Season 1 Episode 2
A footballer's wife prepares to host her party, but the distraction of clothes shopping almost derails her plans and she's forced to use unscrupulous methods, buying ready meals and attempting to pass them off as home-made

 
Season 1 Episode 3
An etiquette buff with a penchant for perfection finds her airs and graces foster unrealistic expectations in her guests, who imagine their seasoned host lives in an elegant manor house. It remains to be seen what they will make of her modest suburban semi and underwhelming home-made food

 
Season 1 Episode 4
A 41-year-old estate agent prepares an extraordinary menu designed to impress her dinner-party guests. The table d'hote includes a strawberry and black pepper salad, choca mocha lamb and a pudding made of white chocolate, whisky, croissants and butter. Unfortunately, her sweet-toothed soiree seems to bring out the worst in her guests

 
Season 1 Episode 5
Father Brian Williams prepares a menu for the other four contestants, and despite the unusual decor in his house, proves to be a revelation in the kitchen, with the energy of Fanny Cradock and Basil Fawlty put together. However, his dinner does not live up to the promise of the preparation

 
Season 1 Episode 6
Another set of gatherings begins ambitiously with a 10-course Italian meal - but hostess Moona faces a culinary crisis as guests arrive before she is ready. However, a steady stream of food and a frank discussion of sexual fantasies soon gets the evening back on track

 
Season 1 Episode 7
Wine enthusiast Bruce Mainwaring tries to impress his guests with the contents of his cellar, but Moona isn't happy about standing in his shadow and the atmosphere soon turns frosty

 
Season 1 Episode 8
Fetish fan Pauline Morrison hopes to turn up the heat as she provides saucy entertainment to accompany her Canadian barbecue. However, Bruce and Michael are terrified by her plans for the evening, and the London weather threatens to put a damper on proceedings

 
Season 1 Episode 9
Michael O'Keefe plays host to the other contestants, and hires a professional cook to help him win the £1,000 prize. He even calls in the services of a waiter to impress his guests still further - but they might view his lavish spending spree as a con trick and award him low marks instead

 
Season 1 Episode 10
Belinda hosts the final dinner party of the week, deciding to serve a roast meal in her newly decorated, modern dining room - but she's left shocked when the oven goes on the blink, the sauce curdles and the parsley vanishes. Meanwhile, her hungry guests are left waiting, which could jeopardise her chances of getting high marks

 
Season 1 Episode 11
A school dinner lady hosts the first soiree of the third week and mixes up a potent fruit punch to accompany the meal. While she just about muddles through preparing three courses, the drink proves too much for her, and the guests don't mince their words

 
Season 1 Episode 12
Publisher Richenda Hines plans a traditional English barbecue in Gloucestershire, but has to deal with typically wet weather and problems at the shops when she forgets her list. As the guests arrive, the host keeps her cool and soon entertains the diners outside, despite having to guess her ingredients along the way

 
Season 1 Episode 13
Gloucestershire housewife Pat Shepherd hosts the latest dinner party, and hopes to impress her guests by spending a whole day preparing her favourite recipes. Unfortunately, her plans begin to fall apart at the last minute when a minor culinary mishap ruins the starter and leaves alarm bells ringing

 
Season 1 Episode 14
Gloucestershire brewer Nick Cooper pulls out all the stops to impress his guests with a 1950s-style menu. He prepares for his meal a week in advance by having one of his own pigs slaughtered in an abattoir, before bringing the carcass home to carve the right cuts of meat for the terrine

 
Season 1 Episode 15
Ex-army chef Paul prepares a dinner party, intending to impress with his flawless presentation - but his plan threatens to backfire as the assembled throng get bored waiting for their food. Pippa uses the time to her advantage as she asks one of the other contestants out on a date

 
Season 1 Episode 16
An office manager serves up the first of five meals, with 10 dishes on the menu. But the evening seems doomed from the start when the supermarket runs out of salmon and her champagne jelly glasses prove too big to fit in the fridge. As her guests arrive, it becomes clear they won't be easily impressed

 
Season 1 Episode 17
Perfectionist David Thomas prepares his own recipe for `duck in a box' - a concoction involving duck breasts and a loaf of bread. The menu also includes smoked salmon cheesecake and a flaming crepe suzette, but the guests are just as stunned by his royalty-themed London home as they are by the food

