Collectors' Lot

{{Short description|British daytime antiques and collectables television show}}

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| runtime = 30 minutes (inc. adverts)

| company = Two Four

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• Debbie Thrower
• Sue Cook
• Sarah Greene

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| caption = Debbie Thrower interviewing a collector on 'Collector's Lot'

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• Daytime
• Factual

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| network = Channel 4

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Collectors' Lot is a TV programme produced from 1997 to 2001[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213337/ 'Collectors' Lot' on the Internet Movie Database] by Twofour Broadcast[http://www.twofourbroadcast.com/credits-2.asp Two Four Broadcast Credits] for the United Kingdom's Channel 4. Shown on weekday afternoons, the programme visited every corner of Britain to explore the weird and wonderful things that people choose to collect. The five series of the programme featured over 70 expert craftspeople and restorers at work.

During the height of its popularity the show had 2 million viewers a day, making it "Britain's most successful daytime antiques and collectibles magazine series".[http://www.tvfinternational.com/index.cgi?program_id=92&page=catalogue_details&hilight=336DAF TV International website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927043509/http://www.tvfinternational.com/index.cgi?program_id=92&page=catalogue_details&hilight=336DAF |date=27 September 2007 }}

Presenters of Collectors' Lot included Sarah Greene, Sue Cook, Helen Atkinson-Wood and Debbie Thrower.