Drama series about a group of con artists. The team face a race against time to locate a missing Picasso and rescue Mickey, who has been kidnapped by a notorious gangster.
Hustle
Show summary:
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Albert decides to pay a nostalgic visit to an old haunt, only to find it?s been pulled down by ruthless property tycoon and former 80s game show host, Dale Ridley (played by Mark Williams). Cue the Hustle gang to deliver...
When the grifters? friend, Carol (played by Jodie Prenger), suffers a heart attack, the gang discover she?s been the victim of a sham diet plan run by American fraudsters Dr Dean Deville (John Barrowman) and his wife, Da...
The law catches up with the crafty Hustle conmen when corrupt police officer DI Fisk (played by Patrick Baladi) is bribed into bringing them down. Unaware of Fisk?s watchful eye, the gang moves in on their latest mark, L...
Ash and Mickey have tried to capitalise on the theft of a rare Picasso by selling a fake to a well-known collector, Petre Sava (Peter Polycarpou). But it was Sava who owned the stolen original, and now he thinks Mickey a...
Drama series about a group of con artists. The grifters pose as a renegade army unit to take on Dexter Gold, the greedy, smooth-talking owner of a corrupt gold exchange.
Mickey and the team are thrust into a daring heist to retrieve some stolen diamonds.
Ash is outraged to learn that his old football club has gone into administration.
Mickey and Ash's old grifter mate Benny reveals he is in debt and running for his life.
The team travel to Birmingham to take on the owner of an unscrupulous law firm.
The gang put their plans on hold to help Eddie's niece after she gets scammed.
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.
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 g...
The gang are just about to close a deal worth 50,000; that is, until Sean is distracted by someone with whom he has a score to settle. He lets the mark walk off with the money while he pursues this man. Emma is shocked t...
Albert is in Chinatown to close a deal with Phil and his brother-in-law, Charlie. However, Czech Charlie is a notorious hard-man and not one to ever consider conning, so when Phil collapses and dies, Albert decides to cu...
While at the airport seeing Albert off on a trip, the team encounters `Liability' Finch, a hapless friend of Ash who is in hot water with a customs officer and a Russian art collector as a result of a bungled painting th...
As the team wraps up an ingenious con featuring Emma as pop princess Kylie Minogue, Albert is busy priming the next unsuspecting mark: former banker Piggy Richardson, who has been hounded by the press after a public pens...
In the season finale, past victims of the gang's cons team up to bring down the team and get their money back.
Caught out while posing as lawyers, the team promises to save a community centre under threat.
Mickey becomes interested in the youth club's plight when it is threatened with demolition. When he discovers ...
When a deal goes wrong and the team are left with a priceless diamond, they are forced to take on their most dangerous mark to date.
Mickey thinks they can keep the necklace if Emma is willing to trick Tob...
Albert is up for parole, and the Grifters decide to con greedy judge Anthony Kent to raise money for his coming home party. Kent was rumoured to have been involved in a gold bullion robbery, but never got his share.
With a new crew in place, Mickey decides to con intellectual property experts Carlton and Harry, whose ruthless business practices have led to a suicide.
Posing as a hot new PR company, Mickey and Emma sel...
Legendary con artist Mickey Bricks is back and the con is on, in more ways than one...
After a close brush with the law in Australia, Mickey returns to a changed London to sting a new breed of avaricious m...
While on a holiday in Las Vegas, Albert is recognized by an old friend, the head of security at a major casino. Although satisfied that Albert isn't scamming the hotel the owner - Joey Maranzano, son of a famous mafia bo...
Danny and the crew successfully scam a greedy Japanese businessman, Mr. Yakubi, using a foreign currency scam. They then go against their own better judgment and decide to try the same ruse on a caviar importer. Their sc...
The team finally allow Billy into their inner realms just as a figure from his past resurfaces and threatens to blow Billy's cover if he doesn't give him £20,000. The crew look to con Clarissa Bartwell an immoral "fashi...
The grifter's barman Eddie approaches them as his father is in a nursing home that is trying to take his home from him in a very underhand way. The nursing home has just taken over by Veronica Powell and the grifters, ha...
Albert has found the team a new mark: Richard Brennan, who runs an adult video production company and has a passion for race horses. He has three horses in training, but not a single won race so far. Danny's idea: to "se...
As Mickey leaves for a big score in Australia, Danny steps up to the mark as the gangs new leader, but can he convince a greedy American businessman to buy the Hollywood Hills sign?
The crew are blackmailed by a policeman to catch Adam "The Ghost" Rice, a famous thief.
When Stacie's friend attempts suicide because of a slanderous story about her by a newspaper. The team, expectedly, decide to make a mark out of the newspaper. A false headline about the identity of the queen mother quic...
An old friend of Albert's asks for his help in bringing down ruthless sweatshop owner Kulvinda Samar, who has caused his family and the Asian community a great deal of pain. The team discover he is a Bollywood fanatic an...
Con artist JW3 (James Whittaker Wright III) arrives on the scene hoping for revenge on the bank responsible for ruining his grandfather - who sold fake gold mines on the stock market. The team step into action, with Dann...
Albert tries to resolve the rivalry between Mickey and Danny using a traditional American con man's challenge. Both are left naked in the middle of London and have six hours to make as much money as possible with nothing...
The team plan to con a violent businessman out of a hundred grand by pretending to be music promoters interested in representing his young son.
The team plan to commit the crime of the century - the theft of the Star of Africa, largest diamond in the world and centrepiece of the Crown Jewels.
The team's next victim is Jake Henry, Stacie Monroe's husband. He walked out on her five years previously and cleaned out her bank account leaving her, as she says, a cactus, a Phil Collins CD and a stale piece of cheese...
The con artists have to deal with a bent copper when she arrests Mickey and Danny in Eddie's bar in the middle of scamming someone. The police Officer, DI Sam Phillips, makes it quite clear that she expects 50% of the pr...
The team set their sights on a former African despot, Anthony Mgube, who now lives in Switzerland. Mgube collects old banknotes and very much wants to get his hands on a 19th century US $1000 note. All is going well unti...
When Albert doesn't show up for a planned scam the scheme falls through but he has already staked out another target. Johnny Keyes is now a successful London restaurant owner with a violent and nasty past. Keyes' son dis...
Back from their holiday, the team learns that an old friend and con artist, has been sent to prison. He tried to con businessman Howard Jennings in a stock deal but unfortunately for him, Jennings knew the game too well....
The mark is Anthony Reeves who has just received a controversial half-million pound payout on being fired from his most recent job. Reeves loves the horses so the team set him up for The Wire - convince him that they are...
The con artists set their sights on Katherine Winterbourne a very rich woman, now divorced, whose nasty reputation is well deserved. In her ongoing battle with her now ex-husband, she even killed his dogs. The team's pla...
Season 1, Episode 4:
Original Air Date—16 March 2004
Mickey Stone find himself being blackmailed by Victor Maher into helping him catch a bank robber. Maher has an old videotape of Danny Blue involved in...
The team focus on the art world and specifically Meredith Gates, an art collector and dealer who is an expert on the works of Mondrian. The plan is to produce a forged Mondrian that would show he experimented with cubism...
Albert Stroller is severely beaten by a vicious casino owner, Frank Gorley, after being caught cheating at cards. The team decide to get their revenge by scamming Gorely for a load of money. Finding Gorley's weakness - h...
In London, two teams are formed and prepare their operations, destined as adversaries. Michael 'Mickey Bricks' Stone is out of jail after two years for an unrelated offense; everybody knows he will do at least once more ...
