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Lovejoy is a loveable rogue and an antiques dealer with an amazing talent for spotting hidden treasures. When not looking for the odd collectible, Lovejoy spends most of his time using his con-artist skills to help out the less fortunate. His partners in crime are wealthy Lady Jane, his dim assistant Eric, and the genially intoxicated Tinker.
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Seasons
- Season 1 10 episodes
- Season 2 12 episodes
- Season 3 14 episodes
- Season 4 13 episodes
- Season 5 14 episodes
- Season 6 10 episodes
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Lovejoy arrives early at an estate auction and switches numbers on two pieces so he can fool Gimbert and Vial…
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Lovejoy arrives early at an estate auction and switches numbers on two pieces so he can fool Gimbert and Vial and get a beautiful, 300 year old Welsh oaken dresser at a reduced cost. When Eric looks inside one of its stuck drawers, he discovers a beautiful Arab wedding headdress replete with a dozen Renaissance Venitian gold coins, Lovejoy is ecstatic. However, he finds that he's being stalked by the recently paroled convict who stashed it there years before and now is seeking to regain his loot armed with an ax.
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Corinna Hope is an reformed drug addict who went through her own fortune and stole from her father to support…
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Corinna Hope is an reformed drug addict who went through her own fortune and stole from her father to support her expensive habit. One of the things she stole from her recently deceased father was some antique statuettes, and now that his estate is being cataloged, is desperate to replace them. She implores Lovejoy to recover them for her with money she has stolen from her former drug pusher. Unable to go to the auction himself because he has a date with his estranged daughter, Lovejoy entrusts Gimbert to bid for him at an auction but is double-crossed as his arch-rival keeps the antiques for himself. The resourceful Lovejoy utilizes Lady Jane, Tink, Eric, Corinna, and an old document forger to entrap Gimbert in a "sting" and recover the statuettes.
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While examining the inventory for the estate sale from an eccentric deceased engineer, Lovejoy finds that he was a skilled…
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While examining the inventory for the estate sale from an eccentric deceased engineer, Lovejoy finds that he was a skilled art forger who inexplicably made two of everything including beautifully forged oil paintings, Victorian caricatures, and an enigmatic diary. When two golden Roman coins donated by him to the local museum are mysteriously stolen, and pushy American relatives of the dead man actively try to acquire their dead uncle's possessions, Lovejoy correctly deduces that there are clues in them which will lead to an ancient Roman grave on the Isle of Man, a place where historians believe the Romans never reached.
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A famous gunsmith made thirteen sets of flintlock dueling pistols during the Regency Period, and his last set has carried…
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A famous gunsmith made thirteen sets of flintlock dueling pistols during the Regency Period, and his last set has carried with it an unsavory reputation over the succeeding centuries. It certainly proves unlucky for its current owner, who is murdered and the set stolen. However, what the obsessive collector did not know is that the set was incomplete. Two matched screwdrivers especially made for the set are missing, and Lovejoy knows where they are. Unfortunately the murderer knows that he knows.
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At the funeral of an old friend, a noted antiques forger, Lovejoy and his friends pay their respects to his…
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At the funeral of an old friend, a noted antiques forger, Lovejoy and his friends pay their respects to his widow, who finds solace in his only legacy to her, an antique snuffbox. Although she is disappointed when Lovjoy tells her it was one of her husband's skilled forgeries, it still holds sentimental value for her. When a thief steals it, and a priest shoplifts two other snuffboxes from the estate sale, Lovejoy smells a rat. After he exposes the priest as Smiley O'Reilly, a crook active in the antiques trade, Lovejoy realizes that the boxes might hold clues to a secret cache of loot.
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Lady Jane has entered into a partnership with an aggressive entrepreneur named Palmer to convert an old warehouse into an…
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Lady Jane has entered into a partnership with an aggressive entrepreneur named Palmer to convert an old warehouse into an antiques center with various dealers in Art Deco and Art Noveau signing a three year lease. Although she recommends that Lovejoy be hired as an advisor, he suspects that Palmer, representing a wealthy Lebanese, is a conman, and he sets out to prove it. As a sidebar, Lovejoy helps a grocer friend to get back his money after he is conned with a forged oil painting.
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Lovejoy along with Eric are the sole professionals bidding in a country estate sale. He sells the lot to fellow…
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Lovejoy along with Eric are the sole professionals bidding in a country estate sale. He sells the lot to fellow dealer and barters for two antique clocks, one of which has no clockwork inside. While examining it, Lovejoy comes across a cache of beautiful love letters written by a young woman to a British officer just prior to the Battle of Waterloo, where he was killed. Eager to find the letters from the young soldier in order to sell them to a publisher, Lovejoy locates them at a riding school run by Sophie Fairfax, a cash-strapped, but very beautiful, descendant of the woman. After he learns from Charlie that Sophy's letters are copies and that the originals are on display in the regimental museum, Lovejoy must use all his skills as a con man to reunite him with his complementary letters.
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The beautiful, blonde, sexy granddaughter of her aged, sickly, wheelchair-bound grandfather tries to recruit a reluctant Lovejoy to be part…
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The beautiful, blonde, sexy granddaughter of her aged, sickly, wheelchair-bound grandfather tries to recruit a reluctant Lovejoy to be part of his great enterprise. This enterprise namely liberation of all the great artworks of the slowly dying city of Venice before the ravages of humidity, pollution, and the rising Adriatic cause the irreparable damage. When Lovejoy initially learns that the operation is very large with a factory churning out forgeries as fast as they can substitute for the originals, he changes his mind and signs up with the operation but not before becoming acquainted with a ubiquitous, but very beautiful, tour guide.
