It's National Vegan Week, so Gordon marks the occasion with a very special and very Ramsay dish. Gordon's children learn that a turkey is just for Christmas dinner and not a family pet, when they buy live turkeys to rear and slaughter for Christmas dinner. Star of stage and screen Martine McCutcheon learns how to sharpen a knife and Gordon learns to "keep it simple, stupid" when he challenges comedian Al Murray to make the best bread and butter pudding.

Superstar mega-diva Joan Collins visits The F Word restaurant. It's the first time the two have met since Joan was famously thrown out of Gordon's first restaurant, Aubergine, seven years ago. Gordon's mum Helen challenges her son with her favorite recipe for apple pudding. And there's trouble among the turkeys in Gordon's garden. Gary's as sick as a parrot, so Gordon calls in expert advice.

Gordon faces his biggest challenge yet with his ongoing campaign to get women back into the kitchen. Gordon cooks venison with chocolate: "Bambi never tasted so good." He also journeys to the far north of Scotland to try the rare and unusual delicacy that is Gannet - an unforgettable experience.

Can food affect a man's fertility? Currently there's speculation about a general decline in the sperm count and whether it can be linked to diet. Gordon blames his own low sperm count on the fact that chefs are constantly exposed to high levels of heat during long hours in a kitchen environment. He enlists the help of a fertility expert and a clinical embryologist to see whether they support his theory and offer advice on how men can help prevent problems with their sperm. Plus top model Penny Lancaster comes for dinner and tells Gordon about her very fertile relationship with Rod Stewart.

Chat show maestro Jonathon Ross, is put to the test by Gordon this week when he's challenged to kill and cook lobster. 'If Paul McCartney is watching this, I apologize'. 'If you've got the bollocks to eat it, you should have the bollocks to kill it', responds Gordon. The show also features Gary Rhodes, an amazing report about the potential benefits of horse milk and an exclusive report on which is Britain's healthiest supermarket.

England Coach Sven Goran Erikson's partner, Nancy Dell-Olio, gives Gordon some tips on how to score when she visits The F Word. "The sexiest room in the house? It's the kitchen because the other places are too easy!'" Nancy cooks for and with Sven regularly, "I do the cooking, he helps me. We work together, we're a team.' Actor Richard Wilson - best known for his performance as Victor Meldrew - and Kim & Aggie from "How Clean Is Your House" take Gordon on with their trifle recipe; while resident food critic Giles Coren looks into the world of detox.

Big Brother host Davina McCall, comedian Jimmy Carr and Property Ladder's Sarah Beeny join celebrated chef Gordon Ramsay and restaurant critic Giles Coren for the cookery show covering all aspects of food.

Writer and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter and former athlete Colin Jackson guest on the show devoted to all things culinary. Dishes on the menu include ravioli of duck, chestnuts with a Jerusalem artichoke sauce and a main course of sea bass. Gordon also reveals the secret of perfect roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

The chef cooks a festive meal comprising truffle and herb buttered turkey with fried breadcrumbs for guests including Sharon Osbourne. The whole restaurant shares the Christmas feast rustled up from Gordon's hand-reared turkeys, aptly named Jamie, Nigella, Delia, Ainsley, Antony and Gary, while Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall takes on the recipe challenge.

Gordon buys some pigs to rear in his garden, and is joined in the kitchen by Kathy Burke. Plus, a new regular feature sees amateur cooks getting the chance to cook in his restaurant for paying customers. Gordon also organises a book amnesty, giving viewers the chance to send in celebrity recipe books they've never used - so they can be safely destroyed.

The fiery chef prepares sesame crusted tuna, pan-fried sea bass with sorrel sauce and apple doughnuts, and teaches Jeremy Clarkson how to cook lobster. Janet Street-Porter throws down the gauntlet in the recipe challenge and Cliff Richard is invited to deliver his verdict on several wines - including, unbeknownst to him, one of his own.

An all-female amateur brigade prepares scrambled egg with wild mushrooms, black bream with peas bonne femme and pink champagne sabayon with citrus fruit. Darren Gough goes head to head with Gordon in the recipe challenge, and Janet Street-Porter finds a new low-fat superfood with four legs, while Jeremy Clarkson gets down to the task of cooking Sunday lunch for his wife and children.

Four Bolton brothers help the chef prepare summer garden soup with walnut pesto, rabbit fricassee, and rhubarb souffle with white chocolate sauce. Janet Street-Porter continues her search for low-fat diet superfoods and Dermot O'Leary takes Gordon on in the recipe challenge with his Irish stew - and a little help from his mother.

