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Lovejoy: The Complete Season Five

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We are at Series 5 of 6 with our favorite antiques dealer. Ian McShane's Lovejoy is one of the richest characters in television. He is always looking for the next score with the help of his two side kicks Tink and Eric. And this season he has a new love interest.

Series 5 has the following 14 eisodes:

Pig in a Poke - Lovejoy buys a set of James Gillray prints only to find out they are copies. Eric finds a stolen statue at a house of Lady Jane's friend. (Tony Winner Brian Stokes Mitchell guests)

Who's the Fairest of them All - Lady Jane asks Lovejoy to help her old dance teacher to sell a mirror. Then she drops a bombshell - Lord Feldsham is bankrupt and they are selling the Hall. And she is leaving.

A Going Concern - Lovejoy minds Feldsham Hall until it is sold. But seeing an oportunity, he uses the Hall as a showroom. Enter new love interest Charolette Cavandish of Cavandish Auction house.

The Kakiemon Tiger - Lovejoy is once again in financial trouble so he takes on a new apprentice - Beth. (James Nesbitt and Colin Salmon guest)

Three Men and a Brittle Lady - Charlie Gimbert buys a fake porcelain statue and Lovejoy catchs up with the forger. Charolette's former boyfriend arrives from NY and asks her to move to Paris.

Ducking and Diving - Eric and Tink take a holiday at Eric uncle's pub. Lovejoy shows a pair of tourists around the antique stores but he also has an Welsh dresser to sell. Eric decides to leave the business.

Stones of Destiny - When a Celtic cross is stolen from Charolette's auction house, Charolette and Lovejoy chase after the theif. Lovejoy makes his first overture to Charolette.

Poetic License - Charolette is asked to sell some items for a friend and she asks Lovejoy to value the items. While at the nursing home, attempts on Lovejoys life are made. (Susan Fleetwood guests)

The Peking Gun - Lovejoy is asked to value some posessions of a colonial widow. Lovejoy discovers a chinese cannon but it has significance with a chinese tong. (Burt Kwouk guests)

Goose Bumps - Charlie tries to aspire to higher levels and hosts a Dog Show and Wildlife Auction at Felsham Hall. He asks Carolette to act as hostess. But it is Lovejoy who winds up invited to dinner. (Pete Postlethwaite and Freddie Jones guest.)

Swings and Roundabouts - A friend of Lovejoy's asks him to sell a pair of candlesticks. But they turn out to be stolen. Meanwhile a friend of Charolette's wants the travelling fair's carousel. (Guest James Carroll Jordan)

Never Judge a Book by its Cover - Lovejoy discovers a rare bible but when the owner's brother opposes the sale, Lovejoy suspects something is afoot. (Richard Briers guests)

The Lost Colony - Lovejoy travels to the Carolinas to meet up with some American relatives and recover some lost properties. (Barbara Barrie, Ken Kerchival and John Gielguld guest)

The Price of Fish - Lovejoy and Charolette are invited away for the weekend - of course to value something. Tink and Beth battle Charlie Gimbert.

This was another great season of Lovejoy -- even with the cast changes.

Season 5 of the Lovejoy series sees two old friends moving on and two new faces coming onboard. Phyllis Logan says goodbye as does Chris Jury... Personnel reasons and career moves. Oh well...
As stated by other reviewers this is not the best season of the series. Not bad or anything like that, just not as good. The group dynamic has changed with the new cast members so the settling in period experienced in season one is back in play. The series is still completely enjoyable and the image quality is vastly improved over the previous seasons. (Better technology during the original production.)
Lovejoy is still up to old antics. He has many close calls with the "Old Bill" and is picked up for questioning several times. "Always for something he didn't do rather than for what he did do to some unlucky punter." The ever ongoing search for lost relics and a fast pound at the expense of the unwary is still the core of the series. Several cons and many shady deals see Lovejoy make and loose small fortunes. Owing money to the Mob and a few other money making / get even scams make for a few of the better episodes in the entire series.
Over all you will like this season even with the loss of two old friends and the arrival of new ones. The image and sound quality still need the assistance of modern re-mastering technology but are still far better than the first three seasons. Unfortunately there is only one season remaining in the series and then no more Lovejoy... The past is the past and Lovejoy doesn't live there anymore...

Im have been a devoted fan of Lovejoy for many years now. I was a little surprised to learn that there were more than two seasons of the show. I was delighted to learn that copies could be had for quite reasonable prices on Amazon. Season five had some surprises, the loss of Eric and Lady Jane, a new love interest for Lovejoy[if you read the books this is no surprise as Lovejoy is ALWAYS falling for new women].
Season Five carries on the tradition of the Lovejoy series and entertains the watcher, occasionally teaches something new about antiques, and sets then solves an intrigueing series of mysterys.

Year Five brought about cast changes that disrupted the chemistry of the series. While the mysteries were still good, our favorite characters were disappearing. The trouble started the year before when Lovejoy, in his usual financial troubles, lost his home.

Now this year Lady Jane Feldsham is bankrupt & selling her mansion. She had always been untouchably rich and stable, a rudder to keep the gang steering on course. Now she is adrift & leaving the series.

Add to that Eric's desire to leave and take over his uncle's pub, now some of the ingredients of a good stew have been left out.

Beth was a nice addition, but not enough to fill in all of the gaps.

I still liked the series, and this year has grown on me with repeat viewings, but the gang is not all here (and will not return).

We have been fans for years and am glad to say that the series still shines even though some of the original caracters are no longer part of the gang.

I find Lovejoy a very special way to relax and enjoy some good tv. The actors are excellent and carry their characters so well. The scenery is delightful and the bits of interaction with viewers good fun.

Thankyou for your excellent service Amazon I look forward to further buys.

The Lovejoy TV Series are delightful, slightly risque, and totally entertaining. The scenery (English country and estates) are the best eye-candy! Anyone who loves England, antiques, quirky people and good mystery will enjoy this. (Just be sure to get the dvd's formatted for USA, rather than the ones for EU.)

I am thourghly enjoying these stories. They arevery interesting and entertaining. I have all of the DVD's that you offer. Thanks you

This is the destruction of a great series, they changed characters and have very poor scripts compared to the first four seasons. I did not like any of the episodes in this season, and I loved some of the episodes from previous seasons. The worst is they lost Lady Jane and tried to replaced her with several mediocre characters none of the actresses as good as Phyllis Logan. Her interaction and the sexual tension with Lovejoy were one of the central themes of the series. It looks like they thought Charlotte Cavendish could replace her, but none of the scripts really did anything with this character or developed more than an antagonistic relationship with Lovejoy. I wish I had not wasted my money on this season, if I had seen this season first I would have never purchased the first four.

I just keeping watching all these series over and over! Each time I find something new? I do love the antique prospect and do research on some of the items mentioned. This series has me puzzled. If anyone has information on the poet named in Poetic License, I would love to know? I cannot find a thing on him, if there is a him? Fictional? I did research a little of Susan Rodriguez and found her to be a very feminist artist; if that is the one referred to at Tinker's home? Aside from all that, I do love the show!