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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Indian Hash Bust
Season 12 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/6/2019
Australian hippie Mark O'Brien is dissatisfied with life. He joins an ashram in India, led by the infamous guru Osho, looking for enlightenment. But when a fellow disciple encourages Mark to join her in a plan to smuggle an exotic form of hash to Amsterdam, it sets off a chain of events that leads him to a very different commune: the notorious Yawanda Central Prison.
#4 - Peruvian Parent Trap
Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/13/2019
When cousins Paris and Marlon go to Peru to help out family on a business opportunity, they get more than what they bargained for.
#5 - Undercover Biker
Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2020
After his arrest, drug dealer Charles Falco is facing decades behind bars. Instead, he strikes a deal with the authorities and becomes a confidential informant - living a life undercover. For the first time ever, Charles Falco tells his story on camera of how he manages to infiltrate the Vagos, one of the most violent biker gangs in the US.
#6 - Korean Ecstasy King
Season 13 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2020
In South Korea, English teacher Jesse Moskel becomes the kingpin of a huge MDMA smuggling operation — and one of Southeast Asia’s most wanted men.
#7 - Pop Star Smuggler
Season 13 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2020
Latino pop star Jimmy Bauer was dropped by his label and is desperate to raise funds to self-promote, so he agrees to smuggle heroin back to America.
#8 - Undercover Arms Dealer
Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2020
Arms dealer Peter Bleach goes undercover for British intelligence to stop a terrorist plot, preventing the massacre of innocent people.
#9 - Model Drug Runner
Season 13 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/2020
Stripper Garrain Jones hits the big-time when he stars in a Beyoncé video, but then loses it all when he gets caught smuggling heroin through Europe.
#10 - Thai Meth Bust
Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2019
Jimmy gives up his job as a postman to open a bar in Thailand, but quickly starts dealing meth. The police get wise and in a dramatic takedown bust him and send him to prison.
#12 - Colombian Double Cross
Season 13 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2020
A single mother is arrested and sent to a notorious jail in Colombia when a colleague smuggling drugs double crosses her. Now, she must fight to survive.
#13 - Peruvian Prison Break
Season 13 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/2020
Tina Myers is an exotic dancer and part time drug dealer. After she decides to make money on a Peruvian drug run, she embarks on a dangerous ride to the dark side of Peru's underworld, culminating in an insane prison escape.
#14 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#15 - Betrayed In Ecuador
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/29/2009
An unsuspecting woman, Zoe McGarry, is given a suitcase full of cocaine and is arrested when attempting to board a plane with it.
#18 - India: Hostage to Terror
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/9/2008
Rhys Partridge and Béla Nuss are kidnapped by British terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh while travelling in India.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Escape from Al Qaeda
Season 11 - Episode 2 - 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.
#21 - Mexican Border Bust
Season 11 - Episode 5 - 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.
#22 - Narco at Nineteen
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2018
Simone Blignaut travels to Bolivia, where she is double-crossed and forced to smuggle liquid cocaine.
#23 - Double Crossed in the Desert
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/18/2018
When Journalist Phil Cox returns to Sudan in 2016 to investigate allegations of illegally deployed chemical weapons, he is kidnapped by a government-backed militia.
#24 - Breaking Bad in Britain
Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2018
The story of convicted drug dealer Pieter Tritton, whose organization used camping tents to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.
#25 - Gadaffi's American Prisoner
Season 10 - Episode 6 - 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.