 
Season 1 Episode 18
Sarah Donohue offers her dinner-party guests a taste of the Middle East in London's Edgware Road. She expects the diners to sit on the floor amid a baffling array of dishes, and provides an exotic belly dancer and a hubble bubble pipe

 
Season 1 Episode 19
For her turn to host in London, Rocky Scott chooses a traditional Jewish menu featuring chicken soup with dumplings, chopped liver, egg and onion. The relaxed atmosphere around the table allows the guests to loosen up and reveal their hidden depths - which results in Sarah driving David to distraction

 
Season 1 Episode 20
For the final meal in London, Paul Martin tries to steal victory by using his impressive cooking skills in a stylish bachelor-pad setting, baking bread and creating a lemon tart - but his chances are threatened by his wine merchant's behaviour around the guests. After the meal, the winner of the £1,000 cash prize is announced

 
Season 2 Episode 1
Celebrity edition of the show in which contestants attempt to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party. Fashion designer Ben de Lisi is the first host, preparing an Italian meal for his rivals, presenter Ulrika Jonsson, singer Mica Paris, writer David Quantick and comedian Helen Lederer

 
Season 2 Episode 2
The second round of the celebrity special sees Mica Paris play host with a menu of traditional Jamaican cuisine. However, at the last minute she realises a dish is missing a vital ingredient and worse still, her guests are without chairs

 
Season 2 Episode 3
Shooting Stars team captain Ulrika Jonsson opts for two dishes she has never cooked before as she plays host in her Berkshire mansion. Things go from bad to worse when she manages to slice her finger, and the meal is nowhere near ready when the guests arrive

 
Season 2 Episode 4
Comedian Helen Lederer hosts the penultimate celebrity meal, but her evening is a catalogue of accidents. She omits a vital ingredient from her poppy-seed cake, burns the rice and insults her guests by misspelling their names. Turning to a glass of champagne to calm herself down, she realises the peas in wine are simply raw vegetables devoid of alcohol

 
Season 2 Episode 5
The celebrity special of the dinner party challenge comes to an end. Comedian David Quantick takes his turn in the kitchen, preparing a meal for fellow contestants Ben de Lisi, Ulrika Jonsson, Mica Paris and Helen Lederer, and afterwards the winner is announced

 
Season 2 Episode 6
Sales rep Jane Phillips Martin is the first contestant of the week in Essex. She plumps for a meal of lamb shanks, but finds herself so busy talking she forgets to prepare any accompanying vegetables - and then has an accident in the kitchen

 
Season 2 Episode 7
Host June Tedaldi tries to impress her guests with an Italian feast before rounding off the evening with a belly-dancing performance - but Kevin remains unimpressed with the company, activities and lack of beer

 
Season 2 Episode 8
Fitness fanatic Kevin Reynolds decides it is time to put interior designer Amanda Swanwick-Aharoni in her place and serves a healthy meal of carrot soup and salmon. However, the alcohol that accompanies the dinner results in him leading his drunken guests through a series of press-ups to burn off the extra calories

 
Season 2 Episode 9
Trainee actor Keeley Lawrence orders her food from a restaurant, as well as a table, chairs and place settings for her new home. Hoping to convince her guests she created the meal herself, she goes to watch it being cooked and gets a nasty surprise when she is asked to help kill the lobsters for the starter

 
Season 2 Episode 10
Interior designer Amanda hosts a formal banquet, complete with tiaras and butler, but the evening proves too pretentious for the guests, who temporarily disappear after the starter. Meanwhile, Kevin and Jane continue to upset the others with their bickering

 
Season 2 Episode 11
Childminder Neena Rainey hosts the first dinner party in Doncaster, with a menu of mushrooms stuffed with pancetta, noisettes of lamb and lemon chiffon tart. However, her professional skills may come in handy in the face of juvenile behaviour from her guests

 
Season 2 Episode 12
Entrepreneur Katherine Taylor rustles up a four-course meal for her dinner party in Doncaster, with a menu including fish patties and pate-stuffed steaks with Yorkshire pudding. However, guests Neena Rainey and Ross Thompson criticise her for calling on friend John the chef to help out

