Fair rating?The Axeman Cometh
Lovejoy buys a Welsh dresser at Charlie Gimbert's auction, and hidden inside it he finds a rich Arab head-dress, festooned with gold ducats. Catesby, recently out of prison and the son of the dead man whose property was being sold at Gimbert's, says he was promised the dresser. Lovejoy sells it back to him, but without the head-dress. Catesby is soon looking for Lovejoy armed with an axe. He is in good company, as one of Her Majesty's Inland Revenue officers is also after Lovejoy.
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#7In Season 1of 10 rated episodes
#32All-timeof 72 rated episodes
+0.2vs season avgSeason 1 averages 7.8
1986First airedJanuary 17, 1986
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