The Boxing Episode: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'': Captain Peacock is challenged to a boxing match, but backs out. Mr. Humphries is chosen to take his place in a wrestling match and loses. Then Mrs. Slocombe enters the ring.

* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'': Dennis goes out with a female boxer, but is challenged by her ex-girlfriend, also a boxer.

* ''[[Friends]]'': "The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion", where Monica's millionaire boyfriend wants to be the Ultimate Fighting Champion.

* ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'': "Raging Bull%$%#". Joe signs up for an amateur boxing tournament, expecting to get some revenge on a childhood bully, while Brian signs up as an alternate in case Joe backs out. However, when the other fighter backs out instead, the brothers find themselves pitted against one another.

* A boxer (Ben Murphy) arrives on ''[[Fantasy Island]]'' to clobber an opponant who beat him in the past.

* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' got this one out of the way. In the first single-hour episode, "The Final Round", David befriends a boxer who is unwittingly delivering drugs and then is supposed to suffer a fatal heart attack during a fight. This was the first instance of Banner being conveniently being knocked out so that he doesn't Hulk out until later.

* ''[[Cold Case]]'': "Yo Adrian", doubling as a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]''.

* In a ''[[Remington Steele]]'' episode a baby is found in a boxer's locker and he asks the Steele agency for help. Hijinx ensue as the boxer readies for a match and Remington is revealed to be a very competent boxer.