8.4/10124 votesLoading...#1 - The Judas Pair
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/1986
The wife and brother of a man killed with a fabulous pair of Regency duelling pistols engage Lovejoy to find them and thus bring about the downfall of the murderer. In the process, Lovejoy puts Jane's life at risk and challenges Dr La Grange to a duel.
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Ian La Frenais
8.4/1065 votesLoading...#2 - Taking the Pledge
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 4/4/1993
Jamie, an old friend of Lovejoy's, turns up on his doorstep needing help with an urgent problem. He can't afford to retrieve a wonderful painting from a pawnbroker, and there are only a few hours to go. Lovejoy agrees to help Jamie raise the cash - but Jamie's estranged wife is also on the warpath...
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Alan Clews
8.3/1099 votesLoading...#3 - The Italian Venus
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1991
A mean landowner is reluctant to share an inheritance with his hard-up brother, who is a friend of Jane's. Then Lovejoy intervenes, as a favour to Jane, with a cunning plan which depends on a fake statue.
Director: John Woods
Writer: T.R. Bowen
8.3/1073 votesLoading...#4 - The Black Virgin of Vladimir
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/1991
Dealer Harry Catapodis has sold some fakes to Cassandra Lynch, a beautiful American widow Lovejoy knows. Caught out, Harry offers to buy the things back from Cassandra, but he admits he will then sell them on to someone else. With a Japanese business man and others, Lovejoy aims to get back at Harry - and to make some money and seduce Cassandra at the same time.
Director: Francis Megahy
Writer: Terry Hodgkinson
8.3/1052 votesLoading...#5 - Guns and Roses
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1994
Lovejoy takes an antique gun to a London gunsmith to be repaired, but the armorer is having landlord problems. Meanwhile, an acquaintance of Lovejoy's, Texas Greenberg, is on his way over to buy something special.
Director: Ian White
Writer: John Milne
8.3/1048 votesLoading...#6 - Fruit of the Dessert
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1994
Lovejoy has a dangerous plan, which includes putting himself in the hands of a notorious moneylender and risking the future of his daughter, Vicky.But then, ""Those who hazard all do it in hope of fair advantages...""
Director: Paul Harrison
Writer: Terry Hodgkinson
8.3/1063 votesLoading...#7 - Last Tango in Lavenham
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1994
In the last episode of Lovejoy, our hero gears himself up to marry Charlotte, and his old life begins to splinter. Jane Felsham returns with a splash, and without Alexander in tow - will Lovejoy have to choose between her and Charlotte?
Director: N/A
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
8.2/1092 votesLoading...#8 - Just Desserts
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1991
At the beginning of series 2, Lovejoy has just come out of prison after serving a sentence for theft. He believes he was set up and returns to Suffolk hoping to find the villain and get even.
Director: Don Leaver
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
8.2/1087 votesLoading...#9 - One Born Every Minute
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/1991
Ashley Wilkes travels around East Anglia painting charming pictures of country cottages and seducing their female inhabitants. An army officer hires Lovejoy to find Wilkes, on the pretext of having a commission for him, but Lovejoy smells a rat. When he finally catches up with the elusive painter, it appears that Wilkes has a terrible secret.
Director: Don Leaver
Writer: Roger Marshall
8.2/1078 votesLoading...#10 - Riding in Rollers
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/17/1991
Dealer Harry Catapodis has sold some fakes to Cassandra Lynch, a beautiful American widow Lovejoy knows. Caught out, Harry offers to buy the things back from Cassandra, but he admits he will then sell them on to someone else. With a Japanese business man and others, Lovejoy aims to get back at Harry - and to make some money and seduce Cassandra at the same time.
Director: Francis Megahy
Writer: Terry Hodgkinson
8.2/1062 votesLoading...#11 - The Galloping Major
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1993
On a visit to Frankie's scrap yard Lovejoy acquires an ancient cannon. He takes a trip to the Tower of London to see what he can find out about it, and while he's away an ordnance expert going under the name of Major Turpin tries to steal the cannon from under Eric's nose.
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Terry Hodgkinson
8.2/1060 votesLoading...#12 - They Call Me Midas
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1993
Jim Leonard (Lovejoy's antiques mentor) resurfaces, wanting Lovejoy's help with a harmless little scam to catch out a famous dealer. The plot centres on a fake painting by Klimt... Eric plays the role of a rich gentleman farmer, Tinker falls heavily for Jim's wife, and Jane is also drawn into the scheme, but Lovejoy finds out just too late that he too is a victim.
Director: John Crome
Writer: Roger Marshall
8.2/1068 votesLoading...#13 - Dainty Dish
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 3/28/1993
The Lovejoy Antiques team is in Brighton, scouring the town for a really grand set of old china. Charlie Gimbert (as ever) causes some havoc, and then there's the story of the antique chairs...While on the china trail, Lovejoy chances on a stunning rip-off with hundreds of porcelain plates.
Director: John Woods
Writer: Jeremy Paul
8.2/1062 votesLoading...#14 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1994
Tinker disappears, and Lovejoy sets off to find him. He arrives in Devon, where he discovers that Tinker's real name is Archie and that he has a sister whose hotel business is threatened by a rogue property developer. Charlotte and Beth join them and they look for ways to raise money to save the hotel. Meanwhile, Tinker has lost the key of Charlotte's safe-deposit box.
