Lovejoy
"In the shady world of antiques, Lovejoy has a knack for finding the truth."
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 exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Actor: Ian McShane, Caroline Langrishe, Dudley Sutton, Diane Parish
Creator: Ian La Frenais
Country: United Kingdom
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 50m
Release: 1986
Rating: 7.3
Season 1 - Lovejoy
24 Jan 1986
"A reformed drug addict asks Lovejoy in helping her recover valuable statuettes from her late father's estate that she had used to support her habit."
Season 2 - Lovejoy
06 Jan 1991
"After Lovejoy is released from a low security prison after an eight month sentence for theft, he is determined to find out who framed him."
13 Jan 1991
"Lovejoy utilizes all his wiles for a sting which will help the disinherited brother of a snobbish aristocrat recover some of his rightful fortune."
20 Jan 1991
"Eric becomes involved in a territorial dispute with with garbageman Brian Nunn over his right to salvage valuables from the garbage."
27 Jan 1991
"After Lovejoy is recruited to sell an ancient Colombian funerary figure with a curse on it, and it soon lives up to its reputation as murders soon follow."
10 Feb 1991
"Lovejoy is intrigued by a painter using the name Ashley Wilkes, squandering his talent on kitschy paintings of cottages and seducing the lady of the house."
24 Feb 1991
"Having bought a collection of erotic prints by Fuseli from teen-aged Khadija, Lovejoy joins his his ex-wife Susan for the speech day at their daughter's school where Lovejoy recognises ..."
03 Mar 1991
"Having agreed to furnish Ralph Peagram's daughter Amanda's new house after her marriage to philandering Roger Hall,Lovejoy attends the wedding and overhears Ralph and Roger argue. Soon ..."
10 Mar 1991
"When brash upstart financier Joe Gruber offers to buy land from Lady Jane's husband to create a wildlife sanctuary both Jane and Lovejoy are suspicious of his motives and discover that he ..."
Season 3 - Lovejoy
01 Mar 1992
"When Lady Jane puts a Berber rug into auction it is bought by elderly Harriet Fisher for her Irish wolfhound but young Moroccan Abdel is also after it and steals it from her house. Lovejoy ..."
29 Mar 1992
"Lovejoy journeys to Scotland with Jane to help her friend who needs him to help her raise money to maintain her expensive estate."
Season 4 - Lovejoy
14 Feb 1993
"Retired RAF officer Connaught asks Lovejoy to sell a collection of Jewish religious artefacts,allegedly purchased by his late wife and with no provenance. However whilst Lovejoy asks father..."
14 Mar 1993
"In Ireland where Lady Jane hopes to buy a Jack Butler Yeats painting Lovejoy and his associates interrupt a burglary at the home of disreputable dealer Bertie Montserrat,though Montserrat ..."
04 Apr 1993
"Lovejoy tries to help an old friend, now turned homeless man, to redeem a valuable heirloom watercolor miniature."
Season 5 - Lovejoy
05 Sep 1993
"Bill Brodie, one of the country's biggest pork farmers, is expecting a royal visit and is desperate to rid himself of a hot property, A Venetian bronze stolen from the Palace."
14 Nov 1993
"Boswell, the aging manager of a traveling carnival, needs money and wants Lovejoy to sell his antique candlesticks, but end up charged with stealing them."
27 Dec 1993
"Lovejoy journeys to North Carolina on the trail of stolen Sir Walter Raleigh and his beautiful but larcenous \"cousin,\" Mary-John Lovejoy."
Season 6 - Lovejoy
20 Nov 1994
"Lovejoy buys a collection of Islamic antiques from retired diplomat Harold Plumb,who warns him that by rights some of the collection should have gone to the Foreign Office. He obtains his ..."
04 Dec 1994
"Tink's decision to leave antiques and open a pub causes Lovejoy to pop the question to Charlotte, but things become complicated with Jane's return from America."
