Lovejoy - Episode Guide

As a 'divvie', Lovejoy is a dealer with a special talent for guessing the real value of antiques. Unfortunately, he doesn't always divine the dangers that lurk in a cunning and greedy trade.

Lovejoy is being relentlessly hunted by more than just a tax inspector, when he thinks he has struck pure gold.

Lovejoy decides that one double-cross deserves another as he comes to the rescue of a pretty girl in trouble and indulges Charlie Gimbert 's passion for jade.

With Junk or otherwise, death invariably yields up a fresh supply of objects to the antique trade. But old James Bexon saw everything in Pairs, and Lovejoy's own life could be at stake.

Murder and theft lead Lovejoy into a deadly game with a mysterious collector, whose passion for antique pistols is strong enough to kill again.

Even though it plays a beautiful tune, Lovejoy guesses the silver snuff-box is a fake. But is it the clue to a hidden store of valuable antiques?

Lovejoy decides to leave the district for a while after pulling one trick too many on his arch-rival, Gimbert. But a part-time job threatens to land him in bigger trouble.

When Lovejoy acquires an antique clock without any works, he discovers that the past and present honour of a regiment and a family are at stake.

Lovejoy is involved in a murder, and an eccentric millionaire invites him to join in what promises to be the biggest art scandal of this, or any, century.

Determined to uncover the secret of the island across the lagoon, Lovejoy risks his neck and finds the ancient city offers as many surprises as it has canals.

Lovejoy has been wrongfully convicted of dealing in stolen goods. When he emerges from prison he is determined to find out who framed him.

Lovejoy is introduced to a rich landowner who will not share his inherited wealth with his impoverished brother.

Soon after Lovejoy has valued the contents of an elderly widow's house, it is burgled. One of the stolen items, a gun case minus the guns, is offered to Lovejoy to buy.

Does the curse of an ancient Mayan statue acquired by Lovejoy cause two murders?

Lovejoy and Lady Jane are commissioned to furnish a restaurant.

Lovejoy is asked to find an itinerant painter who holds the key to a shameful secret.

A gang of international art thieves are stealing from large country houses

Lovejoy is astonished when a teenage girl brings him erotic drawings to sell.

At a society wedding, Lovejoy overhears a row between a landowner and his new son-in-law. Then he discovers the groom has been murdered, but nobody believes him because the body has disappeared.

Lovejoy smells a rat when he meets Lady Jane's husband's new business partner.

Lovejoy discovers that an unscrupulous antique dealer has swindled nearly two million pounds from an American widow and a rich Japanese businessman. He plans to retrieve their money with an elaborate 'sting'.

A mysterious Brazilian banker gets involved in a plot over a priceless Inca ring. Lovejoy is introduced to Lady Jane's old school friend.

An artist is out for revenge when Lovejoy apparently mistakes some fake watercolours for the real thing.

Deeply in love, Lovejoy is persuaded to go sailing. Meanwhile, Eric gets involved with an Irish rock band, played by the Hothouse Flowers, and Tinker is reunited with an old friend.

Lovejoy tries to sell some Second World War medals and finds himself in peril from a sinister Italian.

Lovejoy comes under suspicion when a priceless bronze goes missing.

Lovejoy is asked to authenticate some Chinese pottery. And Eric starts a vintage motorbike business that lands Lovejoy in hospital.

Lovejoy buys a Scottish sword at auction.

When Harriet Fisher buys an antique rug at an auction, Lovejoy gets tangled in a web of passion, unrequited love and umbrella stands.

The Rev Harry Nettles bets Lovejoy there is a Roman mosaic in the field next to his church. Can they find out before the developers move in?

Lovejoy finds a local MP's son is selling forged paintings.

The local golf club closes ranks when Lovejoy says their prize cup is a fake.

A romantic, gothic temple in Scotland brings Lovejoy and Lady Jane closer together. Eric falls in love, and Tinker is all at sea.

It looks like Lovejoy will be spending Christmas alone. Then a savage attack on a veteran Second World War flier from Czechoslovakia leads Lovejoy and Eric to Prague on a hunt for missing diamonds.

Lovejoy loses everything after a dawn raid by the bailiffs and takes off on his own.

Lovejoy tricks Lady Jane into bidding for him in an illegal "ring" at an auction.

Lovejoy is desperate to find out why a violin virtuoso has asked him to turn a real Stradivarius into a fake. Lovejoy enlists the help of Tommy Norris to find out why.

A disgraced snooker ace wants Lovejoy to find him the billiard table belonging to Mary Queen of Scots. And Charlie Gimbert makes an unwelcome return from Europe.

