Greatest Prison Escapes with Billy Hayes

Romeo & Juliet

Audacious jail and prison breaks, with insight from Hayes, whose legendary escape from a Turkish prison was the basis for the Oscar-winning movie Midnight Express. Each episode includes interviews with the survivors, witnesses, historians, and law enforcement of each event.

The Texas Seven

Billy focuses his attentions on the notorious Texas 7, a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, in December 2000. They employed strength, wit, disguises and plenty of teamwork to achieve the feat.

Pipes of Freedom

Audacious jail and prison breaks, with insight from Hayes, whose legendary escape from a Turkish prison was the basis for the Oscar-winning movie Midnight Express. Each episode includes interviews with the survivors, witnesses, historians, and law enforcement of each event.

Houdini Hinds

The exploits of British criminal Alfie Hinds who, while serving a 12-year prison sentence for robbery, broke out of three high security prisons in the 1950s. His actions earned him the nickname 'Houdini'.

Festive Fugitives

The presenter examines audacious jail and prison breaks, focusing on an instance when six inmates in a Tennessee jail smashed a rusted toilet through a bathroom wall, weakened during plumbing repairs, in order to escape on Christmas morning, 2016.

Partners and Crime

French Connections

Time and a Half

Puppy Love

Panzer Pals