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John Polson as Kevin Chambers in the opening scenes of Barlow and Chambers (screen cap)
form y separately published work icon Barlow and Chambers : A Long Way From Home series - publisher   film/TV  
Alternative title: Dadah is Death
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Barlow and Chambers : A Long Way From Home
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Television mini-series that dramatises the arrest, conviction for drug trafficking, and execution of Australians Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers.

Moran, in his Guide to Australian TV Series, suggests that Barlow and Chambers 'is less interesting than its two fictional successors, Ring of Scorpio and Bangkok Hilton', in part, he suggests, because 'at the time more than 60 per cent of the Australian public was unsympathetic to their predicament'.

Moran also notes that the mini-series--which 'set Barlow up as the innocent victim at the expense of Chambers, who emerges as the shadowy and villainous figure'--drew criticism from the families of both the deceased.

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