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Season 1

  • S01E01 Leeds

    • March 30, 2004
    • Channel 5

    Donal MacIntyre sets up a sting operation with the co-operation of the police, in Leeds, in order to net various criminals who have failed to turn up at court. This is done by luring them in on the pretence that they have been selected to appear in a new game show with big money prizes.

  • S01E02 Cleveland

    • April 6, 2004
    • Channel 5

    Donal MacIntyre and Teeside police lure car crime suspects into the arms of the law by setting up a hoax go-kart event, presented by Tiff Needell. Will the sting's targets walk into the trap?

  • S01E03 Portsmouth

    • November 16, 2004
    • Channel 5

  • S01E04 Humberside

    • November 23, 2004
    • Channel 5

Season 2

Season 3

  • S03E01 Car Theft

    • October 25, 2005
    • Channel 5

    Investigative reporter Donal MacIntyre and his team go undercover and secretly film people involved in the car theft trade.

  • S03E02 Yobs

    • November 1, 2005
    • Channel 5

    A sting operation is set up with a tracking device and hidden television inside a parked car to trap car thieves.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Wembley

    • February 22, 2006
    • Channel 5

    Donal MacIntyre and his team go undercover to help the police trap wanted offenders from Brent on their own turf. In the shadow of Wembley stadium, the police and the Big Sting team host a star-studded party to launch a new football magazine. There are fantastic prizes to win. However, everything about 'Balls' magazine is fake. The event is a device to help tempt unsuspecting criminals into the waiting arms of the police, who have warrants for their arrest.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Car thieves / Disabled Parking / Yobs

    • August 23, 2006
    • Channel 5

    Donal MacIntyre sets up a parked car to catch out those who break in to it. Keith Wilson reports on those who park invalidly in disabled bays, and Kate McIntyre talks with a car repairman who has stood up to yobs.

  • S05E02 Uninsured & bad drivers / Litter louts / Bad parking

    • August 30, 2006
    • Channel 5

    Donal MacIntyre, Keith Wilson and Kate McIntyre confront uninsured and bad drivers, litter louts in Liverpool and fly-tippers in Wakefield, and, school run mothers who park their often large cars inconsiderately.

  • S05E03 Luring criminals / Paramedics / Idenity Fraud

    • September 6, 2006
    • Channel 5

    Donal MacIntyre assists West Yorkshire police set up a sting to net an assortment of criminals who are on the run - with the lure of a possible large inheritance. Also looks at he dangers faced by paramedics, and identity fraud.

  • S05E04 Dealers of stolen goods / Carboot sales

    • September 13, 2006
    • Channel 5

    Donal MacIntyre goes after dealers in stolen goods, and Keith Wilson shows how criminals can easily use carboot sales as a means of selling on stolen goods.

  • S05E05 Fake designer clothes / Taxi drivers

    • September 20, 2006
    • Channel 5

    Donal MacIntyre investigates and exposes distributors and sellers of fake designer clothes and items in Manchester; Kate McIntyre exposes unlicensed taxi drivers in Leeds, with Keith Wilson posing as a bogus taxi.

  • S05E06 Safe as houses / Tracking Devices

    • September 27, 2006
    • Channel 5

    Donal and the team rig a remote house with 15 covert cameras and lie in wait for a thief who plans to break in to steal the keys to a rare Aston Martin parked on the drive. In a television first, the documentary sees Donal and his undercover team hide in the garage as a burglar cases out the house and makes his move - before Donal, dressed as 007, nabs him. Macintyre also puts a tracker device in a lap top which is stolen by another thief. Keith Wilson similarly puts a tracker on a bike, and Kate McIntyre looks at some of the latest technology used by the police.