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 - India/Delhi/Party Girl
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/19/2009
Clare Matthews quits her job and travels to India. But when money gets tight, she gambles for a quick payout: sending hash illegally to London via parcel. It works the first time, even the second. But the third time, her luck runs out and she ends up in one of the world's largest jails.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Cuba/Hooked In Havana
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/3/2009
When Kahlilah met big-shot music producer Roy, she didn't expect that her life would change forever. Just months into their relationship, Roy forced her to smuggle 18 pounds of cocaine.
#13 - Iraq/Kidnapped In Iraq
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/15/2009
Journalists Scott Taylor and Zeynep Tugrul are kidnapped by insurgents who accuse them of being American spies.
#14 - Barbados/Busted And Pregnant
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/22/2009
British teen Zara Whittaker is arrested at an airport trying to smuggle cocaine out of Barbados.
#15 - Sierra Leone/Jungle Siege
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/5/2009
During a U.N. peace mission, a minor incident sparks nationwide fighting, leading Major Phil Ashby to flee his disarmament camp and chance survival in a daring escape through the jungle.
#16 - Jamaica/Jamaican Getaway
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/12/2009
T.K. White and her girlfriend are sent to Kingston's notorious central prison after attempting to smuggle marijuana.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Thailand/Fighting Yaba
Season 15 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/2022
Liverpudlian Billy Moore moves to Thailand to start a new, happier life, but instead he gets addicted to the drug Yaba and loses control.
#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 - Drug Dealer Revenge
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/2011
Company director Robert Pringle is sentenced to seven years in a violent South-American lock-up after being pressured by his dealer to smuggle drugs.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Sole Smuggler
Season 15 - Episode 7 - 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.
#25 - 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.