8.2/1092 votes#1 - 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
8.3/1099 votes#2 - 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
8.0/1092 votes#3 - 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
7.5/1077 votes#4 - Montezuma's Revenge
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1991
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.
Director: William Brayne
Writer: Alan Clews
7.9/1075 votes#5 - Who Dares, Sings
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1991
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.
Director: John Woods
Writer: Douglas Watkinson
8.2/1087 votes#6 - 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
7.5/1079 votes#7 - National Wealth
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/17/1991
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.
Director: William Brayne
Writer: Geoff Lowe
7.2/1078 votes#8 - Sugar and Spice
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/24/1991
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.
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson
7.7/1078 votes#9 - Raise the Hispanic
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/1991
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.
Director: Bill Hays
Writer: Douglas Watkinson
7.5/1073 votes#10 - Lily's Pearls
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/10/1991
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.
Director: Bill Hays
Writer: Roger Marshall
8.2/1078 votes#11 - 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
8.3/1072 votes#12 - 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
The Best Episodes of Lovejoy Season 2
Every episode of Lovejoy Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Lovejoy Season 2!
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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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Just Desserts" is the best rated episode of "Lovejoy" season 2. It scored 8.2/10 based on 92 votes. Directed by Don Leaver and written by Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement, it aired on 1/6/1991. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Italian Venus".