";s:4:"text";s:3155:" Lovejoy puts it up for auction and tries to woo a beautiful dealer who wants to repatriate it to South America. When Lovejoy discovers a local pawnbroker is involved his loyalties are tested, but after Tinker is hospitalised Lovejoy decides to help put the pawnbroker away.
Sam had told his wife it was the key to a fortune, and the priest soon tries to break into the Wendell house. Boswell, the aging manager of a traveling carnival, needs money and wants Lovejoy to sell his antique candlesticks, but end up charged with stealing them. While looking for antique books for Charlie, Lovejoy comes across a valuable bible owned by two elderly sisters and their brother. Lovejoy sets out to recover both the money and the harp. Below is a complete Lovejoy episode list that spans the show's entire TV run. 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. His investigations lead him to an antiques dealer and her forger boyfriend. He also discovers that a local shop owner is linked to the burglary and sets a trap. Fortunately for Lovejoy the elderly couple who accidentally smashed the light arrive at his house to reimburse him and not only scare off the thief but present him with something of real value. Lovejoy buys a kitchen dresser on the cheap and intends to restore and sell it but a rival dealer steals the dresser from an unsuspecting Beth. After discovering a rare antique cannon among the possessions of Charlie Gimbert's latest flame, Lovejoy and Charlotte find themselves at the centre of a war between two rival Chinese gangs who are fighting over possession of it. Lovejoy becomes involved in the affairs of a snobbish golf club.
Lovejoy tries to discover why. Lovejoy must track down the corpse and extract a confession from the killer in order to unravel a case of fraud connected to events in South America twenty years ago. Lovejoy tries to help an old friend, now turned homeless man, to redeem a valuable heirloom watercolor miniature. Doug comes from a wealthy aristocratic family but his elder brother Hugo inherited everything under. The first series was broadcast in 1986, followed by a five-year hiatus before the second series in 1991. Lovejoy goes on the run and steals the statue to flush out the real killer. He soon realizes the boss is a con-man and sets out to expose him. Lovejoy thinks he's struck it rich when he finds some love letters from a soldier who was at The Battle of Waterloo hidden in an old clock. Lovejoy sets a trap to try and catch him. 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. The burglars offer to sell Eric the shotguns and they set a trap with the bin men. While reviewing articles from an estate sale of an eccentric engineer, Lovejoy uncovers clues that lead him to an ancient Roman grave.