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The Best Episodes of The Real Hustle

A team of hustlers - Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement, try out some notorious scams on ‘marks’, filmed with hidden cameras. The aim...
  1. Background image for New Recruits - 1
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #1 - New Recruits - 1

    S10:E1

    Polly Parsons and Jazz Lintott join Jess Clement, Alexis Conran and Paul Wilson in their mission to expose cons and crimes that catch the public out on a regular basis. Former Emmerdale actress Roxanne Pallet goes undercover to help the hustlers steal from a watch store

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    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #2 - Episode 7

    S4:E7

    The hustlers make up an event, hire a band, then steal their equipment; sell fake tickets for a club night in Ibiza; demonstrate a fairground pendulum game that is physically impossible to win; and deliver empty parcels, cash on delivery, to unsuspecting small businesses. The proposition bet involves balancing a glass on top of three glasses and three knives.

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  3. Background image for Las Vegas, Episode 1
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #3 - Las Vegas, Episode 1

    S5:E1

    The gang decide it's time to hit Las Vegas in this latest series. The gang take $80,000 worth of jewellery with the help of disguise, Jess shows you how to double your money and they show you how Casino staff can steal your chips while playing.

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    6.8/10(7 votes)

    #4 - High Stakes, Episode 1

    S6:E1

    An innocent bystander is conned into paying £2000 to stop the publication of paparazzi photos (The Sweetheart Scam). The team shows how easy it is to steal thousands of pounds of high value goods from right under the nose of a top hotel (The Inside Job). Matt Dawson is challenged to a round of golf in Celebrity Con Games.

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    6.7/10(7 votes)

    #5 - High Stakes, Episode 5

    S6:E5

    Paul reprises his role as a fake doctor to convince marks to bet at a fake betting shop run by the team (The Wire); Alex shoplifts by using a mark's open bag as a diversion (The False Alarm); and Dick and Dom challenge Jess to a game of strength (Celebrity Con Games).

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    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #6 - Episode 2

    S4:E2

    Alex and Jess empty a house by faking a security survey and a prize draw; in Ibiza, the team sell fake jewels; Paul wins a proposition bet involving money and your third finger; Alex swaps the padlock from a fitness club attender and clears out his locker; and the hustlers sell bogus miracle fat-busting products.

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  8. Background image for New Recruits - 5
    6.6/10(6 votes)

    #7 - New Recruits - 5

    S10:E5

    Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding is a guest hustler in a scam involving gold chains.

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    6.5/10(7 votes)

    #8 - High Stakes, Episode 10

    S6:E10

    A pair of marks are tricked into thinking they are buying the discs from the 2007 UK child benefit data scandal in the hope of gaining an award (The Go-between); a carefully constructed paper form ensures that companies still pay for a cancelled service (The Cancellation Con); and basketball player Steve Bucknall is challenged to a free throw competition with Alex (Celebrity Con Games).

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    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #9 - Las Vegas, Episode 3

    S5:E3

    The team decide they want the pot in the a Blackjack game, Jess uses her feminine charms to win some money at pool and they also show you how conmen will go to extremes to pickpocket you.

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    6.3/10(9 votes)

    #10 - Episode 4

    S4:E4

    The hustlers pass counterfeit cash by previously handing shops a pen that supposedly detects counterfeit notes; demonstrate scams that a bartender can pull; get people to hand over their bank details in applying for a gym that will never be built; and show you how hustlers can cheat at the card game Gin. The proposition bet involves balancing a wine glass upright over a further two wine glasses, while none of them touch.

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    6.3/10(9 votes)

    #11 - Episode 10

    S4:E10

    Paul takes full advantage of a hotel's services (and room contents) using nothing more than an air of authority (Fake Doctor); a lure of big money for little work puts an unquestioning member of the public in a difficult position (Reshipping Scam); the Proposition Bet is that a coin can't be removed from beneath two balanced matches; the Cover The Spot fairground game is shown to be harder than it looks; and the team walk off with the personal belongings of a cafe's customers in less than 3 minutes, under the pretense of storing them in a cloakroom (Get Yer Coat).

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    6.3/10(9 votes)

    #12 - Episode 12

    S4:E12

    The gang hire some expensive jewelry for a fake photo shoot, which comes accompanied by security guards, and walk out with it via a hidden door behind a changing curtain; and con some holidaymakers into believing they need to pay a fine for speeding. The proposition bet involves throwing a glass of beer in someone's face. The episode ends with a recap of some of the cons from this series.

