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  • TV-14
  • BBC-1
  • Feb 21, 1986
  • 51 m
  • TV-14
  • BBC-1
  • Feb 21, 1986
  • 51 m
Lovejoy

Summary Lovejoy is an irresistible rogue with a keen eye for antiques. The part-time detective scours the murky salerooms, auction halls and stately homes of Britain, always on the lookout for a find.

Directed By: Roger Tucker

Written By: Ian La Frenais, Jonathan Gash, Francis Megahy

  • TV-14
  • BBC-1
  • Feb 21, 1986
  • 51 m
  • TV-14
  • BBC-1
  • Feb 21, 1986
  • 51 m
Lovejoy
S1 • Episode 7
The Real Thing
Air Date: Feb 21, 1986
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Summary Lovejoy is an irresistible rogue with a keen eye for antiques. The part-time detective scours the murky salerooms, auction halls and stately homes of Britain, always on the lookout for a find.

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 9, 1986 • 57 m
The Firefly Cage
A firefly cage, beautifully carved from coal leads Lovejoy to a gang of antique thieves and their cache of loot.
Episode 2 • Jan 17, 1986 • 55 m
The Axeman Cometh
Lovejoy connives to win a Welsh oak dresser at an auction well below his value, but when Eric discovers a stuck door, they find more than they bargained for.
Episode 3 • Jan 24, 1986 • 55 m
The Sting
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.
Episode 4 • Jan 31, 1986 • 57 m
Friends, Romans and Enemies
While reviewing articles from an estate sale of an eccentric engineer, Lovejoy uncovers clues that lead him to an ancient Roman grave.
Episode 5 • Feb 7, 1986 • 54 m
The Judas Pair
A collector of flintlock pistols is murdered for a valuable but incomplete set of dueling pistols and Lovejoy has the missing pieces.
Episode 6 • Feb 14, 1986 • 54 m
To Sleep No More
After a skilled antiques forger dies and a thief steals a forged snuff box, his only legacy to his widow, Lovejoy vows to retrieve it.
Episode 7 • Feb 21, 1986 • 51 m
The Real Thing
Jane partners with an entrepreneur named Palmer to convert a warehouse into an Art Nouveau antiques centre, but Lovejoy suspects he's a con man.
Episode 8 • Feb 28, 1986 • 1 h
The March of Time
After acquiring an old clock in in a trade with another dealer, Lovejoy finds some priceless love letters from the Napoleonic era.
Episode 9 • Mar 7, 1986 • 50 m
Death and Venice: Part One
A sickly and paraplegic American multimillionaire is obsessed with saving the art treasures of a slowly sinking Venice and hires Lovejoy to help in his enterprise.
Episode 10 • Mar 14, 1986 • 50 m
Death and Venice: Part Two
Lovejoy finds it has not the beautiful Caterina he has been seeing in Venice but her greedy sister Lavinia, who is not in saving art for posterity, but herself.
6 Seasons

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