I thought about saving this news until I had at least one of these episodes ready for upload, but I’m too excited to wait. In my mailbox this morning were five episodes of Iron Chef that I have never seen. They are all from the pre-FN days when Iron Chef was airing in a few select local markets across the US. These episodes were often in Japanese with English subtitles.
A while ago, an Iron Chef collector contacted me about some episodes from the local days. These episodes are very hard to find now. While the contributor wishes to remain anonymous, they have agreed to share some of their episodes with us. I have changed the episode numbers for these five to blue, showing that they will be available in the near future. (Look mid-late 1996 to find these five.) I will do my best to get at least one episode uploaded for this weekend. The contributor does visit this site, so I would encourage everyone to comment with a huge thank you.
If you have episodes on tape or DVD that you want to share, there is an address listed on the “Support Us” tab where you can send them.