Hustle: Complete Seasons 1-4

The con is on.

From the creators of MI-5, Hustle is an action-packed blend of humor and intrigue, following the fortunes of a gang of expert cons on the loose in London. They extract cash from the amoral and the undeserving. They have just one rule: You can never con an honest man.

Hustle boasts a solid ensemble cast including Robert Vaughn (Superman III), Adrian Lester (Spider Man 3, The Day After Tomorrow), Marc Warren (Green Street Hooligans, Band of Brothers), Robert Glenister and Jaime Murray.

"This stylish British export about a crew of flimflam men and women - think Ocean's Eleven - arrives with an impressive pedigree." - TV Guide

Series 1
Mickey Stone is fresh out of jail. His marriage is on the rocks, but he has a strong family to fall back on. That family - Albert and Ash, two old-timers who look like butter wouldn't melt in their mouths; and beautiful, street-sharp Stacie - are his partners in crime. Coming together to perform one last con, they hook up with young blood Danny Blue, a rookie with the makings of a master - but after the first last one, there have just got to be more. Criminals with consciences, playing tricks with trust, the hustlers are likable, lovable rogues evoking the wit and warmth of Ocean's Eleven.

Series 2
The family of long con specialists face some trying times. Trevor, a short con artist brought into the fold on Danny's insistence, proves to be more trouble than he's worth. Albert thinks he's found a ripe mark in a mercenary poker player but he turns out to be Stacie's ex-husband Jake. Could the gang end up losing much more than money as they watch Stacie fall for him all over again? And, as Mickey's most audacious plan yet - to steal the crown jewels - ends in capture, handcuffs and tears, could the family be broken up for good?

Series 3
The cheeky con artists are back with more slow-motion long games, double switches and soft marks. Strapped for cash after a spell in Las Vegas, the expert tricksters are confronted by some risky situations as they devise and execute more devious schemes to replenish their coffers by depriving some nasty characters of their ill-gotten gains. Scams include posing as a hip-hop record producer, a Bollywood movie-investor con, 'the royal scandal of the century', outwitting a bent cop, and joining forces with a top American grifter. And Albert comes up with an amusing way of solving the leadership challenge which involves Mickey and Danny displaying all of their charms.

Series 4
The expert long-con artists are back with more slick and sophisticated stings. With the loss of Mickey Stone to an overseas sabbatical, it's time for someone else to lead the gang. When Danny steps up to the plate, can the others convince him that the team needs another member - especially when it comes in the form of street kid Billy Bond? As always, there are plenty of 'marks' who are greedy, rude or amoral enough to be parted from their cash. Targets include a porn baron, a ruthless nursing-home owner, and a charity crook - and that's just for starters. The crew also hit LA and Las Vegas, but when they're not on their home turf, will their audacious attempts catch up with them in the end?

Series 1
Episode 1 - Three seasoned con artists (Albert, Ash and Stacie) are brought together by Mickey, under the pretence of it being his last score.

Young rookie Danny wants in; it's his chance to prove himself. But he's got a lot to learn. The mark is businessman Mr Williams, a golfing budding of the Chancellor and the perfect mark: greed is the 'in'. The con is the classic stocks and share scam (getting Williams to buy stock/shares that don't exist with promise of massive returns). The cops are on Mickey's trail but, when it seems they might just catch him, it is revealed that the detective in charge of the investigation is a con artist too, and a friend of Mickey's. Conning the cops further enhances Mickey's reputation as the best of the best. Danny is accepted by Mickey becomes a new member of the team. Mickey reveals he's been conning them - it's not his last score, he just wanted to get them altogether, as a family.

Episode 2 - When Albert is caught cheating at cards and is badly beaten and hospitalised by casino owner Frank Gorey, the team decide that Gorey will be their next victim. He loves the movies and that's their way in. While Stacie poses as a famous film actress, Mickey and Danny pose as producers who need an urgent cash investment for their film. Ash plays the part of the drunken producer who has just pulled out of the deal. Gorey falls for the con hook, line and sinker. Meanwhile, in the hospital Albert, never one to pass up an opportunity to make some cash, poses as a doctor and promises patients if they pay cash now their bills will be cheaper... The con on Gorey works and the team get the money but at a price - Danny is shot in the process. It's not all bad for Danny though, as he has proved himself to Mickey and won his confidence.

