DVD Review: Lovejoy: The Complete Season Five: Ian McShane: Movies & TV
DVD Review: Lovejoy: The Complete Season Five: Ian McShane: Movies & TV
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Ian McShane is back as the crime-solving antiques dealer with an eye for beauty…and trouble! Season Five continues the escapades of Lovejoy, the antiques hero, with four discs of side-splitting adventures!
Coming to the Home Stretch,
By Movie Mania “DVD Collector” (Southern Calfornia) -
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
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.
A change of cast leaves me wanting the earlier seasons.,
By Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA) -
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)
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).
Antique vs junk soap opera,
By Cherith’s brook (Nation’s Capitol, USA) -
Lovejoy and associates keep you alert as they examine different artifacts to see how much they will get at the British auction.
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