8.9/10326 votesLoading...#1 - The Henderson Challenge
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/17/2006
After two seasons of clashes of methods, Mickey and Danny finally put it all on the line. In a head-to-head competition, the two men are dropped naked in the middle of London and must use all of their skills as con men to make it through the day - whomever has acquired the highest monetary value of goods wins. The rub is that if Mickey loses, he declares that he'll hand over the role of leader to Danny. Are big changes a foot? Will Danny's moxie ultimately win him control of the crew?
Director: Otto Bathurst
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.9/10252 votesLoading...#2 - The Con is Off
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/2012
Mickey believes that he has found the ultimate mark in multi-millionaire businessman Madani Wasem. The stakes end up being much higher than usual as Wasem is extremely dangerous and the kind of mark they usually try to avoid dealing with.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.7/10264 votesLoading...#3 - The Lesson
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/12/2005
Danny has found a potential new member of the gang, Trevor (played by Lee Ingleby). He's a short con artist, who's very good at what he does, but his marks are not always the greedy; he also targets the elderly and the poor...
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.6/10253 votesLoading...#4 - Eye of the Beholder
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/3/2005
Mickey's got a plan and this one is like no other. They're going to steal the Crown Jewels. Will he be able to get the others to join him on such a dangerous mission?
Director: John Strickland
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.4/10280 votesLoading...#5 - The Last Gamble
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2004
The crew picks a greedy fat-cat as their mark for a con using his two secret weaknesses- gambling and prostitutes- but the situation is complicated by a previous mark who seeks payback for them claiming to sell him the London Eye.
Director: Rob Bailey
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.4/10213 votesLoading...#6 - Law And Corruption
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/14/2006
The Hustle crew find themselves under the thumb of DCI York, an unconventional cop set on catching "The Ghost" - the legendary thief Adam Rice. DCI York blackmails the gang into helping him, so they make contact with Rice and talk their way into his latest scam. While stealing from a country-house, they try to arrange for Rice to get caught red-handed. Can the Hustle gang escape this dodgy copper, or will York nick them all?
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.4/10188 votesLoading...#7 - New Recruits
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2009
The team con two intellectual property experts whose practices have caused a suicide.
Director: James Strong
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.4/10199 votesLoading...#8 - The Road Less Travelled
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2009
The team hope to con upper-class twit Alfie Baron, but all is not as it seems.
Director: Martin Hutchings
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.4/10179 votesLoading...#9 - And This Little Piggy Had Money
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2010
Just as the team are finishing with one genius con where Emma is posing as pop princess Kylie, Albert is out finding and priming the next unsuspecting mark - ex-banker Piggy Richardson who has been hounded by the press after a very public pension scandal. However, just as the plan starts to fall into place, a mysterious woman enquires about Mickey's whereabouts and throws their plan into disarray. Mickey hasn't got a clue who she is or what she wants but when she invites him out for dinner, he's intrigued. That is until the mystery lady turns out to be the beautiful, DCI Lucy Britford. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Mickey is certain that he can outsmart Britford, after all, no one's managed to catch him yet!
Director: Iain B. MacDonald
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.3/10250 votesLoading...#10 - Missions
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/19/2005
The team's plan to con an auction house with a comic book forgery goes awry when corrupt copper, Sam Phillips (played by Fay Ripley), decides she wants in on the play.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Howard Overman
8.3/10181 votesLoading...#11 - Lest Ye Be Judged
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2009
Albert's parole is jeopardised when the prison governor catches him running a betting ring
Director: Julian Simpson
Writer: Fintan Ryan
8.3/10150 votesLoading...#12 - The Hush Heist
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/2010
Just as the gang are about to close another successful deal, a cruel twist of fate reveals one of the marks to be an undercover police officer. It seems the team might be in a spot of bother. Mickey and the team are arrested and unceremoniously thrown in the slammer. Things look like they have gone from bad to worse when Nigel Chambers and the beautiful Jennifer Hughes from MI6 arrive to question Mickey. The pair has a proposition for him and, unfortunately for Mickey, these two don't play by the book.
Director: Luke Watson
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.2/10287 votesLoading...#13 - Cops and Robbers
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2004
Mickey crosses paths with Victor Maher, ex-fraud squad officer, now head of security at a bank. Victor blackmails Mickey into doing something he normally wouldn't do.
