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Requiem For A Heavyweight by Rod Serling
"An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect."
This play has won the Sylvana Award for television for best teleplay 1956. The Sylvana Award was an early television award (1951 to 1959) that revivaled the Emmy in prestige
Air date: Playhouse 90, 11 October 1957
BBC Air Date: BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, 31 March 1957
Theatrical movie version: 16 November, 1962
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