History Series / AntiquesRoadshow

* UnmovingPlaid: Nicholas D. Lowry is often identified by his plaid coats, when appraising posters.

Not to be confused with ''Series/AntiquesRoadTrip'', which is British only and involves auctions.

* AffectionateParody: The show's format makes it easy to be parodied, and several commercials have popped up in the U.S. parodying the Roadshow.

** American: Chris Jussel (1997–2000), Dan Elias (2001–03), Lara Spencer (2004–05), [[Series/RussianRoulette Mark L.]] [[Series/ShopTilYouDrop Wahlberg]] (2005-).

* FollowTheLeader: After decades of going to convention centres almost exclusively, in the mid-2010s the US ''Roadshow'' started emulating its British predecessor by setting up at historic houses and galleries.

* ResultsNotTypical: Thousands of people bring antiques to the Roadshows, but only those select few with extremely valuable or unusual antiques will be featured.
** For some time they actually did show the people who brought in what they thought were valuable antiques only to find out it was worthless junk because it was popular with viewers. They put a stop to it because they thought PBS should aspire to higher standards.
** Although, there will still be the occasional story of someone who brought in something that would have been valuable, but it had been cleaned or restored badly, and was only worth a fraction of what it would have been. They do, however, show a few people at the end who have brought in things that were worth almost nothing. They usually don't mind, saying that it was valuable to them anyway. This also has the beneficial effect of educating owners in the proper care of their antiques, preventing damage that would otherwise reduce or even eliminate their value.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are dozens of regular and semi-regular experts. At least now they actually get name captions, but even avid viewers would still be hard-pressed to name them all.

* IAteWhat: UK version - A more calm version than it tends to appear in fiction as glass expert Andy [=McConnell=] in 2016 took a sip of the contents of a bottle a viewer had brought in after finding it inside the hearth of his house, he speculated it might be wine or port. In 2019 the BBC did a follow up and revealed that experts had analysed it and found out it was mostly urine (along with some rusty nails, a drop of alcohol, one human hair, and a tiny mollusc) and it was probably an anti-curse ward known as a witches bottle buried in the house approx 180 years before. Andy was more amused than anything else, though viewers had expressed concern when bumping into him in the street.

* IAteWhat: UK version - A more calm version than it tends to appear in fiction as glass expert Andy [=McConnell=] in 2016 took a sip of the contents of a bottle a viewer had brought in after finding it inside the hearth of his house, he speculated it might be wine or port. In 2019 the BBC did a follow up and revealed that experts had analysed it and found out it was mostly urine (along with some rusty nails, a drop of alcohol, and a tiny mollusc) and it was probably an anti-curse ward known as a witches bottle buried in the house approx 180 years before. Andy was more amused than anything else though viewers had expressed concern when bumping into him in the street.

* IAteWhat: UK version - A more calm version than it tends to appear in fiction as glass expert Andy [=McConnell=] in 2016 took a sip of the contents of a bottle a viewer had brought in after finding it inside the hearth of his house, he speculated it might be wine or port. In 2019 the BBC did a follow up and revealed that experts had analysed it and found out it was mostly urine (along with some rusty nails, a drop of alcohol, and a tiny mollusc) and it was probably an anti-curse ward known as a witches bottle buried in the host approx 180 years before. Andy was more amused than anything else though viewers had expressed concern when bumping into him in the street.

* IAteWhat: UK version - A more calm version than it tends to appear in fiction as glass expert Andy [=McConnell=] in 2016 took a sip of the contents of a bottle a viewer had brought in after finding it inside the hearth of his house, he speculated it might be wine or port. In 2019 the did a follow up and revealed that experts had analysed it and found out it was mostly urine (along with some rusty nails, a drop of alcohol, and a tiny mollusc) and it was probably an anti-curse ward known as a witches bottle buried in the host approx 180 years before. Andy was more amused than anything else though viewers had expressed concern when bumping into him in the street.

* IAteWhat: UK version - A more calm version than it tends to appear in fiction as glass expert Andy McConnell in 2016 took a sip of the contents of a bottle a viewer had brought in after finding it inside the hearth of his house, he speculated it might be wine or port. In 2019 the did a follow up and revealed that experts had analysed it and found out it was mostly urine (along with some rusty nails, a drop of alcohol, and a tiny mollusc) and it was probably an anti-curse ward known as a witches bottle buried in the host approx 180 years before. Andy was more amused than anything else though viewers had expressed concern when bumping into him in the street.