Drama

Bangkok Hilton

6.9(51)

First Aired:November 5, 1989

Seasons:1 season

Episodes:3

Status:Ended

This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes and tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of the father she has never known. Her search takes her from Australia to England and then on to Bangkok. There she meets up with a charming young man, Arkie Regan, who plants drugs in her luggage and leaves her to her fate when the authorities find them during a routine search at the airport. Following her imprisonment in the notorious Bangkok Hilton prison she awaits the decision of the authorities on whether she should face the death penalty.

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Cast

Nicole Kidman

Katrina Stanton

Denholm Elliott

Hal Stanton

Hugo Weaving

Richard Carlisle

Jerome Ehlers

Arkie Ragan

Judy Morris

Catherine Faulkner

Norman Kaye

George McNair

Joy Smithers

Mandy Engels

Noah Taylor

Billy Engels

Lewis Fiander

James Stanton

Gerda Nicolson

Lady Faulkner

Richard Carter

Detective King

Pauline Chan

Pretty Warden

Tan Chandraviroj

Major Sara

Jonathan Biggins

O'Keefe

Deborah Kara Unger

Astra

Seasons & Episodes

E1Episode 1

95m6.0

Nov 5, 1989

A young woman finds out the truth of her believed to be dead father, a former British Army Officer and begins quest to find him, only to be arrested in Bangkok for unknowingly transporting illegal narcotics hidden in her baggage

E2Episode 2

90m8.0

Nov 6, 1989

Kat's incarceration begins in a prison nicknamed the Bangkok Hilton, facing a potential death penalty. People try to help her inside and outside the prison

E3Episode 3

80m9.0

Nov 7, 1989

After the execution of 2 of her inmate friends, a plan is hatched, and one of the men who is helping attorney her turns out to be somebody else