is up to and lays a bug in Linda's top so he can listen in. But Gordon is shocked at who is actually using the cupboard.

title: Temple of the Body

title: An Inspector Calls

overview: An inspector is coming over and Gordon wants everything to be as good as gold for when he gets to the Leisure Centre. However, Gordon then has to deal with a pigeon in the gymnasium. Ideas to remove it go from bad to worse. It's also Helen's birthday and Gordon has bought her a moped, about which she is far from thrilled. What will happen when the inspector makes his inspection?

title: An Inspector Calls

title: Set in Concrete

overview: An argument with the Rotary Club results in them setting Gordon's feet in concrete. After frequent arguments break out, Gordon thinks the centre has sick building syndrome. A specialist arrives, and Laura is tasked with explaining to Gordon that he is the cause of the centre's problems. Laura proceeds to explain subtext and tone of voice to Gordon, after which he decides to return the moped bought for Helen and buy her a car instead, to her delight.

title: Set in Concrete

title: Mums and Dads

overview: A concert is to be held at Whitbury Leisure Centre. Also, Gordon's dad Jim has come to the centre with a piano. But Gordon is expecting a grand piano, which is going to be havoc getting through to the gymnasium. Petrov, who is going to be performing, then encounters a problem when Jim drops his piano from the stairs. Who will perform now?

title: Mums and Dads

title: Safety First

overview: Gordon is running a practice fire drill and makes it more complicated than ever. Meanwhile, Helen is planning a picnic in Gordon's office and wants him there. Gordon tries to convince Councillor Dapping of the need for a new fire escape by describing an extreme scenario. Dapping isn't convinved, but could Gordon's example prove prophetic?

title: Safety First

title: New Generations

overview: A pregnant cow loose in the centre eats some of Colin's leaves, which speed up labour. It gives birth on the squash courts, assisted by a gynaecologist. Carole has also eaten some of the leaves, and her twins are delivered by the vet who had come to assist the bovine mother-to-be. Helen tells Laura that she is pregnant with twins and although Carole was too worse for wear to know the father of her twins, Helen does!

title: New Generations

title: Season 2

Season 3

title: The Trial

overview: One of Gordon's enemies is coating random items with glue, and shady characters repeatedly appear in the centre. This leads to a massacre of several Bolivian drug dealers in the squash courts, the felling of several OAPs, and Gordon facing trial for drug running and multiple murders. Could Gordon's influence upon one of the criminals be enough to save his own skin?

title: The Trial

title: That Creeping Feeling

overview: Offended by Gordon's "individual figure and fitness targets", the staff refuse to speak to him; his diplomatic response is to bring in a psychiatrist to check staff anxiety levels. The psychiatrist tells Gordon that he is the cause of his staff's stress. A deadly tropical spider bites Colin and Gordon sucks out the poison. Considering where the bite was, the staff can't fail having a new-found respect.

title: That Creeping Feeling

title: Laura's Leaving

overview: Laura has an interview for manager of a leisure centre in London. Helen is worried that without Laura, she'll be unable to cope. A man is trying to get a cup of coffee with ever-increasing angst. A concussed Colin is sent to adjust the heating in the pool, leading to the electrocution of church members performing baptisms. Havoc escalates, including Carole getting fired. Will serenity prevail when Laura decides to return?

title: Laura's Leaving

title: Two Little Boys

overview: Gordon's brother, Reverend Horatio Brittas, visits for the centre's anniversary celebrations, and 36 staff from a Guildford leisure centre visit for their annual staff outing, intent upon making Gordon the focus of their amusement. The oil tank is leaking so Colin decides to store the oil in the weights room. What could go wrong?

title: Two Little Boys

title: Sex, Lies and Red Tape

overview: Laura's estranged husband, Michael T. Farrell, arrives at the centre two and a half years after the couple split up. He wants her to have his child, because being a father is a condition of his inheriting his family's fortune. Gordon is unhappy and endeavours to get rid of him, despite being on a sponsored silence. He is horrified to learn that Helen is about to be charged with shoplifting and that she had been convicted of the same crime several times before she met him. The staff are interested in the draft of a novel that Carole has written.

title: Sex, Lies and Red Tape

title: The Stuff of Dreams

overview: Troubled by dreams about his own mortality and his legacy, Gordon is pushing age awareness and disguises himself as an elderly man as an experiment, resulting in a fight with a pensioner in reception. Helen goes into labour early and wants Laura to drive her to hospital, but Gordon is behind the wheel. After the pensioner from reception accidentally drives into Gordon's car at low speed, medical students come to Helen's aid in Whitbury High Street.

title: The Stuff of Dreams

title: Season 3

Season 4

title: Not a Good Day...

