Rip Off Britain - Season 4

Rip Off Britain

Season 4

2012 • 28 Episodes

Angela Rippon and the team expose some of the rip offs that are costing British consumers.

Episodes

Episode 1 - Rip Off Britain

1. Episode 1

September 3, 2012

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.

Episode 2 - Rip Off Britain

2. Episode 2

September 4, 2012

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.

Episode 3 - Rip Off Britain

3. Episode 3

September 5, 2012

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.

Episode 4 - Rip Off Britain

4. Episode 4

September 6, 2012

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.

Episode 5 - Rip Off Britain

5. Episode 5

September 7, 2012

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet people fighting to get out of contracts they say are expensive or unfair.

Episode 6 - Rip Off Britain

6. Episode 6

September 10, 2012

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville hear how a heating system in thousands of homes has left some families with unexpectedly high bills.

Episode 7 - Rip Off Britain

7. Episode 7

September 11, 2012

No overview available.

Episode 8 - Rip Off Britain

8. Episode 8

September 12, 2012

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville help some residents fighting an annual charge. Plus, the villagers who cannot get a decent broadband connection.

Episode 9 - Rip Off Britain

9. Episode 9

September 13, 2012

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate how an error has made it almost impossible for one couple to sell their home.

Episode 10 - Rip Off Britain

10. Episode 10

September 14, 2012

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.

Episode 11 - Rip Off Britain

11. Episode 11

September 17, 2012

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate complaints about the banks. And more consumer issues are resolved at the Pop-Up Shop.

Episode 12 - Rip Off Britain

12. Episode 12

September 18, 2012

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.

Episode 13 - Rip Off Britain

13. Episode 13

September 19, 2012

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.

Episode 14 - Rip Off Britain

14. Episode 14

September 20, 2012

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.

Episode 15 - Rip Off Britain

15. Episode 15

September 21, 2012

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.

Episode 16 - Rip Off Britain

16. Episode 16

September 24, 2012

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.

Episode 17 - Rip Off Britain

17. Episode 17

September 25, 2012

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.

Episode 18 - Rip Off Britain

18. Episode 18

September 26, 2012

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville expose rip-offs, raw deals and poor service.

Episode 19 - Rip Off Britain

19. Episode 19

September 27, 2012

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.

Episode 20 - Rip Off Britain

20. Episode 20

September 28, 2012

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.

Episode 1 (Evening) - Rip Off Britain

21. Episode 1 (Evening)

January 7, 2013

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.

Episode 2 (Evening) - Rip Off Britain

22. Episode 2 (Evening)

January 14, 2013

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.

Episode 3 (Evening) - Rip Off Britain

23. Episode 3 (Evening)

March 8, 2013

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.

Episode 4 (Evening) - Rip Off Britain

24. Episode 4 (Evening)

March 22, 2013

Consumer show. The team investigate the companies who have taken hundreds, or even thousands, of pounds from customers but provided absolutely nothing in return.

Episode 5 (Evening) - Rip Off Britain

25. Episode 5 (Evening)

March 25, 2013

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.

Episode 6 (Evening) - Rip Off Britain

26. Episode 6 (Evening)

May 13, 2013

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.

Episode 7 (Evening) - Rip Off Britain

27. Episode 7 (Evening)

June 21, 2013

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?

Episode 8 (Evening) - Rip Off Britain

28. Episode 8 (Evening)

August 5, 2013

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.