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Lovejoy finds his beautiful tour guide is more interested in working for the Venetian art smugglers than showing him St.…
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Lovejoy finds his beautiful tour guide is more interested in working for the Venetian art smugglers than showing him St. Mark's Square. He has not been seeing the beautiful granddaughter Caterina in Venice as he had supposed, but her ruthless sister Valeria. She is more interested in the stolen art treasures for herself than for posterity. When he finds that Luciano, one of the ring's most skilled document forgers is really a Scotsman, they team together to liberate the priceless art from a cache that the thieves have on an abandoned island in the Adriatic.
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As the story opens, Lovejoy is doing community service by holding an antiques roadshow for a ladies club as community…
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As the story opens, Lovejoy is doing community service by holding an antiques roadshow for a ladies club as community service as part of an eight month sentence in a low security prison farm for stealing an antique piece of furniture belonging to collector Michael Seymour. Lovejoy was framed by a beautiful Dutch woman who cons him into thinking she'a a partner in a closed antiques shop and the furniture is hers. As per her instructions he delivers it to a dealer in Antwerp, only to be arrested when he returns to Britain. He soon realizes he has been set up but who...and why?
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Jane asks Lovejoy to peruse the catalog of the aristocratic Carey-Holden family, whose grandfather acquired many objets d'art on a…
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Jane asks Lovejoy to peruse the catalog of the aristocratic Carey-Holden family, whose grandfather acquired many objets d'art on a world tour two generations earlier. The only thing Lovejoy finds of value is a Guarini Florentine bronze dating from the Renaissance that looks very much like Botticelli's Venus. Although the greedy but dull Lady Felicity and her snobbish husband believe it must have been sold many years before, Lovejoy spots the bottom part of the two million pound bronze in the family garden, but decides not to inform his obnoxious hosts. Later when Jane asks him to help Carey-Holden's younger brother, a struggling but skilled artist who has been shut out of the family fortune by his avaricious older brother, Lovejoy concocts a sting that will employ Nicholas' skill as a copyist and net him over 2000,000 pounds of his brother's money.
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An old lady is robbed and beaten the night after Lovejoy (Ian McShane) valued her possessions. Police attention focuses on Lovejoy, who is unable to reveal his alibi for fear of embarrassing his friend Lady Jane Felsham (Phyllis Logan), on whose couch he slept. With the aid of a bin man (Warren Clarke), Lovejoy manages to capture the thieves.
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Eric brings Lovejoy an ancient gold funerary figure from Columbia and asks him to act as agent in its sale.…
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Eric brings Lovejoy an ancient gold funerary figure from Columbia and asks him to act as agent in its sale. The owner is a heavy metal rock musician, but they soon find out that it is the property of a music promoter, who tells Lovejoy that he wants to get rid of it because it has a curse on it. That proves all too true when the musician and an art dealer each turn up murdered with an Amazonian poison dart and a seductive Latin beauty enters the picture with a keen interest in the statuette too.
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A painter named Ashley Wilkes comes to Lovejoy's attention. His m.o. is to research cottages that have attractive, middle-aged women…
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A painter named Ashley Wilkes comes to Lovejoy's attention. His m.o. is to research cottages that have attractive, middle-aged women living in them, set up an easel in front of the cottage, and then charm the women when they come out to see what he;s doing. He usually ends up selling them the slapdash painting for a couple of hundred pounds and then bedding the woman of the house. Lovejoy has seen some of the artist's more serious impressionistic work and would like to represent him, but is threatened by an army major and some secret agent types who'll stop at nothing to locate one of Wilkes' past conquests.
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Lovejoy meets another antique dealer, the affable Harry Catapolis at a dinner party hosted by a rich, beautiful American widow,…
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Lovejoy meets another antique dealer, the affable Harry Catapolis at a dinner party hosted by a rich, beautiful American widow, Cassandra Lynch. Catapolis is in the process of selling a rich Japanese businessman the tea bowl used by the Emporer Hirohito just before resigning his divinity at the end of World War ii. Lovejoy proves the bowl to be a fake and points out to Cassandra that many of the objets d'art sold by Catapolis to her are forgeries. They all vow to revenge themselves on Catapolis using a priceless 9 million dollar icon once owned by Catherine the Great as bait.
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Lovejoy concocts a sting with rich American widow Cassandra Lynch and wealthy Japanese businessman Toshiro Tanaka to recover the money…
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Lovejoy concocts a sting with rich American widow Cassandra Lynch and wealthy Japanese businessman Toshiro Tanaka to recover the money that con man/antiques dealer Harry Catalopolis defrauded from them with dodgy antiques with concocted provenance and outright forgeries. Utilizing a skilled French art forger and a Cockney conman who affects the appearance of an Orthodox Jew, Lovejoy convinces Catapolis that a priceless Catherine the Great icon can be had for 'only' three million dollars.
