Tandoori Nights

PG1985•30m•6.3/10

Comedy

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Tandoori Nights is a Channel 4 sitcom broadcast in two six-episode series from 1985 to 1987. The programme focuses on the rivalry between two Indian restaurants in East London: The Jewel in the Crown and The Far Pavilions.

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Status

Ended

First Aired

July 4, 1985

Last Aired

November 13, 1987

Networks

Channel 4

Created By

Jon Amiel

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Season

Apart from the Kama Sutra

Air date: 1985-07-04

Jimmy plans to acquire a new wife over an intimate family supper, but the course of true love doesn't run smoothly. Meanwhile, one of Jimmy's old waiters opens a rival restaurant across the road.

White Lies

Air date: 1985-07-11

It's clear that Allaudin, the Jewel's brilliant but temperamental chef, has a problem: he's mixing up the quail and chicken orders and his immigration status is causing problems with the Home Office.

Down with Oswald Pick

Air date: 1985-07-18

Oswald Pick has ruined the reputation of The Far Pavilions in a magazine review. Jimmy is delighted but worries that Pick might target the Jewel next. And who is the real Oswald Pick?

Far from the Ganges

Air date: 1985-07-25

Jimmy's mum demands to be allowed to move back to India, but Jimmy wants her to stay in England until Bubbly and Asha are married, so she immediately embarks on a search for husband material.

Film Fare

Air date: 1985-08-01

Asha is delighted when she hears that Mumbai megastar Ravi Dastaan will be eating at the Jewel after his Wembley concert, but waiter Noor, who's secretly in love with his boss's daughter, isn't happy.

A Little Free Enterprise

Air date: 1985-08-08

Rashid offers Jimmy an olive branch: a special price on a delivery of vintage (stolen) wine. But then Rashid is arrested...