Lovejoy reviews — every episode, one at a time
A weekly walk through all six series of the BBC antiques drama, from 1986 to 1994. Scores, guest stars, the songs, and an unreasonable amount of attention paid to Miriam the Morris Minor.
Sugar and Spice
A sixth-former turns up at Lovejoy's barn with a folio of eighteenth-century erotica to sell. Lovejoy is at his daughter's parents' day, six months behind on the fees, and the two problems turn out to be the same problem.
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I Could Have Been a Sailor – Ian McShane stand-in
A French gang is stripping country houses back to the floorboards. Lovejoy is hired to sell a retired film star's collection and is in bed with the auctioneer when they get to hers.
One Born Every Minute
This Guy's In Love With You – Ian McShane stand-in
An itinerant painter works his way round the thatched cottages of Suffolk, two hours a canvas. Lovejoy and Tinker go looking for him, and nobody comes out of it especially well.
Who Dares Sings
A Transport of Delight – Flanders & Swann
Tinker's old army mate opens a restaurant with no money in it. A £300 piano, a doctored set of silver, and the whole gang given something to do.
Montezuma's Revenge
Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard stand-in
A solid gold Colombian king, a heavy metal band called Ded Lizards, and a blowpipe in Suffolk. The silliest hour Lovejoy has produced so far, and all the better for having the whole crew back to enjoy it.
Bin Diving
Tennessee Moonlight – Jean-Jacques Milteau, Rolando Tambin and Terry Lipton
One elderly widow, one pair of Purdeys and Warren Clarke going through the bins. Lovejoy discovers that in Suffolk even the rubbish is antique.
The Italian Venus
Fool If You Think It's Over – Ian McShane stand-in
Lady Jane drags Lovejoy to drinks with the appalling Carey-Holdens, where a catalogue from the Grand Tour turns up a Florentine bronze worth two million — and the disinherited younger brother turns out to have exactly the skills required to relieve the elder one of a fifth of it.