6.5/1078 votesLoading...#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
7.0/1076 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10105 votesLoading...#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
7.2/1078 votesLoading...#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
7.2/1060 votesLoading...#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
7.2/1050 votesLoading...#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
7.2/1044 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1071 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1061 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1048 votesLoading...#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
7.5/1077 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.5/1079 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.5/1073 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.5/1078 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.5/1055 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.5/1057 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.6/1098 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.6/1082 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1082 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1072 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1072 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1065 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1061 votesLoading...#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
7.6/1059 votesLoading...#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
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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
The Worst Episodes of Lovejoy
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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".