 
Season 2 Episode 13
Electrician Steve Clift hosts the third dinner party in Doncaster, but his menu of stuffed mushrooms, roast lamb and gooseberry pie is very similar to Neena Rainey's and the bad feeling generated by the previous night's arguments threatens to overwhelm his gathering. Sure enough, it is not long before harsh words start to fly

 
Season 2 Episode 14
Tailor Danny Churchill plans an entertaining evening featuring impressions, magic and music for his dinner party guests in Doncaster, with an Italian-themed menu including wild boar. Unfortunately, he is unaware the group's harshest critic Neena Rainey loathes conjuring tricks - and his starter is also a pet hate of first-night rival Ross Thompson

 
Season 2 Episode 15
Ross prepares a veal dinner for her guests, but Danny's jokes about the food annoy the hostess - who hopes a dip in the hot tub will calm everyone down. The diners then wait in anticipation to discover who has won the weekly prize of £1,000

 
Season 2 Episode 16
The first of five parties from Brighton sees mother-of-two Margaret O'Loughlin preparing a menu with a Caribbean theme, which features coconut as an ingredient in all but one of her courses

 
Season 2 Episode 17
Actor Julia hires a butler to ensure her dinner party goes off without a hitch. However, her seafood menu does not meet with approval, the ingredients she had planned on using are unavailable, and Paula and Melinda are still at each other's throats

 
Season 2 Episode 18
PR expert Paula calls on the professionals for help, and even takes a three-hour nap before her guests arrive, convinced the prize is already hers. Despite a catalogue of culinary disasters, her confidence remains high, and she regales the diners with tales of her prowess in the kitchen, before inadvertently setting off the fire alarms

 
Season 2 Episode 19
Housewife and former glamour model Nathalie Clarke's simple meal turns problematic when she forgets to add half the ingredients to her main course. She turns to her mother and her fireman-turned-butler husband in the hope she can disguise the mess she is making of the cocktails

 
Season 2 Episode 20
Farm owner Melinda Padley prepares crab salad, beef Wellington and a pudding of prunes in her bid for the £1,000 cash prize, but the mounting pressure causes her to resort to a quick tipple for Dutch courage. The host hopes her surprise pudding will impress the guests, and the winner is revealed

 
Season 2 Episode 21
The first of five Glasgow parties features the programme's oldest competitor to date. Seventy-two-year-old hostess Aileen Dunn resolves to dazzle her guests with an unusual menu featuring Bloody Mary terrine and a main course of hare. However, she takes a gamble with her dessert - she won't know whether it's come out right until it's time to serve it up

 
Season 2 Episode 22
Host Paul Lydon decides to serve trout - and for that extra special touch, he intends to catch it himself. However, when the fish prove reluctant to co-operate, he begs the farm owner to provide one. Cooking his prize catch also proves a headache, but he has a secret weapon for the dinner - a waiter in traditional Scottish regalia

 
Season 2 Episode 23
Christine Thornton plans an ultra-glamorous soiree for her dinner party guests down to the last detail. Unfortunately, she misplaces her to-do list before anything has been prepared. The summer pudding is a niggling worry - but Aileen Dunn's resentment of her smoking is a more pressing issue

 
Season 2 Episode 24
Businesswoman Sharon Eaton prepares an oriental feast for her guests, including 10 Thai recipes. She quickly finds she has not left enough time to do every dish justice, and is forced to leave the spicy fruit salad runny and the prawns unshelled - and has not made the dipping sauce either

 
Season 2 Episode 25
Ishrat Gazala prepares an Indian curry and boasts it will be hot enough to burn the house down. However, the hippie host has given away all her furniture and asks her guests to sit on the floor for dinner - a request that provokes bewilderment from some and complaints from others. After the meal, the winner of the £1,000 cash prize is revealed

 
Season 2 Episode 26
Entrepreneur Karen Cullen hosts a dinner party in Nottingham, in a house that looks like a bomb site. Her list of woes includes a dining table that gets stuck in the doorway, an insect has to be fished out of an ice-cream that just will not set and, when her guests arrive, she manages to spill champagne all over herself

