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The Best Episodes of Lovejoy

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The Best Episodes of Lovejoy

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

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  1. Background image for The Black Virgin of Vladimir
    8.4/10(80 votes)

    #1 - The Black Virgin of Vladimir

    S2:E12

    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.

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  2. Background image for Somewhere Over the Rainbow
    8.3/10(70 votes)

    #2 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

    S6:E3

    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.

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    Director:Ian White
  3. Background image for Guns and Roses
    8.3/10(57 votes)

    #3 - Guns and Roses

    S6:E5

    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.

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    Director:Ian White
    Writer:John Milne
  4. Background image for Last Tango in Lavenham
    8.3/10(69 votes)

    #4 - Last Tango in Lavenham

    S6:E10

    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?

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  5. Background image for Just Desserts
    8.2/10(102 votes)

    #5 - Just Desserts

    S2:E1

    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.

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  6. Background image for The Italian Venus
    8.2/10(107 votes)

    #6 - The Italian Venus

    S2:E2

    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.

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    Director:John Woods
    Writer:T.R. Bowen
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  8. Background image for One Born Every Minute
    8.2/10(97 votes)

    #7 - One Born Every Minute

    S2:E6

    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.

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    Director:Don Leaver
  9. Background image for Riding in Rollers
    8.2/10(86 votes)

    #8 - Riding in Rollers

    S2:E11

    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.

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  10. Background image for Fruit of the Dessert
    8.2/10(52 votes)

    #9 - Fruit of the Dessert

    S6:E8

    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...""

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  11. Background image for Bin Diving
    8.1/10(101 votes)

    #10 - Bin Diving

    S2:E3

    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.

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  12. Background image for Double Edged Sword
    8.1/10(65 votes)

    #11 - Double Edged Sword

    S6:E4

    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.

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    Director:Alex Kirby
  13. Background image for Holding the Baby
    8.1/10(54 votes)

    #12 - Holding the Baby

    S6:E9

    Lovejoy buys a nineteenth-century dresser for a song, after getting advice from a Caribbean specialist. Meanwhile, Charlotte has mixed feelings about being left holding someone else's baby.

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    Director:Baz Taylor
  14. Background image for Who Dares, Sings
    7.9/10(85 votes)

    #13 - Who Dares, Sings

    S2:E5

    Lovejoy and Jane have the job of fitting out a smart new restaurant being opened by Major Linden Walker, an old army friend of Tinker's. With the help of a former prison officer (one he knew on the inside) Lovejoy delivers the goods, only to find he has been gulled. Linden and Tinker's cabaret act Crime and Punishment makes its first and last appearance.

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  15. Background image for Day of Reckoning
    7.9/10(64 votes)

    #14 - Day of Reckoning

    S6:E2

    A former friend, Max Hunter, who believes Lovejoy had an affair with his wife, kidnaps Charlotte and plans to kill her. But he gives Lovejoy a sporting chance to find him by leaving a series of clues.

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  16. Background image for Breaking the Broker
    7.8/10(51 votes)

    #15 - Breaking the Broker

    S6:E7

    The police set up Tinker, so that they can get a favour from Lovejoy. They want him to check out an up-market pawnbroker who is suspected of receiving antiques stolen overseas.

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  17. Background image for Raise the Hispanic
    7.7/10(85 votes)

    #16 - Raise the Hispanic

    S2:E9

    Amanda Peagram, a local landowner's daughter, is engaged to Roger Hall, and Lovejoy (on the instructions of Amanda's father) is furnishing a house with antiques for the couple. Unhappily, Amanda is not impressed, while Roger continues to play the field. At the wedding, Lovejoy overhears a row between Roger and Amanda's father and later finds Roger's body hidden in a suit of armour... but the body vanishes and nobody believes him. After the wedding, Roger is treated as a missing person. Lovejoy insists Roger is dead, but he can't produce the body - so he decides to investigate the murder and solve the mystery.

