Ring-a-Ding Girl

Infobox Television episode
Title = Ring-a-Ding Girl
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = Hildy urges Bunny to come home.
Season = 5
Episode = 133
Airdate = December 27, 1963
Production =2623
Writer = Earl Hamner Jr.
Director = Alan Crosland Jr.
Guests = Maggie McNamara : Bunny Blake
Mary Munday : Hildy Powell
David Macklin : Bud Powell
Betty Lou Gerson : Cici
Vic Perrin : State Trooper
Music =
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Next = You Drive

"Ring-a-Ding Girl" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Opening Narration

ynopsis

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 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 concert, Bunny finally sees herself in the ring on the doomed jetliner, which we presume might crash (airline safety was a huge concern in the early days of jetliners, and a few high profile crashes in the 1950's and early 1960's heightened the public's fear of flying). 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.

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.

Closing Narration

Preview for Next Week's Story

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)

External links

*imdb title|id=0734617|title=Ring-a-Ding Girl