 
Season 2 Episode 27
Food and drink enthusiast Gordon Todd hosts his dinner party in Nottingham, but is not as prepared as he would like to think. Refusing to waste money on expensive wine for his `unrefined' guests, he makes a decision that may prove his undoing. Surprises are in store for his horrified diners, who lift the lid on some bizarre secrets

 
Season 2 Episode 28
Psychic Jenny Cross prepares a menu of melon and prosciutto salad with wild smoked salmon, but her paranormal powers do nothing to help her foresee the culinary problems ahead. She storms out before dessert when Karen Cullen questions her powers of prediction, and divisions within the group begin to surface

 
Season 2 Episode 29
Sales rep Jarrod Pepper creates an exotic menu inspired by his native Australia - crocodile and prawn kebabs, with kangaroo steaks. He has never cooked the starter before, and frets about the sauce, while his dessert requires help from family. When Jarrod overcooks the main course, he fears for his reputation

 
Season 2 Episode 30
Flight attendant Sam Hughes prepares a main course of chicken wrapped in pancetta with vegetables for her dinner party in Nottingham, but struggles to cook and entertain at the same time. Her guests amuse themselves by consuming alcohol - with predictably volatile results. At the end of the evening the winner of the £1,000 prize is announced

 
Season 2 Episode 31
PR expert Isabelle Goldstein hosts the first of five diner parties in London. Her menu consists of spicy soup, pancetta-wrapped chicken and pears - and she quickly proves she does not take kindly to criticism

 
Season 2 Episode 32
Australian Chris D'Sylva throws the second party from London, with a menu including squid ink ravioli and tuna carpaccio - to the disgust of the fish-hating Serena. To provide the perfect venue, he borrows a friend's flat, but the plan backfires when he struggles with the unfamiliar oven

 
Season 2 Episode 33
Radio DJ Bill Buckley hosts the third party and prepares prawn mousse, baked skate and chocolate cheesecake. His obsessive attention to detail means he is careful about the price of everything, opting for cheap sparkling wine and lumpfish caviar rather than the real thing advertised on the menu

 
Season 2 Episode 34
Grandmother Jacqueline aims to impress with a Caribbean menu of tried-and-tested family recipes. After forgetting to soak the beans for her first course, however, she is still preparing when the guests arrive - and the main course takes her a further two hours

 
Season 2 Episode 35
Serena prepares mushroom risotto and tenderloin pork for her dinner party, but disaster strikes at the last minute when her air conditioning unit breaks down. Meanwhile, Isabelle employs underhand tactics in her bid to win, but risks disqualification

 
Season 3 Episode 1
First of five celebrity editions of the dinner-party challenge, in which famous faces take it in turns to entertain their guests to win a prize of £1,000 for their chosen charity. Rowland Rivron is first to put his skills to the test, cooking for Anneka Rice, Linda Robson, Aggie MacKenzie and Toby Young

 
Season 3 Episode 2
Actor Linda Robson takes on the dinner party challenge, hoping an organic Italian menu can compensate for her lack of experience and impress guests Toby Young, Anneka Rice, Rowland Rivron and Aggie MacKenzie

 
Season 3 Episode 3
Anneka Rice prepares a Mediterranean menu including roasted Piedmont peppers and Valencian paella for guests Linda Robson, Aggie MacKenzie, Rowland Rivron and Toby Young. However, not everything goes according to plan when she loses a recipe and breaks two whisks, before turning to her eight-year-old son for help

 
Season 3 Episode 4
Restaurant critic Toby Young takes his turn as host, preparing a meal for Anneka Rice, Linda Robson, Aggie MacKenzie and Rowland Rivron from the finest ingredients money can buy. However, after a disaster in the kitchen, it falls to his wife to make sure everything goes as planned

 
Season 3 Episode 5
Aggie MacKenzie is the final celebrity contestant to show off her culinary skills in the kitchen, and her guests have high expectations as they wait for their dinners to be served. The TV presenter attempts an ambitious menu consisting of eight Middle Eastern dishes, including a main course of lamb tagine

 
Season 3 Episode 6
First of five programmes from Liverpool. Pensioner Terry White must add to his culinary repertoire when he hosts a dinner party with guests including a strict vegan. His scallops have to be extra special to please a fishmonger - but it is his dessert which leaves the diners lost for words