overview: It's Life Cycle Week at Whitbury Newtown Leisure Centre and Sebastian Coe MP has come to broadcast the news. Then trouble ensues when a cyclist dies, naturally upsetting his wife; and young Ben makes his way into the vents, with Carole and Helen trying to get him out. Then a centurion has a fight with Gordon because his son has been arrested, which escalates to the Classical War Society starting war against the entire centre.

title: Not a Good Day...

title: The Christening

overview: Gordon and Helen are having their twins baptised. The rehearsal goes wrong and Carole ruins the christening cake - but can she disguise it? Meanwhile Horatio tells Gordon he's in love with a girl he has met, then the babies go missing. Will the christening go as planned?

title: The Christening

title: Biggles Tells a Lie

overview: It's Gordon's day off and Colin has dressed like Brittas, pretending to be manager. Colin's daughter Stephanie is coming to see her father. Everyone agrees to play along and soon everything is running well - until Gordon turns up!

title: Biggles Tells a Lie

title: Mr Brittas Changes Trains

overview: Things are getting rather strange at Whitbury Newtown Leisure Centre. Carole seems to be croaking a lot while talking, Linda does nothing but bark about a lot and keeps talking in dog language and Colin keeps telling everyone that he loves them and keeps taking his trousers off. All of this is making Gordon very cross so he decides to call the hypnotist and put everyone back to normal. This then gets Laura thinking.

title: Mr Brittas Changes Trains

title: Playing With Fire

overview: Gordon is doing a survey on how much electricity is being used and prepares a lot of forms for the staff. Colin meanwhile does an experiment which involves using the lavatories. Then Gavin gets a big shock when his old girlfriend Jenny comes to the centre to see him - then realises that she came from a clinic.

title: Playing With Fire

title: Shall We Dance?

overview: Gordon seems to be spending a lot of time with Laura while Helen and the children are on holiday. Everyone thinks that there is something going on. Gordon is planning to take Laura to the dance at the centre. Then Laura's husband Michael unexpectedly turns up to see her. And Carole's boyfriend intends to propose, though getting his arm stuck in the suggestion box is just the beginning.

title: Shall We Dance?

title: The Chop

overview: Gordon is teaching the staff how to play 'Game of Life'. Councillor Drugget arrives and tells Gordon he is going to be sacked. Gordon is cross and ignores him, then Councillor Drugget finds out that Helen borrowed £300 for a dog that then fowls in the pool. Now Gordon has to choose: either he quits his job or Helen goes to jail.

title: The Chop

title: High Noon

overview: Laura sees Gordon working at a petrol station, causing more trouble then ever and holding up the traffic. The centre's new manager Alan Digby is having trouble when Gordon gets on his nerves. Then a gas leak is found and there's a large explosion which brings the entire centre down. Everyone is clear but Gordon is nowhere to be seen. Could this be the last of Gordon Brittas?

title: High Noon

title: Season 4

Season 5

title: Blind Devotion

overview: Gordon is thinking of going to Brussels as European Commissioner for Sport. Colin gets blinded when his garden explodes, so Gordon considers sacking him. Gordon kills Colin's pet bird and tells Tim to get another one. When discovered that it's Colin's birthday and his aunt has died, Gordon decides to promote him to deputy manager!

title: Blind Devotion

title: Brussels Calling

overview: Gordon is in Brussels being interviewed for European Commissioner for Sport. He keeps calling to check on the centre, although there is still chaos. Helen is in trouble after trying to kill a teacher, who's at his son's birthday party at the centre and thinks Helen is trying again. There's a rat infestation and Colin's spraying potassium chlorite on weeds. What could go wrong?

title: Brussels Calling

title: The Lies Have It

overview: Gordon is explaining safety at the building site for a new room. Michael T. Farrell comes for a job which Gordon isn't keen to give but gives Michael an application form. Carole is upset because no-one remembered her birthday. Michael tells Gordon there was a party to cover for himself and Helen. News soon spreads among staff as Gordon investigates, but Colin thinks the party was real and he was not invited.

title: The Lies Have It

title: The Boss

overview: Gordon explains that Gavin will be taking over as trial manager for the day. Gavin is keen but Gordon sticks with him and creates exaggerated emergency situations like pregnancies, marooned school buses and poisonous gas leaks. Meanwhile Carole is going out for the day but is shocked to discover that her friend is dead.

title: The Boss

title: Pregnant!

overview: Gordon has done staff urine tests which show all the women in the centre are pregnant - as well as Tim! Carole is shocked and Gordon concludes that Colin may be the father, who is prepared to do the honourable thing. Gordon believes Tim to be a woman - and isn't subtle about trying to prove it. Laura soon discovers that Julie hasn't been honest about the tests.

title: Pregnant!

