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2015 Live - Episode 1
Rip Off Britain - S0 - E46
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal how scammers have found a way to hijack genuine phone numbers.
Rip Off Britain: Season 0 - 96 Episode s
0x1 - Holidays Series 1 - Episode 1
January 7, 2013
The consumer series returns with a special week of programmes from Tenerife, as the Rip Off Britain team unravel the costs and complications of checking-in airline baggage.
0x2 - Holidays Series 1 - Episode 2
January 8, 2013
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville spend a day with the British Consulate in Tenerife, investigating how holiday emergencies are resolved.
0x3 - Holidays Series 1 - Episode 3
January 9, 2013
The team investigate stories about holidays and travel, discovering how an airline sent one passenger backwards and forwards around the world after a missed connection.
0x4 - Holidays Series 1 - Episode 4
January 10, 2013
The team investigates holiday horror stories, including a family left devastated by the truth about an investment, and the 'holiday tax' bumping up the cost of flights.
0x5 - Holidays Series 1 - Episode 5
January 11, 2013
Continuing the programmes from Tenerife, with the story of a couple left stranded in the middle of the night after being booked into a resort that had been closed for months.
0x6 - Holidays Series 2 - Episode 1
January 6, 2014
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team hear how a hotel lost two passports then said it was nothing to do with them.
0x7 - Holidays Series 2 - Episode 2
January 7, 2014
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team hear of the families who struggled to escape a terrifying hotel fire.
0x8 - Holidays Series 2 - Episode 3
January 8, 2014
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team hear of websites promising to help get a new passport, but failing to do so.
0x9 - Holidays Series 2 - Episode 4
January 9, 2014
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team reveal how mobile bills can rack up costs of hundreds of pounds while abroad.
0x10 - Holidays Series 2 - Episode 5
January 10, 2014
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team reveal how airlines can escape having to pay out after lengthy delays.
0x11 - Food Series 1 - Episode 1
March 17, 2014
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. They learn how much of what is served at well-known restaurants is made on the premises.
0x12 - Food Series 1 - Episode 2
March 18, 2014
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate concerns over food and drink. A year after the horsemeat scandal, how much can we trust our meat?
0x13 - Food Series 1 - Episode 3
March 19, 2014
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the quality and prices of the food sold in the supermarkets that dominate our weekly shop.
0x14 - Food Series 1 - Episode 4
March 20, 2014
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford investigate what we pay for our food, looking at the rising cost of a roast and discovering how the weather affects prices.
0x15 - Food Series 1 - Episode 5
March 21, 2014
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville expose more secrets of the food business, investigating whether special offers and packaging are always everything they seem.
0x16 - Food Series 1 - Episode 6
March 24, 2014
The team look at how some supermarkets make it hard to compare prices between products and work out the best deal, and examine what exactly goes into our sausages.
0x17 - Food Series 1 - Episode 7
March 25, 2014
The team expose some of the unexpected ingredients that go into our favourite foods, such as crushed beetle, and investigate misleading labels.
0x18 - Food Series 1 - Episode 8
March 26, 2014
The team investigate more stories about what we eat, asking if most of us have a diet too sweet for our own good and looking at the best way to start the day.
0x19 - Food Series 1 - Episode 9
March 27, 2014
The team take a look at best-before and use-by dates on food labels and reveal why frozen food can sometimes be better for you than fresh.
0x20 - Food Series 1 - Episode 10
March 28, 2014
The team explore whether free-range eggs are really worth the extra cost and reveal the unexpected levels of salt in some everyday products.
0x21 - 2014 Live - Episode 1
October 20, 2014
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal new figures on the impact of cyber crime.
0x22 - 2014 Live - Episode 2
October 21, 2014
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal extraordinary ways to slash the cost of a weekly shop.
0x23 - 2014 Live - Episode 3
October 22, 2014
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford explore the increasing threat of identity theft.
0x24 - 2014 Live - Episode 4
October 23, 2014
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate the customer service of some of Britain's biggest names.
0x25 - 2014 Live - Episode 5
October 24, 2014
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville discover how postal workers are being drafted into the battle against scams.
0x26 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 1
January 5, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team hear about a decision with repercussions for the entire holiday industry.
0x27 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 2
January 6, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team discovers why, after an emergency abroad, an insurer refused to pay the bill.
0x28 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 3
January 7, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team uncover some of the unexpected costs of taking a cruise.
0x29 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 4
January 8, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team hear from a man whose holiday company wouldn't let him cancel his booking.
0x30 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 5
January 9, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team hear about a family grounded by someone else's extraordinary mistake.
0x31 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 6
January 12, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team look at the holiday homes booked online that turn out to be a con.
0x32 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 7
January 13, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team unpicks who decides whether hotels deserve the star ratings they advertise.
0x33 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 8
January 14, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team investigate travel disasters that happen en route to or from destinations.
0x34 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 9
January 15, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team investigate a company taking money for holidays that never happened.
