Grant Bowler
Border Security: Australia's Front Line (2004)
Season 8
Border Security: Australia's Front Line is an Australian television program that airs on the Seven Network. The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as they enforce Australian customs, quarantine, immigration and finance laws. Most of the programme is filmed at Sydney and Melbourne airports. Occasionally, the program features other locations such as Brisbane Airport, Perth Airport, seaports, international mail centres, raids on workplaces suspected of employing persons contrary to the restrictions of their visa or immigrant status and the work of Customs vessels and aircraft in the waters of Northern Australia.
Released Oct. 13, 2004
Episode 29 min
14+
Genres: Crime, Documentary, Drama, Reality
Keywords: imdb.contraband, imdb.regulation, imdb.customs-officer, imdb.country-in-title, imdb.smuggling, imdb.criminal, imdb.customs + 6 more, imdb.border, imdb.airport, imdb.arrest, imdb.border-control, imdb.border-guard, imdb.observational-documentary
Watch Providers: Tubi TV, fuboTV, Spectrum On Demand, National Geographic, YouTube TV
Network: Seven
S8E1 - Episode 1
Unusual clues could mean there's trouble ahead for an American designer. Officers have serious questions for a very flamboyant traveller. And a passenger tries to start a food fight.
Sept. 13, 2009, midnight
S8E2 - Episode 2
A former Miss USA contestant has officers suspicious, and officers find bizarre contents inside a bag. Plus, a romantic reunion on hold, and one of the most brazen attempts at smuggling contraband into the country.
Sept. 20, 2009, midnight
S8E3 - Episode 3
Staff are given enough reason to suspect a bomb is in someone's luggage and the entire airport is shut down. Elsewhere, travellers challenge the highly trained intuition of Customs officers and a businessman's ambitions hit a snag.
Sept. 27, 2009, midnight
S8E4 - Episode 4
A nervous traveller arriving from China raises suspicion. A family from the US have nothing to declare, but their luggage suggest otherwise. And a Romanian man struggles to get his story straight.
Sept. 28, 2009, midnight
S8E5 - Episode 5
Customs officers look closely at a curious keyboard. Then, a delay at Quarantine results in a lovers quarrel, and suspicious letters from India have the Mail Centre on alert.
Oct. 11, 2009, midnight
S8E6 - Episode 6
The conclusion to the Romainian keyboard mystery, an Aussie's questioned after partying hard in Mexico and a traveller argues that he's not who officials believe him to be.
Oct. 18, 2009, midnight
S8E7 - Episode 7
An Italian man may want to clown around illegally, a German passenger's nervous behaviour raises alarm and a couple is suspected of sneaking in treats.
Oct. 25, 2009, midnight
S8E8 - Episode 8
A passenger is removed from a plane before take-off, a couple makes a desperate plea, and a New York graffiti artist claims he has been framed.
Nov. 1, 2009, midnight
S8E9 - Episode 9
A New Zealand passenger is unhappy about being questioned about his visa, an incredible situation in customs and a passengers life could be in danger. Three agencies join forces to target illegal taxi drivers.
Nov. 4, 2009, midnight
S8E10 - Episode 10
Tonight on Border Security, a heated standoff after the discovery of an illegal weapon, a first time traveller is on a high and seems oblivious to what is at stake. And a shoe concealment has a passenger lost for words.
Nov. 8, 2009, midnight
S8E11 - Episode 11
Nov. 11, 2009, midnight
S8E12 - Episode 12
Nov. 15, 2009, midnight
S8E13 - Episode 13
Nov. 18, 2009, midnight
S8E14 - Episode 14
Nov. 22, 2009, midnight
S8E15 - Episode 15
Nov. 25, 2009, midnight
Network: Seven
Episode Runtime: 29 min.
Season Runtime: 5971 min.
Released: Oct. 13, 2004
Last Air Date: Nov. 26, 2023, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR / 14+
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