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  14. Background image for Las Vegas, Episode 7
    6.3/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Las Vegas, Episode 7

    S5:E7

    Paul, with the help of Alex, cons a father and daughter into buying a device that can predict the numbers drawn on a live lottery, Alex hustles a pool player out of his cash and Jess uses her charms to distract a barman, allowing Paul to empty the contents of the bar's slot machine.

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    6.3/10(7 votes)

    #14 - High Stakes, Episode 3

    S6:E3

    Described as the "most common scam in the world", the 419 scam is demonstrated; Jess persuades someone to hand over his car keys as security while he does her a favour by taking what he thinks is £7000 of her money to a money exchange (The Unfair Exchange); and JK and Joel are challenged to get four eggs into four glasses in one move (Celebrity Con Games).

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    6.2/10(9 votes)

    #15 - Episode 1

    S4:E1

    Alex and Jess rob a hotel room by posing as hotel employees; Jess and Paul pretend to be from a film crew, ask a mark if they can rent his car as a prop, and drive off right in front of him; Jess wins a proposition bet using three full and three empty shot glasses, then scams herself a free beauty session; the hustlers head to Ibiza to fool holidaymakers into parting with their money for some worthless purses.

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    6.2/10(8 votes)

    #16 - Las Vegas, Epsiode 2

    S5:E2

    Jess dresses up to steal hotel guest\'s belongings while Paul and Alex will do the same with the guest\'s cars. They also decide to steal a couple of grand from a casino.

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    6.2/10(7 votes)

    #17 - Las Vegas, Episode 4

    S5:E4

    Alex and Jess hit the jackpot when they talk a few slot players out of their winnings, and the hustlers leave an electrical store with a $2000 home cinema system that has only cost them $270.

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    6.2/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Las Vegas, Episode 5

    S5:E5

    The gang decicde to hustle some tourists to steal their luagage, Jess needs some change so decicdes to make of with a slot player's coin bucket and Alex and Paul fancie using someone else's money to go out for a drink.

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    6.2/10(7 votes)

    #19 - Las Vegas, Episode 6

    S5:E6

    Alex, Jess and Paul con a father and his daughter into buying counterfeit casino chips, use ingenious techniques to pick the pockets of locals and con an unsuspecting girl into becoming an accomplice in a jewellery store robbery.

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    6.2/10(7 votes)

    #20 - High Stakes, Episode 2

    S6:E2

    The boys demonstrate an ingenious method to sneak a marked pack of cards into a big money poker game (Lady Luck). The Pigeon Drop rips off some marks who think they've found a bag full of cash. Celebrity Con Games features Joanna Page in a cracker eating competition.

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    6.2/10(7 votes)

    #21 - High Stakes, Episode 4

    S6:E4

    Alex poses as a talented but shy mathematician to convince people to invest in a Blackjack system; Jess steals some items from a shop by hiding them in a pregnancy dress (Bun in the Oven); and Alex beats a horse ridden by Tara Palmer-Tomkinson in a slalom race on foot (Celebrity Con Games).

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    6.2/10(7 votes)

    #22 - High Stakes, Episode 7

    S6:E7

    The hustlers trick two marks with an elaborate version of the Black Money Scam; Paul sets up a dodgy bureau de change (Currency Exchange Cons); and Steve Backley is challenged to a distance throwing challenge (Celebrity Con Games).

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    6.1/10(9 votes)

    #23 - Episode 6

    S4:E6

    The gang pull off an escrow scan by pretending to be a trustworthy pub landlord; manage to persuade a couple to give them £200 for some worthless vouchers in the pretense of a prize draw; sell overpriced goods (for example, 100 nails described as "100 metal coat hangers") without technically lying; and use skillful sleight-of-hand techniques to beat the Blackjack table. The probability bet involves drinking a shot of rum without spilling a drop.

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  25. Background image for Episode 11
    6.1/10(9 votes)

    #24 - Episode 11

    S4:E11

    The hustlers dress up as security guards, turn up at a shop which is expecting its weekly cash takings to be collected, and walk off with the loot; pose as the legitimate owners of sunloungers and collect rental fees from holidaymakers on the beach; man a rigged fun fair stall where people try and throw a ball into a basket; and pretend to be strangers and secretly collude in order to win a poker tournament. The proposition bet is to move an egg from one glass to another without touching it and without moving the glasses.

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    6.0/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Episode 3

    S4:E3

    The hustlers sell a fake device which supposedly adds credit to an Oyster Card; cheat in 3 card brag by marking cards and using reflections; win a proposition bet trying to knock a 10p piece off your forehead; demonstrate pickpocketing using distraction techniques; and use police costumes to sell advertising in a fake magazine.

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Best Episodes Summary

"New Recruits - 1" is the best rated episode of "The Real Hustle". It scored 7/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/5/2011. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 7".