Episode Guide : Series 1

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Episode 1 (28 JAN 93)
Personnel

The management of Le Chateau Anglais decide to cut the kitchen budget without warning. Gareth is furious. He's faced with the prospect of having to produce less ambitious or lower quality meals. He's also going to have problems paying all of his kitchen staff.

Then Everton arrives and volunteers to waork as a sous chef without pay, so that he can be trained in " the most famous kitchen in England".

Episode 2 (4 FEB 93)
Beyond The Pass

Gareth wants to own his own restaurant and it looks as if Le Chateau Anglais will be up for sale. He and Janice will have to make sacrifices in order to find the money.

Gareth is also going to have to visit his bank manager - a prospect that scares the pants off him.

Episode 3 (11 FEB 93)
Subject To Contract

Gareth and Janice have to sell their lovely country cottage to raise the money needed to buy Le Chateau Anglais.

Gareth decides that the restaurant needs more publicity, so he invites the press into his kitchen.

Everton puts a sticking plaster over a cut on his hand, then loses it in the veal stew.

Episode 4 (25 FEB 93)
The Big Cheese

Famous Frech chef Albert Roux is about to visit Le Chateau Anglais.

Gareth begins to panic, particularly when he sets off to track down some perfect unpasteurized English Stilton.

Episode 5 (4 MAR 93)
Fame Is The Spur

Janice arranges for Le Chateau Anglais to be featured in a TV food programme. Everton accidentally disrupts the filming by filling the kitchen with escaping live crayfish.

Episode 6 (11 MAR 93)
Rice And Peas

Gareth promises his father a 'Caribbean evening' at the restaurant. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to cook any Caribeean dishes. Then Everton comes to the rescue.

Special (24 DEC 93)
A Bird In The Hand

Gareth has fallen out with his regular poultry supplier. The restaurant has no turkeys for Christmas, so Gareth and Janice go out to look for the perfect birds.