 
Season 3 Episode 7
In the second Liverpool-based gathering, fishmonger Dan Redfern prepares an ambitious meal that includes more than 10 dishes. Trying to impress wine buff Terry White proves a challenge when the star bottle turns out to be corked, and a conversation about meat distresses vegan Nikki O'Leary

 
Season 3 Episode 8
Nikki O'Leary takes a gamble and prepares a vegan meal for her meat-loving food connoisseurs. She seems to be on a winner when wine buff Terry pronounces the vegan bacon as good as the real thing. However, it remains to be seen whether she has done enough to scoop the £1,000 prize

 
Season 3 Episode 9
Customer service manager Ian Cook tries to impress by catering for his guests' individual needs in Liverpool. He cooks sea bass for fishmonger Dan Redfern, picks the best wines for Terry White and prepares a vegan dish for Nikki O'Leary

 
Season 3 Episode 10
Royalist Margaret Twemlow uses quality ingredients and even employs a butler as she pulls out all the stops to impress her guests with a venison dish served in castle turrets made of bread, and a selection of desserts. A fireworks display follows the meal, before the winner is revealed

 
Season 3 Episode 11
In the first of a series of programmes from Edinburgh, delicatessen and whisky connoisseur Tracy uses alcohol to break the ice, beginning with a specially made cocktail and serving a main course containing a whole bottle of wine. However, she is unaware that two of the guests are experts when it comes to drink

 
Season 3 Episode 12
The second meal in Edinburgh sees the four contestants head to wine critic Paul Dwyer's house, with rifts already starting to appear. Not everyone is delighted with the vegetarian host's meat-free Tuscan menu, and his hopes of impressing them with lectures about grape vines are soon dashed

 
Season 3 Episode 13
Texan born-again Christian Tanya Williams tries to impress her guests with six courses of cuisine from the southern states of the US. However, it becomes apparent she may have bitten off more than she can chew. As the temperature rapidly rises in the kitchen, the atmosphere around the table turns decidedly icy

 
Season 3 Episode 14
Catering manager James Gammie puts his bar-tending experience to good use as he serves up a different cocktail with each course during his dinner party in Edinburgh. Although they did not see eye to eye earlier in the competition, it seems the host's whisky concoction may help to finally win round fellow diner Tracy Dobbie

 
Season 3 Episode 15
For the final meal in Edinburgh, Jennifer Crosbie hopes to impress her four guests and claim the £1,000 cash prize by improving on two dishes served up earlier in the contest. Paul Dwyer accepts her risotto might be better than his, but James Gammie is adamant his monkfish was tastier - and the quality of food is not the host's only concern

 
Season 3 Episode 16
Anthropologist Linda Shanson kicks off the competition in London by capitalising on her well-travelled past with a menu of 16 dishes from around the world. Her relaxed attitude soon causes her to fall behind schedule, and matters are not helped by one guest's perfectionist nature and another's allergy to prawns

 
Season 3 Episode 17
The second day in London sees fishmonger Jonathan Morris preparing a main course of turbot, but his inexperience in making desserts and lack of knowledge concerning wines threatens his chances of impressing the other competitors

 
Season 3 Episode 18
Opera singer Patricia Varley rustles up a retro menu of dinner party hits from the 1970s in the hope of persuading her guests that classics are better than fancy nouvelle cuisine. The 70-year-old serenades the bemused group with I Could Have Danced All Night before the main course is put to the test

 
Season 3 Episode 19
Estate agent John Santamaria hosts the fourth party in London, and tries to impress his guests with a fillet of beef cooked to their individual tastes. However, nerves threaten to get the better of him when the big day arrives, and prior grievances with fellow contestants Jonathan Norris and Richard Whitaker make matters worse

 
Season 3 Episode 20
Architect, surveyor and property developer Richard Whitaker hosts the final meal in London, convinced his restaurant-style modern recipes will put all the other contestants in the shade. However, his obsession with tidiness threatens to overshadow his culinary efforts

 
Season 3 Episode 21
Children's entertainer and fancy-dress company owner Julia Knight kicks off the competition in Derby. In a bid to win the £1,000 prize, she introduces a Mexican theme, complete with chilli, tortillas, ponchos, sombreros and fake moustaches

