Bangkok Hilton is a three-part Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n mini-series, made in 1989 by Kennedy Miller Productions and directed by Ken Cameron

Ken Cameron

Ken Cameron is an Australian film and television director. Cameron graduated from Sydney University with BA in 1968...

. The title of the mini-series is, in the story, the nickname of a fictional Bangkok

Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

 prison in which the protagonist is imprisoned.
Bangkok Hilton begins as Hal Stanton (Denholm Elliott

Denholm Elliott

Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE was an English film, television and theatre actor with over 120 film and television credits...

) leaves Bangkok by ship in the present day. He explains that he has been traveling for years, since a shameful incident when he was a prisoner of the Japanese right there in Bangkok in WWII.

He then takes us to 1960s Sydney, where he was working as a lawyer under the assumed name of Graham Greene.