The Worst Episodes of Lovejoy

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   #1 - Riding in Rollers

   S2:E113/17/1991

   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

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   Director:Francis Megahy

   Writer:Terry Hodgkinson
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   3.3/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Death and Venice (2)

   S1:E103/14/1986

   In Venice, Lovejoy gets a job working for Caterina and Lavinia, with a view to busting their scam, and meets a Scottish forger called 'Lucky' Luciano. Lovejoy and Lucky together unravel the mystery of the Island of Rats.

   Director:Baz Taylor

   Writer:Ian La Frenais

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   Director:Baz Taylor

   Writer:Ian La Frenais
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   3.7/10(3 votes)

   #3 - Friends, Romans and Enemies

   S1:E41/31/1986

   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.

   Director:Ken Hannam

   Writer:Ian La Frenais

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   Director:Ken Hannam

   Writer:Ian La Frenais
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   3.7/10(3 votes)

   #4 - The Lost Colony

   S5:E1412/27/1993

   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

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

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   Director:Geoffrey Sax

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - National Wealth

   S2:E72/17/1991

   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

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   Director:William Brayne

   Writer:Geoff Lowe
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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Raise the Hispanic

   S2:E93/3/1991

   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

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   Director:Bill Hays

   Writer:Douglas Watkinson
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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - Friends in High Places

   S3:E11/12/1992

   As the third series begins, Lovejoy returns to Felsham after a long break in Spain, where he was trying (without marked success) to learn to paint. He quickly seeks out Tinker (who has joined a monastery), Jane, who has a new look, and Eric, now working as a security guard. Victoria Cavero, an old friend of Jane's, comes to stay, and Lovejoy loses no time in falling for her. Victoria wants to sell a South American gold ring, and the ring sets in motion strange events for Lovejoy and Jane, including safecracking, kidnapping, polo and betrayal.

   Director:Sarah Hellings

   Writer:Jeremy Paul

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   Director:Sarah Hellings

   Writer:Jeremy Paul
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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #8 - No Strings

   S3:E31/26/1992

   A band called The Hothouse Flowers is due to appear at a local charity gig, and their manager is an old friend of Tinker's. Before going away with Victoria on a little trip, Lovejoy gets Jane to agree to take in the Flowers. Then, though, the organizer of the planned gig runs off with the money. One of the band decides to sell his valuable antique harp to make good some of the shortfall, but before Lovejoy can arrrange the sale the harp also disappears.Lovejoy works his way up to proposing to Victoria, but she turns him down and goes back to South America.

   Director:Peter Barber-Fleming

   Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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   Director:Peter Barber-Fleming

   Writer:Douglas Watkinson
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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #9 - Kids

   S3:E103/15/1992

   Lovejoy's daughter Vicky disappears, then announces she is living with an older man whose wife has died. Susan, Vicky's mother, does not approve. When Lovejoy investigates, he finds that Vicky's boyfriend is not a widower at all. Meanwhile, Lovejoy is also busy uncovering a fake art scam being run by the son of a cabinet minister...

   Director:Peter Barber-Fleming

   Writer:Francis Megahy

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   Director:Peter Barber-Fleming

   Writer:Francis Megahy
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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Second Fiddle

    S4:E31/24/1993

    Lindsey Parry-Davies, a leading violinist, wants Lovejoy to arrange for his Stradivarius to be touched up so that it will pass as a fake. The Lovejoy Antiques team is puzzled, but they call in the expert advice of Tommy Norris - king of the violin fakers.

    Director:John Crome

    Writers:Chris Kelly, Iain Roy

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    Director:John Crome

    Writers:Chris Kelly, Iain Roy
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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Irish Stew

    S4:E103/14/1993

    The Lovejoy Antiques team is in Ireland looking for new stock (and also hoping to find a painting by Jack Butler Yeats, for Jane to give her uncle). A bungled robbery leaves them in possession of a page from a rare ancient book, and the search is on for an expert - Brendan Hennessey.

    Director:John Crome

    Writer:T.R. Bowen

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    Director:John Crome

    Writer:T.R. Bowen
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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Stones of Destiny

    S5:E710/17/1993

    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

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    Director:Jim Hill

    Writer:Alan Clews
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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Goose Bumps

    S5:E1011/7/1993

    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

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    Director:Gordon Flemyng

    Writer:Jeremy Paul
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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #14 - The Firefly Cage

    S1:E11/10/1986

    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...