 
Season 3 Episode 22
Postman Graham Fox plays host in Derby, hoping his food can reduce the tension following Michele Cooper and Julia Knight's row. The night is going well until one of the guests finds a piece of crab shell in a fish cake, and by the time the bread and butter pudding is served, the arguing has started again

 
Season 3 Episode 23
Holistic therapist Patsy Sewell-Mwamba rustles up an exotic feast of Caribbean dishes in Derby. The diners dress up to the nines for the occasion, but Julia Knight puts a damper on things by refusing to eat dessert. She is also challenged to try her first oyster - much to the amusement of the other guests

 
Season 3 Episode 24
Erotic-dance teacher Michele Cooper hosts the next party in Derby, hoping her savoury cheesecake, chicken pie and apple tarte tatin will satisfy her guests' tastebuds. However, the rivalry between her and Julia threatens to ruin the evening, as the picky eater tries to hide food in her handbag

 
Season 3 Episode 25
The final host in Derby is web designer Danny Fletcher, who perplexes his guests by handing them a menu written in French. He also tries to impress with a chicken terrine wrapped in Parma ham, followed by duck a l'orange - but things start to go wrong when he burns the potatoes

 
Season 3 Episode 27
Marty Henderson impresses his guests with his culinary skills, kicking off with an impressive starter. However, guest Rosemary McLoughlin puts a damper on the evening by discussing tapeworms just before the 27-year-old serves his main course of beef

 
Season 3 Episode 28
Belfast lecturer Colin McAllister hosts a dinner, hoping his experience managing a bed and breakfast in Italy for 20 years will impress the guests - and make up for his unappreciated sense of humour

 
Season 3 Episode 29
Hairdresser Jon Cross hosts the next dinner party and comes up with a devious plan receive the admiration of his guests. He decides to cook up a low-calorie meal for dieter Rosemary, serve large portions to food-loving Colin and create a restaurant-style dessert for presentation-mad Marty

 
Season 3 Episode 31
The competition moves to Cambridge, where a gregarious mum of three struggles to avoid mishaps while cooking for her guests - despite help from her husband and daughters. She eventually manages to prepare a starter of baked fish, followed by monkfish, and rhubarb pudding for dessert

 
Season 3 Episode 32
Estate agent Gael hosts the competitors, determined to impress with a well-presented Asian-influenced meal. Her preparations leave the guests to prepare their own drinks, but the evening is soon going well, with Carolyn singing and Simone biting her tongue

 
Season 3 Episode 33
House-husband Phil Webb serves a range of dishes using pork cultivated from his own hand-reared pig during his dinner party in Cambridge. After describing himself as a basic cook, the host impresses his guests with the quality of his dishes, but his tactics are a source of irritation

 
Season 3 Episode 34
Simone Breneis hosts the fourth dinner party in Cambridge. She plans to impress with a six-course feast combining foods from around the world, including a German aperitif and a Chinese noodle dish. While most of her guests seem happy with her efforts, Phil Webb does not hold back on the criticism

 
Season 3 Episode 35
Former nightclub singer Carolyn Tycer puts her energy into the entertainment rather than the food as she employs a sexy waiter and rustles up a fiesta feast of colour and taste. Two of the guests wage war over house-husband Phil's slur on Simone's cooking - but the party spirit soon takes over

 
Season 3 Episode 36
White witch Maureen McKissock, whose house contains books of spells, shelves full of crystals and an earless cat, kicks off the competition in Ayr by preparing a curry with a potent cocktail of spices. However, one of the guests voices her objections to the main course

 
Season 3 Episode 37
College lecturer Elaine Munro hosts the evening, hoping her culinary creation of Scottish salmon wrapped in Parma ham is an improvement on Maureen McKissock's spicy offerings. She tries to impress by offering the guests champagne on their arrival - but businessman Forbes Robertson decides he would prefer a cup of tea

 
Season 3 Episode 38
Casino owner Forbes Robertson takes a gamble by serving up pigs' trotters which cost just 30p each. He splashes out on champagne, hoping to put his guests in high spirits, but it remains to be seen whether his down-to-earth choice will satisfy his diners