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Lovejoy makes the acquaintance of a decent, honorable, and extremely wealthy Japanese businessman, Mr. Kashimoto, who wants to become a…
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Lovejoy makes the acquaintance of a decent, honorable, and extremely wealthy Japanese businessman, Mr. Kashimoto, who wants to become a member of a very elite golf country club where Jane's family has enjoyed a membership since its incorporation. The snobbish board of directors blackball Kashimoto out of hand, but despite their rejection, the courteous businessman wishes to present them with an appropriately honorable gift. After Lovejoy and Jane are expelled from the club for inappropriate behavior and Eric ruins a friend's bathroom with an old flintlock rifle, Tink finds an appropriately historic golf club for Kashimoto, and Lovejoy discovers some unexpected skeletons in the closets of the board of directors.
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Katroina Brooksby and her ailing husband Edward are trying to maintain their lavish estate near Balmoral in Scotland. They have…
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Katroina Brooksby and her ailing husband Edward are trying to maintain their lavish estate near Balmoral in Scotland. They have even taken in rich foreigners and made their estate into a very expensive bed-and-breakfast and sold their adjoining woods in order to keep themselves afloat. Jane enlists Lovejoy to sell an antique bureau in Katroina's mother's bedroom and replace it with a copy, but Katroina is shattered when the antiques dealer informs her that the priceless piece of furniture is only a two-year old replica.
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Just before Lovejoy and Lady Jane are going to consummate their long-standing relationship, they are interrupted by his discovery of…
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Just before Lovejoy and Lady Jane are going to consummate their long-standing relationship, they are interrupted by his discovery of some 18th Century sketches for a proposed mural and the arrival of Chris on his motorbike with his new girlfriend. Chris has disregarded Lovejoy's edict not to buy anything in his absence and blown his boss's "rainy day slush fund" to buy an antique mirror from her larcenous father, seemingly a bargain until she tells Chris that her dad "nicked it." Despite its status as a "hot" property, Lovejoy is able to use it to his advantage. As a sidebar, the identity of the beautiful redheaded girl in the woods is revealed.
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Dottie Mayhew, a dealer friend of Lovejoy's, is shaken when her former fiancé Marek returns to Britain after disappearing in…
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Dottie Mayhew, a dealer friend of Lovejoy's, is shaken when her former fiancé Marek returns to Britain after disappearing in action during the war fifty years earlier. Marek fought with the British as an aviator and has been presumed dead. The fall of Communism has allowed him to become reunited with her and to reclaim a cache of diamonds buried five decades earlier in a deserted church. When Lovejoy discovers his critically injured body and a single rose-cut Sebenteenth Century diamond, he is knocked unconscious by an anonymous assailant. The diamonds are among 6000 stolen from a priceless religious object stolen during the war in Prague, so he and Eric journey to the Czech capitol. When Lovejoy tries to question Marek's old friend Axel, he is murdered by the dark forces working to obtain the gems.
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While Lovejoy is house-sitting for his cockney friend and fellow antiques dealer Freedy the Phone, the local sheriff dispatches the…
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While Lovejoy is house-sitting for his cockney friend and fellow antiques dealer Freedy the Phone, the local sheriff dispatches the bailiff, who assumes that Lovejoy is Freddie. As Lovejoy has always lived below the legal radar, he has no paper work to prove that his inventory or car is his, so they are confiscated and sold at auction. Lady Jane, Tink, and Eric worry that their friend seems to accept the situation without a fight. However, when he comes across a piece that is represented as Napoleon's commode from St. Helena, Lovejoy becomes reinvigorated.
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Lovejoy (Ian McShane) goes to Brighton with his associates for a working holiday. There he finds a plate which was…
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Lovejoy (Ian McShane) goes to Brighton with his associates for a working holiday. There he finds a plate which was part of a complete dinnerware owned by a baroness (Renee Asherson), which the Nazis thew into a lake during World War II by skipping them across the water when they were drunk. He must race against time and Charlie Gimbert (Malcom Tierney) to find the complete set of dinnerware. To do this, he is encouraged by Tinker (Dudley Sutton) to employ the help of a psychic (Linda Marlowe). The psychic goes into a trance and tells him where to find the plates. She tells him about a meter maid, a juggler (Max Oddball) and a plane crash. They find these people and find they do have plates but wonder if the dinnerware will be destroyed when the plane crashes.Lady Jane (Phyllis Logan) admits to the baroness she is in love with Lovejoy. This is the first time she admits this to anyone. Lady Jane and Lovejoy have a falling out because she thinks Lovejoy is going to sell the dinnerware and not give anything to the baroness who is broke. In fact Lovejoy implies this is his intention. Lovejoy is staying in a broom closet at an expensive hotel and after taking a shower returns to the closet wrapped in a towel. He finds Charlie's girlfriend (Jane Hazlegrove) searching for one of the plates Charlie thinks Lovejoy has in the closet. The girlfriend cries on Lovejoy's bare shoulder as Lady Jane walks by. This makes her more angry. At the end, she realizes she was wrong about Lovejoy and asks for forgiveness as Eric (Chris Jury) drops one of the plates and they realize the psychic meant plate crash, not plane crash.
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Lovejoy tries to help an old friend, now a homeless person by his own choice. They guy lost everything to…
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Lovejoy tries to help an old friend, now a homeless person by his own choice. They guy lost everything to his wife in a divorce settlement with the exception of a priceless watercolor of his grandmother, which he has been forced to pawn. The pawnbroker has told him it's a forgery, worth only several thousand pounds. However Lovejoy knows its true value and together with Tinker and Eric tries to raise the money to retrieve it before his retrieval window wears out. As a sidebar, Jane becomes interior decorator for a well-to-do man with whom she becomes romantically entangled despite warnings from Lovejoy.
