Video: 'RESTORED: Requiem for a Heavyweight - Playhouse 90 (1956)'

(Thursday, October 11, 1956, 9:30-11:00 p.m. EDT) — An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect on tonight’s episode of the CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90.

In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode number 30 on its “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time” list.