A New Series of "Fare Dodgers At War With the Law..."

[barringtoncem]

Just been watching some of the new series on catch up and noticed there was a brief glimpse of a RMP with the BTP for whatever reason

 

[Mojo]

Just been watching some of the new series on catch up and noticed there was a brief glimpse of a RMP with the BTP for whatever reason

This has already been mentioned in this thread - see post #39 onwards.

 

[Class999999]

any ideas when episode 7 is?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

any ideas when episode 7 is?

Looks like, this week's episode has been pulled / rescheduled to make way for some random 'FIFA Club World Cup' football match.

 

[davews]

I couldn't see it anywhere in the next week's or so schedules. Episode 6 indicated there would be another one ('next time...') but maybe episode 6 was the end of this series.

 

[ctom_s]

There's also no mention on the catch up website of another episode whereas before they showed the upcoming episodes

 

[Peter Mugridge]

On the Freeview viewing guide ( no use after the event, I admit ) it usually says episode 1/6, 2/6 whatever...

Did anyone see if it said how many episodes?

...or if anyone still has last week's Radio Times it'll probably say in there - I can't check for you I'm afraid; today was recycling collection day...

 

[Ashley Hill]

On a similar vein Our Yorkshire Shop has four episodes but E3/4 were never shown on terrestrial TV and are only available on Channel 4 catch up.

 

[ArranArchie]

On the Freeview viewing guide ( no use after the event, I admit ) it usually says episode 1/6, 2/6 whatever...

Did anyone see if it said how many episodes?

...or if anyone still has last week's Radio Times it'll probably say in there - I can't check for you I'm afraid; today was recycling collection day...

The text is recorded with the programme on mine, and it just says: "Follow revenue protection teams as they confront fare evaders on the UK rail networks, reclaiming millions lost to fare evasion. Witness the sophisticated scams they uncover. S2 Ep6[ S ]".

None of the previous recordings say how many episodes there are either.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Just done a quick Google search, and that does appear to be the lot...

Season 1 has 4 episodes and season 2 has 6 episodes

 

[SouthernOne]

When they were filming Fare Dodgers, the camera crew said there would be 10 episodes! At the end of episode 6 there was a section on next time, so expect episode 7 soon!

Unless, channel 5 have decided to pull the series, due to low viewing figures, that’s just a guess!

 

[Class999999]

agreed, I thought it was 10 episodes in season 2, and as you say it had the "next time" section last week

 

[Thirteen]

It could be that 5 are going to show the remaining episodes at a later date.

 

[AlterEgo]

How would they get ten episodes out of it? Revenue protection isn’t that interesting.

For me it became repetitive by the third episode, and I stopped watching. Each episode contains about 10-12 minutes’ worth of content spread over an hour slot. There is such an enormous amount of repetition and redundancy in the content which reminds why I don’t usually watch television. Every segment tailed with “and next up-“ - ad break - “recap what we’ve seen, tell us again what we are about to see.”

 

[Kite159]

It could be that 5 are going to show the remaining episodes at a later date.

It wouldn't be the first time channel 5 have split a series up and will show the remaining episodes at a later date in some random time slot and without marking they are new episodes (so quite easily for someone to overlook thinking they are repeats)

 

[Mcr Warrior]

On a similar vein Our Yorkshire Shop has four episodes but E3/4 were never shown on terrestrial TV and are only available on Channel 4 catch up.

Believe episode 3 of "Our Yorkshire Shop: a Victorian Restoration" was due to be aired on C4 at 8 p.m. on Sunday 29th June 2025 with a repeat scheduled for '4Seven' at 7 p.m. yesterday (Thursday 3rd July 2025) unless it's yet another programme that's been bumped at short notice by football coverage.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Believe episode 3 of "Our Yorkshire Shop: a Victorian Restoration" was due to be aired on C4 at 8 p.m. on Sunday 29th June 2025 with a repeat scheduled for '4Seven' at 7 p.m. yesterday (Thursday 3rd July 2025) unless it's yet another programme that's been bumped at short notice by football coverage.

My TiVo never picked it up. I’ll have another look. Cheers.

 

[flythetube]

I'm surprised it's taken so long to do a second series.

Co-vid came and got in the way. I was speaking to a couple of the featured Tfl RPI’s when they came round checking on board a Central Line train that I was on at the time.

 

[Boalbads]

I remember seeing on channel 5 it had up to episode 8, thought I had a screenshot but I can't seem to find it anywhere...

 

[philch1]

I'm watching the Channel 5 'Fare Dodgers' show, and they've shown the case of two men travelling with declined bank cards. One of the men had made over 700 journeys. What the show doesn't explain is how is this possible? If TfL know that the card has no funds, why would the barriers open all those times?

 

[AlterEgo]

They’re reaching over and using the exit tap to let them in an exit gate.

 

[philch1]

So the barriers don't do any checks to make sure the card isn't reported stolen or on a blacklist? And if that's true, why not just tap through an entry barrier instead of reaching over?

 

[AlterEgo]

So the barriers don't do any checks to make sure the card isn't reported stolen or on a blacklist? And if that's true, why not just tap through an entry barrier instead of reaching over?

The barrier will let even a blocked/blacklisted card “out”. It won’t let you in.

 

[Boalbads]

perhaps this is a new episode thats just labelled wrong?

 

[SouthernOne]

It’s most likely a repeat, it is on five star!

 

[philch1]

The barrier will let even a blocked/blacklisted card “out”. It won’t let you in.

So I'm now watching another episode, and this time a guy has been stopped trying to leave the station, because the barrier is flagging that his card was blocked. The difference is that this is a SWR station. So does that mean TfL could set their gates to do the same?

 

[styles]

Just a slight amendment. Due to the offline nature of a lot of contactless systems, or merchants' policy of taking a small financial risk per customer, some barriers will let people through when their card is declined and even sometimes when it is known to have declined before.

E.g. if your bank account has £0 available and you use the debit card on TfL, I believe you can travel all day for 'free', but it won't work if you do it all week.

Allowing a full day allows for a person to obtain the normal day cap on their journeys, while not slowing down the gatelines with online authorisations. But if they try it another day, it'll usually be no dice.

Any merchant doing this would be remiss to do this more than a couple of times/days. 700 would be obscene.

Even on the same day, where authorisations are processed in the background offline, eventually you'll have a massive of say 50 failed authorisations and probably say nah this person is taking the Michael.

 

[Trackman]

Has anyone emailed them?
viewerenquiries@channel5.com

 

[Mcr Warrior]

See that Series 2 Episode 1 is scheduled to be re-aired on "5 Star" (= Freeview channel 32) on Wednesday 23rd July 2025 at 9 p.m.

 

[w11_supremecy]

It’s been confirmed on the Channel 5 website guide that the next two episodes of Fare Dodgers (7 and 8) will air on Monday 1st September and Monday 8th September respectively.