Punch Drunk (1993)

Name: Punch Drunk
Released: 1993-01-04

Original title: Punchdrunk
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 1 season, 6 episodes
Rating: 7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere: IMDb

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How it feels

A boxing gym owner named Vinnie finds a promising new fighter named Hance after seeing him in a bar fight. Both men are interested in the same woman who is dating the head of an anti-boxing group. The show follows their interactions along with shady rivals and other boxing characters.

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What happens

Punch Drunk is a British sitcom created and written by Clayton Moore. It was produced by Colin Gilbert of The Comedy Unit, BBC Scotland. The premiere episode aired on 4 January 1993. The show ran for 1 series of 6 episodes in 1993 on BBC1. The first episode was directed by Colin Gilbert and the remaining five by Ron Bain. It starred Kenny Ireland as Vinnie Binns, the owner of a boxing gym, who discovers a young prospect in Hance Glover (John Kazek) after spotting him perform in a pub fracas. Both Vinnie and Hance hold a candle for Vikki Brown (Diana Hardcastle), the girlfriend of the head of the Doctors Against Boxing organisation, Norman Banks, played by Jonathan Kydd. Vinnie's seedy boxing arch-rival is Hunter (Sean Scanlan) whose plooky sidekick is Slug (Gilbert Martin). Other characters were boxing trainer Neillie (Jake D'Arcy), Hance's mother, Mrs Gordon (Claire Nielson), and Danny, a slow-witted boxer at the end of his career, played by Grant Smeaton. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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