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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 “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Lovejoy Season 5 Episode 14 - The Lost Colony
    6.3/10(99 votes)

    S5:E14

    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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  2. Lovejoy Season 1 Episode 10 - Death and Venice (2)
    7.1/10(120 votes)

    S1:E10

    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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  3. Lovejoy Season 3 Episode 3 - No Strings
    7.1/10(89 votes)

    S3:E3

    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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  4. Lovejoy Season 5 Episode 8 - Poetic Licence
    7.2/10(64 votes)

    S5:E8

    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

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  5. Lovejoy Season 5 Episode 10 - Goose Bumps
    7.2/10(58 votes)

    S5:E10

    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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  6. Lovejoy Season 2 Episode 8 - Sugar and Spice
    7.3/10(94 votes)

    S2:E8

    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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  7. Lovejoy Season 5 Episode 2 - Who is the Fairest of Them All?
    7.3/10(77 votes)

    S5:E2

    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

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  8. Lovejoy Season 1 Episode 9 - Death and Venice (1)
    7.4/10(114 votes)

    S1:E9

    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

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  9. Lovejoy Season 4 Episode 13 - Lovejoy Loses It
    7.4/10(73 votes)

    S4:E13

    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

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  10. Lovejoy Season 3 Episode 7 - Scotch on the Rocks
    7.5/10(84 votes)

    S3:E7

    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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  11. Lovejoy Season 4 Episode 5 - Fly the Flag
    7.5/10(68 votes)

    S4:E5

    A family struggling to pay death duties needs Lovejoy's help to raise the wind. Meanwhile, Beau Whittaker, working in a local parish church, finds a valuable old flag dating from the American War of Independence hidden behind a monument. A fierce battle quickly breaks out over the question of who is now the flag's true owner.

    Director:Rob Walker
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  12. Lovejoy Season 4 Episode 6 - Judgment of Solomon
    7.5/10(68 votes)

    S4:E6

    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

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  13. Lovejoy Season 6 Episode 6 - The Last of the Uzkoks
    7.5/10(70 votes)

    S6:E6

    Lovejoy is called in by Lord Dunwich to value a silver communion set, and Lady Dunwich wants him to find her some antique prints of the lost town of Dunwich-by-the-Sea (which is now under the sea). Charlie has done a moonlight flit, leaving his old dad in charge of Felsham Hall, and there are some unlikely characters around - a mad Greek priest, a Dutch civil servant, and a strange woman...

    Director:Ian McShane
    Writers:Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson

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  14. Lovejoy Season 2 Episode 4 - Montezuma's Revenge
    7.6/10(94 votes)

    S2:E4

    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

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  15. Lovejoy Season 2 Episode 7 - National Wealth
    7.6/10(94 votes)

    S2:E7

    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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  16. Lovejoy Season 2 Episode 10 - Lily's Pearls
    7.6/10(91 votes)

    S2:E10

    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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  17. Lovejoy Season 3 Episode 1 - Friends in High Places
    7.6/10(96 votes)

    S3:E1

    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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  18. Lovejoy Season 3 Episode 4 - Angel Trousers
    7.6/10(94 votes)

    S3:E4

    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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  19. Lovejoy Season 3 Episode 6 - Eric of Arabia
    7.6/10(91 votes)

    S3:E6

    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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  20. Lovejoy Season 4 Episode 3 - Second Fiddle
    7.6/10(79 votes)

    S4:E3

    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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  21. Lovejoy Season 4 Episode 4 - The Colour of Mary
    7.6/10(75 votes)

    S4:E4

    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
    Writers:Steve Coombes, Dave Robinson

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  22. Lovejoy Season 5 Episode 9 - The Peking Gun
    7.6/10(64 votes)

    S5:E9

    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

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  23. Lovejoy Season 1 Episode 2 - The Axeman Cometh
    7.7/10(150 votes)

    S1:E2

    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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  24. Lovejoy Season 1 Episode 4 - Friends, Romans and Enemies
    7.7/10(127 votes)

    S1:E4

    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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  25. Lovejoy Season 3 Episode 5 - The Benin Bronze
    7.7/10(83 votes)

    S3:E5

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Lost Colony" is the worst rated episode of "Lovejoy". It scored 6.3/10 based on 99 votes. Directed by Geoffrey Sax and written by Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement, it aired on 12/27/1993. This episode scored 0.8 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Death and Venice (2)".