 
Season 3 Episode 39
Lizzy McCubbin hosts an upmarket dinner party and plans to impress her guests with a lavish four-course meal and first-class presentation. In a bid to stop smokers Elaine Munro and Sarah Pickering from leaving the table for cigarette breaks, she presents them with a gift of nicotine gum, but the gesture is not well received

 
Season 3 Episode 40
The contestants head to their final dinner party at nature-lover Sarah Pickering's house. She prepares soup, home-made ice-cream and a flying Scotsman - chicken stuffed with haggis and wrapped in Ayrshire bacon. The meal takes a lot of preparation, allowing the guests ample time to consider what score they will give

 
Season 4 Episode 1
Thirty-year-old Cheshire freelance writer and mother Nicola Noblet tries to win her guests over by keeping them entertained and plying them with alcohol

 
Season 4 Episode 2
Veteran dinner party host Katie Noden prepares a traditional meal for her guests, drawing on 50 years of experience in an attempt to impress those she is entertaining

 
Season 4 Episode 3
Vet Edward Davies uses food close to home for his menu, collecting the lamb for his starter from a nearby farmer and catching trout locally. As he is prone to panic, he chooses straightforward recipes in an attempt to have a stress-free day. However, his determination to win leads to him adding a savoury cheesecake as an appetiser and he begins to feel the pressure as time flies by

 
Season 4 Episode 4
Businesswoman Jan Burrows tries to win over her fellow competitors by cooking a three-course meal consisting of all her favourite foods. She also has a trick up her sleeve, which she hopes will earn her extra points - dessert served in a hot tub

 
Season 4 Episode 5
Howard the hairdresser from Hale is desperate to prove to the other guests he's got what it takes to be as good as any top chef and pulls out all the stops in a bid to win. However, his perfectionism could prove an insurmountable obstacle for him to overcome

 
Season 4 Episode 6
Bristol builder Nick Needs puts his self-acclaimed cookery skills to the test as he entertains a group of guests, but is soon relying on some questionable culinary short-cuts in the hope that no one will notice

 
Season 4 Episode 7
On the second day of the competition in Ipswich, a series of mishaps and slip-ups leaves a hung-over Barry Davis short of ingredients as he prepares a three-course meal for his fellow diners. Resorting to an old family recipe fails to help the hapless host, and tension between two of the guests threatens to derail the evening

 
Season 4 Episode 8
A matron hosts the latest party in Ipswich with a menu themed around some of her favourite musicals, but tensions are high following the fall-out between her and Zoe during the previous night's meal. She also plans to sing to her guests between courses - something Barry is dreading

 
Season 4 Episode 9
Waitress Lisa Quinton hosts the fourth dinner party in Ipswich, seeking advice from her cafe's head chef on creating an Italian main course - even though he is Egyptian. After enduring two tense nights with Zoe and Angie, keen clubber Lisa decides to lighten the mood with a series of party tricks, and later tries to heal the rift by getting everyone on the dance floor

 
Season 4 Episode 10
A butcher hosts the final meal in Ipswich, serving up meat from his own shop in a bid to win the £1,000 prize money. However, he has to contend with a sore head and struggles to pull the menu together at the last minute. He hopes to turn it around when his guests arrive, despite the week's previous quarrels

 
Season 4 Episode 11
Swedish-American Judi Lembke hosts the first dinner party in London, hoping her relaxed attitude and an aperitif of schnapps will put the guests at ease and help her win the £1,000 cash prize. In an attempt to keep stress to a minimum, she prepares all the dishes in advance and plans to pass off shop-bought pastry as her own, unaware that some of her diners are self-proclaimed food snobs

 
Season 4 Episode 12
House-proud legal adviser Lisa Connell throws the second party in London, but her perfectly planned dinner is thrown into disarray by some tricky parmesan crisps and a temperamental oven. The kitchen crisis quickly becomes the least of Lisa's worries when fellow diner Judi Lembke spills a glass of red wine on her cream couch

 
Season 4 Episode 13
Teddy bear-loving deputy headmaster Peter Rixham hosts the latest party in London, hoping to make his guests feel at home with special place settings, kitsch music and a stuffed deer head all on display. Things start to go awry, however, when Peter cannot find the key to his shed, where the dining chairs are stored

