The BEST episodes written by Steve Coombes
#1 - Old Dogs
New Tricks - Season 3 - Episode 3
When a serial dog killer starts stalking local parks, the team are reluctantly forced into taking on the case.
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#2 - Whittaker Our Way Out
Hustle - Season 3 - Episode 3
Fellow con-man James Whittaker Wright III enlists the help of the Hustle crew to avenge his legendary grifter grandfather's treatment by Cornfoots Merchant Bank. Posing as enterpreneurs and investors they try to get back at the bank by a massive con. But have the Hustle crew forgotten just how devious James Whittaker Wright III can be?
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#3 - Episode 5
Vexed - Season 2 - Episode 5
Jack and Georgie have to go to a popular local primary school to try and solve the gruesome murder of the headmaster. They soon realize though that the facts don’t quite add up after they think they have cracked the case. Georgina is worried about her parents’ divorce. Jack finds the yummy mummies at the school difficult to resist.
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#5 - The Last of the Uzkoks
Lovejoy - Season 6 - Episode 6
Lovejoy is called in by Lord Dunwich to value a silver communion set, and Lady Dunwich wants him to find her some antique prints of the lost town of Dunwich-by-the-Sea (which is now under the sea). Charlie has done a moonlight flit, leaving his old dad in charge of Felsham Hall, and there are some unlikely characters around - a mad Greek priest, a Dutch civil servant, and a strange woman...
#6 - Eric of Arabia
Lovejoy - Season 3 - Episode 6
Lovejoy is asked to value an ancient Chinese terra-cotta figure of a pig. Then he falls off a bicycle and breaks his leg, landing him in hospital. The pig's owners, curiously, are doing their best to have it under-valued. Meanwhile, Eric needs to sell his ancient motorbike and comes up with the story that it once belonged to Lawrence of Arabia. And pigs might fly...
#7 - A Going Concern
Lovejoy - Season 5 - Episode 3
Lovejoy has been left to look after Felsham Hall until it has been sold, and he uses the house as a furniture showroom. He thus crosses swords with the beautiful Charlotte Cavendish, who is the auctioneer selling the Hall. At the auction, Charlie Gimbert buys the property, and Lovejoy agrees with him to rent the stables for Lovejoy Antiques.
#8 - The Colour of Mary
Lovejoy - Season 4 - Episode 4
Charlie Gimbert returns home from overseas, popping up again in a new and unlikely role as manager to Murray McNally, a famous but disgraced snooker player. Murray wants Lovejoy to find him the billiards table which belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, and it seems that money is no object. A visit to Fotheringhay Castle leads on to a descendant of Mary's jailer, and then to an exhibition snooker match starring the real world snooker champion, Dennis Taylor.
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#9 - Sugar and Spice
Lovejoy - Season 2 - Episode 8
Lovejoy is in hot water for not paying the school fees of his teenage daughter, Vicky. Meanwhile (and much to Eric's disgust) another schoolgirl asks the firm to sell some erotic drawings for her. When Lovejoy sees the same girl being threatened by a man at the school, he decides there's more to the story than meets the eye. He also manages to vex Susan, his former wife, as they try to cope with their daughter's problems.