Season 2

Hugh joins sari-clad sister-in-laws Nina and Sumita who are on a mission to impress with their mouth-watering North Indian food. The two food lovers have just started up their own Punjabi cookery course using unusual techniques such as making ghee in the microwave. The course culminates in a big celebration for family and friends and Nina breaks out in a Punjabi love song.

Meanwhile, in Gloucestershire, sixty-year-old Enid Jean unveils her inherited tea set for an airing and lays on a big spread for her lady friends including a delectable array of savouries, scones and sponges.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall goes vegetarian this week and joins Tommy and Kirsty's magic bus, christened Florence, the bus is painted with sunflowers.

The pair are to be married in the middle of a stone circle and Hugh lands himself a major role - helping prepare the reception festivities around the bus.

In other TV Dinners, Reg Gray indulges in a French bistro night. The Liverpool builder loves themed dinner parties and prints an a la carte menu for his guests featuring frogs legs and lamb in hay.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall joins Sue Smallwood and Monica Curtain at their '70s soul food feast themed around the cult movie, Car Wash. Monica and Sue's movie-themed dinners have achieved a cult following of their own with Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Saturday Night Fever among previous hit evenings.

Hugh also helps third generation Italian Yorkshireman Michael Massarella cook an Italian meal for 30 with the help of a pizza oven in his back garden near Doncaster. With very little food on the menu that can be cooked beforehand, it's a frantic day for Michael but he rises eagerly to every challenge.

Hugh holds his own in a Chinese showdown with Gary Venables and samples the finest lobster at Lorna Macleod's literary dinner in Herefordshire.

A forthright Londoner, Gary Venables displays an obsessive passion for Chinese cooking which drives his family mad in his quest for new spices, vegetables and flavours. His week wouldn't be complete without a pilgrimage to London's Chinatown markets and shops where he picks out the best Chinese flavours and all the hot tips he can gather from local chefs.

Meanwhile, in Herefordshire, Lorna Macleod is hosting a black-tie dinner featuring the best of European cuisine. Nearby Hay on Wye lends a heavy influence to the gathering which is filled with literary types and wine buffs.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall indulges in a gentleman's breakfast with Duncan Douglas and his equestrian Empire Club and joins the festivities as Grace Elone celebrates the arrival of her mother from Cameroon with a West Indian feast.

Hugh finds himself drawn into the fold of the Empire Club - a very male establishment which celebrates its members' collective pride in being British. The Empire Club are selecting a racehorse for the club's sponsorship in the coming season and will cast their votes over a gentleman's breakfast at their bi-annual meeting. Following an early morning ride and a viewing of the potential candidates, the members retire to Duncan's tack room to cast their vote over a sumptuous champagne breakfast.

In another TV Dinner, Grace Elone's mother is about to walk into a huge West Indian welcome from her daughter who has been planning a traditional all-night feast for weeks. The champagne flows freely as Grace's north-west London home is flooded with guests eager to sample Cameroon's exotic flavours and welcome Grace's mother, fresh from a long journey and eager to see her daughter again.

This week Hugh shares a Valentine's moment with the Dawsons as Peggy and Bernard invite each other to a romantic dinner for two in the New Forest and joins Clare Moncreiff-Hunt as she scours the beaches for her seafood picnic in Cornwall.

To celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary last year, Peggy and Bernard Dawson held a lavish dinner party...for themselves, and enjoyed it so much they're doing it again this year. The setting is their caravan retreat in the New Forest and Hugh finds himself in the role of postman as the formal invitations come through the mail. While Bernard is busy purchasing flowers and setting the mood in the caravan. Peggy is holed up in her North London kitchen making the food she knows Bernard will die for.

Meanwhile, on the Cornish coastline, Clare Moncriefif-Hunt is preparing a seafood barbecue to mark the end of her family's first sailing season in their newly renovated boat Sara. The day begins as Hugh, Clare and her children, take a walk down the local beach in search of fresh mussels which will be transformed into hors d'oevres of Clare's fishy supper.

Hugh visits Penny Sinclair for some elegant indulgence as she entertains her adoring male dinner guests with exotic Eastern food and even more exotic costume changes. Simplicity and elegance with the allure of surprise is Penny's recipe for a successful evening.

There's also a return to the wilderness for Hugh when Sam Thornley invites him to share a zen dinner from the kitchen of his tipi celebrating Sam's first year of living off the land. Sam decided to leave the rat race of London, quit his job in a publishing house and made the move to the tipi he now calls home. Constructed from driftwood and entirely recycled materials, his tipi is built in the Sioux Indian style and features a 'designer' kitchen.

Hugh drops in on Josie Livingston, famed throughout her Glasgow estate for outstanding community work and enormous Clootie Dumplings, as she throws a three course Scottish blow-out for her fellow septuagenarians. Now in her seventies, Josie, is known far and wide for the work she has done for her community and the hearty Scottish cooking that almost everyone has sampled in the 42 years she has lived on the estate.

A trip to Dartmoor with the Zahara brothers finds Hugh entangled in their annual pheasant shoot, leading into a weekend filled with black tie suppers and school-day traditions. "The Boys Shoot" is an annual event for 20-year-old Anthony and 22-year-old Patrick Zahara which takes place at their grandmother's estate on the edge of Dartmoor. Six old school chums are invited along for a weekend of shooting, eating and drinking.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall takes a look at two of his favourite gastronomic adventures from TV Dinners. Chilli obscssives Eddie Baines and Steve Donovan prepare a special wedding anniversary dinner for their apprehensive wives. Hugh measures the Richter scale of chilli heat as Eddie and Steve organise a Mexican feast that their loved ones won't forget in a hurry.

Meanwhile, Felicity Keebaugh takes a rumble in the jungle when her North London council flat is transformed into a cavewoman's den. Her guests are an eclectic group of people who don't know each other, but Felicity's zebra skin bustier and matching mini-skirk combined with a backdrop of appropriately draped vines give her guests plenty to talk about.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall joins the festive preparations for two sumptuous but very different Christmas feasts.

The first, a 12-course lavish affair, launches with pale bare bottoms as three eccentric looking men on a Norfolk beach dive naked into the cold sea for the twelfth Christmas running. The close friends, Simon Gough, James Late and Tony Elliott swear by this as a technique to ensure "the body will be deeply frozen, the mind crystallised and thereafter the cooking will gel." Highlights of the extravagant meal include a purple beetroot consommé borsht served with sour cream and caviar; monkfish mousses (each hiding a succulent orange scallop coral); stuffed giant carp and fresh langoustine served on a huge fir-tree branch.

Hugh's second culinary encounter could not be more different as he visits artist and roaming surfer Tony Kitchall and his gang of 40 fellow travellers. Each year, they end their stint of work as lumberjacks and jills in a Brighton Christmas tree yard with a massive, adventurous feast (almost) al fresco, warmed by a roaring fire which cooks colourful kebabs.