Banged Up Abroad
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America, United Kingdom, Spain
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 45m
Release: 2007
Rating: 7.6
Season 1 - Banged Up Abroad
2006-07-01
"Scott Campbell and Lucy Baker are British travellers arrested in Mexico."
2006-07-08
"Sandra Gregory is arrested in Thailand trying to smuggle heroin into Japan."
2006-07-15
"Mark Knowles is arrested in Sydney after attempting to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. to Australia."
2006-07-22
"Donald McNeil, a yachtsman, is arrested after being pressured to collect an enormous shipment of cocaine worth 30 million pounds (more than $43.2 million in U.S. dollars). Later it was found that Edward Jarvis was the man named in the episode as \"Frank\"; he was later caught and arrested."
Season 2 - Banged Up Abroad
2007-07-07
"Jim Miles and Paul Loseby, two British teenagers, are arrested in Venezuela for trying to smuggle drugs."
2007-07-14
"Krista Barnes and Jennifer Davis are two American women arrested for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Peru."
2007-07-21
"Piers Hernu, a dual British-French traveller, is arrested trying to smuggle 28 kilos of gold bullion from Hong Kong to Nepal."
2007-07-28
"Glen Heggstad, an American adventurer, is kidnapped by the Colombian National Liberation Army."
Season 3 - Banged Up Abroad
2008-01-05
"Scott White is arrested in Kuwait for selling hashish, then escapes from jail during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait."
Season 4 - Banged Up Abroad
2009-01-03
"Safari guide Mark Ross and his tour group are kidnapped by Hutu rebels in Uganda."
Season 5 - Banged Up Abroad
2010-01-02
"David Evans is arrested trying to smuggle drugs from Venezuela to Amsterdam."
Season 6 - Banged Up Abroad
2011-01-01
"The 1977 book Midnight Express, and the Oscar-winning 1978 film on which it was based, also called Midnight Express, told the story of 20-year-old college student Billy Hayes, his imprisonment for drug smuggling and his escape from the infamous Sagmalcilar Prison in Istanbul, Turkey. But for legal reasons, the book, which Hayes co-wrote, was not completely accurate and the film version strayed even further from the truth, reportedly for artistic reasons. In this episode, Billy tells the full story of being sent to the brutal Turkish prison and his eventual escape."
Season 7 - Banged Up Abroad
2012-01-07
"Henry Hill, the inspiration behind the classic film Goodfellas, relives his descent from Mafia wise guy to a term in Terminal Island Penitentiary."
