The WORST episodes of Banged Up Abroad (2007)

#1 - Thailand/Fighting Yaba

Season 15 - Episode 6 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - The Mother's Load

Season 14 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/2021

In this series we meet American, David, who was on a drug smuggling road trip from Afghanistan to Germany with his friend, Tom, when they were caught on the Turkish/Greek border and imprisoned in Greece.

#4 - 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.

#5 - Narco Neverland

Season 15 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2022

A young Chicago gangster escapes from a life of poverty when he starts smuggling drugs for a Mexican cartel, but then it all goes wrong.

#6 - The Nightmare Factory

Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/18/2016

#7 - 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.

#8 - Fast, Furious and Busted

Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/5/2013

19-year-old street racer Rick Cedar is from Spokane, Washington. When he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant, he's overwhelmed. Short on cash, Rick decides to use his knowledge of cars to scam people online into buying engines he'll never send them. His con catches up to him when one buyer comes knocking down his door with threats. To pay him back, Rick decides the only way out is deeper into crime.

#9 - 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.

#10 - My Dad the Smuggler

Season 8 - Episode 1 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - Declassified: Double Cross Dope Deal

Season 15 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2022

Lured into drug running by his best friend, Chris is betrayed by the one person he thought he could trust.

#16 - 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.

#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 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.