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The Joe Palooka Story: Created by Ham Fisher. With Joe Kirkwood Jr., Cathy Downs, Maxie Rosenbloom, Luis Van Rooten. Joe Palooka is a mild mannered boxer who is in love with Anne and goes about life in a gentle way.
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- 1954
- Comedy
The first in the series was Joe Palooka, Champ (1946); the series ended 1951, with Joe Palooka in Triple Cross. The Joe Palooka Story, popularly known simply as Joe Palooka, was a 1954 syndicated television series starring Kirkwood and featuring former boxing champion Maxie Rosenbloom as Humphrey Pennyworth. Cultural legacy
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 fi...
After defending his boxing title, Joe and the gang decide it's time to take a vacation, so they pack their bag and head for the mountains. While stopping for a picnic lunch, a pair of gunsels hijacks their station wagon at gunpoint, leaving the foursome to walk to the nearest farmhouse to phone the police.
Based upon the comic strip character created by Hammond E. “Ham” Fisher in 1921, the very moral, honest, kind-hearted, somewhat naive boxing champion Joe Palooka briefly came to television in this very low-budget syndicated comedy/drama series during the 1954-1955 season.
Joe Palooka is a mild mannered boxer who is in love with Anne and goes about life in a gentle way. This syndicated series was based on a narrative first popular as a comic book, then a radio show.
Joe Palooka, a mild-mannered boxer in love with a woman named Ann Howe, leads a gentler life behind-the-scenes than one would assume. Buy The Joe Palooka...