title: UXB

overview: Colin discovers an unexploded bomb in the basement and tries to warn Gordon, who doesn't listen and tells Colin to sort it out. Gordon is preparing to depart for Brussels, though Helen isn't so keen - until she sees how well they'll be living. Colin is sent to hospital after being hit on the head by a croquet ball, leaving the staff celebrating their positive futures, oblivious to the danger in their midst.

title: UXB

title: The Last Day

overview: Could Gordon be calling off Brussels after Germany reduces its financial contribution to European Union funding? An emergency water tank is installed which falls through each floor due to the supporting wall which Carole had removed to extended the cupboard. Carole gets stuck in Ben's toy car but is pushed clear by Gordon - to his own demise. But how will heaven tolerate him?

title: The Last Day

title: Season 5

Season 6

title: Back with a Bang

overview: After being crushed to death Gordon has been returned to Earth by St. Peter and rebuilt at a Swiss clinic - with a few side-effects. He returns a day early and misses the red carpet welcome prepared by the staff. Colin suddenly remembers the unexploded bomb, but will he get to tell in time?

title: Back with a Bang

title: Body Language

overview: Gordon tries to explain the benefits of matching and mirroring body language. Colin suspects alien invasion when a block of ice crashes through the roof, and Helen mistakenly sells the house to a member of the US Air Force.

title: Body Language

title: At the Double

overview: Gordon invites members of the Ruthenian State Circus to perform at the centre, which he is unaware includes his doppelganger. A group of US evangelists want to baptise "Brightass" in the pool after reading of his coming back from the dead.

title: At the Double

title: A Walk on the Wild Side

overview: Gordon believes that a private right-of-way goes through the centre. Helen realises that she has two husbands. An outbreak of lethal diseases causes chaos. When Gordon denies the man in the "Face in the Crowd" poster his prize, the claimant goes to extreme lengths to prove it's him.

title: A Walk on the Wild Side

title: We All Fall Down

overview: Whitbury is celebrating World Peace and Hunger Day. Helen plans revenge on a nappy company that didn't use her children in a TV commercial and Tim discovers the rest of the staff earn more than him.

title: We All Fall Down

title: Mr. Brittas Falls in Love

overview: Gordon organises a "Dolphin Day" at the centre, but a baby tiger shark is delivered instead. A teenage girl arrives for two weeks of work experience, and the staff believe she has been eaten by the shark. Opposed to the use of animals for personal amusement, Linda forms a protest rally outside the centre.

title: Mr. Brittas Falls in Love

title: Snap Happy

overview: The staff prepare for a photograph, but a chain of trivialities delays the event. Acrophobic Helen participates in a parachute jump that goes horribly wrong.

title: Snap Happy

title: Season 6

Season 7

title: The Elephant's Child

overview: Situation comedy. Brittas organizes a sponsored bungee jump and expects his staff to take part. Helen Brittas plans a burglary to fund her bid for the franchise for the sauna solarium and Carole returns from her assertion course. (44)

title: The Elephant's Child

title: Reviewing the Situation

overview: Sitcom based in a leisure center with a manic manager, Gordon Brittas. He initiates a staff review which causes some antagonism; Julie is enjoying armed police protection after threats, which includes body searches

title: Reviewing the Situation

overview: The center enters the 21st century as Brittas has everything computerized, which causes huge problems. Drugget is convinced it is a waste of money and will be Brittas' downfall. Helen's therapy course seem only to appeal to staff

title: Wake Up the Lion Within

overview: Brittas returns from a course which teaches executives how to release inner powers by roaring like a lion. He encourages his staff to try it out. The Leisure Center has been nominated for the 'European Award for Excellence

title: Wake Up the Lion Within

title: The Disappearing Act

overview: The staff at the leisure center compete for Employee of the Month award though Brittas is not convinced of the wisdom of the competition; Colin brushes up his magic act for Julie's niece's birthday party; Helen holds dream workshop

title: The Disappearing Act

title: Gavin Featherly RIP

overview: Comedy set in a leisure center. Gavin is feeling depressed and is receiving therapy from Helen Brittas. He joins the rest of the staff on their annual weekend break to Burbidge-on-Sea and goes missing so Brittas arranges a funeral

title: Gavin Featherly RIP

title: Exposed

overview: 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.

title: Exposed

title: Curse of the Tiger Women

overview: Brittas prepares to celebrate seven wonderful years since the center opened, but Druggett tells him he has been chosen for early retirement. Carole reveals he's the father of her twins!

title: Curse of the Tiger Women

overview:
The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre.

The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show.

The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained itself large mainstream audiences. In 2004 the show came 47th on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and all series have been released on DVD.

The creators Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen often combine farce with either surreal or dramatic elements in episodes. For example in the first series, the leisure centre prepares for a royal visit, only for the doors to seal, the boiler room to flood and a visitor to become electrocuted. Unlike the traditional sitcom, deaths were quite common in The Brittas Empire.

title: The Brittas Empire