0x35 - Holidays Series 3 - Episode 10
January 16, 2015
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate viewers' holiday disasters. The team meet families who arrived on holiday to find no record of their bookings.
0x36 - Food Series 2 - Episode 1
April 13, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. Tests reveal whether more expensive orange juice is a healthier product.
0x37 - Food Series 2 - Episode 2
April 14, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team looks at where some of our food comes from and how it is described.
0x38 - Food Series 2 - Episode 3
April 15, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. Britain's supermarkets are under scrutiny in this episode.
0x39 - Food Series 2 - Episode 4
April 16, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team unravel conflicting advice about the benefits and dangers of everyday foods.
0x40 - Food Series 2 - Episode 5
April 17, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team reveal unmissable secrets about the freshness of some of our foods.
0x41 - Food Series 2 - Episode 6
April 20, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team investigate problems viewers have had when eating on the go.
0x42 - Food Series 2 - Episode 7
April 21, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about food. The team visits a school that has banned high-caffeine energy drinks.
0x43 - Food Series 2 - Episode 8
April 22, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team explore whether the labels on food always tell the full story.
0x44 - Food Series 2 - Episode 9
April 23, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team investigate whether the products we buy offer good value for money.
0x45 - Food Series 2 - Episode 10
April 24, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team debunk some of the claims about foods and their apparent health benefits.
0x46 - 2015 Live - Episode 1
October 19, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal how scammers have found a way to hijack genuine phone numbers.
0x47 - 2015 Live - Episode 2
October 20, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville challenge two shoppers to see if haggling can get you a better deal on the high street.
0x48 - 2015 Live - Episode 3
October 21, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal the restaurants breaking new rules on giving out vital allergy advice.
0x49 - 2015 Live - Episode 4
October 22, 2015
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal the most effective ways to complain and how to slash the cost of car insurance.
0x50 - 2015 Live - Episode 5
October 23, 2015
The last programme in a week of live editions of the consumer series with Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville. Art investments are among the topics in the frame.
0x51 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 1
January 4, 2016
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday problems. The lifesaving piece of kit that airlines don't always carry, and the best way to avoid mosquito bites.
0x52 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 2
January 5, 2016
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday problems. The team meets a woman who cannot understand why travelling alone means paying more.
0x53 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 3
January 6, 2016
The team investigate viewers' holiday problems. As the latest holiday scams are revealed in this edition there's advice to make sure you don't get caught out the same way.
0x54 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 4
January 7, 2016
The team investigate stories about holidays and travel. They meet people who feel they have been treated unfairly by companies who changed the details of what they'd signed up to.
0x55 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 5
January 8, 2016
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday issues. A woman reveals how her break was ruined by bedbugs. Plus will a pricier sun cream provide superior protection?
0x56 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 6
January 11, 2016
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday issues. A couple who bought a home abroad end up living in the garage after their property is inexplicably demolished.
0x57 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 7
January 12, 2016
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday issues. The team come to the rescue of a family whose trip is in jeopardy thanks to a problem getting a visa online.
0x58 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 8
January 13, 2016
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday issues. The team hear from a single mum whose tour operator left her with three small kids in the middle of nowhere.
0x59 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 9
January 14, 2016
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday issues. The team look into allegations that airlines are finding new ways to wriggle out of paying passengers compensation.
0x60 - Holidays Series 4 - Episode 10
January 15, 2016
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday issues. The team reveal how scammers take advantage of a company that's revolutionised the way millions of people travel.
0x61 - Food Series 3 - Episode 1
April 25, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team test out the hygiene standards at some of Britain's biggest names.
0x62 - Food Series 3 - Episode 2
April 26, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food. The team discovers what's being done to ensure our water supplies are clean.
0x63 - Food Series 3 - Episode 3
April 27, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about food. The team help viewers get to the bottom of why they don't think they got what they paid for.
0x64 - Food Series 3 - Episode 4
April 28, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about food. Exotic-sounding smoothies may be full of more ordinary fruits than you might expect.
0x65 - Food Series 3 - Episode 5
April 29, 2016
Amid complaints of rising prices, the true cost of Britain's fish and chips is revealed. Plus a closer look at a supermarket's claims about the benefits its milk gives dairy farmers. And how some of the lagers that trade off their foreign roots actually have their origins rather closer to home.
0x66 - Food Series 3 - Episode 6
May 2, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about food, including a look into frustrations with half-empty packaging.
0x67 - Food Series 3 - Episode 7
May 3, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about food, revealing the reality of how safe those leftover, half-eaten jars of food are to eat.
0x68 - Food Series 3 - Episode 8
May 4, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about food, including a look into whether supermarket deals are always the bargain they appear to be.
0x69 - Food Series 3 - Episode 9
May 5, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about food, including surprising tips on how to ensure the products we buy stay at their best.
0x70 - Food Series 3 - Episode 10
May 6, 2016
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about food. A woman who spends only a fraction of the price of an average weekly shop reveals her secret.
