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Season 1

Yr E Gd Title Summary and notes
      Season 1 Yellow station wagon, Lady Jane's hair long, Auction narration titles
85 1 A The Firefly Cage Small cage & mysterious woman lead to stolen art on a sea fort., credits 1
85 2 C The Axeman Cometh Dresser has an Arab coin wedding headdress that axeman owner wants
85 3 B The Sting Landlord, Gimbert, stung with jade for a ladies two rare porcelain figures.
85 4 C+ Friends, Romans & Enemies Mysterious dead engineer, 2 Americans, old Roman coins in mill
85 5 A The Judas Pair Solving the murder of the owner of a pair of flintlocks, good. Has first car.
85 6 B+ To Sleep No More Finding a dead copyist's stash of the real stuff before a priest does, OK, cute
85 7 B+ The Real Thing LJ thwarts a warehouse con artist & cons a painting con, enjoyable, cute
85 8 A The March of Time A clock with old love letters, good end.
85 9 B+ Death & Venice pt1 Someone is trying to buy/steal all Venice art and replace it with fakes. cute
85 10 B+ Death & Venice pt2 LJ infiltrates the Venice art forgers for Catrina and Lavinia. Hard to follow, good end


Season 2

Yr E Gd Title Summary and notes
      Season 2 Miriam mini station wagon, Jane's hair shorter, New house, new titles
91 1 A Just Desserts Out of prison after a frame-up, LJ wants revenge on the perpetrator.
91 2 B Italian Venus A small stature to fool snooty people who don't want to share an inheritance, OK
91 3 B Bin Diving Jane's friend. Old stolen guns. LJ proves he didn't do it. OK`
91 4 C+ Montezuma's Revenge Selling a Gold Colombian statue w/ a curse for a rock band. OK (fist show seen)
91 5 B- Who Dares, Sings Tinker's Friend's flawed Pub, Lovejoy set up, Tinker's old book is valuable. NO.
91 6 C+ One Born Every Minute Looking for an itinerant painter and seducer for the military. Light, OK
91? 7 B- National Wealth LJ's client, nice old lady, ripped off before an auction by an organized thieves
91? 8 A Sugar and Spice LJ asked to sell erotic books by his teen daughter's friend. LJ's wife and daughter.
91? 9 B Raise the Hispanic Unfaithful groom killed & put in suit of armor. LJ solves it. OK
91? 10 C Lily's Pearls Ditsy Lily's husband is trying to con his new partner, Lord Felsham. OK-
91 11 C Riding In Rollers (part 1) Catapolus swindles the Japanese and LJ's friend. dull, part 1 of 2
91 12 C The Black Virgin of Vladamir Revenge is done when LJ & Japanese scam Catapolus with a Russian Icon. Part 2, OK


Season 3

Yr E Gd Title Summary and notes
      Season 3 Jane's hair very short. Copyright dates are all 91 but was apparently shown in 92.
91 1 A Friends In High Places LJ falls for Vicky & puts team back together when Jane is kidnapped for her ring
91? 2 A- Out To Lunch Jane frets over a job. Eric loses 1500 to cons. An artist tries to fool LJ with fakes.
91? 3 C- No Strings Vicky says no to marriage to LJ. Rock promoter steals 100K & a harp from a rock band..
91? 4 C+ Angel Trousers A funeral at sea leads to the sale of old medals, cute
91 5 A Benin Bronze A lady being blackmailed & a statue sold to the Mafia. (© MCMXCI)
91 6 A Eric of Arabia Fake not in a fake pig. Eric's old motorbike scam. Still no place for LJ's shop?
91 7 B Scotch On The Rocks LJ's daughter finds his sword that has the 'map' to old gold but others want it too.
91 8 A Loveknots Jane & hubby split! A stolen Berber rug has love messages.
91 9 A Smoke Your Nose LJ protects a Roman field from a developers destruction. Payment: a priests 70K plate.
91 10 C Kids LJ's kid seeing married older man w/ a daughter. An MPs son is selling fakes. Entertaining?
91 11 A Member's Only The affairs of a crooked bigoted golf club and their fake trophy cup. Real one in LJ's attic?
91 12 A+ Highland Fling Pt1 Eric buys mirror & meets a girl. Jane, LJ go to Scotland for an old bureau of Jane's friend.
91 13 A+ Highland Fling Pt2 Mirror is stolen. A valuable fresco in on a pigsty wall. Jane & LJ finally have their fling!?
        "The Prague Sun" a Christmas 92 special?
92 14 B+ The Prague Sun pt 1 Xmas. Jane, LJ not together. LJ involved with WW2 diamonds. Enjoyable
92 15 B- The Prague Sun pt 2 Diamonds lure LJ & Eric to Prague & a communist collector. A call to Jane for help. OK


