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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - Just Desserts
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E1

    At the beginning of series 2, Lovejoy has just come out of prison after serving a sentence for theft. He believes he was set up and returns to Suffolk hoping to find the villain and get even.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  2. undefined Season 6 Episode 10 - Last Tango in Lavenham
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E10

    In the last episode of Lovejoy, our hero gears himself up to marry Charlotte, and his old life begins to splinter. Jane Felsham returns with a splash, and without Alexander in tow - will Lovejoy have to choose between her and Charlotte?

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dick Clement

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - Just Desserts
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E1

    There's an outbreak of petty pilfering from the inmates in Slade prison. Fletcher is disgusted - after all, stealing may be a job on the 'outside', but it's despicable when it happens 'inside'.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  4. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - Pardon Me
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E4

    Old Blanco is doing time for the murder of his wife. He still swears he wasn't guilty. Now he's up before the Parole Board and it looks as if he's sure to be released. Blanco surprises everyone by turning down parole when it's offered to him. He explains that, if he accepts parole, he'll also be admitting that he was guilty of a crime for which he was wrongly convicted. He insists that he'll only leave prison if he's offered a full pardon. Fletcher comes up with a plan to help him.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  5. undefined Season 3 Episode 5 - A Test of Character
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E5

    Godber is working hard for an extra O-level. Fletcher tries to persuade him that cheating would be a good way of ensuring success in the examination. Godber isn't convinced.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  6. undefined Season 3 Episode 6 - Final Stretch
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E6

    Godber is due to appear before the parole board, but a fight with another inmate puts his parole in jeopardy. It's up to Fletcher to save the day.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dick Clement

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  7. undefined Season 3 Episode 14 - The Prague Sun
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E14

    Lovejoy is likely to be on his own for Christmas. However, a violent attack on an old Czech fighter pilot leads Lovejoy and Eric to Prague on a treasure hunt. Jane, who was on holiday with friends in Austria, joins Lovejoy in Prague to help solve a mystery of missing diamonds.Tinker is left to mind the shop and make preparations for Christmas.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - A Night In
    8.9/10(4 votes)

    S1:E3

    Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison, is to see it as just a "quiet night in". Trouble is, Godber's got another 698 to go.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  9. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Happy Release
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    S2:E5

    Fletcher is having a spell in the prison hospital with a broken ankle. He's sharing a ward with old Blanco, who tells him that another inmate has swindled him out of his belongings in a crooked card game. Fletcher hatches a plan to recover Blanco's belongings and to take revenge on the culprit.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Men Without Women
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    S1:E6

    Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of the heart.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Ways and Means
    8.3/10(4 votes)

    S1:E5

    Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the library.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - New Faces, Old Hands
    8.1/10(4 votes)

    S1:E1

    “Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!” It's Godber's first time in prison, and Fletch is going to teach him the ways.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 6 - The Harder They Fall
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E6

    Godber takes up boxing and wins a place in the prison championship, so Fletcher sees a chance for a bit of a flutter. Then Harry Grout takes an interest and insists that the fight is 'fixed'. When one of Grout's rivals takes a similar interest in Godber's opponent, it looks as if nobody can win. Fletcher, however, has other ideas.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  14. undefined Season 0 Episode 1 - Prisoner and Escort - Pilot
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S0:E1

    Norman Stanley Fletcher, a career criminal and his escorts - soft-hearted Mr Barraclough (Brian Wilde) and authoritarian Mr Mackay (Fulton Mackay) going up to prison.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dick Clement

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  15. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - No Peace For the Wicked
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E4

    It's Saturday afternoon and Fletcher looks forward to a quiet read. Everyone else seems to have other ideas about how Fletcher should be spending his time.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  16. undefined Season 3 Episode 1 - A Storm in a Teacup
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S3:E1

    When a bottle of pills goes missing from the Doctor's surgery, Harry Grout is worried that investigation of the theft by the prison authorities will jeopardise some of his activities. Grout insists that Fletcher must find the pills and return them before the warders can take action.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  17. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Poetic Justice
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    S3:E2

    Fletcher's new cellmate turns out to be the judge who sentenced him to five years in Slade Prison.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dick Clement

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  18. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - Rough Justice
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E3

    Fletcher is worried that Judge Rawley might rob him of his main source of income - writing letters for illiterate inmates.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  19. undefined Season 3 Episode 13 - Highland Fling (2)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E13

    Some old sketches put Lovejoy and Jane on a trail which takes them up to Scotland, where they uncover a plot by another antiques dealer to con one of Jane's friends. At home, Eric is involved with a young woman with some unsavory relations, but she also has an antique mirror to sell. Lovejoy and Jane are moving closer to romance... but who is the girl Lovejoy keeps seeing in the woods?

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - The Hustler
    7.9/10(4 votes)

    S1:E2

    Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way he's going to be left out of Fletch's gambling enterprise.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dick Clement

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  21. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - A Day Out
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E4

    The rest of the working party are thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting about digging a ditch anyway?

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Disturbing the Peace
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S2:E3

    When Mr Mackay leaves Slade Prison, Fletcher thinks that "happy days are here again". Until, that is, he meets Mr Mackay's replacement.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dick Clement

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  23. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    S1:E1

    A German engineer meets with Colonel Mercier and information is exchanged for money.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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  24. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Who Won the War Anyway?
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E2

    Neville is suspended from work when his boss finds out that he's a bricklayer rather than a carpenter. Watching a group of men playing football, Neville spots an unexploded bomb which has been unearthed by a mechanical digger. He raises the alarm and is hailed as a hero. The boss finds a bricklaying job for him. There's a sudden vacancy because Oz has been in a fight with a group of Germans and has been sacked. The German workers go on strike until Oz is reinstated.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Dick Clement

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  25. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Part 1
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E1

    A historian doing research in Moscow discovers a potential secret about Stalin which leads him into danger as there are those who do not want the secret revealed.

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    Writer:Dick Clement

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Dick Clement Ratings Summary

"Just Desserts" is the best rated episode written by Dick Clement. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 1/6/1991 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Last Tango in Lavenham".