The WORST episodes of Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Every episode of Banged Up Abroad (2007) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.
#1 - Casualty of War
Season 15 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2022
Veteran soldier Brett heads to India to overcome his PTSD, but instead is tempted into smuggling weed out of the Himalayas and into Europe.
#2 - Sole Smuggler
Season 15 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2022
David Harte was in his forties when life collapsed around him. He was tempted into the shady world of drug smuggling, then got caught in Mauritius.
#3 - Pakistan
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/2008
Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist on the way to Afghanistan for an assignment, is accused of being a spy and arrested in Pakistan.
#4 - Escape from Al Qaeda
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/2018
Rookie photographer Matt Schrier travels to Syria, where he is captured by Al-Nusra Front, the Syrian Al-Qaeda. Matt was held hostage for seven months with journalist Theo Curtis before escaping.
#5 - Colombian Kidnap
Season 7 - 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.
#6 - Peru/Trauma Express
Season 15 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2022
Travel-loving Bronwyn Atherton finds herself on the road to destruction when she's lured into the shady world of international drug-smuggling.
#7 - Plane Crash Marijuana
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/6/2016
In 1972, 19 year old American Jim Pap Rocki, a college graduate is convinced by his brother-in-law to join him on a drug run to Southern Mexico. All goes to plan until the cargo catches fire and they are forced to crash-land.
#8 - Caribbean Nightmare
Season 7 - Episode 9 - 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.
#9 - Buried Alive
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/8/2013
Roy Hallums is an American contractor who was kidnapped in Iraq from 2004 to 2005.
#10 - Not Without My Baby
Season 8 - Episode 4 - 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.
#11 - Narco at Nineteen
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2018
Simone Blignaut travels to Bolivia, where she is double-crossed and forced to smuggle liquid cocaine.
#12 - Bad Bromance
Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/8/2018
U.S. Naval Officer Lemar Burton is caught attempting to smuggle five kilos of cocaine from Colombia to Italy.
#13 - Miami Mobster Take Down
Season 13 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/4/2020
When Miami mobster Tony Galeota opens a club in Panama City, the competition frames him for drug dealing and human trafficking. Locked up in one of the world's worst prisons, Tony has to prove his innocence and attempt an audacious escape.
#14 - Love Behind Bars
Season 15 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2022
After smuggling drugs for 18 months, Anelda Mare decides to quit, only to be told her parents will be killed unless she makes one last run.
#15 - Big Trouble in Tokyo
Season 15 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2022
Steven Beattie's Thai party lifestyle isn't cheap, so he smuggles hash to fund it, for which he pays the ultimate price when he's locked up in Japan.
#16 - Greek Border Bust
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/2019
David embarks on an epic road trip, where he attempts to smuggle hash from Afghanistan to Germany. He is caught in Greece and imprisoned on an island.
#17 - Peru (Krista and Jennifer's Story/Peruvian Prison Nightmare)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2007
Krista Barnes and Jennifer Davis are two American women arrested for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Peru.
#18 - Tokyo Takedown
Season 5 - 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.
#19 - Mexican Border Bust
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2018
Southern California resident Steven Peterson is arrested and imprisoned in Tijuana after attempting to smuggle 120 kilos of marijuana from Mexico to the United States.
#20 - Gadaffi's American Prisoner
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/4/2016
Captured by Gaddafi's men while fighting with rebels in Libya, Baltimore-born Matthew VanDyke spent nearly six months in solitary confinement.
#21 - Philippines: Fatal Mission
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/21/2008
Gracia and Martin Burnham, Christian missionaries in the Philippines, are kidnapped by members of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim fundamentalist group.
#22 - The Mother's Load
Season 14 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/2021
A young mother addicted to crack cocaine takes her daughter on a risky drug smuggling job in Venezuela, but her world collapses when the two are torn apart.
#23 - Saddam's Iraq
Season 5 - 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.
#24 - Puerto Vallarta/Mexican Justice
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/2009
Jake Libbon gets arrested in Mexico for selling marijuana, then is falsely accused of shooting two police officers.
#25 - 50 Ton Pot Run
Season 14 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/2021
A 70s hippie turns multimillionaire shipping tons of pot into the US, until one of the biggest busts in history forces him on the run to Bolivia.