0x71 - 2016 Live - Episode 1
October 10, 2016
Live edition of the consumer series with Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville. Gloria relives her own recent experience of being scammed.
0x72 - 2016 Live - Episode 2
October 11, 2016
Live edition of the consumer series with Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville. Star Wars actor Mark Hamill reveals his consumer secrets.
0x73 - 2016 Live - Episode 3
October 12, 2016
Live edition of the consumer series with Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville. This episode looks at an email hacking scam conning people out of their money.
0x74 - 2016 Live - Episode 4
October 13, 2016
Live edition of the consumer series with Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville. The team hear about plans to tackle the aggressive fundraising of some charities.
0x75 - 2016 Live - Episode 5
October 14, 2016
The final live edition of the consumer series. The team look at the continuing controversy around the tumble dryers in UK homes at risk of catching fire.
0x76 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 1
January 2, 2017
The Rip Off Britain team investigate viewers' holiday issues. They are in Barcelona, examining how police are tackling the city's reputation as the pickpocketing capital of Europe.
0x77 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 2
January 3, 2017
The Rip Off Britain team investigate the jaw-dropping tale of how a company sent one family to a succession of villas it turned out they had no right to stay in.
0x78 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 3
January 4, 2017
The Rip Off Britain team examine why travel companies so often refuse refunds for cancellations - even if there is still plenty of time to sell it to someone else.
0x79 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 4
January 5, 2017
The team investigate why a group of unconnected travellers at the same hotel had their complaints treated differently when they went through the same experience.
0x80 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 5
January 6, 2017
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet families who have paid for guaranteed seats together on planes, only to find that's not what they get on board.
0x81 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 6
January 9, 2017
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville examine the cleanliness of British hotel rooms. Does booking a more expensive hotel guarantee a cleaner room?
0x82 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 7
January 10, 2017
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate health-related holiday disasters, including those who have had to cancel holidays due to the zika virus.
0x83 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 8
January 11, 2017
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon hear about dramatic stories of how holidays were scuppered by unexpected disasters.
0x84 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 9
January 12, 2017
The team investigate problems viewers have had at airports, including a costly passport problem and confusion at airport security.
0x85 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 10
January 13, 2017
The team hear how one man's home was rented out to holidaymakers without him knowing anything about it. Plus the hidden charge adding hundreds of dollars to American hotel bills.
0x86 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 11
January 16, 2017
The team investigates the airport meet-and-greet companies that promise safe and secure parking but instead leave cars in fields or by the side of the road.
0x87 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 12
January 17, 2017
The team investigates a life-changing accident in Cuba that left one group of friends asking who is responsible when disaster strikes on a trip abroad.
0x88 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 13
January 18, 2017
The team discovers how airlines are working to stop drunk passengers from disrupting flights, meeting a boy caught in the crossfire and the bouncers recruited by airports.
0x89 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 14
January 19, 2017
The team reveals the unwelcome guests said to be scuppering more holidays than ever, as bedbugs return with a vengeance. Simon Calder has advice on staying safe abroad.
0x90 - Holidays Series 5 - Episode 15
January 20, 2017
The team exposes airline secrets, testing out if it is true that airlines snoop on flight searches in order to hike up fares. Plus Simon Calder has tips on visiting Dubai.
0x91 - 2017 Live - Episode 1
May 15, 2017
Live episodes of the consumer series, featuring a look at how phone fraudsters can make their texts appear to be from a familiar and trusted number.
0x92 - 2017 Live - Episode 2
May 16, 2017
Live episodes of the consumer series. A test reveals the alarming extent to which second-hand car dealers are leaving buyers exposed to dangerous faults.
0x93 - 2017 Live - Episode 3
May 17, 2017
Live episodes of the consumer series. Viewers reveal how they have lost their savings after companies targeted their pension pots.
0x94 - 2017 Live - Episode 4
May 18, 2017
Live episodes of the consumer series. With people losing money to scams they have come across on social media, could more be done to stop people losing out?
0x95 - 2017 Live - Episode 5
May 19, 2017
Live episodes of the consumer series. With fraudsters using fake ID to get other people's money, how can security be improved to make it harder for them to succeed?
0x96 - Food Series 4 - Episode 1
May 29, 2017
After a man reveals how eating one particular food cost him his job, Angela Rippon takes a drugs test to see what effect the same ingredient has on her.
Rip Off Britain: All seasons
S0: Specials
260 Episode s
S1: Series 1
5 Episode s
S2: Series 2
31 Episode s
S3: Series 3
28 Episode s
S4: Series 4
28 Episode s
S5: Series 5
20 Episode s
S6: Series 6
20 Episode s
S7: Series 7
20 Episode s
S8: Series 8
20 Episode s
S9: Series 9
20 Episode s
S10: Series 10
20 Episode s
S11: Series 11
20 Episode s
S12: Series 12
20 Episode s
S13: Series 13
20 Episode s
S14: Series 14
20 Episode s
S15: Series 15
40 Episode s
S16: Series 16
30 Episode s
S17: Series 17
5 Episode s