Director: Minkie Spiro
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.2/10213 votesLoading...#14 - The Hustlers News of the Day
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/7/2006
After a completely false exposé in a newspaper, one of Stacie's friends attempts suicide out of shame the article caused. To help right this wrong, the Hustle crew decide to take down the men responsible - the editor Frances Owen and reporter Tim Millen. The con? To convince these two muck-rakers that they have the biggest Royal scoop ever and that they'll be making headlines. Of course if Mickey and the gang have their way, their headlines will be a little different than the way they intended.
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: David Cummings
8.2/10193 votesLoading...#15 - Getting Even
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 5/2/2007
Eddie is getting the squeeze and it's up to the "Hustle" gang to set things straight. Although not an official grifter, Eddie is more than a bartender, he's a member of the crew. So when his father is held ransom by the owner of his Father's nursing home - it's personal.
Director: Lee MacIntosh
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.1/10462 votesLoading...#16 - The Con Is On
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/24/2004
Long con expert Mickey reunites his old team with the promise of one last score. The target is a greedy businessman tempted by the chance to make a fast buck on the stock market. The operation goes like clockwork, but is there one thing Mickey's missed?
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.1/10211 votesLoading...#17 - Big Daddy Calling
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/23/2007
It's back to the US for the crew as they seek some revenge of their own. Mafia boss Johnny Maranzano has beaten up Albert and to settle things the gang decides to pick the apple of Johnny's eye - the Big Daddy fruit machine and its $5 Million dollar jackpot. Las Vegas may be grifter heaven, but it's going to take a miracle to devise a con to steal from a casino that never closes and is under 24/7 security. The stakes are high, because it's not about not getting caught, it's about not getting killed.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.1/10218 votesLoading...#18 - Return of the Prodigal
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2009
Mickey returns to London to find that the gang have all gone their separate ways.
Director: James Strong
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.1/10165 votesLoading...#19 - Diamond Seeker
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2009
A priceless diamond leads the team to take on their most dangerous mark to date.
Director: Julian Simpson
Writer: Tom Butterworth, Chris Hurford
8.1/10162 votesLoading...#20 - As Good As It Gets
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2011
Mickey and his team have a wealth of potential marks lined up, but when Eddie's niece gets scammed by ruthless modelling agent Wendy Stanton they put all that on hold to come to the rescue. Wendy is the ultimate ice-queen, and the team will need an ambitious plan to get her to pay out. With modelling shoots, lifestyle coaches and even a meeting at the Diplomatic Office of America, could this be the gang's toughest con yet?
Director: John McKay
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.1/10139 votesLoading...#21 - Clearance from a Deal
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2011
Mickey and Albert visit the first Wendell Casino to open in in the country. The Wendell family are well known for their strict policy on cheaters and have a rogue's gallery on show of anyone who has ever been caught. Albert isn't happy when he sees a picture of his grand father Charlie Stroller up on the wall. Albert is determined to do what ever it takes and clear Charlie's name even if it means that the whole team's pictures end up hanging up on the wall.
Director: Roger Goldby
Writer: James Payne
8.1/10132 votesLoading...#22 - Curiosity Killed the Kat
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 1/27/2012
The gang plan an inheritance scam to bring down their latest mark, but are unaware that they're being targeted by corrupt cop DI Fisk.
Director: Roger Goldby
Writer: Ryan Craig
8.0/10316 votesLoading...#23 - Picture Perfect
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/9/2004
Mickey Bricks and his team of con artists decide to dabble in the world of art this week, when they set up an elaborate scam to swindle a greedy gallery owner, by faking an early Mondrian painting.
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10262 votesLoading...#24 - Gold Mine
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/29/2005
The gang are back and despite his better judgement, Mickey gives Danny a chance to run his own scam. However, the object of the scam has a habit of sending con men to jail so the risks for the gang are high. And it doesn't make them feel any better to discover that Danny plans to convince the man, a savvy property developer, that there's a goldmine in the heart of London.
Director: Otto Bathurst
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.0/10229 votesLoading...#25 - Whittaker Our Way Out
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/24/2006
Fellow con-man James Whittaker Wright III enlists the help of the Hustle crew to avenge his legendary grifter grandfather's treatment by Cornfoots Merchant Bank. Posing as enterpreneurs and investors they try to get back at the bank by a massive con. But have the Hustle crew forgotten just how devious James Whittaker Wright III can be?
Director: Colm McCarthy
Writer: Steve Coombes
The Best Episodes of Hustle
Every episode of Hustle ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Hustle!
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Genres:ComedyCrimeDramaMystery
Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"The Henderson Challenge" is the best rated episode of "Hustle". It scored 8.9/10 based on 326 votes. Directed by Otto Bathurst and written by Tony Jordan, it aired on 3/17/2006. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Con is Off".