. . . I'm from North Carolina, and the writers weren't.
Lovejoy meets some (very) distant cousins, from NC, and becomes involved, sorta, with them. They are not exactly kissing cousins -- far from it; he ends up with a splitting headache, is in jail a couple of times, and witnessing a knock-down, drag-out fight, an alligator attack, and a young divvy. And Charlotte Cavendish comes through!
There were some shots of the Charlotte (NC) skyline, bringing up good memories for me; also some scenes in downtown Wilmington, which was a fairly busy film production center at the time. But the accents were pretty bad -- Cousins Mary-John and Rutherford were terrible, and their aunt, played by the usually wonderful Barbara Barrie, was better, but not good. John Gielgud, showing his age, had very few, but very good, scenes. The supporting roles were all over the place, including a couple of mountain men, hanging out on the NC coast -- and these two native types are VERY different.
This is still a very good series, but this episode was not what it could have been.