Bart Layton
Director
Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Season 7
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
S7E1 - From Hollywood to Hell
When young actor Erik Audé discovers that he was tricked into smuggling opium out of Pakistan, he must fight to stay alive and clear his name.
April 25, 2012, midnight
S7E2 - The Juggler Smuggler
Travelling magician Mark Greening juggles a young family with a budding hash-smuggling business after moving to Japan, but he soon gets caught.
May 2, 2012, midnight
S7E3 - Escape from Argentina
Lucy Wright is a nursing student when her life goes from bad to worse to hell. Her boyfriend leaves, she becomes addicted to crack, and the bills keep piling up.
May 9, 2012, midnight
S7E4 - Highway to Hell
Adventure-seeker Thomas Hamill takes a job driving trucks in Iraq, leading to a terrifying time in captivity after being kidnapped by insurgents.
May 16, 2012, midnight
S7E5 - Black Palace of Horrors
Dwight Worker is busted in Mexico for smuggling coke and attempts a daring escape from one of the country's most notorious prison.
May 23, 2012, midnight
S7E6 - Cocaine Mule Mom
Ruthie Lambert, a middle-aged mother of three, decides to smuggle drugs to make ends meet. She is imprisoned for years but eventually escapes by bribing a corrupt official.
May 30, 2012, midnight
S7E7 - Dangerous Liaisons
British nurse Stephen Comiskey, who takes a job in Saudi Arabia to support his family, draws the unwelcome attention of the Saudi religious police after a series of illicit gay affairs.
June 6, 2012, midnight
S7E8 - Colombian Kidnap
Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia.
June 13, 2012, midnight
S7E9 - Caribbean Nightmare
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.
June 20, 2012, midnight
S7E10 - Son of Saddam
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.
June 27, 2012, 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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