9.0/102 votes#1 - 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
9.0/101 votes#2 - Gold Finger
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2012
The Hustle team is back, and making more money than ever now that the Olympics are in town, but a moment of random kindness from Albert draws them into an altogether darker con. The grifters pose as a renegade army unit to take on Dexter Gold, the greedy, smooth-talking owner of a corrupt gold exchange.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.7/103 votes#3 - 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
8.0/102 votes#4 - Faking It
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/2/2004
Danny makes a big mistake and blows a con, which makes Mickey question if Danny is right for his crew. Albert is viciously beaten after cheating in a card game and the team decide to wreak revenge the only way that they know how - by playing the long con. The stakes are higher than normal with Albert out of the picture. Can they pull off the con, or will the Mark, a ruthless and violent person, cause even more harm?
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: Tony Jordan
8.0/102 votes#5 - 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
8.0/101 votes#6 - 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
8.0/101 votes#7 - 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
8.0/101 votes#8 - 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
8.0/101 votes#9 - 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
8.0/101 votes#10 - 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
8.0/101 votes#11 - 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
8.0/102 votes#12 - 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
8.0/101 votes#13 - 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
8.0/101 votes#14 - Picasso Finger Painting
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/2012
Mickey has been taken prisoner by notorious gangster and international art collector Petre Sava, who wrongly believes the gang were behind the theft of his stolen Picasso. Now Ash and the others face a race against time to locate the missing painting and return it before Mickey becomes Sava's next victim.
Director: Adrian Lester
Writer: Tony Jordan
7.7/103 votes#15 - Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/26/2015
The news of Jacob Marley's murder filters through the Christmas day celebrations, and Inspector Bucket begins his investigation. At Satis House, Amelia Havisham's mysterious rescuer appears again.
Director: Harry Bradbeer
Writer: Tony Jordan
7.7/103 votes#16 - Caribbean
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/2016
Alex puts her wedding in jeopardy as she follows Hooten to an idyllic Caribbean island, searching for Captain Henry Morgan's buried pirate treasure. With half a map each and other hunters on their tail, this larger-than-life expedition threatens to derail the biggest day in Lady Alex's life.
Director: Daniel O'Hara
Writer: Tony Jordan
7.5/102 votes#17 - 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
7.5/102 votes#18 - Episode 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/22/2024
The Shipton Abbott Players rope in Humphrey to play a detective, but the fictional crime becomes real when the amateur murder victim gets a real knife in his back.
Director: Claire Tailyour
Writer: Tony Jordan
7.3/103 votes#19 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2023
Humphrey investigates the death of an unidentified man found in the centre of a crop circle. Meanwhile, Archie helps Martha prepare for a visit from a food critic.
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: Tony Jordan
7.2/105 votes#20 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/2006
Sam and Gene go undercover in a local pub to solve the murder of a local Manchester United fan. As Gene looks like he's set to drink the pub dry, Sam worries about their chances of finding the killer before Saturday's big match. With the press using the murder to fuel the flames of hate between rival fans, Sam is under pressure to solve the murder before the tensions destroy the community.
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: Tony Jordan
7.2/104 votes#21 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/26/2015
It’s Christmas Eve and Jacob Marley is ruthlessly pursuing his debtors, including Little Nell’s dying grandad at the Old Curiosity Shop. Meanwhile a young Miss Havisham has come into a fortune.
Director: Harry Bradbeer
Writer: Tony Jordan
7.0/101 votes#22 - As One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, One Flew In
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 4/18/2007
The Hustle crew are back, but they are short a man - Mickey Stone. Mickey is off in Australia to pull off a major con and Danny uses this opportunity to prove to everyone that he's capable of being the new boss. Of course Danny's never been shy about taking on a challenge and for his first time as leader, Danny and the gang are off to Los Angeles. The con? To sell the Hollywood sign to a Texan...
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Tony Jordan
7.0/102 votes#23 - 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
7.0/101 votes#24 - 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
7.0/101 votes#25 - Conned Out of Luck
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2010
The gang are left in shock as the unthinkable happens - Mickey is conned! Some lowlife rips him off by selling him a useless mobile phone online. According to the age-old laws of grifting, when a grifter is conned he's guaranteed a run of bad luck. What will the gang do if Mickey loses his mojo? They head to Eddie's to drown their sorrows, only to find it heaving with customers. It seems Lady Luck has switched her allegiance and the chums need to do something to restore the balance.
Director: Luke Watson
Writer: Tony Jordan
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"The Road Less Travelled" is the best rated episode written by Tony Jordan. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Martin Hutchings. It aired on 2/12/2009 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Gold Finger".