Product Details

• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Import, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• DVD Release Date: November 5, 2008
• Run Time: 780 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002QEHPXS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,399 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

NTSC/Region 0. Four DVD set containing Series 1 and Series 2 of the UK edition of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. There are a million ways to ruin a restaurant, but only one man has the audacity to attempt a rescue: Gordon Ramsay. In his storied career, Ramsay has earned 16 Michelin stars and launched culinary successes around the globe. This International Emmy®-winning series gives him one week to bring foundering restaurants back from the brink of collapse. Dishing out heaping helpings of truth--liberally peppered with profanity--Ramsay goes eyeball to eyeball with lazy chefs, surly servers, and clueless owners, sharing his unbridled passion for food and hard-won business acumen. And he always returns later to see whether his interventions have worked. Part comedy, part drama, and all reality, these Kitchen Nightmares give a strikingly unglamorous glimpse into the inner workings of restaurants and the people who run them.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So you know what you're getting with this Series One and Series Two disk set, June 21, 2010

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Michelle Kullman (Wheat Ridge, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Vols. 1-2 (DVD)

I was a little confused as to how many episodes and how many seasons of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares this disk set includes. Considering the low price, I decided 'what the heck' and bought it anyway. And I think it's definitely worth the price.

This set includes 4 disks:

-Disk One includes 4 episodes from Season One, each episode with a 'revisit'. It includes Ramsay's very first "kitchen nightmare" - Bonapartes.
The revisit episodes do include quite a bit of the original episode, including when Ramsay first revisits 1-3 months later, but I think these are worth watching as they show the restaurant several months to a year down the road as well. I just skipped through the scenes I had already seen in the first episode, so I didn't end up watching everything twice.

-Disks Two and Three include 8 episodes of Season Two, including my personal favorite, "Momma Cherri's". Disk Two has two revisits and Disk Three has no revisit episodes.

-Disk Four includes 4 episodes of Season Three, including two more revisits.

Altogether, you are getting 16 episodes with 8 revisits.

I saw two different regions listed for this disk when contemplating purchasing it and was a little confused with that as well - FYI, this disk IS coded for U.S. DVD players.

Once again, I think this is a great buy for the price and you get the 'best of' episodes from the first 3 seasons.

One last note - this is the unedited version, which is actually a lot more enjoyable, but keep this in mind if you have small children around, who are likely to pick up a cuss word or two from Chef. =)

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You are not being short-changed, August 17, 2010

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C2Cigars - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Vols. 1-2 (DVD)

Everybody who has commented needs to understand that British television does not have "Seasons" they have "Series" and they are not the same. American television is based on seasons usually running from Sep/Oct through Apr/May. British shows have no specific airing schedule nor length. The British Kitchen Nightmares Series 1 (Season 1 to Americans) only consists of 4 episodes; Series 2 is 8 episodes; Series 3 is 4 episodes; Series 4 is 6 episodes; and Series 5 is 8 episodes. To better understand this check out Internet Movie Database [...].

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Are you confused by Volumes, Series, and all these..., June 24, 2011

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Ghenghis (Monvolia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Vols. 1-2 (DVD)

conflicting reviews? I know I was so here ya go:

First of all, the Amazon "editorial review" is incorrect. This set includes Series 1, 2, and 3.
That is essentially Seasons 1-3 in US terms. Don't know why the producers of this DVD collection
deemed it necessary to label it Vols.1-2 cause that makes no sense. Anyway, on to the individual
discs.

Disc One contains the original Episodes 1-4 from Series 1. They are:
1) Bonaparte's
2) The Glass House
3) The Walnut Tree
4) Moore House

Each of these episodes is approximately 49 minutes in their entirety, and they are accompanied by
yet another episode titled "Revisit" where Gordon returns to survey his handiwork at each restaurant.
Likewise, these episodes are also about 49 minutes, but they include only about 7 minutes of new
footage per at the end, the rest being a condensed version of the original airing. But, there are
still 8 "episodes" in Disc 1.

Disc Two:
1) Lanterna
2) D-Place
3) Momma Cherri's (Plus a revisit "episode")
4) La Riviera (Plus a revisit "episode")

Disc Three:
1) The Sandgate
2) Clubway 41
3) Oscar's
4) La Gondola

Discs 2-3 represent the original BBC Series 2.

Disc Four: (Series 3, or Season 3 to us Yanks)
1) La Parra de Burriana (Plus revisit)
2) The Fenwick Arms (Plus revisit)
3) Roccoco
4) Morgan's

Now before you ask, there are two more abbreviated Series (Seasons) that consist of 8 more
episodes but to date they have not been released in the US so don't bother looking on Amazon,
you'll be disappointed. They are however available in the UK and Australia so maybe we wont
have to wait much longer.

All of the BBC Nightmares shows were great, and they are all totally uncut and uncensored. Here
you get Gordon Ramsay in his full bloom, with all the energy, passion, and straightforward "no
punches pulled" glory, and man does he every sort out these failing restaurants and puts them back
on the road to success, but its never easy and Gordon seems to relish in the challenge.

If your only familiarity with this iconic figure is the dumbed down US versions of Hells Kitchen
and Kitchen Nightmares, you owe it to yourself to check out this series. All of Gordon's brilliance,
tenacity, charm, and compassion comes shining through in each episode. And after watching, you will
agree that this series is much more honest than anything you've seen on Fox Network. BTW, the "Bio"
on G.Ramsay is very interesting for devoted fans.