Banged Up Abroad: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your final destination: a long, lonely stretch in a dark and dangerous prison, far from home. Banged Up Abroad takes you inside accounts of capture, incarceration and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic re-enactments. You'll hear more first-hand accounts not only from those who were locked up, but also from those who were directly part of the story. Whether it is the undercover agent compiling the evidence against the suspect, or the person making the drug-dealing offers, you relive the stories from every angle.

Series details

• Title: Banged Up Abroad
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Crime
• Premiere date: 2007-07-24
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: National Geographic
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 2640

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2007-07-24; final listed air date 2008-04-21; episode order: 4.
• Season 2: premiered 2008-07-07; final listed air date 2008-10-06; episode order: 4.
• Season 3: premiered 2008-07-21; final listed air date 2009-04-02; episode order: 12.
• Season 4: premiered 2009-04-08; final listed air date 2009-08-19; episode order: 14.
• Season 5: premiered 2010-06-30; final listed air date 2010-08-04; episode order: 6.
• Season 6: premiered 2011-06-05; final listed air date 2011-08-03; episode order: 10.
• Season 7: premiered 2012-04-25; final listed air date 2012-06-27; episode order: 20.
• Season 8: premiered 2012-07-02; final listed air date 2012-09-03; episode order: 10.
• Season 9: premiered 2013-04-17; final listed air date 2013-06-12.
• Season 10: premiered 2016-06-06; final listed air date 2016-08-07; episode order: 9.
• Season 11: premiered 2018-01-04; final listed air date 2018-02-08; episode order: 12.
• Season 12: premiered 2019-01-02; final listed air date 2019-01-16.
• Season 13: premiered 2020-01-01; final listed air date 2020-03-04.
• Season 14: premiered 2021-09-01; final listed air date 2021-11-03.

Source and licence

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