The BEST episodes of Banged Up Abroad (2007) season 8
Every episode of Banged Up Abroad (2007) season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Banged Up Abroad (2007) season 8!
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 - I Am Not a Terrorist
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/9/2012
Duane Wollum is about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine, until an airport security check reveals that he is concealing a package.
#3 - Black Palace of Horrors
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/23/2012
Dwight Worker is busted in Mexico for smuggling coke and attempts a daring escape from one of the country's most notorious prison.
#4 - Dangerous Liaisons
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/6/2012
British nurse Stephen Comiskey, who takes a job in Saudi Arabia to support his family, draws the unwelcome attention of the Saudi religious police after a series of illicit gay affairs.
#5 - Escape from Argentina
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/9/2012
Lucy Wright is a nursing student when her life goes from bad to worse to hell. Her boyfriend leaves, she becomes addicted to crack, and the bills keep piling up.
#6 - From Hollywood to Hell
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/25/2012
When young actor Erik Audé discovers that he was tricked into smuggling opium out of Pakistan, he must fight to stay alive and clear his name.
#7 - Colombian Kidnap
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/13/2012
Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia.
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#8 - Cocaine Mule Mom
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/30/2012
Ruthie Lambert, a middle-aged mother of three, decides to smuggle drugs to make ends meet. She is imprisoned for years but eventually escapes by bribing a corrupt official.
#9 - The Juggler Smuggler
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/2012
Travelling magician Mark Greening juggles a young family with a budding hash-smuggling business after moving to Japan, but he soon gets caught.
#10 - Caribbean Nightmare
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/20/2012
David and Jayne Bladen's dream of a new life overseas turns into a nightmare journey of drug smuggling and violence culminating in 20 months behind bars.
#11 - Escape From the Gulag
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/12/2012
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.
#12 - Busted in Bangkok
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/27/2012
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.
#13 - Nightmare in Somalia
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/28/2012
The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia.
#14 - Venezuela Hustle
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/13/2012
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.
#15 - The Orchid Hunters
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/6/2012
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.
#16 - Chilean Prison Break
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/30/2012
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.
#17 - Not Without My Baby
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/23/2012
When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
#18 - My Dad the Smuggler
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/2/2012
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.
#19 - Son of Saddam
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/27/2012
Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia describes how he was summoned to Saddam Hussein's palace and forced to become the body double of the dictator's eldest and most notorious son, Uday.
#20 - Highway to Hell
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/2012
Adventure-seeker Thomas Hamill takes a job driving trucks in Iraq, leading to a terrifying time in captivity after being kidnapped by insurgents.