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Lovejoy appears on a popular TV talk show in an "Antiques Road Show'-type segment and Moira, the program's beautiful hostess,…
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Lovejoy appears on a popular TV talk show in an "Antiques Road Show'-type segment and Moira, the program's beautiful hostess, challenges him to prove his reputation to "divine" real antiques from the fake and mundane. Lovejoy does just that before a stunned audience, but the spectacular demonstration was staged beforehand in collusion with Moira, who hopes Lovejoy's success will not just be limited to her bedroom. Eric disapproves of Lovejoy's breach of ethics, and Tink cautions him that his materialistic exploitation of his mystical talents as a divvy may jeopardize his gift. Ignoring their warnings Lovejoy enters into a devious collaboration with Charlie Gimbert and puts his reputation, self-esteem, and gift at risk.
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Lovejoy has sold many antiques to Annie Brodie, wife to one of the great pork farmers in Britain. She falls…
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Lovejoy has sold many antiques to Annie Brodie, wife to one of the great pork farmers in Britain. She falls in love with a set of five satirical watercolor lithos from the 18th Century including one they both particularly like showing a sow and her piglets. Characteristically Eric clumsily drops and breaks one the paintings. While cleaning it up the mess, he discovers a beautiful Venetian bronze hidden under the couch, a statue that has been notoriously stolen from the Queen. To the Brodies, a highly anticipated royal visit from the Queen Elizabeth to their farm is worth much more to them than the beautiful statue, so they assign Eric to mailing it back to the palace. After hamhandedly getting D.I. Maggie MacDonald involved in the case and incriminating Lovejoy as a prime suspect, Eric carelessly allows his Harley to be stolen while looking for a post office along with the bronze in its saddlebag.
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The teacher and one particular young student find an antique mirror used for exercises to be very sinister and intimidating.…
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The teacher and one particular young student find an antique mirror used for exercises to be very sinister and intimidating. Lovejoy is asked to sell it and get them a more conventional mirror which he does with the help of former alcoholic mirror restorer Roderick Frew. To his sorrow, the problem that Jane Felsham is that her estranged husband is broke and their entire estate is in receivership and will be sacrificed to the creditors. This panics both Tink and Eric, who have always found comfort and security in her employ and now have to worry about their own futures.
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Because Felsham Manor is attracting many curiosity seekers based on its impending sale, Lovejoy uses the opportunity to stock the…
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Because Felsham Manor is attracting many curiosity seekers based on its impending sale, Lovejoy uses the opportunity to stock the house with antiques, both real and reproduction, to sell to well-to-do customers. Beautiful Charlotte Cavendish, the "Son" in Cavendish and Son objects to Lovejoy's occupation of the house prior to auction, and is relentless in her efforts to get rid of him. As a sidebar, Lady Alfreson, an octogenarian aristocrat apparently suffering from senility, is hounded by her son-in-law, a ruthless compulsive gambler, as he plots to have her institutionalized so he can take over her considerable estate.
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Lovejoy is visited by a well-dressed thug who coerces him to meet Sandy Litvak, a notorious and lethal loan shark…
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Lovejoy is visited by a well-dressed thug who coerces him to meet Sandy Litvak, a notorious and lethal loan shark who has inherited a Lovejoy IOU to a former client, which has grown from 6 to 14 thousand pounds based on a strictly enforced interest rate of 6 for 5... each week. Lovejoy has three days to come up with the money before his debt escalates to 16,800. Failing that, dire consequences await. Lovejoy employs several gambits, including sabotaging one of Charlotte's auctions to meet the deadline. As a sidebar, Eric recruits Beth Taylor as a new apprentice for Lovejoy Antiques.
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Beautiful antiques dealer Valerie Endacott feigns fainting at an auction in order to divert attention while her boyfriend, a skilled…
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Beautiful antiques dealer Valerie Endacott feigns fainting at an auction in order to divert attention while her boyfriend, a skilled ceramics forger, switches the valuable china miniature Charlie Gimbert has just won with one of his fakes. When expert Percy Broderick informs Charlie that he's in possession of a forgery, Lovejoy goes undercover, posing as Eric in order to entrap the wily Miss Endacott. Lovejoy also is on the trail of the ring of burglars that has been breaking into the homes of well-to-do collectors, Charlotte becoming their latest victim. As a sidebar, Charlotte's old boyfriend from New York shows up and tries to talk her into going to Paris with him.
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When the sale of an oversized antique Welsh cupboard falls through, Lovejoy is stuck with the enormous piece of furniture…
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When the sale of an oversized antique Welsh cupboard falls through, Lovejoy is stuck with the enormous piece of furniture and a mover's bill. After Charlie Gimbert pulls his leg about wanting it he ends up storing it with Eric's uncle Jack, a pub owner in the salty western marshlands. Tink joins Eric for a leisurely inexpensive vacation consisting of drinking and birdwatching. After attending a dinner at Charlotte's along with fellow antique dealers Ellen and Bill Palmer, Lovejoy falls under the suspicion of an ambitious and ruthless Metropolitan DCI who suspects that Lovejoy is dealing with stolen smuggled European furniture. The detective becomes convinced that Lovejoy is guilty when the supposedly collegial Ellen sics the policeman on his trail.
