TV Guide Drama Saturday

Tracey's house becomes infested with mice, forcing her to shelve plans for a perfume-selling party. Comedy, starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph

Sharon foils a mugging at Chigwell station, and ends up befriending the intended victim - who turns out to be financial adviser to Dorien's husband

Sharon gets a passion for democracy - and decides to buy Darryl's vote from Tracey for the local by-election. Robert Llewellyn guests stars, with Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson

Eric gets involved with an Irish rock band, while Lovejoy takes to the water with Lady Jane's friend Victoria Cavero and bravely pops the question - only to receive an unexpected response. Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton and Chris Jury star with guests Joanna Lumley and the members of Hothouse Flowers

Lady Jane persuades Lovejoy to act as driver for an old friend who has to attend her sea-faring brother's burial. The roguish antiques dealer is given the job of selling the late captain's Second World War medals, and there is a smart fashion photographer who wants them. However, some drunken sailors then come into the picture and Lovejoy finds himself dealing with the gun-toting Italian Angelo Pantaloni. Light-hearted drama, with Ian McShane

A collector from Australia visits Britain to search for the one item he's coveted all his life - the legendary Benin Bronze. Unfortunately, the DTI won't allow an export licence, so he devises another way of getting hold of it. Drama, starring Ian McShane

A missing woman staggers into the police station, claiming a creature is 'trying to get out'. That night her father panics as he sees an alien shape through the window. The next day his body is found in a locked room and Father Brown suspects he has been poisoned. Such events prompt local speculation to mount that Kembleford is under threat of an alien invasion. Mark Williams stars

The team reopens the case of criminal Mark Johnson, who was killed in a fire at London's Union club in 1996. The original investigation was hampered by silence among witnesses and associates, but with new information suggesting the blaze was a targeted arson attack, the detectives hope they will have more success. Drama, guest starring Roy Marsden, Martin Marquez and Tom Watt

The former leader of an Irish Republican group comes forward with information regarding the abduction and subsequent disappearance of an 18-year-old woman in 1983, prompting the team to reopen the case. The reformed dissident claims the rebels used the kidnapping to raise their profile, but his subsequent reinvention as a politician and man of peace leaves Sandra and her colleagues suspicious of his motives. They also investigate whether the arms-manufacturing activities of the victim's father could have made her a target. Crime drama, guest starring Sian Phillips and Annette Crosbie, with Amanda Redman and James Bolam

Lenny Spearfish's fortunes take a sudden turn for the better and the money suddenly starts pouring in and to top that he becomes seemingly invincible. He claims to have sold his soul to the Devil leaving his wife Alice, a God-fearing Catholic, terrified of repercussions. Offbeat detective drama, guest starring Griff Rhys Jones and Maxine Peake

The team reopens the case of criminal Mark Johnson, who was killed in a fire at London's Union club in 1996. The original investigation was hampered by silence among witnesses and associates, but with new information suggesting the blaze was a targeted arson attack, the detectives hope they will have more success. Drama, guest starring Roy Marsden, Martin Marquez and Tom Watt

Sister Boniface is called to examine the body of Hilary Sympson-Smythe, who has died mysteriously, her face covered in cold cream and a completed jigsaw with one piece missing. A lonely hearts connection to Ruth Penny's newspaper leads Gillespie and Livingstone to investigate the male respondents. Ruth believes there is another victim who died in identical circumstances

Tracey's house becomes infested with mice, forcing her to shelve plans for a perfume-selling party. Comedy, starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph

Part two of two. Mattie investigates another murder involving the band when someone is stabbed in the back with a kitchen knife. While searching for clues she finds a recording the lead singer made just before she died and it appears an incident from the past may be the key to solving the case