Episode 1
My Dad the Smuggler
45m
Scott Campbell goes travelling in China with his estranged father, only to find out that his dad is a professional smuggler carrying 20 kilos of cannabis.
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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.
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Episode 2
I Am Not a Terrorist
45m
Duane Wollum is about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine, until an airport security check reveals that he is concealing a package.
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Episode 3
Hasidic King of Coke
45m
Orthodox Jew Samuel Leibowitz dreams of making millions as a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying term in the deadly Carandiru Penitentiary.
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Episode 4
Not Without My Baby
45m
When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
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Episode 5
Chilean Prison Break
45m
The gripping story of Tom Hanway, who flees a Chilean prison with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert.
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Episode 6
The Orchid Hunters
45m
The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who are ambushed and held for ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
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Episode 7
Venezuela Hustle
45m
Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin, but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life.
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Episode 8
Busted in Bangkok
45m
Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.
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Episode 9
Nightmare in Somalia
45m
The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia.
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Episode 10
Escape From the Gulag
45mfinale
It's 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry Amster finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia.
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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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