Director: Ian White
Writer: Jeremy Paul
8.1/10102 votesLoading...#15 - The Real Thing
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1986
Needing a break from Charlie, Lovejoy takes a job for a few days at a new antiques market in Norwich owned by a client of Jane's. He soon realizes the boss is a con-man and sets out to expose him. Along the way, he also tries to trap a second crook who is selling fake paintings.
Director: Roger Tucker
Writer: Francis Megahy
8.1/1068 votesLoading...#16 - Smoke Your Nose
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/1992
The Reverend Harry Nettles claims there is a mosaic floor belonging to a Roman villa in the field next to his church, which is about to be built on. Nobody believes him, and the county archaeologist has agreed to the plans, so Lovejoy races to thwart the developer. He also has a dance with Jane, newly separated from Alexander...
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Terry Hodgkinson
8.1/1071 votesLoading...#17 - Members Only
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 3/22/1992
Mr Kashimoto is trying without success to join an exclusive local golf club. The club asks Lovejoy to value its finest silver trophy, but he recognizes it as a fake. Eric then accidentally shoots a hole in Lovejoy's ceiling, and in the loft above a very similar trophy is discovered... Lovejoy sets out to solve the mystery.
Director: John Crome
Writer: Geoff McQueen
8.1/1055 votesLoading...#18 - The Price of Fish
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/1993
Lovejoy is invited to spend the weekend with Charlotte at her best friend's house. The friend is short of money and has a clock she wants valued, but Lovejoy finds a stuffed fish which is worth selling, and misunderstandings arise... Meanwhile, Tinker is keen to thwart Charlie Gimbert's plans to turn Felsham Hall into a health farm, and after studying a twelfth-century charter he starts grazing a flock of sheep around the Hall. Charlie responds by threatening to evict Lovejoy Antiques from the stable yard, so Tinker and Beth take a trip to a health farm.
Director: Jim Hill
Writer: Andy de la Tour
8.1/1058 votesLoading...#19 - Double Edged Sword
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1994
A tough-talking business man hires Lovejoy to recover a sixteenth-century samurai sword which has been stolen from him. Another dealer, Lovejoy's mentor Jim Leonard, buys the sword at an auction, but it is promptly stolen from him by Joanna, the daughter of the original owner. Lovejoy stays on the trail.
Director: Alex Kirby
Writer: Roger Marshall
8.0/10113 votesLoading...#20 - The Sting
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1986
Lovejoy sets out to help a young woman to trace a pair of Meissen figures which she sold to raise cash for a drug habit. When he comes across evidence of a double-cross by Charlie Gimbert, he decides to get even.
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Ian La Frenais
8.0/10108 votesLoading...#21 - To Sleep No More
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/1986
Sam Wendell, an old forger, dies of a heart attack while being pursued by a mysterious priest, leaving behind one of his small forgeries. Sam had told his wife it was the key to a fortune, and the priest soon tries to break into the Wendell house. Lovejoy aims to unravel the puzzle, by way of helping Sam's widow (who's left with very little) to recover anything of value. Along the way, Lovejoy dresses up as a priest.
Director: Ken Hannam
Writer: David G.B. Brown
8.0/10112 votesLoading...#22 - The March of Time
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/1986
Lovejoy finds a bundle of old love letters hidden in the back of an antique clock. He quickly falls for the owner, but are the letters genuine? Under the name of 'Captain Lovejoy', he sets out to find the answer.
Director: Ken Hannam
Writer: Murray Smith
8.0/1092 votesLoading...#23 - Bin Diving
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1991
Lovejoy values the house contents of an elderly widow, an old friend of Jane's, who is burgled soon afterwards. Finding he is the local police's prime suspect, Lovejoy decides to work out for himself (with the help of Brian Nunn, a remarkable bin man) who was behind the burglary. Matters are complicated by Eric's 'bin diving' habit.
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Terry Hodgkinson
8.0/1056 votesLoading...#24 - Swings and Roundabouts
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/1993
Boswell, a friend of Lovejoy's who runs a travelling fair, asks Lovejoy to sell some silver candlesticks for him. However, the police arrive, saying they are stolen property, and Boswell is arrested. Meanwhile, an American friend of Charlotte's wants to buy the fairground Carousel.
Director: Ken Horn
Writer: Gawn Grainger
8.0/1054 votesLoading...#25 - Never Judge a Book By Its Cover
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1993
Lovejoy takes Charlotte to an Antiques Fair at Cambridge, where the elderly Doncaster sisters, who have financial problems, invite him to value their belongings. Lovejoy finds what seems to be a very rare bible, but the sisters' brother, a Cambridge don, opposes its sale. Lovejoy then discovers the bible is a fake and suspects mischief. Meanwhile, Beth's father wants her to leave Lovejoy Antiques for something better.
Director: Jim Hill
Writer: Colin Shindler
The Best Episodes of Lovejoy
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Judas Pair" is the best rated episode of "Lovejoy". It scored 8.4/10 based on 124 votes. Directed by Baz Taylor and written by Ian La Frenais, it aired on 2/7/1986. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Taking the Pledge".