Ken Cameron
Director
Bangkok Hilton (1989)
Miniseries
This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes and tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of the father she has never known. Her search takes her from Australia to England and then on to Bangkok. There she meets up with a charming young man, Arkie Regan, who plants drugs in her luggage and leaves her to her fate when the authorities find them during a routine search at the airport. Following her imprisonment in the notorious Bangkok Hilton prison she awaits the decision of the authorities on whether she should face the death penalty.
Released Nov. 5, 1989
Episode 88 min
None+
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Production Companies: Kennedy Miller Productions
Network: ABC TV
6.0
S1E1 - Episode 1
A young woman finds out the truth of her believed to be dead father, a former British Army Officer and begins quest to find him, only to be arrested in Bangkok for unknowingly transporting illegal narcotics hidden in her baggage
Nov. 5, 1989, midnight
8.0
S1E2 - Episode 2
Kat's incarceration begins in a prison nicknamed the Bangkok Hilton, facing a potential death penalty. People try to help her inside and outside the prison
Nov. 6, 1989, midnight
9.0
S1E3 - Episode 3
After the execution of 2 of her inmate friends, a plan is hatched, and one of the men who is helping attorney her turns out to be somebody else
Nov. 7, 1989, midnight
ABC TV
88 min/ep
265 min
Nov. 5, 1989
Nov. 7, 1989, midnight
Ended
NR
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