7.6/1059 votes#1 - Pig in a Poke
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1993
Lovejoy buys a set of James Gillray drawings, which turn out to be copies. While trying to sell them, Eric finds a stolen statue with an aristocratic connection at the house of some friends of Jane's. Then there's a Royal Visit to consider...
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Terry Hodgkinson
7.2/1060 votes#2 - Who is the Fairest of Them All?
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1993
Jane's old dance teacher wants Lovejoy to sell a mirror. This then leads to a deal which involves the apparently one-eyed Roderick Frew. Jane informs Lovejoy that Alexander is broke, Felsham is in the hands of the receivers, and she is leaving.
Director: Baz Taylor
Writer: Jeremy Paul
7.5/1057 votes#3 - A Going Concern
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1993
Lovejoy has been left to look after Felsham Hall until it has been sold, and he uses the house as a furniture showroom. He thus crosses swords with the beautiful Charlotte Cavendish, who is the auctioneer selling the Hall. At the auction, Charlie Gimbert buys the property, and Lovejoy agrees with him to rent the stables for Lovejoy Antiques.
Director: Ian McShane
Writer: Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson
7.8/1058 votes#4 - The Kakiemon Tiger
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1993
Lovejoy is threatened by a debt collector and hijacks a country house auction to pay his debts. In the process, he finds the lost 'Kakiemon Tiger', but he has to deal with competitors for it. Beth Taylor joins Lovejoy Antiques on a youth employment scheme, to learn the business.
Director: Nicholas Laughland
Writer: Roger Marshall
7.8/1056 votes#5 - Three Men and a Brittle Lady
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1993
Charlotte's former lover arrives from New York and invites her to live with him in Paris, but she turns him down.A forger cons Charlie Gimbert into buying some fake porcelain, but Lovejoy catches up with him. In doing so, he discovers a good artist.
Director: Nicholas Laughland
Writer: Douglas Watkinson
7.7/1049 votes#6 - Ducking and Diving
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1993
Tinker and Eric take a break at Eric's Uncle Jack's pub. Meanwhile, Lovejoy is asked to show a visiting couple around the antiques shops. Trouble is, he also has a very large Welsh Dresser to get rid of. Eric decides to stay on and run the pub.
Director: Jim Hill
Writer: John Milne
7.6/1061 votes#7 - Stones of Destiny
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1993
A rare Celtic cross is stolen from Charlotte's aution house, after Lovejoy asked the porter to let a friend look at it. Charlotte and Lovejoy set out on the thief's trail and find themselves on a treasure hunt in the west of Wales. But they are not the only ones after the cross.Charlotte turns down Lovejoy's invitation to share a bedroom at a village inn.
Director: Jim Hill
Writer: Alan Clews
- 7.2/1051 votes
#8 - Poetic Licence
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1993
A friend of Charlotte's who runs a nursing home has asked her to sell some things, and Charlotte wants Lovejoy's help with valuations. One patient, Virginia, believes she has a very rare bureau. Then somebody tries to kill Lovejoy. When Charlotte recognizes his resemblance to a dead poet, they begin to suspect who might be behind the attempts on his life. Tinker and Beth are sent off to London in search of the answers.
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Writer: T.R. Bowen
7.4/1050 votes#9 - The Peking Gun
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1993
Charlie Gimbert asks Lovejoy to value a colonial widow's Chinese treasures. Lovejoy is interested in an unusual Peking cannon and gets Charlotte's opinion on it. The cannon has great significance for a Chinese tong, and Lovejoy and Charlotte are in danger as the Chinese community prepares to do battle over it.
Director: Ken Horn
Writer: Mike Ripley
7.2/1045 votes#10 - Goose Bumps
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1993
After a dealer apparently disappears over the side of a cross-channel ferry, Lovejoy acquires two china geese. Charlie Gimbert, in pursuit of local ambitions, decides to impress the community and asks Charlotte to act as hostess at a Dog Show and Wildlife Auction at Felsham Hall. Lovejoy organises the auction, including his geese - and Charlotte invites him home for a dinner for two.
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Writer: Jeremy Paul
8.0/1056 votes#11 - 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 votes#12 - 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
8.1/1055 votes#13 - 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
6.4/1080 votes#14 - The Lost Colony
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1993
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.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
The Best Episodes of Lovejoy Season 5
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Pig in a Poke" is the best rated episode of "Lovejoy" season 5. It scored 7.6/10 based on 59 votes. Directed by Baz Taylor and written by Terry Hodgkinson, it aired on 9/5/1993. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Who is the Fairest of Them All?".