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Tandoori Nights

Tandoori Nights

★ 6.3/10•1985•30m•PG•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.

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 4, 1985

Episodes

E126m

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.

Jul 4, 1985

E226m

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.

Jul 11, 1985

E326m

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?

Jul 18, 1985

E426m

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.

Jul 25, 1985

E526m

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.

Aug 1, 1985

E626m

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...

Aug 8, 1985

Actors

Saeed Jaffrey

Saeed Jaffrey

Jimmy Sharma

Tariq Yunus

Tariq Yunus

Allaudin

Shelley King

Shelley King

Bubbly

Zohra Sehgal

Zohra Sehgal

Gran

Andrew Johnson

Noor

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