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After promising Charlie Gimbert that he will refinish a sideboard for a lady friend by the weekend, Lovejoy allows the…
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After promising Charlie Gimbert that he will refinish a sideboard for a lady friend by the weekend, Lovejoy allows the appropriately named Bible Joe, an eccentric Welsh antiques dealer, to browse Charlotte's antique shop. Although the Scripture-quoting Joe has an impeccable reputation for honesty, he inexplicitly steals a priceless ancient Celtic cross that she found hidden inside a cupboard she bought from a sale in Wales, a cross that may be part of a famous set of twelve. Because Joe comes from the same village as the cupboard, Lovejoy and Charlotte are off in hot pursuit to Wales. They discover that the remaining eleven crucifixes may be hidden in a coastal druidical cave with Arthurian ties that later served as a church during the Middle Ages, but they are not alone in their quest. An enigmatic group of "historians" who dress as monks have bought up the entire village, which will soon become a ghost town. Meanwhile Tink and Beth do whatever they can to convince an anxious Gimpert into that Lovejoy is still busy working on the sideboard.
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Lovejoy agrees to help Charlotte's friend Mary Gladden save the mental institution she maintains in an old mansion that she…
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Lovejoy agrees to help Charlotte's friend Mary Gladden save the mental institution she maintains in an old mansion that she bought to provide placid surroundings for those in her care. Unfortunately, unless she can raise 30,000 pounds the dedicated Mary will lose the property and her patients, including the insecure Virginia, will lose their home. Although there are vintage paintings and other antiques left from when the building was a private home, Lovejoy can find nothing of sufficient value to reach the needed total. The timid Virginiia, who was jilted years earlier by an enigmatic lover and rebinds old books with great skill as therapy, is convinced that a vintage mahogany bureau in her room is worth the needed amount. Although Lovejoy tells Mary that even with its missing top bookcase the bureau would only be worth between six and seven thousand pounds, Virginia insists that its value is much more. After she inexplicitly tells Lovejoy that he will know where the missing half is, someone tries to kill him.
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Charlie Gimbert starts dating a widow with a taste for night life. She and her late husband lived for a…
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Charlie Gimbert starts dating a widow with a taste for night life. She and her late husband lived for a long time in Africa, and she is anxious to get rid of all the African paraphernalia, so Charlie sends Lovejoy, Tink, and Beth to appraise her possessions. Beth spots an unusual planter in the garden which turns out to be a Ming Dynasty cannon that can be connected to a great 15th Century Chinese navigator who visited Madagascar and left it there as a gift. Lovejoy offers it to millionaire financier Philip Chang, the brother of a friend of Charlotte's, but the young tycoon is disinterested. Lovejoy and Charlotte are then kidnapped and taken to the restaurant of Tong boss Mr. Ying, who makes it clear he wants the gun. When another Tong gang shows up and starts to fight Ying's men, the couple make their escape. When their respective houses are broken into and a threatening meat cleaver is left as a warning, Lovejoy realizes he is in the middle of two competing Tong factions.
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When faced with a pricey dentist bill, Lovejoy agrees to settle it by investigating the alleged drowning death of Terence…
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When faced with a pricey dentist bill, Lovejoy agrees to settle it by investigating the alleged drowning death of Terence Sullivan, a dodgy antiques dealer, who either fell or jumped from a ferry. The widow gives Lovejoy a key to a storage container, where he finds a matched pair of Chinese geese, which are coveted by two obsessive collectors including deranged millionaire Arnold Tape. Tape has a mania for all things geese and compulsively collects artistic representations of them. Sullivan turns up, very much alive and accompanied by a pretty stewardess, demanding his geese for a rich Belgian collector, but Lovejoy thinks the proceeds should go to his "widow," who he has callously deserted. When Charlotte sees Lovejoy's seemingly altruistic devotion to the widow, she feels she's misjudged his character and finally gives in to his seductive charm. As a sidebar, Charlie Gimbert tries to cultivate a judge and his magistrate wife in order to propel his ambitions to become a justice-of-the peace.
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Charlotte is hosting an auction of carnival antiques including many beautiful antique merry-go-round horses. In order to attract additional bidders…
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Charlotte is hosting an auction of carnival antiques including many beautiful antique merry-go-round horses. In order to attract additional bidders she invites a traveling carnival managed by Boswell, an aging showman who indulges liberally in nicotine and alcohol. He asks Lovejoy to help him cash in his 'pension,' a huge collection of antique brass candlesticks, largely Georgian and Elizabethan. Unfortunately an aristocratic family in the area is burgled for the third time in the past year while the fair's in town. Suspicion falls on Boswell and he's arrested. He claims he's innocent and Lovejoy, who was with him when the theft took place, believes him and works to prove his innocence. As a sidebar, Lovejoy asks Beth to bid on a seemingly pedestrian painting in the auction, but no one can figure out why.
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While attending a book fair in Cambridge in order to buy rare books to stock Charlie Gimbert's library at Felsham…
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While attending a book fair in Cambridge in order to buy rare books to stock Charlie Gimbert's library at Felsham Hall, Lovejoy answers a call from two aging spinster sisters who need money to stay in their home. The only thing of real value is a historic 16th Century Marston Bible, the first Bible translated into English. Unfortunately it is jointly owned by their younger brother, a Cambridge professor who plans to donate it to the University library upon his promotion to Master. When Lovejoy discovers the Bible is a fake, Professor Doncaster admits that he had to sell the Bible years before to support his sisters and now needs the upcoming promotion and its subsequent pay-raise to ensure their security. As a sidebar, Tink and Charlotte try unsuccessfully to convince Beth's dad that he should allow his daughter to remain an apprentice to Lovejoy.
