Lovejoy

Lady Jane is keeping Lovejoy at arm’s length. Meanwhile, a war veteran thought to be dead returns after a 50-year absence to claim some buried diamonds. But someone else has his eye on them.

A bailiff repossesses Freddy’s house, where Lovejoy has been living and running his antiques business. Without the money to stop them, Lovejoy and his associates are finished—but salvation may lie in an antique French loo.

Still reeling after losing his home and business, Lovejoy plots his rebound. Stubbornly refusing to accept Jane’s help, he turns to a more dubious plan: selling a cheap painting after a few shady dealers inflate the price.

At a charity gathering, Jane introduces Lovejoy to violin prodigy Lindsey Parry-Davies. The next day, he shows up at Lovejoy’s shop with an unusual request: to make a priceless Stradivarius look like a fake. But why?

Charlie Gimbert, one of the sleaziest dealers in the trade, rolls into town on tour with fallen snooker champion Murray McNally. To keep his cash cow happy, Charlie contracts Lovejoy to track down an impossible antique: Mary Queen of Scots’s billiard table.

Facing death duties threatening to bankrupt him, Jane’s friend Christian Shotley asks Lovejoy to appraise some valuable antiques. When they turn out to be forgeries, Shotley’s only hope may lie in an 18th-century flag of mysterious provenance.

A mysterious parcel of stolen antiques is planted in Lady Jane’s car, landing Eric in jail. Meanwhile, Lovejoy is summoned to broker a very lucrative sale of prewar Judaica. But the seller’s supposed ignorance of the collection’s origin is cause for concern.

The tail light of Lovejoy’s truck is smashed in a hit-and-run outside the auction house. He and Eric head to a local scrap yard to cheaply replace it, but end up leaving with far more than they bargained for.

A truck with a battering ram is breaking into East Anglia’s antiques shops. Meanwhile, Lady Jane recruits Lovejoy to oversee a charity doll auction for a hospital.

Lovejoy’s mentor, Jim Leonard, calls upon him to partake in an elaborate con aimed at a ruthless Dutch art dealer named Hans Koopman. To pull it off, everyone, including Eric and Tinker, will have to play their parts to perfection.

Lovejoy tracks down a Jack Butler Yeats painting for Lady Jane and accompanies her to Ireland to claim it. While there, he becomes entangled in a drama involving a flashy dealer who once conned him and an ailing, yet glamorous, actress.

Lovejoy and his associates are off to Brighton to visit a baroness of Belgian nobility. The chest she hopes to sell isn’t worth much, but a dish that Lovejoy finds inside of it could be part of a more valuable dinner service—one he’ll go to extraordinary lengths to find.

Lovejoy runs into a long-lost friend, Jamie, now homeless after a costly divorce. The last possession to Jamie’s name is a valuable portrait miniature, which he pawned for a criminally low sum. Lovejoy must now recover it without revealing its true worth.

Lovejoy steps into the national spotlight, appearing on a TV show to appraise audience members’ antiques on the spot. But a mystical stunt he pulls with the host, while impressive, may ultimately lead to his downfall.