Episode 3 - Subject: a female art gallery owner and keen Mondrian fan. And a tough old broad to boot. She does not suffer fools gladly. Method: get an expert forger - the best there is - to make the team a fake painting, then sell it to her. Her love of Mondrian's work is the 'in'. Mickey poses as the dealer and Danny as the importer/exporter. The fake Mondrian is an extremely important picture (well, it would be if it was real), so the art gallery owner takes a chance. Though their target falls for the scam, the forger tries to double-cross the team with the help of a young female art correspondent - his former pupil. Unknown to him though, Mickey has already foreseen this complication and set up a contingency plan.

Episode 4 - Mickey is approached by Maher, a former cop and an expert at putting con men away who once put Albert away. He's got a grudge against Mickey because he never managed to catch him. Maher is now head of security for a bank, and wants Mickey to help him catch a robber who has raided all the bank's branches, except the one in London. If Mickey refuses, Maher will take some mitigating evidence of Danny committing a crime straight to the cops. Albert warns his to be very, very careful when dealing with Maher Mickey is caught in a hard place, but turns the tables on Maher when he locates the robber, Sam. Together, Mickey and Sam do the bank job, re-routing the CCTV cameras into a specially created room indentical to the inside of the bank so Maher doesn't realise what is happening. Maher is left with serious amount of egg on his face and a lot of explaining to do.

Episode 5 - Target: Katherine, a recently divorced, hard-nosed hotel magnate whose husband left her for a younger woman. Weakness: a fear of lifts. That's the in. Mickey uses it to gain her trust and persuades her to invest £100,000 in a non-existent hotel venture. But then he makes the mistake of falling for her and revealing what is going on. You're not meant to mix business with pleasure. After recovering from the initial shock, Katherine herself hires the team to set up and expose her ex, providing them with evidence that he is involved with an East European prostitute ring. But this time it is the team that has been set up, as it becomes clear that the husband is not involved with the prostitution at all. Rather, he is the target of his ex-wife's wrath: humiliation as the ultimate revenge.

Episode 6 - The team is planning a massive sting to hook a rich businessman, who has just received a very substantial bonus which is burning a very large hole in his pocket. He wants to bet big money, so Danny takes him to a little place he knows - a fake betting club which has been specially set up by the team. He can bet as big as he wants here. Even other cons are in on the act, posing as fake punters, tellers, staff, etc. The businessman is delighted when he keeps winning. How long can the gang keep spending its own money to look like the businessman is winning big? They need him to place a large bet soon. Danny finally persuades him and the con comes to fruition - a cool half million. But things soon go wrong. Enter Arthur, a former victim of Mickey's, who had recently been conned into buying the London Eye. He is out for revenge, violent revenge. Even the team is daunted by an angry man brandishing a shotgun, but could this be the chance for Mickey and Danny to pull off the 'perfect' con?

Series 2
Episode 1 - The gang is back and ready to take on a new mark. With Danny running the scam this time, can he and the rest of the team really convince Howard Jennings, a ruthless property developer, that there is a goldmine in the heart of London?

Episode 2 - The gang takes on an unpredictable mark, the prominent ex-gangster and chef, Johnny Keyes. Danny has the difficult job of convincing Keyes he is his long-lost son. The gains will be great, but if Keyes sees through the play they could pay a very high price.

Episode 3 - Danny brings in a new member to the team. The short-con artist proves useful. The forged antique banknote scam they are running on their greedy mark, Mgube, could net the gang half a million if they can keep him sweet. But is their new addition up to making it in the world of the long con?

Episode 4 - The team's plan to con an auction house with a comic-book forgery goes awry when corrupt copper, Sam Phillips, decides she wants in on the play. With Sam threatening them with jail, the gang has to let her in on the con, but can they trust her?

Episode 5 - Stacie gets a shock when her estranged husband, Jake, appears. The gang decides to take on the poker professional at his own game. It will be a tough score, especially as Stacie looks like she might be falling for him all over again... Can she go through with the con?

