Joe Palooka – Season 1 – Episode 2 – Two Rings for Eddie | Joe Kirkwood Jr., Cathy Downs

Eddie Crane, one of Joe’s proteges, has a problem – his fiancée has given him a choice – give up boxing or she’ll return his engagement ring.

Joe Palooka is a mild mannered boxer who is in love with Anne and goes about life in a gentle way. This 1954 syndicated TV series was based on a narrative first popular as a comic book, then a radio show. In Two Rings for Eddie, Eddie Crane, one of Joe’s proteges, has a problem – his fiancée has given him a choice – give up boxing or she’ll return his engagement ring.

Joe Palooka is an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist Ham Fisher. The strip debuted on April 19, 1930[1] and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers. It was cancelled in 1984.

The strip was adapted to a short-lived 15-minute CBS radio series, 12 feature-length films (chiefly from Monogram Pictures), nine Vitaphone film shorts, a 1954 syndicated television series (The Joe Palooka Story), comic books and merchandise, including a 1940s board game, a 1947 New Haven Clock & Watch Company wristwatch, a 1948 metal lunchbox featuring depictions of Joe, Humphrey and Little Max, and a 1946 Wheaties cereal box cut-out mask. In 1980, a mountain in Pennsylvania was named for the character.

Directed by William Berke
Created by Ham Fisher
Starring Joe Kirkwood Jr., Cathy Downs, Maxie Rosenbloom

Cast
Joe Kirkwood Jr. as Joe Palooka
Cathy Downs as Ann Howe
Maxie Rosenbloom as Clyde
Luis Van Rooten as Knobby Walsh
Sid Tomack as Knobby Walsh