Lovejoy

Lovejoy returns from time away and rescues Eric, Tinker, and Lady Jane from their respective bouts of boredom. The gang reassembles just in time to sell a gold ring for a glamorous widow.

Lovejoy’s romance with Victoria has him floating on air. Unfortunately, his renewed joie de vivre is awful for business, which has slipped to the backburner. Will he reform his flaky ways, or lose one of his most lucrative clients yet?

Lovejoy takes a sailing getaway with Victoria, and Tinker reunites with a friend traveling with the band Hothouse Flowers. He needs housing for the rockers, and Lady Jane is eager to help.

Lovejoy gets roped into accompanying Lady Jane to a burial at sea for her former housekeeper’s brother, a submarine captain in WWII. Secrets spill when the shipmates get sloshed, and Lovejoy suddenly has a bit of troublesome new business.

Lovejoy is brought along as a consultant on a luxe shopping spree by a moneyed Australian businessman looking to snap up some pricey antiques. Meanwhile, a judge’s wife confronts menacing events with her own illegal activities.

Lovejoy stands a lot to gain, and a lot to lose, when a dealer contracts him to value an ancient Chinese terracotta pig on a percentage commission. Eric goes into the used motorbike business, but his sales tactics do more harm than good.

Lovejoy’s daughter, Vicki, finds an 18th-century basket guard sword stashed in the attic of her flat. An unknown buyer offers Lovejoy a lavish price for the weapon. But what he knows and how he intends to use the sword are suspect.

What seems like a petty spat between Jane and Alexander over a rug spells greater marital troubles ahead. At an auction, a young Arab man explodes with anger when a mystery caller decides to drop his bid on a similar rug.

Lovejoy visits Reverend Nettles, who needs help identifying antiques that the church could auction off. Nothing shows much promise except a 300-year-old dish currently being used as a dog bowl. The reverend will give it to Lovejoy for free if he can accomplish an impossible feat.

Lovejoy loses his chance to procure a Spencelayh painting for Jane when his ex-wife urges him to find Vicki, who’s vanished from her flat. That’s not the only mystery he must solve: there seems to be a forgery racket pumping fake paintings into the market.

Lovejoy hears from his landlord, Freddy, who calls from Spain and puts him in contact with a friend to value a local country club’s trophy. Lovejoy will have to ruffle some feathers after the evaluation.

Jane implores Lovejoy to travel with her to Kilbeg House, a grand estate that’s fallen upon hard times under the ownership of her friend, Katriona. Lovejoy and Jane will have to work very closely together as they unravel the mysteries of the Highland home.

With Katriona starting the process of selling the estate, Lovejoy and Jane urgently work on a plan to save her. Eric, meanwhile, discovers that a past purchase may be more than he bargained for.