This is another episode based on magical wishes and characters disputing their existence, and then those characters discovering their skepticism was wrong, a common TZ plot. The TZ wasn't even always a series where the settings were removed from the real world (some episodes were), but rather a series of real world characters having fantastic things happen to them (fantastic being a common term then for unbelievable/sci-fi only).
Boxer Foley is dating (or just good friends with) a lady who he's neighbors with and has also developed a friendship with her 7 or 8 year old son, who idolizes him as both a father figure type and a tough hero who's won many boxing matches. He's got neighbors rooting for him too.
Foley loses the match, yet temporarily he wins it due to an alternate plane of existence or whatever it is the kid wishes him into. During this supernatural visit, Foley and the kid who made the wish are the only one in this other world who knows that he was really knocked down and lost. His boxing manager never saw that happen, and also knew nothing about him breaking his hand before the fight when he punched a wall due to his thought-to-be friend dissed him and bet on his opponent. Oh, and Foley's boxing manager was played by the little old guy in "National Lampoon's Christmas vacation", alot younger here.
Foley is still skeptical of the kid's wish, inspite of everything he's seen happen, and tells the kid that there's no magic in the world. This in turn brings him back to reality where he was knocked down after all.
It could be argued here that there was no magical wish, that in fact Foley dreamed his entire experience of winning during the few moments he was knocked out and on the ground.
After losing the fight, Foley gets very little support from his neighbors as he makes his way into his apartment building. In his alternate world, or his dream, his neighbors cheered him on as he returned from the fight. He lived in another one of those common NY apartment buildings of the times where the building's residents and neighbors enjoy hanging out around the front stoop socializing and hanging out.
I like how many older films and TV shows in NYC take place in those older style NYC walk-up apartment buildings, with the street-lined front stoops. Back in the 1950s, these townhouse style structures were the main types of apartment buildings along with the taller brick buildings with the smaller apartments and iconic outside metal fire escape stairs. This was in a time in NYC before many of the modern high-rise buildings of apartments, lofts, and penthouses were built.
Anyway, this was a good and interesting TZ episode. Like I said, you can take what happened to Foley as either him taking a trip to an temporary alternate reality or just a dream he had while knocked out in the ring. I guess that that part is up to the viewer to decide.
Boxer Foley is dating (or just good friends with) a lady who he's neighbors with and has also developed a friendship with her 7 or 8 year old son, who idolizes him as both a father figure type and a tough hero who's won many boxing matches. He's got neighbors rooting for him too.
Foley loses the match, yet temporarily he wins it due to an alternate plane of existence or whatever it is the kid wishes him into. During this supernatural visit, Foley and the kid who made the wish are the only one in this other world who knows that he was really knocked down and lost. His boxing manager never saw that happen, and also knew nothing about him breaking his hand before the fight when he punched a wall due to his thought-to-be friend dissed him and bet on his opponent. Oh, and Foley's boxing manager was played by the little old guy in "National Lampoon's Christmas vacation", alot younger here.
Foley is still skeptical of the kid's wish, inspite of everything he's seen happen, and tells the kid that there's no magic in the world. This in turn brings him back to reality where he was knocked down after all.
It could be argued here that there was no magical wish, that in fact Foley dreamed his entire experience of winning during the few moments he was knocked out and on the ground.
After losing the fight, Foley gets very little support from his neighbors as he makes his way into his apartment building. In his alternate world, or his dream, his neighbors cheered him on as he returned from the fight. He lived in another one of those common NY apartment buildings of the times where the building's residents and neighbors enjoy hanging out around the front stoop socializing and hanging out.
I like how many older films and TV shows in NYC take place in those older style NYC walk-up apartment buildings, with the street-lined front stoops. Back in the 1950s, these townhouse style structures were the main types of apartment buildings along with the taller brick buildings with the smaller apartments and iconic outside metal fire escape stairs. This was in a time in NYC before many of the modern high-rise buildings of apartments, lofts, and penthouses were built.
Anyway, this was a good and interesting TZ episode. Like I said, you can take what happened to Foley as either him taking a trip to an temporary alternate reality or just a dream he had while knocked out in the ring. I guess that that part is up to the viewer to decide.