Ring-a-Ding Girl
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| "Ring-a-Ding Girl" | |||||||
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |||||||
 Hildy urges Bunny to come home. |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 133 |
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| Written by | Earl Hamner Jr. | ||||||
| Directed by | Alan Crosland Jr. | ||||||
| Guest stars | Maggie McNamara : Bunny Blake Mary Munday : Hildy Powell David Macklin : Bud Powell Betty Lou Gerson : Cici Vic Perrin : State Trooper |
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| Production no. | 2623 | ||||||
| Original airdate | December 27, 1963 | ||||||
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"Ring-a-Ding Girl" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Opening Narration
| “ | Introduction to Bunny Blake. Occupation: film actress. Residence: Hollywood, California, or anywhere in the world that cameras happen to be grinding. Bunny Blake is a public figure; what she wears, eats, thinks, says is news. But underneath the glamor, the makeup, the publicity, the build-up, the costuming, is a flesh-and-blood person, a beautiful girl about to take a long and bizarre journey into the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Synopsis
Bunny Blake is a movie star. Her hometown fan club sends her a ring. The ring turns out to be a magic ring in which she sees the faces of her friends and family from the small town in which she grew up. They implore her to come back home.
Bunny returns to her hometown of Howardville, where she spends quality time with family (especially her sister) and friends. The annual town picnic is on that day. She tries to get the event postponed, but to no avail; she then arranges a one-woman show at the auditorium. All the while she sees crystal ball-like images in the ring of a jetliner encountering severe weather. We see that it indeed becomes a rainy day in Bunny's hometown.
As Bunny, her sister and nephew are about to leave for the performance, Bunny finally sees herself in the ring on the doomed jetliner, which we presume might crash. Bunny then says a goodbye of sorts to her sister, who is slightly bewildered as Bunny does not directly tell her she is actually on the airplane and will die soon.
A breaking news flash on the radio comes on, and while Bunny's sister and nephew are listening to the first reports of the crash, Bunny says a final goodbye, which the others do not hear, and goes outside in the rain - and disappears.
Just then, a police officer calls the house to inform the sister that Bunny is among the deceased passengers on the plane. Of course the sister does not believe the officer, since Bunny was right there in the house, but the radio news anchor confirms that Bunny was indeed on the plane, while also stating that several townspeople saw her that day as well. The anchorman notes that since all the townspeople were in the auditorium waiting to see Bunny's concert, their lives were saved, since they would have been at the picnic, on which grounds the jetliner crashed.
Apparently Bunny was only in town in a ghostlike form somehow, while her real body was on the plane.
"Until the mystery is unraveled", the newscaster adds, "One thing remains for certain- Bunny Blake is dead."
The final scene shows Bunny's sister finding Bunny's magic ring, which had fallen to the floor; it is now chipped and charred, presumably because of the fiery plane crash.
[edit] Closing Narration
| “ | We are all travellers. The trip starts in a place called birth - and ends in that lonely town called death. And that's the end of the journey, unless you happen to exist for a few hours, like Bunny Blake, in the misty regions of the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Preview for Next Week's Story
Announcer: "And now, Mr. Serling."
| “ | On Twilight Zone next time, again the services of Earl Hamner, Jr., in a strange story, a strange conclusion, and a very unusual brand of justice, dramatized in a show called "You Drive." It's the story of a hit-and-run driver in a very special kind of an automobile. A consummately fine actor named Edward Andrews lives out a nightmare partly of his own making. On Twilight Zone, "You Drive." I hope you're going to watch it with us. | ” |
[edit] References
- DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
- Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090
- Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
