List of Chef! episodes

This is a list of episodes of the BBC situation comedy series Chef!. The show ran for 3 series from January 8, 1993 to December 30, 1996 and aired a total of 20 episodes.

Series

Series		No. of Episodes	Original airdate	DVD releases
				Region 1	Region 2
	1	7	1993	30 August 2005	2 October 2006
	2	7	1994	30 August 2005	2 October 2006
	3	6	1996	30 August 2005	2 October 2006

Episodes

20 half-hour episodes produced.

Series 1: 1993

#	Title	Original airdate
1	"Personnel"	January 28, 1993
Gareth Blackstock is the executive chef at Le Chateau Anglais, and he is infuriated when management cuts his budget. He is one up on the budget when Everton shows up and volunteers his service as a chef for no compensation in order that he can train in the most famous kitchen in England.
2	"Beyond The Pass"	February 4, 1993
In order to make a successful takeover of the restaurant, Gareth and Janice must first make certain personal sacrifices before they grovel to the bank manager. This is no easy task for someone with a pathological hatred of bank managers.
3	"Subject to Contract"	February 11, 1993
Having made the ultimate sacrifice of putting their idyllic cottage on the market, Janice feels that Gareth must now set about raising his own public profile in the press... (Just a smiley picture...) To raise the profile of his restaurant, Gareth opens his kitchen to the press. But Everton has lost track of something very personal and rather unpleasant in the veal stew. Or was it in the pies? Or the ravioli?
4	"The Big Cheese"	February 25, 1993
Gareth discovers that famous chef Albert Roux is about to honour his restaurant with a visit. He tries to coax his troops into preparing the perfect meal. Gareth goes in search of the perfect unpasteurized English Stilton. But beware the Cheese Police!
5	"Fame Is the Spur"	March 4, 1993
Janice arranges for Gareth and Le Chateau to be featured in the television food program Kitchens Live. The producer has a few surprises in store for Gareth, and Everton manages to release 50 pounds of live crayfish in the kitchen.
6	"Rice and Peas"	March 11, 1993
Gareth has promised his father a Caribbean evening at Le Chateau. The trouble is, he knows nothing of Caribbean cuisine. Gareth must endure the ultimate indignity of requesting Everton's assistance in the matter.
7	"A Bird in the Hand"	December 24, 1993
A disagreement with his regular poultry supplier leads Gareth and Janice on a hunt for Christmas turkeys. Was originally a "stand alone" episode, aired much later than the first 6 episodes of Series I.

Series 2: 1994

#	Title	Original airdate
1	"A River Runs Thru It"	September 8, 1994
The kitchen staff at Le Chateau are overwhelmed, and Gareth simply must find another chef as soon as possible. The new addition to the kitchen staff (Gustav LaRoche) proves to be more than a handful for Gareth when it turns out that he prefers imbibing the wine rather than cooking with it.
2	"Time Flies"	September 15, 1994
Janice suspects that she may be pregnant and she insists that they seek outside investment to secure their offspring's future. Gareth's reaction is typically uncertain about both.
3	"Do the Right Thing"	September 22, 1994
Is there no end to the depths that Gareth will stoop to get the finest ingredients for his renowned dishes? Gareth deals with a "poacher" to get ingredients. But the long arm of the law is quickly in pursuit. Will Gareth land in the soup?
4	"A Diploma of Miseries"	September 29, 1994
Publicity-shy Gareth is hounded by Janice to appear on a chat show, but she soon wishes she had never bothered. When Gareth bad-mouths Janice's cooking to the television audience, he might as well book in with Everton at the latter's new flat. Everton tries to teach his boss a few things about 'amour'.
5	"Masterchef"	October 13, 1994
Everton has developed his own signature dish and, much to Gareth's (very publicly displayed) irritation, he begins to hog the media spotlight!
6	"Private Lives"	October 20, 1994
The kitchen staff are having domestic troubles en masse and it's down to Gareth to play agony aunt, if only to get his staff back to work.
7	"England Expects"	October 20, 1994
Gareth enters an international cookery competition in Lyon, France. All the dishes must have ingredients exclusively from the originating country - but where will he get English wine from?!?

Series 3: 1996

#	Title	Original airdate
1	"Gareth's True Love"	November 25, 1996
Gareth has had to sell the restaurant to Cyril Bryson. There's a troublesome new American chef named Savanna in the kitchen. Then Janice suddenly tells Gareth that she's leaving him, prompting him to resign in efforts to get her back.
2	"Reeny/Renée"	December 2, 1996
When Renée, Cyril's spoiled daughter arrives at the restaurant, Gareth is forced into letting her help out in the kitchen. Everton is smitten by Renée and will do anything to keep her from being removed from her position.
3	"Lessons In Talking"	December 9, 1996
With Janice having moved out on him and with talk of divorce in the air, Gareth takes his temper out on the diners when Cyril has made a policy decision that Gareth should mingle and chat with the diners at La Chateau Anglais. This is decidedly not what Gareth would prefer.
4	"Love in the Air"	December 16, 1996
The arrival of Gareth's father is not the tonic he needs to help him overcome his failed marriage. Especially when he brings along his new, very attractive and very young, girlfriend.
5	"Rochelle"	December 23, 1996
Everton talks Gareth into catering for his cousin's wedding. One of the guests is one of Gareth's ex-girlfriends, Rochelle. An old flame looks like being rekindled, until Janice makes an unexpected appearance.
6	"Paris? Jamaica?"	December 30, 1996
In this final episode, Gareth is at a cross road. He must decide whether to accept Rochelle's invitation to join her in Paris for the weekend or to fly off to Jamaica to try to patch things up with Janice. Gareth foolishly relies upon the advice of Everton to help him make a decision on his future.