List of Hustle episodes
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Hustle is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom.
The DVD releases of the four series to date do not identify episode titles, referring instead to each episode as "Con 1", "Con 2", etc.
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[edit] Series 1
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Airdate(U.K) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Con is On" | Tony Jordan | Bharat Nalluri | 24 February 2004 |
| The episode begins with Michael Stone's release from prison. Tricking Ash, Stacie and Albert into believing that he is to carry out one last con before he retires, Mickey forms a group to perform an investment scam on a businessman, Peter Williams. Danny, having not impressed Mickey earlier in the episode, turns up at a key moment in the con to convince Williams to take part, gaining him entry to the group. However, Danny is approached by police officers and in a confrontation with Mickey, Mickey is shot in the head. Danny is faced with a choice: either testify against the other members of the group or go to prison with them. When he refuses, it is revealed that this dilemma was simply a test, Mickey isn't dead, and that the man leading the police investigation was a fellow con artist. | ||||
| 2 | "Faking It" | Tony Jordan | Bharat Nalluri | 3 March 2004 |
| Albert is vicously beaten by a local gangster after cheating at cards. When the gang see movies as their way in, they con him into investing in a fake movie. | ||||
| 3 | "Picture Perfect" | Matthew Graham | Bharat Nalluri | 9 March 2004 |
| The gang has a painting forged and sells it to an unknowing art enthusiast. | ||||
| 4 | "Cops and Robbers" | Tony Jordan | Minkie Spiro | 16 March 2004 |
| Mickey is blackmailed by a former cop-turned-bank security manager, who threatens to send Danny to prison if Mickey doesn't help him catch an habitual bank robber. Mickey soon realizes that the ex-cop is setting a trap for Mickey himself, while the bank robber is in fact simply seeking the return of a valuable family heirloom. | ||||
| 5 | "A Touch of Class" | Ashley Pharoah | Minkie Spiro | 23 March 2004 |
| A rich, bitchy, recently divorced woman is the target of the con. Everything is going according to the plan until Mickey's feelings for the woman start to get into the way, but who is actually the 'victim' in this particular scam? | ||||
| 6 | "The Last Gamble" | Tony Jordan | Robert Bailey | 30 March 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. | ||||
[edit] Series 2
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Airdate(U.K) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | "Gold Mine" | Tony Jordan | Otto Bathurst | 29 March 2005 |
| Harry Holmes, an old time grifter, is nailed by a cocky property developer, a man who thinks he can't be conned. Despite Mickey and Albert declaring the man untouchable, Danny makes a 50 pence bet with Mickey that the developer can be conned. Danny's plan: to convince the developer that a worthless piece of property in the heart of London is sitting on top of a literal gold mine. When the con begins to unravel at the 11th hour, it is left to the more experienced Mickey to rescue the situation and keep everybody out of jail. | ||||
| 8 | "Confessions" | Matthew Graham | Otto Bathurst | 5 April 2005 |
| A gangster turned famed chef seeks his long lost son, and Albert lays the plan for the team to take him for what isn't rightly his. Meanwhile, the death of a close friend leaves the aging Albert questioning his own mortality. | ||||
| 9 | "The Lesson" | Tony Jordan | Alrick Riley | 12 April 2005 |
| Danny discovers a potential member for the crew and brings him in on their latest con: to swindle a Nigerian collector of rare currency by passing off a fake rare American $1,000 bill. However, when the con goes wrong, the new member attempts to take the money by conning an innocent woman, little suspecting that he has been played from the beginning... | ||||
| 10 | "Missions" | Howard Overman | Alrick Riley | 19 April 2005 |
| The team's plan to con an auction house with a comic book forgery goes awry when a corrupt cop decides she wants in; meanwhile, Stacie develops a friendship with a comic fan who wants the comic for himself. | ||||
| 11 | "Old Acquaintance" | Julie Rutterford | John Strickland | 26 April 2005 |
