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Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Popularity 9.6
Overview
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
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Season 1
4 episodes · First aired 2007-03-31
E01
Costa Rica/Mexico (Scott and Lucy's Story)
2007-03-31 · 45 min
Scott Campbell and Lucy Baker are British travellers arrested in Mexico.
E02
Australia (Mark's Story)
2007-04-07 · 45 min
Mark Knowles is arrested in Sydney after attempting to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. to Australia.
E03
Venezuela/Margarita Island (Denis and Donald's Story)
2007-04-14 · 45 min
Donald McNeil, a yachtsman, is arrested after being pressured to collect an enormous shipment of cocaine worth 30 million pounds (more than $43.2 million in U.S. dollars).
E04
Thailand (The Sandra Gregory Story)
2007-04-21 · 45 min
Sandra Gregory is arrested in Thailand trying to smuggle heroin into Japan.
Season 2
9 episodes · First aired 2007-06-24
E01
Peru (Krista and Jennifer's Story/Peruvian Prison Nightmare)
2007-06-24 · 45 min
Krista Barnes and Jennifer Davis are two American women arrested for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Peru.
E02
Venezuela (James and Paul's Story)
2007-08-22 · 45 min
Jim Miles and Paul Loseby, two British teenagers, are arrested in Venezuela for trying to smuggle drugs.
E03
Nepal (Piers' Story)
2007-09-12 · 45 min
Piers Hernu, a dual British-French traveller, is arrested trying to smuggle 28 kilos of gold bullion from Hong Kong to Nepal.
E04
Colombia
2007-09-25 · 45 min
The Colombian National Liberation Army kidnaps American adventurer Glen Heggstad.
E05
Uganda: Death in the Jungle
2008-05-26 · 45 min
Safari guide Mark Ross and his tour group are kidnapped by Hutu rebels in Uganda.
E06
Nightmare in Chechnya
2008-06-23 · 45 min
Jon James and Camilla Carr move from England to contribute to a children's centre in war torn Chechnya... only to be kidnapped for ransom.
E07
India: Hostage to Terror
2008-06-09 · 45 min
Rhys Partridge and Béla Nuss are kidnapped by British terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh while travelling in India.
E08
Philippines: Fatal Mission
2008-07-21 · 45 min
Gracia and Martin Burnham, Christian missionaries in the Philippines, are kidnapped by members of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim fundamentalist group.
E09
Malaysia
2008-10-06 · 45 min
While vacationing in Malaysia, Monique and Callie Strydom are kidnapped by a Muslim militant group and held hostage for four months in the Philippines.
