Bart Layton
Director
Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Season 6
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
S6E1 - The Real Goodfella
Henry Hill--who inspired the movie Goodfellas--relays the true story of his rise and fall as a drug dealing wiseguy in the New York mob.
Oct. 4, 2011, midnight
S6E2 - Saudi Bootlegger
Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager, but quickly finds himself a profitable sideline as a bootlegger.
Oct. 11, 2011, midnight
S6E3 - Forbidden Love
Briton David Scott tells the story of finding his soulmate in the Philippines, and risking a 14-year prison sentence for adultery.
Oct. 18, 2011, midnight
S6E4 - Mexico Money Machine
After heading to Mexico with a suitcase of fake money to buy drugs, California bodybuilder Jeremy Khinoo finds himself behind bars and in big trouble.
Oct. 25, 2011, midnight
S6E5 - Heroin Sting
After being caught with a kilo of heroin in Mauritius, Brigene Young faces 45 years in jail unless she can help catch the drug traffickers. Young eventually served 7 years in prison.
Nov. 1, 2011, midnight
S6E6 - Daredevil Drug Runner
The tale of Chris Chance, whose daredevil life smuggling cannabis into the U.K. concealed in a rubber body suit leads to a nasty prison sentence at Carabanchel Prison.
Nov. 8, 2011, midnight
S6E7 - The Cocaine Trap
Stephen Sutton gets caught up when he is offered $15,000 to transport cocaine disguised as gold, leading to an 11-year prison sentence.
Nov. 15, 2011, midnight
S6E8 - Drug Dealer Revenge
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.
Nov. 22, 2011, midnight
S6E9 - Teenage Drug Smuggler
Vivian Carrasquillo faces a crash diet in jail after an attempt to raise funds for gastric bypass surgery by becoming a drug mule backfires.
Nov. 29, 2011, midnight
S6E10 - Backstabbed in Thailand
Military veteran Kim Hood faces life behind bars in a squalid Thai prison after being caught smuggling 14 kilos of heroin with a friend, Lisa Taylor.
Dec. 6, 2011, 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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