| Stacie's ex-husband reappears in London after clearing out her apartment, leaving her with only a cactus, mouldy cheese, and a Phil Collins CD that wasn't even hers. The gang decide that revenge is best served cold and attempt to take his money in a rigged game of poker, but will Stacie fall for him again? | ||||
| 12 | "Eye of the Beholder" | Tony Jordan | John Strickland | 3 May 2005 |
| No one has attempted to steal the crown jewels since Thomas Blood, and no one has ever succeeded. Mickey plans to change that, but things are made more difficult by a police team that is currently after Mickey. | ||||
[edit] Series 3
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Airdate(U.K) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | "Be My Eminem" | Tony Jordan | Otto Bathurst | 10 March 2006 |
| The crew are back and working their way back up after losing everything in a brief spell in Las Vegas. Their second mark (The original target having had a heart attack before the con could begin), a people-trafficker called Benny Frazier, will do anything for his son, an aspiring rap artist. The con is set, but has the "mark" caught on? | ||||
| 14 | "Leader of the Pack" | Tony Jordan | Otto Bathurst | 17 March 2006 |
| Flaws are revealed in the gang's leadership as the rivalry between Mickey and Danny escalates. To solve this dilemma, Albert suggests the "Henderson Challenge". Dropped naked in the middle of London and given six hours to grift as much money as possible, it becomes a test of pure grifting skill between Danny and Mickey, with Stacie helping Danny while Ash works with Mickey (Leaving Albert to demonstrate minor cons to Eddie). | ||||
| 15 | "Whittaker Our Way Out" | Steve Coombes | Colm McCarthy | 24 March 2006 |
| The crew assist American con artist James Whitaker Wright III, descendant of the legendary James Whitaker Wright I, by setting up the fake company, "Chad mining" in order to crash the bank that destroyed his great-grandfather. However, have the crew forgotten how cunning "JW3" is? Guest starring Richard Chamberlain. | ||||
| 16 | "The Bollywood Con" | Danny Brown | Colm McCarthy | 31 March 2006 |
| The crew attempt to set up Kulvinda Samar (a harsh sweatshop owner), by using a movie-investor con in a Bollywood film. Their usual flawless set up is too perfect, as things take a turn for the worse, particularly when the mark develops amnesia and apparently has a change of heart. | ||||
| 17 | "Royal Scoop" | David Cummings | SJ Clarkson | 7 April 2006 |
| The gang decide to take down a tabloid paper, since it influenced one of the paper's victims- a friend of Stacie's- to attempt suicide when it accused her of embezelling funds. They try to sell them a story about the Queen Mother being a 'fake', with Albert being the son of the 'impersonator', but the situation becomes increasingly complicated when Mickey is captured by the Secret Service for his actions against the Queen Mother. | ||||
| 18 | "The Ghost" | Tony Jordan | SJ Clarkson | 14 April 2006 |
| The crew are caught by the police after they supposedly 'find' cocaine in a suitcase Mickey was carrying. Albert is thrown into prison and Detective Chief Inspector York makes a 'deal'; the rest of the crew must convince a notorious thief, Adam Rice, into stealing a Hans Christian Andersen manuscript, and then being caught red-handed. However, the crew outsmarts York, and he is, as a consequence, fired while Albert is released. | ||||
[edit] Series 4
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Airdate(U.K) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | "As One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, One Flew In" | Tony Jordan | Alrick Riley | 3 May 2007 |
| With Mickey heading to Australia to help pull off a major con, Danny feels it's time for him to take the lead. To make his mark, he comes up with an ambitious plan to sell the Hollywood sign to Texan movie memorabilia fanatic Anthony Westley (Robert Wagner). Once in LA, Danny convinces Westley that the sign is being put up for sale to be replaced with a brand new one. Westley's willing to pay big money to get his hands on the sign and will stop at nothing to ensure he wins the bid. But how will the gang get the cash if they can't deliver the sign itself? | ||||
| 20 | "Signing Up to Wealth" | Tony Jordan | Lee MacIntosh | 10 May 2007 |