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When Lovejoy accompanies Charlotte to the Victorian estate of her friend Hattoe Horsham in Suffolk, he learns that Hattie's family,…
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When Lovejoy accompanies Charlotte to the Victorian estate of her friend Hattoe Horsham in Suffolk, he learns that Hattie's family, her father and 93 year old grandmother are broke. They had to sell the estate to the local historical society for tourism, and although they're allowed to live in the manor house, their financial fortunes are at a low ebb. After fending off the advances of another one of Charlotte's friends, he sets out to auction off the giant mounted pike that Hattie's grandmother caught in 1917 with a provenance that includes Isadora Duncan. Meanwhile at the Felsham Manor, Tink is handed an eviction notice by Gimbert, who secretly wants to turn Felsham Manor into a health spa.
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The Tabors, an expatriate Polish couple down on their luck, have a valuable painting to sell but disregard Lovejoy's advice…
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The Tabors, an expatriate Polish couple down on their luck, have a valuable painting to sell but disregard Lovejoy's advice to put it at auction. For reasons of family pride they prefer a private sale to a public auction, and Charlotte buys the painting. The beautiful Mrs. Tabor tries to seduce Lovejoy and later arrives at the already inebriated Lovejoy's lodgings with a fur coat, a bottle of champagne, and nothing else. That same evening a burglar breaks into Charlotte's house, takes the painting and leaves her with a concussion. Looking out the window, she sees Lovejoy's pickup crashing into the fence and speeding away. Lovejoy wakes up to the police in his bedroom and finds the events of the previous evening difficult to remember. They discover a dented fender on his truck and the stolen painting in the house. When Lovejoy gives the sexy Mrs. Tabor as an alibi, she denies everything. The loyal Tinker pawns his Cartier watch for bail and the falsely accused Lovejoy tries to find the real thief.
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When Max Hunter was an antiques dealer acquaintance of Lovejoy over fifteen years earlier, he became convinced Lovejoy was having…
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When Max Hunter was an antiques dealer acquaintance of Lovejoy over fifteen years earlier, he became convinced Lovejoy was having an affair with his wife. Even though they were nothing but friends, the pathologically jealous Hunter murders his wife and spends the next fifteen years plotting revenge. A devotee of word games and puzzles, the recently paroled Hunter kidnaps Charlotte and threatens to kill her unless Lovejoy can decipher his carefully composed codes and directions to find their location. As Lovejoy frantically follows the trail of planted clues, he is videotaped by Hunter's confederate.
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Tinker shows signs of depression, and after Lovejoy balls him out for a misappraisal, he disappears without a word. Although…
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Tinker shows signs of depression, and after Lovejoy balls him out for a misappraisal, he disappears without a word. Although he finds his caravan empty, Lovejoy discovers a cache of old family photographs and postcards from a vacation resort in Devon. On a hunch he goes there and finds Tinker has sold his trademark checkered three piece suit and black beret and is living in his sister's hotel. After Lovejoy apologizes for his behavior, Tinker reveals that he's not going to leave without trying to help his older sister. she and her wheelchair-bound husband own a beautiful hotel on Burgh Island but are financially strapped and in danger of losing the property to a developer. In its glory days the lodging played host to celebrities like Mrs. Wallis Simpson, Noel Coward, and Agatha Christie, but currently is hosting a convention for model train enthusiasts. The key to saving the hotel and getting Tink back is discovering the location of the legendary treasure trove of a notorious smuggler hidden centuries earlier.
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Frank Whymark, a shady businessman, sends his goon Jack to coerce Lovejoy into seeing him. Whymark's priceless 18th Century Samurai…
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Frank Whymark, a shady businessman, sends his goon Jack to coerce Lovejoy into seeing him. Whymark's priceless 18th Century Samurai sword has been stolen, but he does not want to notify the police for personal Because of Lovejoy's contacts in the antiques trade he tasks him with finding the weapon... or else! Lovejoy finds it selling at auction, but doesn't notify the auctioneers. In a playful mood he bids on it against friendly Jim Leonard, and drops off after 15 thousand pounds. Although he easily could warn Leonhard when he takes a beautiful, young prospective buyer to a local watering hall and hotel, Lovejoy keeps silent, clearly relishing the situation. However, the sexy client locks Jim in the bathroom and absconds with his sword, car, and money as the sword disappears again.
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Master gunsmith George Wilson operates a family-owned shop and has a reputation for high-quality craftsmanship and integrity. Unfortunately Burgess, a…
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Master gunsmith George Wilson operates a family-owned shop and has a reputation for high-quality craftsmanship and integrity. Unfortunately Burgess, a local vice lord, has been buying up property in the locale and has turned the site into a red light district. He wants Wilson's property, which was established by his great-grandfather, but he refuses to sell. When Burgess's henchman, Kevin the Ponce, recognizes Lovejoy coming out of Wilson's shop as an ex-con, they decide to frame Lovejoy for armed robbery with Wilson as an accessory. As a sidebar, Lovejoy acts as an agent for pretty Alice Williams, who can forge watercolors like one of the masters..
