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Channel 4 · Ended
Traffik
Drama · 1989
Last aired: S1 E6, Episode 6 · 1989-07-17
Award-winning drama series about the international heroin trade - a frank and compelling chronicle of the drug's clandestine journey from the fields of Pakistan to the streets of the UK
Season 1
E1
Episode 1
1989-06-22 · 60 min
In Hamburg, a popular young businessman is accused of being a drugs trafficker. In Pakistan, Home Office minister Jack Lithgow meets Fazal, who complains about aid and farms illegal poppy fields.
E2
Episode 2
1989-06-23 · 60 min
In Britain, Jack Lithgow's daughter's arrested on heroin charges. In Germany, Helen learns that her husband's dealers owe him a lot of money. In Pakistan, Fazal gets more involved in the heroin trade.
E3
Episode 3
1989-06-26 · 60 min
Fazal's family are not convinced that life in Karachi is better than life on the North West Frontier. Meanwhile, in England, Jack is trying to head off a threatened customs strike.
E4
Episode 4
1989-07-03 · 60 min
Jack Lithgow's daughter takes a drugs overdose. Fazal accompanies Tariq to the northwest frontier of Pakistan to buy part of the opium crop, and Karl's trial begins in Hamburg.
E5
Episode 5
1989-07-10 · 60 min
Jack returns to Pakistan to sign the aid agreement. Fazal is arrested and thrown in jail, while Helen travels to Pakistan to do a deal with Tariq Bhut, but must prove herself worthy of his trust.
E6
Episode 6
1989-07-17 · 60 min
In the final episode, Fazal is in prison, Ulli believes he has uncovered Helen's smuggling route and Jack returns from Pakistan to discover that Caroline has disappeared
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Bill Paterson
Jack Lithgow
