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First Aired: March 31st, 2007

Network: Channel 5

Summary: Terrifying tales of every traveler's worst fear - imprisonment abroad. From gruesome jails to chilling kidnappings, live through the panic, tears and desperation as each dreadful story unfolds.

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Season 6

Episode 1: The Real Goodfella

Air Date: October 4th, 2011

Summary: Henry Hill--who inspired the movie Goodfellas--relays the true story of his rise and fall as a drug dealing wiseguy in the New York mob.

Episode 2: Saudi Bootlegger

Air Date: October 11st, 2011

Summary: Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager, but quickly finds himself a profitable sideline as a bootlegger.

Episode 3: Forbidden Love

Air Date: October 18th, 2011

Summary: Briton David Scott tells the story of finding his soulmate in the Philippines, and risking a 14-year prison sentence for adultery.

Episode 4: Mexico Money Machine

Air Date: October 25th, 2011

Summary: After heading to Mexico with a suitcase of fake money to buy drugs, California bodybuilder Jeremy Khinoo finds himself behind bars and in big trouble.

Episode 5: Heroin Sting

Air Date: November 1st, 2011

Summary: After being caught with a kilo of heroin in Mauritius, Brigene Young faces 45 years in jail unless she can help catch the drug traffickers. Young eventually served 7 years in prison.

Episode 6: Daredevil Drug Runner

Air Date: November 8th, 2011

Summary: The tale of Chris Chance, whose daredevil life smuggling cannabis into the U.K. concealed in a rubber body suit leads to a nasty prison sentence at Carabanchel Prison.

Episode 7: The Cocaine Trap

Air Date: November 15th, 2011

Summary: Stephen Sutton gets caught up when he is offered $15,000 to transport cocaine disguised as gold, leading to an 11-year prison sentence.

Episode 8: Drug Dealer Revenge

Air Date: November 22nd, 2011

Summary: Company director Robert Pringle is sentenced to seven years in a violent South-American lock-up after being pressured by his dealer to smuggle drugs.

Episode 9: Teenage Drug Smuggler

Air Date: November 29th, 2011

Summary: Vivian Carrasquillo faces a crash diet in jail after an attempt to raise funds for gastric bypass surgery by becoming a drug mule backfires.

Episode 10: Backstabbed in Thailand

Air Date: December 6th, 2011

Summary: Military veteran Kim Hood faces life behind bars in a squalid Thai prison after being caught smuggling 14 kilos of heroin with a friend, Lisa Taylor.

Episode 11: My Dad the Smuggler

Air Date: July 2nd, 2012

Summary: A young man travels to Pakistan and sets off with his estranged dad, unaware that his dad is a veteran cannabis smuggler with plans to bring 20 kilos of the drug into China.

Episode 12: I Am Not a Terrorist

Air Date: July 9th, 2012

Summary: The lure of easy money leads an out-of-work father to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the U.S.

Episode 13: Hasidic King of Coke

Air Date: July 16th, 2012

Summary: An Orthodox Jew from London becomes a key player in an international cocaine-smuggling ring based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Episode 14: Not Without My Baby

Air Date: July 23rd, 2012

Summary: An American woman is charged with fraud after trying to acquire a birth certificate and a passport for her adopted son.

Episode 15: Chilean Prison Break

Air Date: July 30th, 2012

Summary: A California man is arrested during a drug deal in Chile and sentenced to five years in prison. He and a fellow prisoner decide to escape and flee the country on foot.

Episode 16: The Orchid Hunters

Air Date: August 6th, 2012

Summary: Two British backpackers attempt to cross from Panama to Colombia via the notoriously dangerous Darién Gap, but are captured and held hostage by Colombian guerrillas.

Episode 17: Venezuela Hustle

Air Date: August 13rd, 2012

Summary: Life inside Venezuela's notorious Los Teques Prison is detailed by an Irish man who was arrested at the Caracas airport for trying to smuggle cocaine back to Dublin.

Episode 18: Nightmare in Somalia

Air Date: August 20th, 2012

Summary: Freelance journalists Nigel Brennan and Amanda Lindhout describe how they were kidnapped by a criminal gang while covering the war in Somalia in July 2008, and the subsequent 15 months they were held captive.

Episode 19: Busted in Bangkok

Air Date: August 27th, 2012

Summary: Life in a notorious Bangkok prison is detailed by a woman who received a life sentence for attempting to smuggle heroin out of Thailand.

Episode 20: Escape From the Gulag

Air Date: September 3rd, 2012

Summary: In 1976, at the height of the Cold War, an American is caught smuggling heroin from Kuala Lumpur to Russia. He details his incarceration in a Soviet prison camp and his eventual escape during a power outage.

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