Lovejoy

Directed by Paul Harrison
Writer: Terry Hodgkinson
Series created by Ian La Frenais from the books by Jonathan Gash
1994

Episode: Fruit of the Desert

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• Ian McShane ... Lovejoy
  Dudley Sutton ... Tinker Dill
  Caroline Langrishe ... Charlotte Cavendish
  Frank Finlay ... Harold Plumb
  Terence Rigby ... John Hill
  Clare Byam-Shaw ... Rachel
  Christopher Benjamin ... Walid
  Bernard Spear ... Morrie Samuels
  Amelia Curtis ... Viki Lovejoy
  Dominic Taylor ... Piers Dow
  Roger Frost ... DS Harrison
  Sean Gascoine ... DC Cox (as Sean Gascoigne)
  John Bluthal ... Popov
  Jonathan Magnanti ... David
  David Ashford ... Car Showroom Manager
  
  

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  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 disclosing 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.