Packham had been previously responsible for developing the technology behind Prizefight, volunteering as a Red Shirt at Multiplay LAN events, and working a Software Engineer at Elekta.
On June 17, 1951 he fought Joe Louis in what was the first professional prizefight carried to theaters on closed circuit TV.
He went on to defeat Max Baer in the first televised heavyweight prizefight June 1, 1939, on WNBT-TV in New York.
Police friend Lieutenant Riggs (Harold Huber) takes detective Mr. Moto and student Lee Chan (Keye Luke) to a prizefight between Bill Steele (Dick Baldwin) and Frank Stanton (Russ Clark), where the winner will take on the champion, Biff Moran (Ward Bond).
The title may be meant to remind audiences of Kid Galahad, a smash hit prizefight movie released the previous year starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Wayne Morris in the title role as a young boxer very similar to his part in The Kid Comes Back.
On 28 September 1811 a massive crowd of up to 20,000 watched a prizefight at Thistleton Gap.