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Date Posted: 11:15:26 08/08/01 Wed
Author: Ian Mcshaine
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got any watches or side tables

Lovejoy began his enduring friendship with Lady Jane Felsham in the series debut episode, The Firefly Cage. She was doing her ladyship thing, dedicating a plaque by the roadside, when Lovejoy and Eric sped by on Eric's motorcycle -- through a huge pool of water in the road. Result: a thoroughly drenched Lady Jane, suit, hat and all. As Lovejoy and Eric were in hot pursuit of a lovely lady bearing a special antique, they didn't stop to introduce themselves.

When Lovejoy rang the doorbell at Felsham Hall on an evening later in the same episode, the prospects of his becoming friends with Lady Jane at this first meeting weren't looking much better than the pond scum he'd splashed on her earlier. Eric had placed a bogus "antique bible box wanted" ad in the local paper using Felsham Hall's phone number. Jane investigated and summoned Lovejoy to explain. But when she opened the door, elegantly dressed for a formal dinner party, their complex chemistry sparked on the spot. Within minutes the two of them were drinking champagne in the attic, looking at dusty antiques. Before we knew it, she was tromping around the seashore in wellies with Lovejoy, discovering the body of his old pal Drummer. And thus it began.

Phyllis Logan's Jane was lovely, loyal, kind-hearted and surprisingly adaptable. Thanks to Lovejoy, she was often confronted with people and situations beyond her usual realm, sometimes shockingly so. Logan steered the intrinsically elegant Jane adeptly in these scenes through aplomb, double-takes and an occasional touch of slapstick.

To the constant annoyance of her husband, Jane was Lovejoy's friend and sometime business partner, often going out of her way to help him out of a jam, or to join in his latest scheme. She at least once provided Lovejoy with a place to live (a house on the Felsham estate), and she even handed him Miriam, her old Morris Minor ragtop, to drive. She told him off when he went too far off track, and always welcomed him back to the fold when he returned. Their affection for each other was spiced with sexual tension, but somehow after seasons of "will they, won't they?" they didn't after all. What a disappointment; they did such a damned beautiful tango together (and wasn't he fetching clutching that rose between his teeth?).

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Re: got any watches or side tables -- Tinker.Art historian and monkeyboy to Lovejoy., 12:39:35 08/08/01 Wed