The Square Ring is a 1960 Australian TV play based on a stage play by Australian Ralph Petersen which had been successful on the stage in England and been filmed in 1953.

It was recorded live in Sydney.^[3]

The story of six fighters who wait for their turn in the ring one night at a boxing ring in England. Ex champ Docker Starkie is trying to make a comeback; Eddie Burke is a new boy on the way up; Harry Coombers is a certain future champion; Rick Martell is planning on throwing a fight; Sailor Johnson is a broken-down has-been; Rawlings likes to read books before a fight.

Mixing with them all is the dressing room attendant Danny Felton who has seen fighters come and go and understand them. There is also associated characters like a stadium manager.

• Don Barkham as Eddie Burke
• Guy Doleman as Harry Coombes^[4]
• Jack Fegan as Docker Starkie
• Ken Goodlet as Sailor Johnson
• Joe Jenkins as Rowdie Rawling
• Owen Weingott as Rick Martell
• Edward Hepple as Danny Felton, the handler
• Al Thomas as the stadium manager
• Ben Gabriel Joe
• Louis Wishart as stadium doctor
• Max Osbiston as Watty
• John Unicomb as Ford

Sydney boxing trainer Ern McQuillan was the technical advisor for the story. Joe Jenkins, who appeared often on television as a dancer, makes his acting debut as Rowdie Rawlings.^[5] He would later go on to appear in several Australian TV dramas such as The Emperor Jones, Two-Headed Eagle and The End Begins.^{[6] [7]}