Stars of stage and screen Stefanie Powers and Don Warrington pair up with experts Charles Hanson and Margie Cooper in the contest to make profits from buying and selling antiques. They travel from St Albans in Hertfordshire to an auction at Billingshurst in West Sussex, experiencing magic and heroic mosquitos along the way.

Journalists Bill Turnbull and Louise Minchin are both more used to the BBC Breakfast couch than antiques yet in this programme they battle it out alongside their antique experts, Philip Serrell and David Barby.Their journey starts in Greater Manchester and ends up with an auction showdown in Bridgenorth, Shropshire.