When a flag from the American War of Independence is discovered hidden in the local church, a number of people claim it as their own.

Lovejoy and Gimbert are in pursuit of a priceless collection ofjudaica which has mysteriously appeared in an Essex cottage.

When looking in Frankie's scrapyard for a replacement back indicator lamp for his pickup truck, Lovejoy is persuaded to buy a rusty old cannon, too.

After a ram-raid smashes his Sheraton desk, Lovejoy has to look for new stock; he also becomes a hospital visitor.

Jim Leonard, Lovejoy's mentor, sets up a country house weekend for an elaborate con. Lovejoy involves Eric, Tinker and Jane, but finds out too late that he is also a victim.

Lovejoy and Jane go to Ireland in search of a Yeats painting. But two stolen pages from a medieval manuscript prompt another investigation.

Lovejoy and Lady Jane fall out over a royal dinner service belonging to a Belgian countess. Meanwhile, Gimbert is out for revenge.

Lovejoy helps a noble lord to redeem a valuable possession he has pawned.

After revealing his talent for spotting a bargain on TV, Lovejoy discovers that perhaps he isn't as good as he thought. His attempts at conning a young couple backfire and he finds that making amends is much harder, and more expensive, than it appears.

While the true-to-form Lovejoy is selling a set of dodgy Gillray prints to a friend of Jane's, Eric discovers a stolen antique Bacchus hidden at their house. The police have their suspicions and the race is on to return it to the rightful owner.

Is it time for Lovejoy to make an honest woman of Jane, or has someone got there before him? Eric blames the evil-eye mirror for the major emotional upheaval that enters all their lives.

Felsham Hall is up for auction, but can anyone ever replace Lady Jane in Lovejoy's affections? Auctioneer Charlotte Cavendish turns out to be a real challenge.

Lovejoy is menaced by a private debt collector, causing him to attempt to hijack one of Charlotte's auctions.

When Charlotte's boyfriend arrives from New York and asks her to move to Paris, Lovejoy has to prove to her that Suffolk has its own charms.

Eric is holidaying on the Essex marshes, and finds himself involved in a smuggling racket.

Lovejoy invites a suspicious Charlotte away for a weekend, but their trip to Wales turns out to be a hunt for a murderer.

When Charlotte asks Lovejoy to help her value the contents of a private nursing home it seems straightforward enough - until there is an attempt on Lovejoy's life.

Lovejoy finds an unusual and valuable Chinese cannon being used as a plant pot, but when Charlotte takes him to London to sell it they are kidnapped.

Romance is in the air between Lovejoy and Charlotte.

Lovejoy to invite Charlotte out for a romantic evening. Jimmy Jewel appears as Boswell the fairground owner.

Lovejoy, Charlotte and Charlie are in search of religious books for the Felsham Library.

While Lovejoy goes away with Charlotte to value an antique clock, Charlie Gimbert tries to evict him. And an antique fish reveals a romantic secret.

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.

Things are not going well for Lovejoy. A dud cheque lands him in trouble, then Charlotte is attacked and robbed of a newly-acquired 18th-century portrait which police later recover at Lovejoy Antiques. Egged on by her new man, she has the luckless Lovejoy charged with aggravated burglary.

Charlotte is invited to a wealthy client's house for lunch, but she finds herself at the mercy of a killer. Meanwhile, Lovejoy is sent on a wild treasure hunt through East Anglia.

Tinker is in a very strange mood: he abandons Beth at a bus stop, ruins a deal for Lovejoy and leaves a pint of beer half drunk. Then he disappears without trace.

Tough businessman Frank Whymark hires Lovejoy to recover a priceless Samurai sword stolen from his home.

Lovejoy takes a valuable gun to a famous gunsmith whose Soho shop is now the target of unscrupulous landlords. But the gun is stolen and Lovejoy's dinner with Charlotte is interrupted by the police who arrive in force to arrest him.

Lord Dunwich puts a valuable communion vessel into Cavendish Auction Rooms, but his ownership is challenged by the Greek Orthodox Church.

Tinker is arrested for possession of erotic antiques. His only way out is to set up Lovejoy.

Lovejoy chooses to ignore Caroline and Tinker's warnings and soon regrets a meeting with a retired diplomat who is offering to sell him priceless antiques at low prices.

Lovejoy misplaces Charlotte, a baby, and an antique 19th century dresser worth £20,000.

It's all change for Lovejoy in the last of the series. Tinker is retiring to run a pub, Beth has a new job and Charlotte's father turns up. Then Lady Jane Felsham returns and the wedding bells begin to chime - but for whom?