20 to 1: Hoaxes, Cheats and Liars

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20 to 1: Hoaxes, Cheats and Liars was the first episode in the third season of 20 to 1, which aired on 5 September 2006.

[edit] Segments

The following is a list of the segments which were included in this episode.

1. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
2. Milli Vanilli revealed as fakes.
3. Fine Cotton horseracing scandal.
4. Space Cadets, a UK "reality" show, where a group of young people were tricked into believing that they were being flown into space. In reality, contestants spent the duration of the series (10 straight nights) inside an old airfield in England, despite contestants being told they were actually at a military base in Russia.
5. Peter Foster, notorious conman.
6. Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete who won the mens 100m sprint at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and broke his own world record in the process, later disqualified for steroid use. He would later be disqualified again for steroid use in 1993 and be banned from athletics for life.
7. TV Pranks e.g. Candid Camera.
8. Demindenko book scandal.
9. The Joe Schmo Show, a reality show where a man was led to believe he was in the running to win $100,000 in an elimination contest. All other contestants were actors, which everybody knew except him.
10. 1971 Qantas bomb hoax.
11. There's Something About Miriam, a 2004 reality show where a group of men compete for a woman's love who, unbeknownst to them, was born a man.
12. Frank Abagnale Jr., the inspiration behind the movie Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo Di Caprio.
13. A 60 Minutes prank in which man claims to be possessed by a 2000 year old spirit named Carlos.
14. US game show Twenty One being almost entirely rigged.
15. Crop Circles.
16. Hansie Cronje match fixing scandal.
17. Jon Dalton's plan to win Survivor by claiming that his grandmother had just died. At the reunion show, she was in the audience.
18. Lying politicians.
19. Charles Ingram cheats on the United Kingdom version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
20. Twenty three year old Rosie Ruiz wins the 1980 Boston Marathon and is then disqualified when its discovered she only joined the race in the final kilometre.