About
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.
Cast
Saeed Jaffrey
as Jimmy Sharma
Tariq Yunus
as Allaudin
Shelley King
as Bubbly
Zohra Sehgal
as Gran
Andrew Johnson
as Noor
Seasons
Series 1
Jimmy Sharma hustles his way through all manner of jobs and deals before he can buy The Jewel in the Crown restaurant. But will his rivalry with The Far Pavilions restaurant cost him dear?
Series 2
The rivalry between the up-market Jewel in the Crown and the not-so-posh Far Pavilions continues.
Episodes
Series 1
Apart from the Kama Sutra
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
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
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
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
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
Rashid offers Jimmy an olive branch: a special price on a delivery of vintage (stolen) wine. But then Rashid is arrested...
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