Come Out Fighting

Episode aired Dec 31, 1983
50m

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6.4/10

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Crime Drama Mystery

Boxer Eddie McCord comes to Jersey to challenge arrogant Frenchman Jacques Laronde for the middleweight title. Eddie and his wife Donna are black and are subject to racial abuse by local thu... Read allBoxer Eddie McCord comes to Jersey to challenge arrogant Frenchman Jacques Laronde for the middleweight title. Eddie and his wife Donna are black and are subject to racial abuse by local thugs, in addition to which a clumsy attempt is made to frame Eddie for theft. But when Donna... Read allBoxer Eddie McCord comes to Jersey to challenge arrogant Frenchman Jacques Laronde for the middleweight title. Eddie and his wife Donna are black and are subject to racial abuse by local thugs, in addition to which a clumsy attempt is made to frame Eddie for theft. But when Donna is kidnapped, is this still the work of bigots, or of Lacorde trying to weaken his oppone... Read all

Director
- Robert Young
Writers
- Alistair Bell
- Robert Banks Stewart
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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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Director
- Robert Young
Writers
- Alistair Bell
- Robert Banks Stewart
Stars

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Jim says a southpaw leads with his right. He is correct, even though a southpaw is a left-handed boxer. A southpaw stance consists of standing with the right hand and right foot forward, leading with right jabs and following with a left cross right hook.

Goofs
At one point Bergerac says that a southpaw is a boxer who leads with his right fist. In fact, a southpaw is a boxer who leads with his left, and the term has come to mean any left-handed person.

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Two Lovely Black Eyes
Singalong in the Royal Barge

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3/10

Come Out Fighting

Boxing comes to Jersey. Scots boxer Eddie McCord is challenging Frenchman Jacques Laronde for the middleweight title.

Laronde is wild, arrogant and a bit of a thug. He knocks out his sparring partners and breaks the camera of a freelance photographer. McCord could be heading for a severe beating and his wife is worried.

Bergerac is kept busy. McCord is framed for a jewellery theft by one of Laronde's cohorts who pretends to be McCord at the jewellery shop. His wife disappears and McCord also has to deal with racist abuse from the Jersey locals.

A clunker of an episode. Having grown up in a small island, I have no doubt Jersey would have his share of racists. It was the rest of the story that was cack handed.

Laronde does not need his minion to frame McCord and I have no idea why this was done. Even the kidnapping plot was silly. Then McCord decides to take on some thugs alone. Well at least they had the good grace of coming at him one by one. Where did one of them get his chains from?