Four A&E doctors swap their white coats for aprons to rustle up salt and pepper squid with sweet chilli sauce, bacon-wrapped chicken legs with a pea and broad bean risotto and retro classic crepes suzette. Shameless star Dean Lennox Kelly is in for dinner, and Gordon enters Trinny and Susannah into the pigs' equivalent of Crufts. Meanwhile, an expat family in France get a helping hand cooking Sunday lunch.

Four Oxford students put their culinary skills to the test with a menu of Japanese marinated cucumber, lemon sole en papillote with red chard and a plum tatin with clotted cream. Gordon discovers what conditions are like for commercially farmed pigs, while Michelle Collins takes up the recipe challenge and Jonathan Ross gets to grips with a live eel at the F Word restaurant.

Four amateur cooks from the West Midlands join Gordon in the kitchen to rustle up artichoke, asparagus and onion tart with fried quails' eggs, breast of duck with spring greens and gooseberry sauce, and a four-minute chocolate mousse. Janet Street-Porter gets a job in a fish-and-chip shop on the Shetland Islands, while Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall helps prevent Trinny and Susannah getting sunburnt.

Four farmers' daughters vie to be cream of the crop when they take over the kitchen to cook three simple recipes. On the menu are a starter of crab mayonnaise rolls with mango salsa, a beef fillet with mushroom gratin and a hot chocolate fondant. John Thomson tackles the recipe challenge, while Janet Street-Porter takes on the might of the supermarkets, and Gordon bids farewell to pigs Trinny and Susannah.

The A&E doctors return to the show as the best brigade of the series. Slaughtered pigs Trinny and Susannah also make a reappearance - served up in a recipe of roast loin and belly of pork. Gordon travels to Scotland in search of his grandfather's butcher shop, while Little Britain's David Walliams takes on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Janet Street-Porter in the recipe challenge.

Gordon takes on four Eton boys as his team this week. Dawn French guest stars in the restaurant and helps him launch Find Me a Fanny, his search for a new female television cook. Gordon selects some sheep to keep in the garden of his London apartment. On the menu: crab spring rolls with chilli dipping sauce, loin of venison with sweet and sour peppers, and profiteroles with hot chocolate sauce.

Four firemen serve as this week's brigade, and Ronnie Corbett takes on Gordon in the recipe challenge. Janet Street Porter offers a "provocative" meat. Girls Aloud visit. On the menu: pan-roasted fois gras with rhubarb, butter-roasted ribeye of beef with grilled artichokes, and summer berry soup with floating islands.

Gordon takes on four Lancashire Lasses as his team this week. In the recipe challenge he takes on James May and challenges him to an eat off. Denise Van Outen eats at the restaurant this week. On the menu: duck egg salad with anchovy fingers; tandoori-spiced halibut with sauteed potatoes; and Scotch pancakes with caramelized bananas.

Gordon takes a group called "The Eastenders" in the kitchen, cooks against Alex James in the recipe challenge and goes hunting for deer. Janet Street Porter looks for an alternative to fois gras, and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall helps Gordon move his lambs. On the menu: seared tuna nicoise salad; pan-fried chicken with asparagus; and caramelized apples and pears.

Four estate agents prepare a meal in Gordon's restaurant this week. Chris Moyles finds himself being challenged to make a curry better than his local takeaway can make. Gordon's lambs move to Victoria and David Beckham's place. On the menu: black pudding, potato rosti, and pan-fried eggs; veal scallop with tapenade; and tiramisu.

Four Nottingham housewives form this week's brigade. Janet Street Porter attempts to convince Gordon to try a new superfood. The wine tasting skills of former cricketer Ian Botham are put to the test. Gordon goes to Scotland to make buffalo mozzarella. Dom Joly challenges Gordon in The F Word kitchen, and there's bad news about one of the lambs. On the menu: broad bean and scallop risotto; roast pork chops with apple and radicchio; and cherry samosas.

The latest amateur brigade of cooks are a team of police officers from Lancaster. Jonathan Ross visits the restaurant. Gordon offers tripe to teenagers, teaches some athletes how to cook great fast food and then joins DJ Sara Cox in the recipe challenge. Gordon searches for scallops. On the menu: pan-roasted pigeon salad with toasted walnuts; roast skate with beet root and parmesan; and pain perdu with carmelized peaches.