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Lovejoy Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 1992 - 1992
Episode 1
Friends in High Places
54 mins
Lovejoy returns, penniless, from a year in Spain to find Tinker about to enter a monastery and Eric working as a security guard. Lady Jane introduces him to Victoria Cavero, widow of a South American politico who was investigating a group of corrupt bankers, possibly headed by Alfredo Pereira, who just happens to be in England. Victoria asks Lovejoy to sell an Inca ring for her but then Lady Jane is kidnapped in mistake for Victoria and the ring demanded as her ransom. After Lovejoy has done the deal he sets out to prove Pereira's involvement.
Episode 2
Out to Lunch
54 mins
After spending the weekend with Victoria, Lovejoy takes her to an antiques fair and cannot believe his luck when he picks up a set of paintings by famous artist Lionel Beckwith for a mere twelve pounds. He sells them to a local gallery but is interrupted by Beckwith himself, claiming they are forgeries. A little detective work on Lovejoy's part reveals Beckwith's reasons for wanting supposedly adverse publicity, as interest in his work is falling. Lady Jane saves the day for Eric after he is conned by a supposedly bereaved pensioner.
Episode 3
No Strings
54 mins
Irish band Hothouse Flowers,whose roadie Declan is a friend of Tinker, stay with Lady Jane whilst performing a charity concert but after the gig it seems that events organizer Ray Morgan has decamped with the money. To make up the shortfall the band decide to sell a valuable Celtic harp,but this too is stolen. Lovejoy catches up with Morgan at an auction to recoup the cash but it's down to Tinker to divulge what happened to the harp. Victoria meanwhile returns to Peru having turned down Lovejoy's offer of marriage.
Episode 4
Angel Trousers
55 mins
Lovejoy and Lady Jane drive her former housekeeper Vera to Portsmouth for the burial at sea of Vera's late brother, Captain Bucknall. Vera is anxious to sell the captain's medals to the local submarine museum but they cannot match the price offered by arrogant collector, fashion photographer Jeremy Prince so Vera reluctantly agrees to sell them to him. However they are stolen from Lovejoy's safe. Prince accuses him of trickery but then Angelo Pantalini or Angel Trousers appears with a gun, claiming revenge for an outrage the late captain committed to a statue of Mussolini in the Second World War.
Episode 5
Benin Bronze
54 mins
Wealthy Australian Greg Veitch arrives in East Anglia looking for his 'Eureka', the thing that he must have, and believes he has found it in a Beninese bronze sculpture belonging to Sir Max Spence. Problems obtaining an export licence leads to him doing a deal with Sir Max and a local forger to get the statue out of the country. When it goes missing Lovejoy comes under suspicion but discovers that police inspector Shand is not all he claims to be - just as Veitch will have a similar experience with the bronze, which will lead him to seek revenge.
Episode 6
Eric of Arabia
54 mins
In hospital with a broken leg, Lovejoy delegates Lady Jane and Tinker to sell a terra cotta Chinese pig to a Chinese banker. It turns out to be a forgery and gets broken, revealing its contents, a valuable medieval Chinese bank note. But this might also be a forgery so Lovejoy makes use of micro-surgery to examine another pig, one of several in the possession of choleric dealer and possible swindler Sir Desmond Clark. Meanwhile Eric meets fellow biker, the lovely Natasha, with whose help he sells his motor-cycle as having been the property of Lawrence of Arabia.
Episode 7
Scotch on the Rocks
54 mins
Vicky finds a Scots claymore in the attic of her new flat which Lovejoy buys from her. He is approached by a man named Kinloch who offers him a more than generous price for it, claiming a family connection, and, when a suspicious Lovejoy refuses, the sword becomes the subject of a bungled burglary. Lovejoy is intrigued and finds out that the sword provides the key to a cache of French gold buried in the ground. Ironically Tartan Transactions, a controversial firm in which Kinloch has an interest, has just built a supermarket over it and retrieval seems unlikely.
Episode 8
Loveknots
55 mins
When Lady Jane puts a Berber rug into auction it is bought by elderly Harriet Fisher for her Irish wolfhound, but young Moroccan Abdel is also after it and steals it from her house. Lovejoy buys a second rug and again Abdel is keen to own it, claiming that the rugs were woven in his village by his girlfriend and contain the answer to his marriage proposal. Lovejoy is not convinced and learns that Abdel's prospective uncle Said has a more mercenary reason for wanting the rug. Having got it back for Harriet, Lovejoy comforts Lady Jane, who has split from her husband after refusing to go to Hong Kong with him for his job.
Episode 9
Smoke Your Nose
54 mins
After Lovejoy offers to sell a seventeenth century 'Smoke Your Nose' dish for him, vicar Harry Nettles tells him that there is the remains of a Roman villa in the field next to his church, but the land is marked for development by shifty Derek Rudge as a leisure centre. Lovejoy wonders why nobody has bothered to take Harry's claims seriously and uncovers an arrangement between Rudge and county archaeologist Nancy Phelan, which results in the reverend's story being authenticated. Eric is less fortunate when he sells a grandfather clock to pernickety Mr. Rosenbaum, who is definitely not what he seems.
Episode 10
Kids
54 mins
Ex-wife Susan contacts Lovejoy after their daughter disappears and resurfaces living with a much older man,successful businessman David Herbert, a widower. When Bonnie,a friend of Lovejoy, appears to have been duped by art forgers operating from a shop run by junior minister Michael Brightman's son Jez,Lovejoy does some research into the newspaper archives and discovers that David's wife is alive and living in France. And after ensuring that Jez ends his dishonest ways Lovejoy finds that David,returning to his wife,has a pretty daughter of his own.
Episode 11
Members Only
53 mins
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.
Episode 12
Highland Fling: Part One
50 mins
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.
Episode 13
Highland Fling: Part Two
54 mins
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.
Episode 14
The Prague Sun
90 mins
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.