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Punch Drunk is a British sitcom created and written by Clayton Moore. It was produced by Colin Gilbert of The Comedy Unit, BBC Scotland.
The premiere episode aired on 4 January 1993.[1][2] The show ran for 1 series of 6 episodes in 1993 on BBC1.[3][4] The first episode was directed by Colin Gilbert and the remaining five by Ron Bain.
It starred Kenny Ireland as Vinnie Binns, the owner of a boxing gym, who discovers a young prospect in Hance Glover (John Kazek) after spotting him perform in a pub fracas.[2] Both Vinnie and Hance hold a candle for Vikki Brown (Diana Hardcastle), the girlfriend of the head of the Doctors Against Boxing organisation, Norman Banks, played by Jonathan Kydd.
Vinnie's seedy boxing arch-rival is Hunter (Sean Scanlan) whose plooky sidekick is Slug (Gilbert Martin).
Other characters were boxing trainer Neillie (Jake D'Arcy), Hance's mother, Mrs Gordon (Claire Nielson), and Danny, a slow-witted boxer at the end of his career, played by Grant Smeaton.
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- ^ Lappin, Tom (9 August 1992). "BBC shows how it is a funny time to get on the box - Outside Broadcast". The Sunday Times. ProQuest 319103138. Archived from the original on 5 September 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023.