Episode 6 - The biggest score of all time. Mickey has set his sights on stealing the best-known diamond in the world, but the team questions whether the Crown Jewels are just a little too ambitious. Will Mickey have to go it alone this time?

Series 3
Episode 1 - Mickey poses as a hip-hop record producer when the gang pit themselves against a notorious mark with a bratty son who thinks he's the next Eminem. But when the con goes wrong, will the gang end up paying the price?

Episode 2 - In the high heat of summer, Danny and Mickey's bickering over who is the best grifter is settled by an unusual challenge. Stark naked, the winner will raise the most money in the allotted time. At stake is the leadership of the group.

Episode 3 - American con artist James Whittaker Wright III (aka JW3) joins up with the gang to seek revenge on some unscrupulous city bankers who ruined his grandfather. Will they be able to pull off the con before JW3 pulls a double-cross on them?

Episode 4 - An ardent fan of Bollywood films is a perfect target for a classic movie-investor con. This time, however, the team's perfectionism leads to their undoing. A scam is suspected and it looks like they will have to abandon their schemes - until the victim gets amnesia.

Episode 5 - A damaging exposé on Stacie's closest friend leads the team to a revenge plot against a newspaper editor and his weasely reporter. Hot on the scent of 'the royal scandal of the century', the victims make their task simple by their lack of morals and no concern for the truth.

Episode 6 - An ambitious cop tries to blackmail the team into helping him arrest another con artist who is planning to steal a lost Hans Christian Andersen manuscript from inside a security-tight country-house. The cop means to double-cross them, of course, but our heroes have no intention of succumbing to this long, bent arm of the law.

Series 4
Episode 1 - The hustlers are back and off to sunny Los Angeles for their first con without old leader, Mickey. New boss, Danny, is out to prove himself and talks them into a scam, which might prove to be way over their heads. In the land of movies and stardom, can our gang really get away with selling the Hollywood sign from the famous Hollywood hills?

Episode 2 - 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 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?

Episode 3 - 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 is 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?

Episode 4 - 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 is someone hanging around who is threatening to blow their cover unless Billy hands over £20,000 in cash. Can Billy keep this threat at bay until the intricate con is over?

Episode 5 - The team is celebrating another successful and lucrative con. But the fun soon ends when they are 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?

Episode 6 - The team flies out to grifters' heaven, Las Vegas, when they find out that Albert has 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 the team find a way of robbing a casino that never closes and is under 24/7 security without getting caught, or worse still - getting killed?

Created and Written by Tony Jordan
Directed by Otto Bathurst, Bharat Nalluri, Minkie Spiro, Alrick Riley, John Strickland, S.J. Clarkson, Colm McCarthy,Stefan Schwartz, Robert Bailey
Produced by Simon Crawford Collins, Karen Wilson, Lucy Robinson, Jolyon Symonds
Executive Produced by Jane Featherstone, Simon Crawford Collins, Gareth Neame, John Yorke
Original Music by Magnus Fiennes, Beatguru
Costume Design by Iain Macaulay

Series 1
"Hustle is the most surprising and purely enjoyable new British drama series in years."  - The Times

"The plot is good, the dialogue snappy and there's plenty of humour. Best of all, though, is the casting. Immoral, stylish fun, pitched perfectly for the Noughties." - Observer

"It's pacy, it's pretty, it's as slick as the Exxon Valdez."  - Guardian

"...all the crooks are so attractive in their different ways ... that there is never any doubt about who the audience will be rooting for."  - The Times

"From the opening titles to the costumes, it looks amazing, almost retro."  - Guardian

"...effortlessly stylish, intriguing and hip." - Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle

"Stylish, sexy and sly ... clever, complex stories and a wry, brooding cast." - Montreal Gazette

"An update of the old Mission Impossible TV series. Slinky music, improbable goings on and everyone in the world just gagging to be fooled by a smug team of major league fraudsters."  - The Australian

"Polished action series ... a sexy, sexy show ... The playout is compelling and, at times, even funny. The beauty of this series is in the fine line it walks between right and wrong, good and evil, light and dark."  - Sydney Morning Herald

