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- Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins team up to appear on a popular snooker quiz TV show. But they have a major falling out when they can't agree how to split their winnings.
- The trials and tribulations of an idealistic young teacher at a tough comprehensive school in Liverpool.
- Rich politician Charles Latimer falls in love with working-class model Lorraine Watts, who has fallen for him.
- Focusing on British eccentricity, the show pokes fun at various stereotypical groups that make up the multi-cultural layers of British society. Each show is a sequence of fast-paced situational sketches.
- Mog, a petty thief on the run from the police, takes refuge in a mental hospital.
- A short one-off spin-off episode of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983), which outlines the facts about the AIDS virus, using two of TV's best loved characters, Dennis and Oz.
- Footage of a concert given in Moscow, Russia, by rock singer Elton John.
- Lovejoy's search for diamonds stolen from a priceless religious object takes him and Eric to Prague where dark forces are plotting against them.
- Amanda's feminist front takes a holiday when her home electrical repairs class is taken by substitute teacher Tom.
- Shelley redecorates the flat with the aim of throwing wild showbiz parties, so Amanda and Jennifer leave to found their own commune.
- A pair of kidnappers get more than they bargained for when they kidnap Jennifer during her girl's night out with Candice.
- Shelley auditions for drama school, with the help of Jennifer. It doesn't go well and the flatmates pull together to help restore her confidence.
- With housing so scarce, Amanda gratefully accepts the upstairs flat of a mansion owned by eccentric Lady Carlton. The catch: she must share the flat with loud American Shelley, dim-witted Jennifer, and current occupant, party girl Candice.
- Jennifer loses Lady Carlton's stuffed dog while taking it for a walk, so the flatmates try to convince their landlady that her beloved animal has a message for her from heaven.
- Is Candice really dating Prince Andrew?
- Amanda builds a nuclear fallout shelter in the living room. When Lady Carlton's refitted kitchen causes a bright electrical flash followed by a power cut, the flatmates fear the worst.
- When the girls learn Candice has died, they blame themselves, as well as each other, for murdering her.
- Shelley's mother visits, and isn't impressed with her daughter's starring role as a tadpole. Amanda pursues a new career as a gynecologist.
- Looking for an act for the community fayre, Amanda 'discovers' a reggae band.
- Amanda tries to organise life in the flat, with a detailed cleaning rota, but some flatmates are less than enthusiastic.
- Jennifer accidentally joins the world of big business, but her access to computers comes in handy for Amanda when she's forced to work from home.
- Lovejoy uses the vacated Felsham house to sell antiques, both real and genuine, before the auction over the objections of the receivers.
- Lovejoy's entrusted with the medals of the brother of Jane's former housekeeper Vera, but they are stolen from his safe.
- 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.
- Frustrated by his failure to get evidence on a Polish smuggler, D.S. Pulver frames Tinker in order to coerce Lovejoy into helping him run a sting.
- In Brighton on a working holiday, Lovejoy meets Lady Jane's friend Louise, widow of a Belgian baron and resistance hero. She possesses a valuable porcelain plate, part of a larger dinner service stolen by the Nazis in the war. With the help of psychic Olwyn, Lovejoy is able to track down the remaining service but discovers that one of her predictions was grammatically incorrect. Lady Jane meanwhile confesses her feelings for Lovejoy to Louise.
- A deranged murderer with a penchant for puzzles and a pathological hatred of Lovejoy tries to lure him into a trap by kidnapping and threatening to kill Charlotte.
- Shady businessman Frank Whymark's priceless 18th Century samurai sword has been stolen and he enlists Lovejoy to locate within 3 days or else.
- While Tink and Eric are vacationing at his uncle Jack's, a Metropolitan DCI specializing in antiques, is determined to pin a robbery on Lovejoy.
- 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.
- After a night of heavy drinking Lovejoy wakes up to being charged with assaulting Charlotte and stealing a painting, but he has no memory of anything.
- Facing huge death duties, Christian Shotley asks Lovejoy to sell his family's antiques, only for Lovejoy to find they are excellent forgeries made by Christian's father. However, when local ladies' man 'Beau' Whittaker discovers a flag dating from the battle of Lexington hidden in the family church, a profitable sale seems likely. However, American air force colonel Fellowes claims the flag as being stolen from his family two hundred years earlier. With the local vicar entering the fray, it is as well that the Shotleys own a priceless set of model soldiers whose sale could ease their worries.
- When Lovejoy returns from a prolonged hiatus in Spain courtesy of his sting of conman Harry Catopolous and reunites with Jane, Eric, and Tink.
- Lovejoy buys a collection of Islamic antiques from retired diplomat Harold Plumb, who warns him that by rights some of the collection should have gone to the Foreign Office. He obtains his purchasing money from loan shark John Hill, putting up his daughter's flat as collateral, only to find the police on his trail and a visit to the Foreign Office discloses the fact that Plumb is a con-man who stole the articles in question. Helped by Charlotte, Lovejoy stages an extremely elaborate charade to get the deeds for the flat back from Hill.
- 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. A series of ram raids, robbing antiques to order, spells trouble for Lovejoy when a Sheraton table he is minding for a friend is smashed. Mysterious Belgian Monsieur Forget involves Gimbert in a quest for a particular clock and becomes a suspect in the raids, as does Danny, a boy who saves Lady Jane from a mugging and undertakes odd jobs at her house. However, the identity of the real mastermind gives real meaning to the term 'cold as charity'.
- In order to settle a dentist bill Lovejoy agrees to investigate the alleged drowning death of a man who reportedly fell or jumped from a ferry.
- After a skilled gunsmith refuses to sell his shop in what has become a red light district, the local vice lord frames him and Lovejoy for robbery.
- Lovejoy journeys to Scotland with Jane to help her friend who needs him to help her raise money to maintain her expensive estate.
- Lovejoy buys a tatty kitchen cabinet for a song, knowing that, after restoration, it is a valuable antique dresser but the owners con Beth into parting with it. After her mother hypnotizes her, Beth recalls who took it and the trail leads to shady dealer Oliver Jeffries. By coincidence, Charlotte, who is minding a friend's baby, is accidentally locked in Jeffries' shop overnight. Lovejoy regains his property but is not pleased to receive a visit from the tax man.
- 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. The thieves dropped a page from the legendary and supposedly lost Book of Clonmel, which leads Lovejoy to the monastery of Father Xavier, who rescued the book and to the cleric's sister Maeve Fitzgerald, an impoverished, once famous actress who has allowed herself to be manipulated by Montserrat to gain money to save her house.
- Lovejoy learns that his daughter is living with a middle-aged man and that a close friend has been duped into buying an expensive forged painting.
- Lovejoy temporarily turns his back on his own ethical standards... to his ultimate regret.
- 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.
- Lovejoy and Jane help a likable and honorable Japanese businessman, Mr. Kashimoti, become a member of an elite golfing country club.
- Two aging spinster sisters ask Lovejoy to sell their family Bible, a rare historic edition that's worth 20,000 pounds.
- An Irish rock group staying with Jane has their money stolen by the event organizer along with a priceless Celtic harp.
- 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.