Ring-a-Ding Girl

"Ring-a-Ding Girl"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no. Season 5
Episode 13
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.
Written by Earl Hamner, Jr.
Featured music stock
Production code 2623
Original air date December 27, 1963
Guest actors

"Ring-a-Ding Girl" is episode 133 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on December 27, 1963 on CBS.

Plot

Bunny Blake is a movie star. Her hometown fan club sends her an enchanted 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 home.

Though she has been hired to make a movie in Rome, Bunny takes a plane from Los Angeles and arrives at her hometown, Howardville, in an unnamed state. She surprises her sister, Hildy, and Bud, her nephew, by this impromptu visit. After some heartfelt greetings and other words. Bunny seems weak and the town's doctor is called upon. He is also the annual founder's day picnic chairman/organizer, which happens to be on this very day. Bunny, rather brashly, requests that he postpone the entire event, but he declines.

She arranges for a one-woman show in the high school gymnasium. All the while, she hears thunder outside and sees images in her enchanted, crystal ball-like ring, images of a jetliner and its passengers. It starts to rain. Hildy accuses Bunny of "showing off" for announcing her one-woman show so suddenly, forcing the town to choose between seeing her or attending the annual founder's day picnic. After first insisting that she and her son Bud are going to the picnic, Hildy has a change of heart and agrees to attend Bunny's show instead.

As Bunny, her sister and nephew are about to leave for the performance, they hear sirens and rush to look out the living-room window. Bunny finally sees herself in the ring, on the jetliner. Bunny, who realizes that her mission is completed, thanks her slightly bewildered sister as a goodbye of sorts. A breaking news flash comes on over the radio, 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, goes outside in the rain, and disappears.

Just then, an older police officer calls the house to inform Hildy that Bunny is among the deceased passengers on the plane. Hildy does not believe the officer, as Bunny was there moments before, but the radio news anchor confirms that Bunny was indeed on the plane, while stating that several townspeople claimed to have seen her that day. The anchorman notes that many of the townspeople were in the auditorium waiting to see Bunny's concert, thus their lives were saved, since they would have been at the picnic, on the grounds of which the jetliner crashed. "Until the mystery is unraveled," the newscaster adds, "Only one thing is certain: Bunny Blake is dead." The final scene shows Hildy finding Bunny's magic ring, which had fallen to the floor; now chipped and charred.

The episode ends with Rod Serling's narration: We are all travelers. 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.

Cast

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.