Episode guide
Rip Off Britain: Series 8
20 episodes · first aired Sep 12, 2016
Angela Rippon and the team expose some of the rip-offs that are costing British consumers.
- 1 Episode 1 Sep 12, 2016 · 45m The team start with a particularly nasty case that saw one woman cheated out of £90,000.
- 2 Episode 2 Sep 13, 2016 · 45m The team meets a couple whose builders caused the entire house to collapse.
- 3 Episode 3 Sep 14, 2016 · 45m How many of the miraculous claims made for top-selling shampoos are really true?
- 4 Episode 4 Sep 15, 2016 · 45m Star Wars actor Mark Hamill reveals how he is taking on the fraudsters making big money from conning fans.
- 5 Episode 5 Sep 16, 2016 · 45m Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the safety of tumble dryers.
- 6 Episode 6 Sep 19, 2016 · 45m Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate new threats to your personal details.
- 7 Episode 7 Sep 20, 2016 · 45m Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate complaints about charities.
- 8 Episode 8 Sep 21, 2016 · 45m Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville ask why car dealers don't always give correct information.
- 9 Episode 9 Sep 22, 2016 · 45m With a look at safeguards Britain's online stores have in place to stop children buying products aimed at adults.
- 10 Episode 10 Sep 23, 2016 · 45m The team investigate why so many people have had problems trying to get faster broadband in their homes.
- 11 Episode 11 Sep 26, 2016 · 45m The team examine a computer threat that could see your files held to ransom and made inaccessible unless you pay up.
- 12 Episode 12 Sep 27, 2016 · 45m The team meet people who have all found ways to reduce what they previously paid on household bills.
- 13 Episode 13 Sep 28, 2016 · 45m The team expose the secret sales techniques used to pressure more vulnerable customers into buying products they simply can't afford.
- 14 Episode 14 Sep 29, 2016 · 45m The team meet viewers whose purchases have had an unwelcome sting, including homeowners desperate to know why their homes have flooded.
- 15 Episode 15 Sep 30, 2016 · 45m The team investigate if the price-match promises from some of the country's biggest retailers could come with a catch.
- 16 Episode 16 Oct 3, 2016 · 45m With fake job scams on the rise, the team unpicks how the fraudsters make their ads so plausible - thanks to actors posing as employers.
- 17 Episode 17 Oct 4, 2016 · 45m Why residents desperate to get the condition of their roads up to scratch will only be able to do it by forking out thousands of pounds themselves.
- 18 Episode 18 Oct 5, 2016 · 45m The team uncovers how the billing mistakes of one mobile phone giant have caused customers months of misery.
- 19 Episode 19 Oct 6, 2016 · 45m The team investigates cases where viewers haven't had what they paid for, including a big name music concert that went wrong from the start.
- 20 Episode 20 Oct 7, 2016 · 45m The team discovers how a business supposed to help people manage their debts left them owing more than they had in the first place.