    Director:David Reynolds

    Writer:Ian La Frenais

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    Director:David Reynolds

    Writer:Ian La Frenais
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Axeman Cometh

    S1:E21/17/1986

    Lovejoy buys a Welsh dresser at Charlie Gimbert's auction, and hidden inside it he finds a rich Arab head-dress, festooned with gold ducats. Catesby, recently out of prison and the son of the dead man whose property was being sold at Gimbert's, says he was promised the dresser. Lovejoy sells it back to him, but without the head-dress. Catesby is soon looking for Lovejoy armed with an axe. He is in good company, as one of Her Majesty's Inland Revenue officers is also after Lovejoy.

    Director:Roger Tucker

    Writer:Terry Hodgkinson

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    Director:Roger Tucker

    Writer:Terry Hodgkinson
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - One Born Every Minute

    S2:E62/10/1991

    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

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    Director:Don Leaver

    Writer:Roger Marshall
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Sugar and Spice

    S2:E82/24/1991

    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

    Writers:Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson

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    Director:Baz Taylor

    Writers:Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Lily's Pearls

    S2:E103/10/1991

    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

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    Director:Bill Hays

    Writer:Roger Marshall
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Out To Lunch

    S3:E21/19/1992

    Lovejoy is spending more and more time with Victoria, not so much on his business. Together with Jane and Alexander, he and Victoria go away for the weekend at a friend's cottage. Meanwhile, Lovejoy buys some drawings for a song and sells them to an art gallery for a good profit. He is shaken when the pictures are denounced as fakes - even the artist says they are not his, but Lovejoy is sure they are. What is going on?

    Director:Sarah Hellings

    Writer:Roger Marshall

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    Director:Sarah Hellings

    Writer:Roger Marshall
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Angel Trousers

    S3:E42/2/1992

    Lovejoy gets dragged into a sinister plot concerning Mussolini's nose and the burial at sea of Captain Bucknall (Jane's old house-keeper's brother). He is given the job of selling the late Captain's medals, and there is a smart fashion photographer who wants them, but then some drunken sailors come into the picture and he has to deal with the gun-toting Angelo Pantaloni...

    Director:Baz Taylor

    Writer:Terry Hodgkinson

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    Director:Baz Taylor

    Writer:Terry Hodgkinson
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Benin Bronze

    S3:E52/9/1992

    Greg Veitch is on a visit from Australia, looking for antiques, but especially what he calls 'my Eureka' - the thing he must have. At Sir Max Spence's house, Greg sees a magnificent bronze from Benin, in Africa, and wants it, but he can't get an export license. Then the bronze goes missing, and Lovejoy comes under suspicion - so he feels he must get to the bottom of what's going on.

    Director:John Crome

    Writer:Roger Marshall

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    Director:John Crome

    Writer:Roger Marshall
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Eric of Arabia

    S3:E62/16/1992

    Lovejoy is asked to value an ancient Chinese terra-cotta figure of a pig. Then he falls off a bicycle and breaks his leg, landing him in hospital. The pig's owners, curiously, are doing their best to have it under-valued. Meanwhile, Eric needs to sell his ancient motorbike and comes up with the story that it once belonged to Lawrence of Arabia. And pigs might fly...

    Director:Ian McShane

    Writers:Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson

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    Director:Ian McShane

    Writers:Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Scotch on the Rocks

    S3:E72/23/1992

    Vicky finds an old claymore (a Scottish sword) in her attic. Lovejoy buys it at auction and is offered much more than it's worth for it. Puzzled, he investigates and finds the claymore is a map to buried treasure. Someone tries to steal it, so Lovejoy is not the only one hot on the trail. But the treasure is elusive - a supermarket has been built on top of it.

    Director:Baz Taylor

    Writer:T.R. Bowen

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    Director:Baz Taylor

    Writer:T.R. Bowen
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Loveknots

    S3:E83/1/1992

    Jane decides to sell an Anatolian rug. When it comes up for auction, an old lady at the sale, Harriet Fisher, buys a Berber rug for her dog, but a young Arab who also wanted it promptly steals it from Harriet. Lovejoy is curious and decides to investigate... Meanwhile, Alexander and Jane are quarrelling badly, and they decide to split up.

    Director:Baz Taylor

    Writer:Jeremy Paul

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    Director:Baz Taylor

    Writer:Jeremy Paul
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Smoke Your Nose

    S3:E93/8/1992

    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

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    Director:Baz Taylor

    Writer:Terry Hodgkinson