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- Season 0
- Episode 91
2017 Live - Episode 1
Rip Off Britain - S0 - E91
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.
Rip Off Britain: Season 0 - 101 Episode s
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.
0x97 - Food Series 4 - Episode 2
May 30, 2017
One man finds out whether confusion at the supermarkets over how to bag raw meat may be putting people's health at risk.
0x98 - Food Series 4 - Episode 3
May 31, 2017
The team expose problems with the packaging around foods and investigate why so many people say one well-known product is just too difficult to open.
0x99 - Food Series 4 - Episode 4
June 1, 2017
The team reveals the unpleasant hygiene secrets of some supermarkets and stores and accompanies inspectors trying to keep standards up to scratch.
0x100 - Food Series 4 - Episode 5
June 2, 2017
The team investigate the new fad for protein-enhanced versions of familiar products to see if paying the extra has any benefit.
0x101 - Food Series 4 - Episode 6
June 5, 2017
The team present a shocking expose into food fraud in curry houses, as lab tests reveal surprising truths about meals that simply aren't as described.
0x102 - Food Series 4 - Episode 7
June 6, 2017
The team get to grips with some of the promotions, prices and portions of the food we buy and explore why some meals have fallen short of expectations.
0x103 - Food Series 4 - Episode 8
June 7, 2017
The team explore viewers' concerns about supermarket deals and offers - do they always save as much money as it might appear?
0x104 - Food Series 4 - Episode 9
June 8, 2017
The team unravel some of the costs involved in eating out and investigate whether the prices some restaurants charge for wine are fair.
0x105 - Food Series 4 - Episode 10
June 9, 2017
The team explores the implications of the vegetable shortage earlier this year and the effect it continues to have. Disgruntled customers explain why they now watch films at home.
0x106 - 2017 Live - Episode 6
October 16, 2017
Live episode of the consumer series, featuring an expose of one of the world's fastest-growing scams, and hi-tech car parking payment systems are put to the test.
0x107 - 2017 Live - Episode 7
October 17, 2017
Live episode of the consumer series, spotlighting an elaborate fraud that uses mobile phones to gain access to bank accounts. And an update on some past stories.
0x108 - 2017 Live - Episode 8
October 18, 2017
Live episode of the consumer series. An unemployed man reveals how responding to an ad for an apparently dream opportunity led to him being conned out of hundreds of pounds.
0x109 - 2017 Live - Episode 9
October 19, 2017
The team tackle the latest consumer issues live from Glasgow, investigating why so many big-name airlines have recently made headlines for the wrong reasons.
0x110 - 2017 Live - Episode 10
October 20, 2017
In the last of their special week of live programmes from Glasgow, the team investigate why England is the only part of the UK where you still have to pay for prescriptions.
0x111 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 1
January 2, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville explore the impact some of the travel stories dominating recent headlines will have on travel plans for 2018.
0x112 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 2
January 3, 2018
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville look at shocking examples of trips that have gone disastrously wrong.
0x113 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 3
January 4, 2018
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford look into a terrifying accident that occurred around a hotel pool for which no-one is taking responsibility.
0x114 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 4
January 5, 2018
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford look into difficulties that can arise en route to or from a holiday destination.
0x115 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 5
January 8, 2018
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon get to the bottom of a fresh collection of scams designed to trick people out of hundreds of pounds.
0x116 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 6
January 9, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate holiday disasters that can occur before people have even reached their destination.
0x117 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 7
January 10, 2018
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate a company that has failed to deliver the trips coachloads of passengers booked and paid for.
0x118 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 8
January 11, 2018
Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford look at how people can ensure they are protected if something goes wrong while on holiday.
0x119 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 9
January 12, 2018
The team expose some surprising issues viewers have had with apparently 'free' cancellations and investigate the companies offering to help claim compensation for flight delays.
0x120 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 10
January 15, 2018
The team unravels some of the mysterious phone and car hire charges viewers have been hit with either during or after their holidays.
0x121 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 11
January 16, 2018
The team gets to the bottom of which countries are ones where it is - or isn't - safe to drink the tap water, and test out the most effective ways to beat travel sickness.
0x122 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 12
January 17, 2018
Julia Somerville, Gloria Hunniford and Angela Rippon investigate stories to do with staying healthy and safe while travelling.
0x123 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 13
January 18, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate problems with big-name airlines, including the stranded Monarch passengers left out of pocket.
0x124 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 14
January 19, 2018
The team investigates whether the great deals advertised for holidays are always quite what they seem - or if they are even available at all.
0x125 - Holidays Series 6 - Episode 15
January 22, 2018
The team hear how one family's trip abroad was ruined by a reality very different from the glossy photos the travel brochure had shown.
0x126 - Food Series 5 - Episode 1
April 23, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville with topical reports into food and drink. This episode focuses on some serious concerns about going out for a meal.
0x127 - Food Series 5 - Episode 2
April 24, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate problems viewers have encountered at restaurants and ask why so many of the big-name chains are suddenly in crisis.
0x128 - Food Series 5 - Episode 3
April 25, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate why viewers feel they have been let down or misled with regard to some of the country's food and drink festivals.
0x129 - Food Series 5 - Episode 4
April 26, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford, and Julia Somerville discover why it is feared up to 90 per cent of the fridges in homes may not be working efficiently, or safely.
0x130 - Food Series 5 - Episode 5
April 27, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville investigate more stories to do with food, and expose an unexpected downside to the nation's favourite fizz, prosecco.
0x131 - Food Series 5 - Episode 6
April 30, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville look at problems faced by viewers when out shopping or at the supermarket.
0x132 - Food Series 5 - Episode 7
May 1, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville look into whether products that claim to be sugar-free or have zero sugar are really as good as people might think.
0x133 - Food Series 5 - Episode 8
May 2, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville reveal how some establishments are using fake hygiene ratings to trick customers through the door.
0x134 - Food Series 5 - Episode 9
May 3, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville discover the truth about foods supposed to be healthy, as well as the way that they are sold.
0x135 - Food Series 5 - Episode 10
May 4, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville look into convenience foods and deliveries, putting some of the most popular online takeaway services to the test.
0x136 - 2018 Live (1) - Episode 1
June 25, 2018
Live episodes of the consumer series, featuring a look at the increase in the number of councils charging to collect garden waste and making millions in the process.
0x137 - 2018 Live (1) - Episode 2
June 26, 2018
Live episodes of the consumer series, featuring a look at the lack of consumer choice around water suppliers, as customers reveal disastrous experiences.
0x138 - 2018 Live (1) - Episode 3
June 27, 2018
Live episodes of the consumer series, featuring passengers with disabilities sharing their experiences of being left stranded on trains or at stations.
0x139 - 2018 Live (1) - Episode 4
June 28, 2018
Live episodes of the consumer series. The team investigate whether the appliances, gadgets and electricals in our homes are really as safe as we expect them to be.
0x140 - 2018 Live (1) - Episode 5
June 29, 2018
Live episodes of the consumer series. Undercover footage captures the tactics of a company targeting old or vulnerable people to persuade them to hand over thousands of pounds.
0x141 - 2018 Live (2) - Episode 1
October 15, 2018
Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville launch a special week of live episodes of the consumer series, with the latest topical reports.
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