Eric Catchpole
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Eric Catchpole is a character in the British television series Lovejoy
adapted from the novels by Jonathan Gash. He was played by actor Chris Jury
.
The son of a local butcher and initially Lovejoy's paying trainee, he quickly becomes Lovejoy's younger, enthusiastic but ever so slightly dim assistant often acting as a general dogsbody. He rides a motorbike, wears a creole earring in his left ear and listens to heavy metal music
and has a Suffolk
accent.
Eric is particularly proud of his working class
status. Eric is down to earth, quick witted and cynical. In the sixth episode of series five, he leaves to live in Essex
to run his Uncle Jack's pub but returns for the final episode "Last Tango in Lavenham".
Lovejoy
Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia, a less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue. The episodes were based on a series of picaresque novels by John Grant...
adapted from the novels by Jonathan Gash. He was played by actor Chris Jury
Chris Jury
Chris Jury is an English actor/writer/director with a range of television credits. He is best known for his role as Eric Catchpole in the antique trade drama Lovejoy starring Ian McShane, which he played between 1986 and 1993...
.
The son of a local butcher and initially Lovejoy's paying trainee, he quickly becomes Lovejoy's younger, enthusiastic but ever so slightly dim assistant often acting as a general dogsbody. He rides a motorbike, wears a creole earring in his left ear and listens to heavy metal music
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
and has a Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
accent.
Eric is particularly proud of his working class
Working class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...
status. Eric is down to earth, quick witted and cynical. In the sixth episode of series five, he leaves to live in Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
to run his Uncle Jack's pub but returns for the final episode "Last Tango in Lavenham".