Timothy Balme
Narrator
Border Patrol (2002)
Season 8
Border Patrol is a New Zealand reality television series, focusing on the Customs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the New Zealand Immigration Service. It is narrated by Tim Balme. They are checking through packages, travelers and goods to find if they try to smugle prohibited or undeclared goods. They have trained staff, dogs and technology to find this out.
Released May 5, 2002
Episode 30 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, Reality, Reality TV
Keywords: tmdb.airport, tmdb.illegal-drugs, tmdb.customs, mdblist.has-trailer
Production Companies: Greenstone TV
Network: TVNZ 1
Country: New Zealand
Languages:
English
S8E1 - Episode 1
A couple of Russian working girls try to talk their way across the Border; and it's all hands on deck when a slippery visitor arrives at the Port. Catch all the action from the frontline
July 25, 2016, midnight
S8E2 - Episode 2
An exotic eastern luxury, which also happens to be a serious biosecurity risk, is stopped at the border. Plus, a cannabis crusader's plans go up in smoke at Queenstown Airport.
Aug. 1, 2016, midnight
S8E3 - Episode 3
Customs staff at Auckland International Airport deal with multiple passports and multiple identities, and a Canadian drug addict arrives with withdrawals and her own mini pharmacy.
Aug. 8, 2016, midnight
S8E4 - Episode 4
A Californian woman arrives with a bizarre backstory straight off a Hollywood script writer's keyboard. Plus, a Tongan man arrives with a quantity of tobacco 600 times over the limit of duty free threshold.
Aug. 15, 2016, midnight
S8E5 - Episode 5
An American traveller who fails to realise that his medicinal cannabis prescription isn't valid outside of the US is stopped at the border.
Aug. 22, 2016, midnight
S8E6 - Episode 6
A barista arriving from Hong Kong with very suspicious plans is sniffed out by a Customs drug dog, and high-risk plant material at the International mail centre poses a biosecurity risk.
Aug. 29, 2016, midnight
S8E7 - Episode 7
A convicted sex offender tries to talk his way over the border. Plus, Immigration New Zealand have concerns about a Korean woman who's arrived with a full portfolio of how to sell herself.
Sept. 5, 2016, midnight
S8E8 - Episode 8
A self declared marijuana farmer runs into trouble at the border, a boxed up lion requires extensive checks at the International mail center and a Brazilian busker breaches regulations in the Customs controlled area.
Sept. 12, 2016, midnight
Network: TVNZ 1
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 4290 min.
Released: May 5, 2002
Last Air Date: May 20, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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