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Lord Dunham, a Lovejoy client, has consigned a centuries old Greek Orthodox artophorian for auction. It is part of a…
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Lord Dunham, a Lovejoy client, has consigned a centuries old Greek Orthodox artophorian for auction. It is part of a priceless communion set from an infamous clergyman who was later excommunicated. When other claimants appear and claim the artophorion as theirs, Charlotte hires Lovejoy to uncover its provenance. Everyone suspects it was stolen from Greece, but no one can prove where it came from including an ouzo-swilling Greek priest, an enigmatic Dutchman, and a ubiquitous Albanian woman who claims to be descended from the Uzkok pirates who terrified the Adriatic centuries before. As a sidebar, Lord Dunham's wife is obsessed with acquiring a full set of sketches of a village near her estate that was covered by the sea years before.
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D.S. Arnie Pulver, an old Lovejoy nemesis, has become frustrated by his inability to obtain a case against a "likeable"…
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D.S. Arnie Pulver, an old Lovejoy nemesis, has become frustrated by his inability to obtain a case against a "likeable" Polish sea captain who has been smuggling art treasures from the churches of Poland. Pulver feels ha needs an antiques expert, so he has Tinker framed on charges of pornography when he lectures a woman's club or erotic art in order to coerce both Lovejoy and Tinker into helping him run a sting on the captain and his British buyer, an upscale pawnbroker.
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Tink announces his retirement from the antique trade to open up a pub and suggests to Lovejoy that he should…
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Tink announces his retirement from the antique trade to open up a pub and suggests to Lovejoy that he should marry Charlotte. His imminent eviction from the Felsham barn for non-payment of rent is another reason he decides to pop the question. At first she hesitates, but finally says 'yes' during an auction in which she is selling a pack of Victorian love letters for Lovejoy. Complications arise when Jane returns from America and contemplates buying Felsham Hall and Charlottes father is attacked by "nighthawks" who pillage archaeological digs.
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Actors movie: Lovejoy
- 10 episodes, 1986-1994
- 10 episodes, 1986-1994
- 8 episodes, 1991-1994
- 6 episodes, 1986
- 6 episodes, 1991-1994
- 6 episodes, 1992-1994
- 5 episodes, 1991-1994
- 5 episodes, 1991-1994
- 4 episodes, 1991-1994
- 4 episodes, 1991-1993
- 3 episodes, 1991-1993
- 3 episodes, 1992-1993
- 2 episodes, 1986-1992
- 2 episodes, 1993-1994
- Lovejoy
- Tinker Dill
- Eric Catchpole
- Lady Jane Felsham
- Charlie Gimbert
- Charlotte Cavendish
- Beth Taylor
- Jack (14 episodes, 1986-1993)
- Lord Alexander Felsham
- Kate Henshaw (12 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Dandy Jack
- Bill - Cavendish Porter (6 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Fred Bigelow
- DI Dennis Hardwick
- Helen (5 episodes, 1986)
- DS Colin Drabble (4 episodes, 1986)
- Mrs. Cameron (4 episodes, 1986)
- Amanda Gimbert (4 episodes, 1986)
- Buyer / ... (4 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Victoria Cavero (3 episodes, 1992)
- Caterina / ... (3 episodes, 1986-1994)
- Vicky Lovejoy / ... (3 episodes, 1991-1992)
- DS Bob Pulver / ... (3 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Gerry / ... (3 episodes, 1986-1994)
- Brian (3 episodes, 1986)
- Woody (3 episodes, 1986)
- Popov
- Edward Brooksby (2 episodes, 1992)
- Michael Seymour
- Susan Lovejoy (2 episodes, 1991-1992)
- Jim Leonard (2 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Katriona Brooksby (2 episodes, 1992)
- Pinder (2 episodes, 1986)
- Sam Cavendish
- Edward Carr / ... (2 episodes, 1992-1994)
- Japanese Banker / ... (2 episodes, 1992-1993)
- Lady Rebecca (2 episodes, 1992)
- Rollo
- Duncan (2 episodes, 1992)
- Drummer / ... (2 episodes, 1986-1991)
- Cosima (2 episodes, 1986)
- Cyril Harrington-Morse / ... (2 episodes, 1986-1991)
- Gerald Somers
- Nancy (2 episodes, 1986)
- Cuthie (2 episodes, 1986)
- Robert Fraser (2 episodes, 1992)
- Alice Taylor (2 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Viki Lovejoy (2 episodes, 1994)
- Raymond Russell / ... (2 episodes, 1991-1992)
- Sandra Wilson (2 episodes, 1992)
- DI Margaret McDonald / ... (2 episodes, 1993)
