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#1 - Nightmare in Chechnya
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 6/23/2008
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.
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#2 - India: Hostage to Terror
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 6/9/2008
Rhys Partridge and Béla Nuss are kidnapped by British terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh while travelling in India.
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#3 - Philippines: Fatal Mission
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 7/21/2008
Gracia and Martin Burnham, Christian missionaries in the Philippines, are kidnapped by members of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim fundamentalist group.
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#4 - Malaysia
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/6/2008
While vacationing in Malaysia, Monique and Callie Strydom are kidnapped by a Muslim militant group and held hostage for four months in the Philippines.
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#5 - Declassified Undercover Crack Dealer
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/2021
In this real-life version of Baltimore drama The Wire, local drug dealer Davon Mayer has a knack for making money. But when he gets arrested by two cops, to his surprise, they don’t want him in jail, they want him to sell drugs for their profit.
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#6 - Thai Ice Storm
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/2021
A broke young Londoner gets an exciting offer to work in his dad’s bar in Thailand. But when he arrives, he soon discovers a world of temptation that he can’t resist, breaking his father’s golden rule and driving them apart.
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#7 - The Mother's Load
Season 14 Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/2021
In this series we meet American, David, who was on a drug smuggling road trip from Afghanistan to Germany with his friend, Tom, when they were caught on the Turkish/Greek border and imprisoned in Greece.
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#8 - Declassified Mole In The Mob
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/2021
A Japanese-American Orange County kid gets his dream to become a gangster before a Las Vegas mob hit changes everything and he agrees to work for the FBI. Now Gangster turned informant he works his way up the world of organised crime infiltrating the heights of mafia royalty in New York, before a planned hit threatens to destroy his entire world.
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#9 - 50 Ton Pot Run
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/2021
A 70s hippie and his naive pal are small time dealers selling hash to Boston college kids, until they get approached by a Colombian cartel keen to use their skills. Seduced by the danger and the dollars, they soon become multimillionaire importers, shipping tens of tons of marijuana on freighters up the West Coast, until one of the biggest busts in US history forces them on the run to Bolivia.
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#10 - A Belly Full Of Coke
Season 14 Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/2021
A troubled young father goes on the run to Spain to avoid a small prison sentence. He starts working for a crime gang in the Costa Del Sol and is enamored by the gangster lifestyle. He feels untouchable and agrees to smuggle and swallow a kilo of cocaine back from Peru, only to face the biggest adrenalin kick of his life and seal his fate forever.
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#11 - Declassified: Double Cross Dope Deal
Season 15 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2022
As the Cartels, DEA and a terrifying hitman all close in, drug runner Chris Heifner turns informant to save his family and take down his best friend.
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#12 - Trauma Express
Season 15 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2022
Travel-loving Bronwyn Atherton finds herself on the road to destruction when she is lured into the shady world of international drug smuggling.
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#13 - Declassified: A King's Ransom
Season 15 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2022
Rafael Arguelles is a gangster by the age of 17 but faces life-threatening consequences after going undercover for the FBI against his former friends.
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#14 - Sole Smuggler
Season 15 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2022
David Harte is in his forties when his life collapses around him. He is tempted into the shady world of drug smuggling before being busted in Mauritius.
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#15 - Fast, Furious and Busted
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 6/5/2013
Locked Up Abroad comes home to the United States to visit 19-year-old street racer Rick Cedar in Spokane, Washington.
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#16 - Greece/Greek Border Bust
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/2019
David embarks on an epic road trip, where he attempts to smuggle hash from Afghanistan to Germany. He is caught in Greece and imprisoned on an island.
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#17 - Not Without My Baby
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 7/23/2012
When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
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#18 - Narco Neverland
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2022
To escape a life of poverty, a young Chicago gangster is drawn into smuggling drugs for a dangerous Mexican cartel, until the day it all goes wrong.
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#19 - Cuba/Hooked In Havana
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 6/3/2009
When Kahlilah met big-shot music producer Roy, she didn't expect that her life would change forever. Just months into their relationship, Roy forced her to smuggle 18 pounds of cocaine.
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#20 - 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.
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#21 - The Cocaine Trap
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2011
Stephen Sutton gets caught up when he is offered $15,000 to transport cocaine disguised as gold, leading to an 11-year prison sentence.
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#22 - From Hollywood to Hell
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 4/25/2012
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.
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#23 - Uganda: Death in the Jungle
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/26/2008
Safari guide Mark Ross and his tour group are kidnapped by Hutu rebels in Uganda.
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#24 - Model Drug Runner
Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/2020
Stripper Garrain Jones hits the big-time when he stars in a Beyoncé video, but then loses it all when he gets caught smuggling heroin through Europe.
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#25 - Jamaica/Jamaican Getaway
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 8/11/2009
T.K. White and her girlfriend are sent to Kingston's notorious central prison after attempting to smuggle marijuana.
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The Worst Episodes of Banged Up Abroad
Every episode of Banged Up Abroad ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Banged Up Abroad!
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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Worst Episodes Summary
"Nightmare in Chechnya" is the worst rated episode of "Banged Up Abroad". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/23/2008. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "India: Hostage to Terror".