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The Real Hustle

Season 1 2006

  • 2006-02-09T22:30:00Z on BBC Three
  • 30m
  • 3h 52m (8 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Crime, Reality
The Real Hustle is a BBC television series made by Objective Productions and written by Alexis Conran and Paul Wilson. The show demonstrates confidence and magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets performed on members of the public by Conran and Wilson with "sexy swindler" Jessica-Jane Clement. From series 10, entitled "New Recruits", Jazz Lintott and Polly Parsons joined the hustlers.

8 episodes

Series Premiere

2006-02-09T22:30:00Z

1x01 Episode 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode 1

  • 2006-02-09T22:30:00Z29m

The team perform the classic monte scam at the beach, bag a £600 necklace from a jewellery shop, carry out a proposition bet in a pub using three pints and three shots as well as the keylogger scam, revealing the art of the pickpocket using mustard dip and the flat rental scam.

2006-02-16T22:30:00Z

1x02 Episode 2

1x02 Episode 2

  • 2006-02-16T22:30:00Z29m

Scams include overcharging for worthless packages, a proposition bet involving a shot of whisky and a shot of water, selling forged lottery tickets, stealing a laptop from an airport, the window tap and conning aspiring popstars into handing over £500 to produce a tacky demo tape.

2006-02-23T22:30:00Z

1x03 Episode 3

1x03 Episode 3

  • 2006-02-23T22:30:00Z29m

The team reveal how fake customs officers are committing daylight robbery by stripping unwitting travellers of their supposedly contraband possessions. Other scams include a pool proposition bet, the jam auction, a fairground scam, the art of the pickpocket with "mind my bag" and the wifi scam.

2006-03-02T22:30:00Z

1x04 Episode 4

1x04 Episode 4

  • 2006-03-02T22:30:00Z29m

The team continue their swindling spree by tricking a barman into paying a reward for a supposedly valuable ring using "the honeytrap" in the ring reward rip-off. Then they con punters at a car-boot sale into buying worthless scraps of paper, perform a proposition bet in a cafe, show the postman scam in the art of the pickpocket and deceive three professional poker players.

2006-03-09T22:30:00Z

1x05 Episode 5

1x05 Episode 5

  • 2006-03-09T22:30:00Z29m

A team of professional con artists demonstrate more scams, including how to sell a hire car over and over again. They also show the process involved in duplicating bank cards, the ease with which counterfeit notes can be used and how `blue-jacking' phones brings dividends.

2006-03-16T22:30:00Z

1x06 Episode 6

1x06 Episode 6

  • 2006-03-16T22:30:00Z29m

They claim compensation for damaged goods after orchestrating an accident, use other people's phones to call premium-rate lines, and make unsuspecting drivers pay for false parking tickets.

2006-03-23T22:30:00Z

1x07 Episode 7

1x07 Episode 7

  • 2006-03-23T22:30:00Z29m

They obtain credit cards in a victim's name just from items found in rubbish bins, and confuse shopkeepers into giving them too much change.

Season Finale

2006-03-30T21:30:00Z

1x08 Episode 8

Season Finale

1x08 Episode 8

  • 2006-03-30T21:30:00Z29m

Show eight is the last in the first series and features the Psychic Scam, which shows how a hustler can cheat you with fake psychic powers, a demonstration of rigged dice game, a sneaky bar bet, a pool hustle and a romp through the rules of the real hustle - what we have learned throughout the series.

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