Series 2
"...just enjoy it ... Hustle slides down like a silicone-coated oyster. Positively no teeth needed." - Guardian

"The second series of this superslick crime series just gets better and better. Set in glamorous, modern surroundings in contemporary London, propelled by an upbeat St Germain-style soundtrack and boasting a superb cast, it's sexy,shiny television with almost movie-standard production values."  - Observer

"...it is rattling good fun, with slick performances all round. The secret of a good con is to make everything appear very believable at the time, knowing that people will only realise it is implausible and ridiculous when it's all over. Which makes Hustle a very good con indeed."  - London Evening Standard

"...sharp, slick and entertaining ... you don't realise you've been conned until it's far too late."  - Stage

"Hustle was always good value, but this new series is cleverer than ever."  - The Times

"Of course we're being conned (and what a pleasure it is)..."  - Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

"Hustle really does continue to be fun."  - Sun Herald (Australia)

"...witty and stylish ... con artists steal our hearts."  - New Zealand Herald

"...a high velocity mix of intrigue and humour ... very entertaining."  - The Press (New Zealand)

"...a retro romp ... crookedly charming protagonists just as intrepid, sexy and intelligent as movie star Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief and James Garner in TV's Maverick."  - Detroit News (USA)

Series 3
"...amusing and highly ingenious..."  - Daily Express

"...what a cracking show it is ... There are twists and turns throughout, neat camera trickery, and, though the grifting stretches credibility, the show is slick enough to carry it off."  - Daily Mail

"...it's better than ever ... Slick plots and production values mean that there's a huge amount that's instantly appealing about Hustle, but the deeper roots of its attraction are fascinating too. These aren't really likeable characters, and they're doing totally immoral things. But they also seem strangely heroic, and the result has more glamour than any cop show."  - Daily Telegraph

"The new series of Hustle continues to fizz with fun and ingenuity ... It is tremendous entertainment for a Friday night."  - The Times

"Good fun."  - Observer

"Hustle has a real seat-of-the-pants style that is so fresh and immediate ... Then there are the scripts. Put it this way: you wouldn't want to make a wager with the person who advises on the grifting tricks. Hugely enjoyable."  - Daily Mail

"The new series of Hustle is more slapstick than previous outings, but it remains beautifully made and vertiginously improbable."  - Sunday Telegraph

"...terrific series..."  - Mail On Sunday

"...well-plotted ... kicks off with the funniest and cleverest episode to date ... the entire keep-it-real rap music industry, with its vacuous pretensions and ludicrous vernacular, is held up to ridicule. The ingenuity of the scam is breathtaking; so, too, is the fun that the cast have in donning their various disguises. It is wonderful end-of-the-week entertainment."  - The Times

"...Hustle is back on top form with one of its best episodes ever. Any plot that involves the very buff Adrian Lester and Marc Warren running starkers through a packed Trafalgar Square can only be a good thing."  - Daily Mirror
Series 4
"Fine plot twists, diverse cast makes cable series a loveable pleasure."  - Charleston Gazette

"Part Ocean's Eleven, part Catch Me If You Can, part The Italian Job, Hustle is all fun as it seamlessly blends cheeky humor, nail-biting suspense and fast-paced action ... It's also easy to like and root for the well-drawn characters, each of whom brings unique skills set to the group ... if you haven't watched Hustle yet, do it now. It'll steal your heart."  - Kevin Thompson, Palm Beach Post

"...clever plotting, snappy dialogue and sense of humor..."  - Gail Pennington, St Louis Post-Dispatch

"Hustle ... rates with the finest TV series being done anywhere ... every episode is such a joyous viewing experience."  - Tom Jicha, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

"Each episode breezes by so enjoyably that one's willing to forgive a little moral evasion here and there. Besides, Hustle is easily one of the most handsomely made shows on cable TV ... if you want to kick back with an hour of light yet intelligent escapism, you can't do much better than Hustle."  - Maureen Ryan, Chicago Tribune

"...finely plotted twists and turns..."  - Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times

"...irresistibly addicting. Set aside a chunk of time; if you watch one you're going to want to watch 'em all."  - J Peder Zane, News & Observer