| Back in the UK, Danny is convinced the team needs a new grifter and begins interviews, but the candidates aren't quite what the rest of the team are expecting. Meanwhile, Dickie Brennan, a ruthless porn baron, is keen to own a prize-winning horse. Of course, our gang of con artists are willing to oblige, despite knowing nothing about horses. And while all this is going on, will anyone take any notice of Billy Bond, who will stop at nothing to join the gang? | ||||
| 21 | "Getting Even" | Tony Jordan | Lee MacIntosh | 17 May 2007 |
| The grifters' favourite barman, Eddie, is in trouble. The owner of his Father's nursing home is holding him ransom. Veronica Powell is a ruthless businesswoman but she has a weakness: her wine collection. However, she's more wily than most, and time is running out for Eddie's Father. Can Danny think of a decent con, or will our team go bankrupt trying to convince her...? | ||||
| 22 | "A Designer's Paradise" | Colin Blytheway | Stefan Schwartz | 24 May 2007 |
| Clarissa Bartwell is an immoral woman with a passion for fashion. Using the Emperor's New Clothes as inspiration for the con, Billy steps up to play the inside with Danny. However, there's someone hanging around who's threatening to blow their cover unless Billy hands over 20,000 pounds in cash. Can Billy keep this threat at bay until the intricate con is over...? | ||||
| 23 | "Conning the Artists" | Nick Fisher | Stefan Schwartz | 31 May 2007 |
| The team are celebrating another successful, and lucrative, con. But the fun soon ends when they're taken hostage on their own territory - Eddie's bar - by a man who accuses them of dishonouring his family. This time it's personal - it's not about the money. Have they gone too far, or can they find a way of negotiating themselves out of it alive...?" | ||||
| 24 | "Big Daddy Calling" | Tony Jordan | Alrick Riley | 7 June 2007 |
| The team fly out to grifters heaven, Las Vegas, when they find out Albert's been beaten up by mafia boss, Johnny Maranzano. The revenge - the apple of Johnny's eye - Big Daddy fruit machine with a $5 million jackpot. Can they find a way of robbing a casino that never closes and is under 24/7 security without getting caught or, worse still, getting killed...? | ||||
[edit] Series 5
On 14 May 2007, it was confirmed that the BBC had commissioned a fifth series, but is unsure on how many episodes. Some sources say that there will be six, whereas as other say there will be 8 or even 10, if Adrian Lester decides to reprise his role as Michael Stone. It also has been claimed that more episodes will be filmed in the US, with a number of Hollywood names interested in a part in the show.[citation needed]
An interview with Robert Glenister in The Stage magazine, published that same month indicated the BBC hadn't commissioned any new episodes at that point.[1]
On the October 30th 2007, TvSquad interviewed Robert Vaughn. According to Vaughn: "We've shot 24 episodes so far and we have another six to shoot... the schedule now is to not only do the fifth season but also 20th Century Fox has optioned it for a motion picture which would be a prequel to the television show in the sense that you will find out how we all met. And that's the plan, of course with motion pictures when the head of a studio changes the next person who takes the job erases the entire slate, so that might not happen, but we're pretty certain we're going to be doing the fifth season in the early spring or late winter."[2]
On January 14th 2008 the Mirror newspaper reported that the BBC had axed Hustle after four series due to a lot of the cast doing other projects. Marc Warren is quoted as saying "I'd certainly be surprised if I were involved with more episodes of Hustle."[3]
However it has been noted several times that Fox have bought the rights to Hustle and are planning to make a movie. On IMDb[4] (Internet Movie Database) there has been cited a movie supposedly "in development" called "Hustle", whether or not this is the movie adaptation of the series is not yet known.
On the 8th of February 2008, whilst being interviewed for his new BBC Three show Being Human, Lester said on the subject of Hustle, 'At the moment I'm back in the arms of the BBC shooting a series called Bonekickers, which will be shown on BBC One in the Spring of '08. There is talk of a fifth series of Hustle, but we'll see...(Danny Blue)'[5]
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