Come Out Fighting (radio drama)

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Come Out Fighting
Genredrama serial
Running time20 mins (6:40 pm 7:00 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Home stationABC
Written by Ralph Peterson
Directed by Frank Harvey
Original releaseMarch 27, 1950 (1950-03-27) [1]

Come Out Fighting is a 1950 Australian radio drama by Ralph Peterson.

Peterson used it as an inspiration for his highly successful stage play The Square Ring . (Along with another radio feature of Peterson's, The Problem of Johnny Flourcake.) [2]

Several real boxing commentators were used. [3]

Premise

A truck driver, Greg Mason, becomes a champion boxer to support his mother and younger sister. [4] His manager and trainer, Mike Williams, sees Greg a representative of what Mike wants to be. Williams' daughter Chris worries about Greg. Greg's mother is unsympathetic to her son's boxing career as her husband was killed in a fight. [5]

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References

  1. "Boxing Story for AR Serial Run". The Age . No. 29612. Victoria, Australia. 24 March 1950. p. 1 (THE AGE RADIO SUPPLEMENT). Retrieved 27 August 2023 via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Sydney Writer's London Stage Hit". The Sunday Herald (Sydney) . No. 196. New South Wales, Australia. 26 October 1952. p. 12. Retrieved 27 August 2023 via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Studia news and Views", ABC Weekly, Sydney, 12 (8), 25 February 1950, retrieved 27 August 2023 via Trove
  4. "GEORGE HART'S RADIO NEWS". The Sun . No. 12, 526. New South Wales, Australia. 21 March 1950. p. 21 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 27 August 2023 via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Fast-moving Fight Game Serial to follow A.B.C. Sporting Session", ABC Weekly, Sydney, 12 (12), 25 March 1950, retrieved 27 August 2023 via Trove