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The Worst Episodes of Lovejoy

Every episode of Lovejoy ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Lost Colony" is the worst rated episode of "Lovejoy". It scored 6.5/10 based on 78 votes. Directed by Geoffrey Sax and written by Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement, it aired on 12/27/1993. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "No Strings".

  • The Lost Colony
    6.5/1078 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • No Strings
    7.0/1076 votes
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    #2 - No Strings

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/1992

    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

  • Death and Venice (2)
    7.2/10103 votes
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    #3 - Death and Venice (2)

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1986

    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

  • Sugar and Spice
    7.2/1077 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Who is the Fairest of Them All?
    7.2/1059 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Poetic Licence
    7.2/1050 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Goose Bumps
    7.2/1044 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Scotch on the Rocks
    7.4/1071 votes
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    #8 - Scotch on the Rocks

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/1992

    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

  • Lovejoy Loses It
    7.4/1061 votes
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    #9 - Lovejoy Loses It

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/11/1993

    Lovejoy makes an exhibition of his 'sixth sense' for antiques on a television programme. Later, working on a house clearance, he overlooks an important item and starts to think he may be abusing and losing his talent. After he gets a letter, Lovejoy goes to see another 'divvie' who has lost the magic touch.

    Director: Baz Taylor

    Writer: Andrew Payne

  • The Peking Gun
    7.4/1048 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • National Wealth
    7.5/1078 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Lily's Pearls
    7.5/1073 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Eric of Arabia
    7.5/1078 votes
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    #13 - Eric of Arabia

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/1992

    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

    Writer: Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson

  • Judgment of Solomon
    7.5/1055 votes
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    #14 - Judgment of Solomon

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/1993

    A retired senior Air Force officer wants Lovejoy to sell his large and remarkable collection of Jewish antiques, but Lovejoy's contacts the Solomons are suspicious about the provenance of the items. Meanwhile, Eric is arrested for theft while driving Jane's Range Rover.

    Director: Rob Walker

    Writer: Tom Kempinski

  • A Going Concern
    7.5/1056 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Death and Venice (1)
    7.6/1097 votes
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    #16 - Death and Venice (1)

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1986

    Lovejoy travels to Venice to investigate the murder of a friend. The dead friend had bought a painting Lovejoy believed was a fake. In Venice, he is drawn into an ambitious art swindle, and identical twins Caterina and Lavinia are behind the scam.

    Director: Baz Taylor

    Writer: Ian La Frenais

  • Montezuma's Revenge
    7.6/1076 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Friends in High Places
    7.6/1082 votes
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    #18 - Friends in High Places

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/1992

    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

  • Angel Trousers
    7.6/1082 votes
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    #19 - Angel Trousers

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/1992

    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

  • Loveknots
    7.6/1072 votes
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    #20 - Loveknots

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/1/1992

    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

  • Kids
    7.6/1072 votes
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    #21 - Kids

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/15/1992

    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

  • Second Fiddle
    7.6/1065 votes
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    #22 - Second Fiddle

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/1993

    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

    Writer: Chris Kelly, Iain Roy

  • The Colour of Mary
    7.6/1061 votes
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    #23 - The Colour of Mary

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/1993

    Charlie Gimbert returns home from overseas, popping up again in a new and unlikely role as manager to Murray McNally, a famous but disgraced snooker player. Murray wants Lovejoy to find him the billiards table which belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, and it seems that money is no object. A visit to Fotheringhay Castle leads on to a descendant of Mary's jailer, and then to an exhibition snooker match starring the real world snooker champion, Dennis Taylor.

    Director: Ian McShane

    Writer: Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson

  • Pig in a Poke
    7.6/1059 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Stones of Destiny
    7.6/1060 votes
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    #25 - 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