Bart Layton
Director
Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Season 4
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
Released March 31, 2007
Episode 44 min
14+
Genres: Crime, Documentary, Drama, Reality
Keywords: imdb.international-relations, imdb.smuggler, imdb.prison, imdb.drug, imdb.smuggling, imdb.border, imdb.interview + 7 more, imdb.customs, imdb.docudrama-drama, imdb.social-documentary, imdb.prisoner, imdb.foreigner, imdb.reenactment, tmdb.incarceration
Production Companies: RAW
Network: National Geographic Channel
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S4E1 - Caracas/Venezuela Blues
David Evans is arrested trying to smuggle drugs from Venezuela to Amsterdam.
April 8, 2009, midnight
S4E2 - Kidnapped in the Philippines
Church volunteer Greg Williams is kidnapped and tortured by members of Abu Sayyaf.
April 15, 2009, midnight
S4E3 - Puerto Vallarta/Mexican Justice
Jake Libbon gets arrested in Mexico for selling marijuana, then is falsely accused of shooting two police officers.
April 22, 2009, midnight
S4E4 - Brazil/Sao Paulo Death Trap
Hollywood "party animal" Brendan Cosso and three friends are arrested trying to smuggle cocaine out of Brazil to Hungary.
May 6, 2009, midnight
S4E5 - Indonesia/Busted In Bali
A random encounter with a family friend at the Bali airport was all it took to land Chris Parnell in jail and arrested on charges of smuggling 12 kilos of hashish.
May 13, 2009, midnight
S4E6 - Mexico/Teen Smuggler
Alex Silva grew up in the ghetto of El Paso Texas. Son to a single mother who didn't care he wasn't going anywhere. A small job at an auto shop got him involved in smuggling drugs from Mexico.
May 20, 2009, midnight
S4E7 - Cuba/Hooked In Havana
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.
June 3, 2009, midnight
S4E8 - Iraq/Kidnapped In Iraq
Journalists Scott Taylor and Zeynep Tugrul are kidnapped by insurgents who accuse them of being American spies.
June 15, 2009, midnight
S4E9 - Barbados/Busted And Pregnant
British teen Zara Whittaker is arrested at an airport trying to smuggle cocaine out of Barbados.
June 22, 2009, midnight
S4E10 - Betrayed In Ecuador
An unsuspecting woman, Zoe McGarry, is given a suitcase full of cocaine and is arrested when attempting to board a plane with it.
July 29, 2009, midnight
S4E11 - Sierra Leone/Jungle Siege
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.
Aug. 5, 2009, midnight
S4E12 - Jamaica/Jamaican Getaway
T.K. White and her girlfriend are sent to Kingston's notorious central prison after attempting to smuggle marijuana.
Aug. 11, 2009, midnight
S4E13 - India/Delhi/Party Girl
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.
Aug. 19, 2009, midnight
Network: National Geographic Channel
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 5930 min.
Released: March 31, 2007
Last Air Date: Dec. 7, 2022, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-14
Common sense age: 14+
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