- Keith (2 episodes, 1986)
- Horse (2 episodes, 1992)
- Kate Lovejoy (2 episodes, 1986)
- Billy Wilson (2 episodes, 1992)
- Azi Kumar
- John - Cavendish Porter (2 episodes, 1993)
- Dave Goodis (2 episodes, 1992)
- Alwyn (2 episodes, 1993)
- DS Lloyd / ... (2 episodes, 1986-1991)
- Daisy West / ... (2 episodes, 1992-1994)
- Tonio (2 episodes, 1986)
- Hugh Malleson (2 episodes, 1986)
- Margaret (2 episodes, 1992)
- Auctioneer / ... (2 episodes, 1986-1991)
- DS Steve Hill (2 episodes, 1986)
- Campie (2 episodes, 1986)
- Mrs. Somers (2 episodes, 1992)
- Giuseppe (2 episodes, 1986)
- Cesare (2 episodes, 1986)
- Mr. Pendleton (2 episodes, 1992)
- Maria Renton (2 episodes, 1992)
- Vito (2 episodes, 1986)
- Charles Renton (2 episodes, 1992)
- Barman (2 episodes, 1986)
- Mr. Kaufman (2 episodes, 1992)
- Mrs. Kaufman (2 episodes, 1992)
- Cassandra Lynch (2 episodes, 1991)
- Harry Catapodis (2 episodes, 1991)
- Toshiro Tanaka (2 episodes, 1991)
- Mordechai Frobel
- Miki Wantanabe (2 episodes, 1991)
- Marcel / ... (2 episodes, 1991)
- J.P. Gilbert (2 episodes, 1991)
- Terry Slingsby (2 episodes, 1991)
- Johnny Slingsby (2 episodes, 1991)
- Mike (2 episodes, 1991)
- Valentin (2 episodes, 1991)
- New York Secretary (2 episodes, 1991)
- Antiques Buyer 1989 (unknown episodes)
- 10 episodes, 1986-1994
- 10 episodes, 1986-1994
- 8 episodes, 1991-1994
- 6 episodes, 1986
- 6 episodes, 1991-1994
- 6 episodes, 1992-1994
- 5 episodes, 1991-1994
- 5 episodes, 1991-1994
- 4 episodes, 1991-1994
- 4 episodes, 1991-1993
- 3 episodes, 1991-1993
- 3 episodes, 1992-1993
- 2 episodes, 1986-1992
- 2 episodes, 1993-1994
- Lovejoy
- Tinker Dill
- Eric Catchpole
- Lady Jane Felsham
- Charlie Gimbert
- Charlotte Cavendish
- Beth Taylor
- Jack (14 episodes, 1986-1993)
- Lord Alexander Felsham
- Kate Henshaw (12 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Dandy Jack
- Bill - Cavendish Porter (6 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Fred Bigelow
- DI Dennis Hardwick
- Helen (5 episodes, 1986)
- DS Colin Drabble (4 episodes, 1986)
- Mrs. Cameron (4 episodes, 1986)
- Amanda Gimbert (4 episodes, 1986)
- Buyer / ... (4 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Victoria Cavero (3 episodes, 1992)
- Caterina / ... (3 episodes, 1986-1994)
- Vicky Lovejoy / ... (3 episodes, 1991-1992)
- DS Bob Pulver / ... (3 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Gerry / ... (3 episodes, 1986-1994)
- Brian (3 episodes, 1986)
- Woody (3 episodes, 1986)
- Popov
- Edward Brooksby (2 episodes, 1992)
- Michael Seymour
- Susan Lovejoy (2 episodes, 1991-1992)
- Jim Leonard (2 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Katriona Brooksby (2 episodes, 1992)
- Pinder (2 episodes, 1986)
- Sam Cavendish
- Edward Carr / ... (2 episodes, 1992-1994)
- Japanese Banker / ... (2 episodes, 1992-1993)
- Lady Rebecca (2 episodes, 1992)
- Rollo
- Duncan (2 episodes, 1992)
- Drummer / ... (2 episodes, 1986-1991)
- Cosima (2 episodes, 1986)
- Cyril Harrington-Morse / ... (2 episodes, 1986-1991)
- Gerald Somers
- Nancy (2 episodes, 1986)
- Cuthie (2 episodes, 1986)
- Robert Fraser (2 episodes, 1992)
- Alice Taylor (2 episodes, 1993-1994)
- Viki Lovejoy (2 episodes, 1994)
- Raymond Russell / ... (2 episodes, 1991-1992)
- Sandra Wilson (2 episodes, 1992)
- DI Margaret McDonald / ... (2 episodes, 1993)
- Keith (2 episodes, 1986)
- Horse (2 episodes, 1992)
- Kate Lovejoy (2 episodes, 1986)
- Billy Wilson (2 episodes, 1992)
- Azi Kumar
- John - Cavendish Porter (2 episodes, 1993)
- Dave Goodis (2 episodes, 1992)
- Alwyn (2 episodes, 1993)
- DS Lloyd / ... (2 episodes, 1986-1991)
- Daisy West / ... (2 episodes, 1992-1994)
- Tonio (2 episodes, 1986)
- Hugh Malleson (2 episodes, 1986)
- Margaret (2 episodes, 1992)
- Auctioneer / ... (2 episodes, 1986-1991)
- DS Steve Hill (2 episodes, 1986)
- Campie (2 episodes, 1986)
- Mrs. Somers (2 episodes, 1992)
- Giuseppe (2 episodes, 1986)
- Cesare (2 episodes, 1986)
- Mr. Pendleton (2 episodes, 1992)
- Maria Renton (2 episodes, 1992)
- Vito (2 episodes, 1986)
- Charles Renton (2 episodes, 1992)
- Barman (2 episodes, 1986)
- Mr. Kaufman (2 episodes, 1992)
- Mrs. Kaufman (2 episodes, 1992)
- Cassandra Lynch (2 episodes, 1991)
- Harry Catapodis (2 episodes, 1991)
- Toshiro Tanaka (2 episodes, 1991)
- Mordechai Frobel
- Miki Wantanabe (2 episodes, 1991)
- Marcel / ... (2 episodes, 1991)
- J.P. Gilbert (2 episodes, 1991)
- Terry Slingsby (2 episodes, 1991)
- Johnny Slingsby (2 episodes, 1991)
- Mike (2 episodes, 1991)
- Valentin (2 episodes, 1991)
- New York Secretary (2 episodes, 1991)
- Antiques Buyer 1989 (unknown episodes)