Season 4

Yr E Gd Title Summary and notes
      Season 4 Lovejoy buys yellow pickup after loosing everything
93 1 B+ Napoleonic Commode LJ looses house & all cause owner owes taxes, but finds & sells a commode. Then leaves!
93 2 A The Ring Out of everything LJ tricks Jane in a bidding ring to up prices which makes her mad. OK
93 3? B- Second Fiddle The shop is on Jane's farm. Must make a real Stradivarius look fake for the owner. So-So
93 4? B+ Colour of Mary An down & out pool player wants a Mary Queen of Scots billiard table. OK
93 5 A Fly the Flag A colonial era flag is found in a church but is hard to sell. Toy soldiers pay taxes. good
93 6 B Judgment of Solomon Eric arrested. Jane's mysterious trip. Suspicious WW2 commander 'sells' Jewish gold. OK-
93 7 A- Galloping Major LJ is Jane's 'Toy Boy.' An old cannon picked up in a junk yard turns out to be valuable.
93 8 B- God Helps Those LJ catches burglars who steal to order using Jane's house while Jane is at her baby charity.
93 9 B- They Call Me Midas LJ's old teacher uses LJ (who uses E, J & T) to run a scam and scams LJ too.
93 10 B+ Irish Stew #12? Searching for an ancient religious book in Ireland. OK-
93 11 B- Dainty Dish #10? Helping Jane's friend value things, they search for plates. Jane mad at LJ. Gimbert wins?!
93 12 A Taking the Pledge #11? LJ has to raise 3500 fast to get pawned painting for a friend. Jane's dishonest friend leaves.
93 13 A Lovejoy Looses It LJ divvies on TV & almost looses the touch.


Season 5

Yr E Gd Title Summary and notes
      Season 5 Jane & Eric leave and Lovejoy teams up with Charlotte & Beth. Has a white pickup.
93 1 A Pig In A Poke LJ must find a statue stolen from the queen. It turns up on a pig ranch. Jane's status gets it.
93 2 A Who Is Fairest Of Them All Old Mirrors. Jane's hubby is back but Felsham is broke. Jane leaves & the hall is to be sold!
93 3 B A Going Concern While running a scam in Felsham hall, it is sold to Gimbert by Charlotte LJ rents barn.
93 4 C+ The Kakieman Tiger Beth joins the team & Eric 'trains' her. Scuttling an auction, to buy a tiger, to pay a loan shark.
93 5 B Three Men and a Brittle Lady Charlotte turns down an old bow. LJ tracks a fake pottery switcher/seller who took Gimbert.
93 6 B+ Ducking and Diving A single minded DCI, stolen Dutch furniture & a huge sideboard. Eric takes pub job.
93 7 A Stones of Destiny Searching for Celtic crosses in Wales with a suspicious Charlotte.
93 8 A Poetic License LJ & Charlotte value a rest home's contents to save it. Tinker's collection is revealed.
93 9 A The Peking Gun A Ming cannon involves LJ & Charlotte with the Tong.
93 10 B Goose Bumps Private auction of 3K geese for 50K at Gimbert's dog show. Charlotte & LJ dine romantically.
93 11 B Swings and Roundabouts LJ helps a fair owner accused of stealing candlesticks. Gimbert buys a picture from LJ. Cute.
93 12 B Never Judge Book by Cover Swapping around 3 fake bibles to help 2 ladies make ends meet. Beth's dad says she can stay.
93 13 B+ The Price of Fish Tinker stops Gimbert's sale of Felsham. Selling old fish. Char & LJ value a clock.
        "The Lost Colony" a Christmas 93 special?
93 14 A The Lost Colony pt 1 LJ travels to the USA to retrieve stolen antiques being used to falsely prove
93 15 A The Lost Colony pt 2 the existence of an old southern colony for inheritance reasons. Very Laid Back.


Season 6

Yr E Gd Title Summary and notes
      Season 6  
94 1 B- Fair Exchange LJ arrested for painting sold to Charlotte, stolen back, replaced w/ fake. Tinker/Beth rescue.
94 2 A Day of Reckoning LJ follows a path of false clues set by and old enemy who kidnapped Charlotte. Very good.
94 3 B+ Somewhere Over the Rainbow Everyone searches for Tinker when he goes missing to help his sister save their hotel.
94 4 B- Double Edged Sword Finding old sword under threats from the owner and competing with mentor to do it. So-so.
94 5 C Guns and Roses Developer frames gun smith to get his store, LJ's guns implicated, LJ arrested. LJ's old girl.
94 6 B Last of the Uzoks LJ works for 6 people at once to provenance the same communion vessel. (didn't quite work)
94 7 C Breaking the Broker Tinker, arrested for erotic antiques, gets LJ involved and they all trap a crooked cop.
94 8 C Fruit of the Desert LJ conned by a dodgy dealer with stolen Islamic $100000 art.
94 9 B Holding the Baby Charlotte tries to care for a baby while LJ searches for his stolen $30000 cabinet.
94 10 A Last Tango in Lavenham All return & depart for new lives at the sale of the hall. LJ almost marries Charlotte but is kidnapped.

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