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  18. Background image for Montezuma's Revenge
    7.6/10(86 votes)

    #17 - Montezuma's Revenge

    S2:E4

    The manager of a heavy rock band wants to sell an ancient pre-Columbian solid gold statue, and it brings Inca black magic into East Anglia - including two murders. Lovejoy takes on the task of solving the mystery.

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    Writer:Alan Clews
  19. Background image for National Wealth
    7.6/10(86 votes)

    #18 - National Wealth

    S2:E7

    Tinker is thrilled when Madeline Gilbert, a retired film star, sends for the Lovejoy team, as he has an old crush on her. Madeline wants to sell some of her antiques and gives Lovejoy the job of arranging an auction, but before the big day can arrive there is a robbery at the house - one bearing a striking resemblance to a number of other country house raids in England and France. An international gang seems to be at work.

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    Writer:Geoff Lowe
  20. Background image for Fair Exchange
    7.6/10(66 votes)

    #19 - Fair Exchange

    S6:E1

    Charlotte buys a painting from a hard-up couple, the Tabors, but finds she has been conned. Lovejoy decides to set matters straight.

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  21. Background image for Lily's Pearls
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #20 - Lily's Pearls

    S2:E10

    Jane's husband, Alexander, has a new business partner called Joe Gruder, but Lovejoy is suspicious of him. Jane gets a call from Lily Gruder, Joe's wife, who has a problem with some pearls and a pawnbroker, and Lovejoy decides to look into Joe's affairs. Mr Gruder does not come up smelling of roses.

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    Director:Bill Hays
  22. Background image for The Last of the Uzkoks
    7.5/10(59 votes)

    #21 - The Last of the Uzkoks

    S6:E6

    Lovejoy is called in by Lord Dunwich to value a silver communion set, and Lady Dunwich wants him to find her some antique prints of the lost town of Dunwich-by-the-Sea (which is now under the sea). Charlie has done a moonlight flit, leaving his old dad in charge of Felsham Hall, and there are some unlikely characters around - a mad Greek priest, a Dutch civil servant, and a strange woman...

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  23. Background image for The Firefly Cage
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #22 - The Firefly Cage

    S1:E1

    Having hired Eric Catchpole as an apprentice, Lovejoy sets out to unravel the meaning of a Japanese firefly cage.As Lovejoy and Eric are in hot pursuit (on Eric's motorbike) of a lovely lady with something they want, they hit a pool of water in the road and give a drenching to Jane (Lady Felsham), who is busy unveiling a plaque. When, later, Lovejoy rings the doorbell at Felsham Hall, complex chemistry begins, and Jane is soon showing Lovejoy around her attic...

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  24. Background image for Sugar and Spice
    7.3/10(85 votes)

    #23 - Sugar and Spice

    S2:E8

    Lovejoy is in hot water for not paying the school fees of his teenage daughter, Vicky. Meanwhile (and much to Eric's disgust) another schoolgirl asks the firm to sell some erotic drawings for her. When Lovejoy sees the same girl being threatened by a man at the school, he decides there's more to the story than meets the eye. He also manages to vex Susan, his former wife, as they try to cope with their daughter's problems.

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  25. Background image for The Lost Colony
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - The Lost Colony

    S5:E14

    Lovejoy meets distant cousins from America, who are visiting England. As well as a female ghost, old Lord Wakering has treasures which once belonged to Sir Walter Raleigh, and both Lovejoy and Mary-John Lovejoy, his American cousin, want them. Some of Lord Wakering's things are stolen, and Lovejoy travels in hot pursuit to the Carolinas, where he is not made welcome. Charlotte has to fly over to get him out of trouble.

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  26. Background image for Friends, Romans and Enemies
    1.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Friends, Romans and Enemies

    S1:E4

    A robbery at the local museum seems to be connected with the death of a local forger, and Lovejoy goes on the trail of a hoard of Roman coins in the Isle of Man. Two Americans are also after the coins.

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    Director:Ken Hannam

Best Episodes Summary

"The Black Virgin of Vladimir" is the best rated episode of "Lovejoy". It scored 8.4/10 based on 80 votes. Directed by Francis Megahy and written by Terry Hodgkinson, it aired on 3/24/1991. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".