Series 4
2012 · 28 episodes · 18h 45m in all
Angela Rippon and the team expose some of the rip offs that are costing British consumers.
Episodes
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1. Episode 1
3 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville return with the series exposing rip-off raw deals and poor service. They test the claims of a cash for gold company.
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2. Episode 2
4 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet people angry about being left out of pocket, and investigate a big name high street store letting customers down.
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3. Episode 3
5 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a family devastated by a catch in the small print that could force them out of their home.
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4. Episode 4
6 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville Gloria investigate problems to do with the home. Plus, a woman who is worried that her boiler may not meet current standards.
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5. Episode 5
7 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet people fighting to get out of contracts they say are expensive or unfair.
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6. Episode 6
10 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville hear how a heating system in thousands of homes has left some families with unexpectedly high bills.
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7. Episode 7
11 Sept 2012 · 45 min
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8. Episode 8
12 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville help some residents fighting an annual charge. Plus, the villagers who cannot get a decent broadband connection.
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9. Episode 9
13 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate how an error has made it almost impossible for one couple to sell their home.
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10. Episode 10
14 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a meet a football fan who never received his paid-for tickets. And the company taking advantage of people's dreams.
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11. Episode 11
17 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate complaints about the banks. And more consumer issues are resolved at the Pop-Up Shop.
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12. Episode 12
18 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville look into the companies dealing with mis-sold PPI payments, and reveal how a company was taped lying to prospective customers.
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13. Episode 13
19 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate energy companies, meeting a man who was sent a £7,000 electricity bill for the year. Plus, how to lower bills.
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14. Episode 14
20 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville help a woman forced to pay someone else's loan and explore problems with websites offering bargain deals.
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15. Episode 15
21 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet a couple who were bitterly disappointed by a luxury holiday experience. Plus the true value of one store's gift vouchers.
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16. Episode 16
24 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville visit a housing estate where a problem has dragged on for years, and look at the rising cost of parking at train stations.
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17. Episode 17
25 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville ask if online comparison sites really do offer the best deals and investigate the price of being loyal to big companies.
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18. Episode 18
26 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville expose rip-offs, raw deals and poor service.
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19. Episode 19
27 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville reveal how confusion over road signs in a single spot has earned one council hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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20. Episode 20
28 Sept 2012 · 45 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman who learned that she owes her bank more than six times the amount she thought she had borrowed.
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21. Episode 1 (Evening)
7 Jan 2013 · 27 min
Consumer show. The team ask who will end up paying the price for the recent floods, and help a couple whose insurance company refuse to pay out following a fire.
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22. Episode 2 (Evening)
14 Jan 2013 · 27 min
The team investigate complaints about the banks, meeting a woman angry no-one can tell her what has happened to the £25,000 she left in her account.
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23. Episode 3 (Evening)
8 Mar 2013 · 27 min
Consumer show. The team meet the families who were promised cheaper electricity, but who instead have been hit with bills four times higher than they should have been.
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24. Episode 4 (Evening)
22 Mar 2013 · 27 min
Consumer show. The team investigate the companies who have taken hundreds, or even thousands, of pounds from customers but provided absolutely nothing in return.
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25. Episode 5 (Evening)
25 Mar 2013 · 27 min
Consumer show. The team want answers from a company taking hundreds of pounds for flight tickets they haven't supplied, and meet a woman who's ended up losing her identity.
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26. Episode 6 (Evening)
13 May 2013 · 30 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman conned out of her bank details. Plus the companies taking advantage of an easy way to make payments.
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27. Episode 7 (Evening)
21 Jun 2013 · 30 min
Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville test the claims of a cash-for-gold company - how much will they really pay out for unwanted jewellery?
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28. Episode 8 (Evening)
5 Aug 2013 · 30 min
A look at the care home contracts that come with a costly sting in the tail, and how buying a second hand car led to one woman being woken in the middle of the night.
Rip Off Britain Series 4: quick answers
How many episodes are in Rip Off Britain Series 4?
Series 4 of Rip Off Britain has 28 episodes, about 19 hours in total.
When did Rip Off Britain Series 4 come out?
Series 4 premiered on 3 Sept 2012.