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Locked Up Abroad

Rating:3.3 of 5Total number of episodes:26Last broadcast:07/05/2019 at 13:00
May 2019
44:59

Season 9 Episode 9 - Furious And Busted

4.0 0 x
When hotshot street racer Rick learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, he worries that he doesn’t earn enough money to support a family. When his friend Jimmy offers him the chance to earn some cash stealing radios from cars, Rick is nervous, but tempted. He goes along with Jimmy as a lookout, but soon he is breaking into ...
April 2019
45:00

Season 9 Episode 8 - Vegas Mobster

3.0 1 x
In Las Vegas, mafia associate Frank Cullotta works for the notorious mob boss Tony Spilotro. For years Cullotta's burglary crew, the ‘Hole in the Wall Gang’, run riot on the streets of Las Vegas, committing robberies and burglaries worth around $1.5 million dollars. But the FBI develops an informant on the inside of the ga...
45:00

Season 9 Episode 7 - Hippie Mafia

3.0 2 x
When Eddie Padilla takes LSD for the first time, his life suddenly changes. Before long, he has helped form a movement called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, dedicated to taking acid and smuggling dope across the border from Mexico to make money. But his hippie dream crumbles when Eddie falls in love with a beautiful coke...
45:00

Season 9 Episode 6 - Mexican Prison Escape

Expired 3.0 5 x
In 1972, surfers Mike Cooke, Mace Stanley, and their high school buddy are sailing down the west coast of Mexico looking for adventure. Seduced by an offer of $10,000 each, they get involved in a doomed venture to transport more than a ton of weed back to the states by yacht with two smugglers. After a shipwreck leaves the...
February 2019
45:00

Season 9 Episode 5 - The Real Argo

Expired 4.0 3 x
Retired CIA officer and master of disguise Antonio Mendez tells the story of how, at the height of the Iranian hostage crisis he came up with an audacious plan to rescue six diplomats who had escaped the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Desperate for a cover story that would allow him to swoop into Iran and smuggle the diplomats ou...
January 2019
45:00

Season 9 Episode 4 - Buried Alive

Expired 4.0 4 x
When contractor Roy Hallums is kidnapped in Iraq, his mind quickly turns to his family. They have no idea he's there. Having taken a job providing support to the U.S. military, he's only too aware of the dangers and doesn't want them to worry. So when a masked gang storms his office, he knows his loved ones are about to di...
45:00

Season 9 Episode 3 - Raving Arizona

Expired 4.0 10 x
When Englishman Shaun turns to Ecstasy as a relief from the stresses of his new life as a stockbroker in Phoenix, Arizona, he soon finds himself seduced by the money and glamour of dealing the drug on an industrial scale. As the cash rolls in, Shaun lives the high life of parties, girls and fast cars. But when a local mafi...
45:00

Season 9 Episode 1 - Vietnam Pows: McCain And Brace

Expired 4.0 18 x
This episode tells the story of two pilots imprisoned during the Vietnam War, who ended up depending on each other for survival but never met face-to-face during the war. One of them, Sen. John McCain, was a U.S. Navy pilot who was forced to eject during a strike over Hanoi only to be caught after landing in a lake. The ot...
September 2016

Thu 29 Sep, season 7 episode 2

3.0 56 x
Student nurse Lucy Wright had a promising career before she succumbed to a crack cocaine addiction. She ended up a wanted fugitive on the run in Argentina. This is her story.

Thu 22 Sep, season 7 episode 1

3.0 35 x
American mother Ruthie Lambert turns to drug trafficking to help make ends meet. She makes numerous successful trips smuggling cocaine out of Peru, until she is finally caught and locked up.
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