The BEST episodes of Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Every episode of Banged Up Abroad (2007) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Banged Up Abroad (2007)!
Terrifying tales of every traveler's worst fear - imprisonment abroad. From gruesome jails to chilling kidnappings, live through the panic, tears and desperation as each dreadful story unfolds.
#2 - Heroin Sting
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2011
After being caught with a kilo of heroin in Mauritius, Brigene Young faces 45 years in jail unless she can help catch the drug traffickers. Young eventually served 7 years in prison.
#3 - Panamania
Season 12 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/30/2019
Canadian 21-year-old Christina Jocko loves spending money, partying and taking drugs. But when she discovers opiates her life spirals into addiction. Out of work, out of money and out of luck, an offer of an easy $10,000 for running cocaine from Panama looks like a way out. Little does she realize the tempting adventure will cost her five years of her life.
#4 - Jungle Crash
Season 12 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/23/2019
On a mission to find drug labs in the Colombian jungle, Keith Stansell crashes. He's kidnapped by FARC guerrillas and held hostage for over five years.
#5 - Bangkok Betrayal
Season 12 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/16/2019
Hip hop dancer LaTasha thinks she's been offered the opportunity of a lifetime, but opportunity turns to nightmare when she finds herself locked up and pregnant in a Thai jail, having been fooled into smuggling heroin by a man she thought she loved.
#6 - Snakes on a Plane
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/2013
Tom Crutchfield is a reptile smuggler under investigation during Operation Chameleon. He gets close to being caught in the United States, so he flees to Belize, where he ends up in prison until being deported back to the United States.
#7 - Forbidden Love
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2011
Briton David Scott tells the story of finding his soulmate in the Philippines, and risking a 14-year prison sentence for adultery.
#8 - Saudi Bootlegger
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2011
Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager, but quickly finds himself a profitable sideline as a bootlegger.
#9 - Spain / Smuggler Makeover
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/28/2010
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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#10 - Brazil/Sao Paulo Death Trap
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/6/2009
Hollywood "party animal" Brendan Cosso and three friends are arrested trying to smuggle cocaine out of Brazil to Hungary.
#11 - Venezuela (James & Pauls Story)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/22/2007
Jim Miles and Paul Loseby, two British teenagers, are arrested in Venezuela for trying to smuggle drugs back to the UK.
#13 - The Real Midnight Express
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/30/2010
In intimate detail, Locked Up Abroad reveals Billy Hayes' real-life experience behind the Oscar-winning 1978 film, "Midnight Express."
#15 - Colombia (Glen's Story)
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/2007
Colombia, the kidnapping capital of the world, is where Glen Heggstad was taken captive by the National Liberation Army. After five weeks of torture, beatings and marches, Glen was released and sits down to tell his story.
#17 - Bangkok Underworld
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/21/2010
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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#19 - Korea
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/2008
Cullen Thomas, working with his girlfriend "Rocket," is arrested trying to smuggle hashish from the Philippines to South Korea.
#22 - Saddam's Iraq
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/7/2010
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.
#23 - Tokyo Takedown
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/14/2010
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.
#24 - The Real Goodfella
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2011
Henry Hill--who inspired the movie Goodfellas--relays the true story of his rise and fall as a drug dealing wiseguy in the New York mob.
#25 - Drug Runner Mom
Season 13 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/5/2020
Struggling single mom Melanie Di Egidio risks all in exchange for a quick buck, but when the plan goes wrong Melanie is busted with 6 kilos of heroin, caught up in a high-profile sting, and sent to a tough Ecuadorian prison.