Lovejoy

When Lovejoy is mistaken by the local bailiff for his landlord, he is evicted from his house and has his car and antiques inventory confiscated.

Strapped for cash Lovejoy recruits old time con artists Matron Jackie, Gideon and Henry the Hearse Chaser to attend an auction where he is selling a painting by local artist Jessie Webb and purposely bid against each other to bump up the selling price.

Lovejoy is intrigued when famous violinist Lindsey Parry-Davies mysteriously asks him to make his valuable Stradivarius look like an imitation but nonetheless calls on the services of Tommy Norris, Liverpool supporter and king of the violin fakers.

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.

Retired RAF officer Connaught asks Lovejoy to sell a collection of Jewish religious artefacts, allegedly purchased by his late wife and with no provenance.

Whilst visiting a scrap yard for a replacement indicator lamp for his truck Lovejoy buys an old iron canon, which gets him stopped by the police and almost destroys a pub's cellar.

Lady Jane ropes Lovejoy into organizing a charity auction for the local hospital and visiting the geriatric ward where he meets elderly Florence and stops her greedy son from stealing her antique condiment set.

Jim Leonard, Lovejoy's old mentor, asks for his help in a plot to sting greedy Dutch art dealer Hans Koopman, who once cheated Jim's wife's late father.

In Ireland where Lady Jane hopes to buy a Jack Butler Yeats painting Lovejoy and his associates interrupt a burglary at the home of disreputable dealer Bertie Montserrat, though Montserrat denies there was a crime.

In Brighton on a working holiday Lovejoy meets Lady Jane's friend Louise, widow of a Belgian baron and resistance hero.

Lovejoy tries to help an old friend, now turned homeless man, to redeem a valuable heirloom watercolor miniature.

Lovejoy temporarily turns his back on his own ethical standards...to his ultimate regret.