 
Season 4 Episode 14
Moni Bharij prepares a lavish Indian banquet for the fourth dinner party in London, cooking a starter of gargantuan prawns, followed by five main courses and a strawberry and cream cake topped with glitter. However, after insisting on drinking her favourite wine at the other contestants' houses, the tables are turned when Lisa decides to do the same

 
Season 4 Episode 15
Matthew Baker banishes his parents from the house and prepares a menu involving fruit soup and solo tortelloni in basil leaf for the final meal of the week in London. The music-lover, who models himself on Jamie Oliver, hopes to impress his guests and win the £1,000 cash prize

 
Season 4 Episode 16
Chartered surveyor Dave Wheeler throws the first dinner party in Manchester, but gets off to a bad start when the guests all announce they dislike the first course of mushrooms. He tries to lighten the mood with a series of pranks, which fail to impress optometrist Shaida, so in a final attempt to dazzle his diners, Dave relies on his Mick Jagger impression

 
Season 4 Episode 17
At the second dinner party in Manchester, drama teacher Matthew Nichols plans his meal of Cheshire tart and lamb like a military operation. However, it takes more than pinpoint precision in the kitchen to erase memories of Dave Wheeler's lively bash from his guests' minds

 
Season 4 Episode 18
Self-confessed celebrity stalker Jane Bates hosts the third dinner party in Manchester, planning a Hollywood-themed evening and aiming to bring some glamour to the suburb of Burnage. Her theme is reflected in her menu, with dishes inspired by some of her favourite stars, including Johnny Depp and Dean Martin

 
Season 4 Episode 19
Optometrist Shaida Shipping hosts the fourth dinner party in Manchester, offering a spicy menu featuring a roly-poly meat loaf and a main course inspired by her Tanzanian roots. Determined to give the group a night to remember, Shaida demonstrates her ballroom dancing skills, but not everyone is keen to take part

 
Season 4 Episode 20
Chris Brady hosts the final meal in Manchester, planning to make his own pasta and provide entertainment involving an eating game and a gorilla suit. Hoping to snatch the £1,000 cash prize at the final hurdle, the HR consultant tries to apologise to one guest for a tense exchange earlier in the week, but she reacts unexpectedly

 
Season 4 Episode 21
Nightclub owner Tony Griffiths throws the first dinner party in Sunderland, but gets off to a bad start when he locks himself out of his car while shopping. Things continue to go wrong as he encounters problems with a lobster dish and takes a series of shortcuts with the dessert, but the host hopes his luxury home with leather-lined walls and a £25,000 chandelier will impress his guests

 
Season 4 Episode 22
PR executive Bernice Saltzer throws the second dinner party in Sunderland, and hopes her cooking experience will make her the front-runner in the competition. Despite her confidence, she is unprepared for the criticism from Ashley Hughes, and efforts to melt her fellow diners' hearts with an eight-month-old puppy are foiled when two of them reveal their dislike of dogs

 
Season 4 Episode 23
Self-confessed lager lout Ashley Hughes hosts the third dinner party in Sunderland, serving up a classic menu featuring salmon mousse and Stilton-crusted fillet steak. She spends four hours pressing napkins, steaming glasses and measuring place settings to ensure the table's appearance is perfect, and hopes to impress the guests with her extensive collection of football memorabilia

 
Season 4 Episode 24
Barrister Anthony Merton-Smith hosts the fourth dinner party in Sunderland, serving up a fine-dining menu featuring game terrine and venison. However, his complex food causes him to fall behind schedule, and his efforts to make up for the delay leave his guests speechless

 
Season 4 Episode 25
Warehouse manager Roy Ledger hosts the final dinner party in Sunderland, hoping to win the £1,000 cash prize by offering his guests a festive dinner with all the trimmings, including crackers, decorations and a Christmas tree - even though it is the height of summer

 
Season 4 Episode 36
Contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals

 
Season 4 Episode 37
Contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals

 
Season 4 Episode 38
Contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals

 
Season 4 Episode 39
Contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals

 
Season 4 Episode 40
Contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals

 
Season 5 Episode 1
Interior designer Carlos Buller kicks off the first night of Manchester meals and impresses his guests with his unique apartment. However, a dispute with budding artist Karen Oulton threatens his chance of winning the £1,000 prize at the end of the week

 
Season 6 Episode 29
Contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals