• Air date: 05 Jan '08 8 episodes
      Banged Up Abroad (rebadged as Locked Up Abroad in Asia, and Jailed Abroad in India, for the National Geographic Channel) is a British documentary/docudrama television series created by Bart Layton that was produced for Channel 5 and that premiered in March 2006. Most episodes feature stories of people who have been arrested while travelling abroad, usually for trying to smuggle illegal drugs, although some episodes feature people who were either kidnapped or captured while they were either
  • List of Episodes (8)
    • 1. Episode 1: Kuwait (Scott's Story)

      05 Jan '08
      Scott White is arrested in Kuwait for selling hashish, then escapes from jail during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
    • 2. Episode 2: Peru/Lima

      12 Jan '08
      Russell Thoresen, an American traveller, is arrested in Peru for trying to smuggle cocaine.
    • 3. Episode 3: Bangladesh

      19 Jan '08
      Lia McCord, an American teenager, is arrested in Bangladesh for trying to smuggle heroin. JC Gonzalez as Lia McCord's brother, she was arrested at the Bangladesh Airport for trafficking narcotics.
    • 4. Episode 4: Pakistan

      26 Jan '08
      Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist on the way to Afghanistan for an assignment, is accused of being a spy and arrested in Pakistan.
    • 5. Episode 5: Peru/Cuzco

      02 Feb '08
      Sarah Jackson convinces her friend Simon Burke to go to Peru with her in order to serve as her unwitting drug-smuggling accomplice. Jackson was in the middle of serving a seven-year sentence when the episode was produced.
    • 6. Episode 6: Taiwan

      09 Feb '08
      Taiwan's most-wanted criminal breaks into the house of McGill Alexander, a South African army colonel, and takes Alexander and his family hostage.
    • 7. Episode 7: Ecuador

      16 Feb '08
      An American, Daniel Van De Zande is arrested trying to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.
    • 8. Episode 8: South Korea

      23 Feb '08
      Cullen Thomas, working with his girlfriend "Rocket," is arrested trying to smuggle hashish from the Philippines to South Korea.