Chef

E01Playing

Personnel

Jan 28, 1993 · 30m

E02▶

Beyond the Pass

Feb 4, 1993 · 30m

E03▶

Subject to Contract

Feb 11, 1993 · 30m

E04▶

The Big Cheese

Feb 25, 1993 · 30m

E05▶

Fame is the Spur

Mar 4, 1993 · 30m

E06▶

Rice and Peas

Mar 11, 1993 · 30m

E07

E07▶

A Bird in the Hand

Dec 24, 1993 · 30m

The premiere episode serves primarily to set up the series and introduce the main character, Gareth Blackstock, a master chef with an obsessive drive for culinary perfection, no friends or outside interests other than his wife Janice, and remarkable verbal talents used primarily to creatively abuse his unfortunate staff of assistant cooks, although he is perfectly prepared to give the same treatment to waiters, management, suppliers, bankers, and, occasionally, customers. As the show opens, Gareth is shown verbally lacerating his kitchen staff as ""easily the most bone-idle bunch of useless toe-rags I have ever encountered in any kitchen anywhere. You are sloppy, lazy, half asleep, late, and, at the moment, only giving about 12 1/2 per cent."" Gareth is then shown with the restaurant manager who insists that he must reduce his staff to save money. He replies that the staff is dedicated, superbly efficient, and already impossibly overworked and underpaid. Gareth announces he is quittin