Episode 1
The Real Midnight Express
45m
In intimate detail, Locked Up Abroad reveals Billy Hayes' real-life experience behind the Oscar-winning 1978 film, "Midnight Express."
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TV series
Banged Up Abroad
2007TV-1415 seasons7.7 / 10
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
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Synopsis
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
Season 5 episodes
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Episode 2
Saddam's Iraq
45m
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Tom Lynch and his fellow contractor John White decided to get out of Iraq while they still could, but were captured by Iraqi soldiers and taken to a notorious prison in Baghdad, where they must listen to inmates being tortured to death.
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Episode 3
Tokyo Takedown
45m
After accepting an offer to work as a hostess in Japan, Jackie Nichols meets a charming Israeli drug smuggler and agrees to smuggle hashish with him. She gets away with it four times, but the fifth time, she's not so lucky.
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Episode 4
Bangkok Underworld
45m
A 28-year-old English teacher named Tim Schrader agrees to smuggle eight kilos of heroin into the U.S. to solve his financial problems. Although he knows he could receive the death penalty, the money is too tempting to resist.
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Episode 5
Spain / Smuggler Makeover
45m
With his girlfriend pregnant, American musician Michael Morey needs money and agrees to smuggle cocaine from Quito to Spain. He barely makes it through Ecuadorian customs, but when he lands and goes through Spanish customs, he's not so lucky.
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Episode 6
Panama / Colombia Ambush
45mfinale
A jungle adventure turns sour when American backpacker Mark Wedeven and his travel companions are taken hostage by armed guerilla soldiers in Panama.
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More about Banged Up Abroad
Cast
Alex AndreasTony Galeota
James TovellMajor Phil Ashby
Jonah RussellStephen Sutton
Ronan SummersRhett
John CumminsSimon Burke
Dean GoldblumJohn Alite (Teenager)Alice BirdNicky
Fumilayo Brown-OlatejuLatasha MadsonCredits
- Created by
- Bart Layton
Production details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Documentary
- Episodes
- 132
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
National GeographicUnited Kingdom
5United Kingdom
RAWUnited Kingdom
Themes
incarceration
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