8.0/1075 votes#1 - The Real Midnight Express
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 6/30/2010
In intimate detail, Locked Up Abroad reveals Billy Hayes' real-life experience behind the Oscar-winning 1978 film, "Midnight Express."
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7.5/1021 votes#2 - Saddam's Iraq
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 7/7/2010
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Tom Lynch and his fellow contractor John White decided to get out of Iraq while they still could, but were captured by Iraqi soldiers and taken to a notorious prison in Baghdad, where they must listen to inmates being tortured to death.
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7.1/1025 votes#3 - Tokyo Takedown
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 7/14/2010
After accepting an offer to work as a hostess in Japan, Jackie Nichols meets a charming Israeli drug smuggler and agrees to smuggle hashish with him. She gets away with it four times, but the fifth time, she's not so lucky.
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7.7/1030 votes#4 - Bangkok Underworld
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/21/2010
A 28-year-old English teacher named Tim Schrader agrees to smuggle eight kilos of heroin into the U.S. to solve his financial problems. Although he knows he could receive the death penalty, the money is too tempting to resist.
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6.5/1025 votes#5 - Spain / Smuggler Makeover
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 7/28/2010
With his girlfriend pregnant, American musician Michael Morey needs money and agrees to smuggle cocaine from Quito to Spain. He barely makes it through Ecuadorian customs, but when he lands and goes through Spanish customs, he's not so lucky.
Director: N/A
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7.1/1022 votes#6 - Panama / Colombia Ambush
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 8/4/2010
A jungle adventure turns sour when American backpacker Mark Wedeven and his travel companions are taken hostage by armed guerilla soldiers in Panama.
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The Best Episodes of Banged Up Abroad Season 5
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Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
Genres:DocumentaryCrimeReality
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"The Real Midnight Express" is the best rated episode of "Banged Up Abroad" season 5. It scored 8/10 based on 75 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/30/2010. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Saddam's Iraq".