Īnyway, Mary chastises Erich, “How could you?” and she runs upstairs to console Christie. She eventually tells him, “I don’t think it’s the price of the doll that’s upsetting you.” Erich makes fun of the “Freudian gibberish” that Mary’s “getting from a doctor.” After Talky Tina continues her mantra a few more times, Erich bursts out with a “Will you shut that thing off!” Tina drops the doll down on the couch and runs tearfully away upstairs. Mary tells him that it’s okay because she “put it on the account.” Christie winds the doll and she says, “My name is Talky Tina, and I love you very much!” Erich keeps pressing Mary to tell him how much it cost. Unboxing her doll excitedly and holding it up proudly for him to see Christie chimes, “She’s alive Daddy! And her name is Talky Tina!” When Erich gets a look at it he surmises that it must have been expensive. ![]() She counters that Christie had her eye on the doll for months. ![]() Erich tells Mary that he thought they agreed not to spend extravagantly. Christie is excited about it, even eager to show Daddy, which makes his dissatisfaction all the more heartbreaking, no doubt stacking the deck for us to not feel too bad about what soon befalls him. Mary offers for Christie to go ahead and show Daddy the doll. He immediately asks “Whadya buy?” in his inimitable Telly Savalas tough guy accent. ![]() We feel like something’s not all that nice-nice as the mother gives a few nervous glances toward the house (the same house by the way that was used for the Twilight Zone 1963 episode: Ring-A-Ding Girl) and instructs Christie to run upstairs with her present.Ĭhristie asks if she can show it to Daddy, but Annabelle (played by Mary LaRoche, Ann-Margret’s mother in the film version of “Bye Bye Birdie”) tells Christie, “Not right away.” Indeed when they enter the house we see the imposing figure of the father, Erich Streator, looming in the foreground, back to camera. And in 10th place so far with 174 votes is “LIVING DOLL” (which I would wager more people called “Talky Tina” than “Living Doll”).Īt the start, a mother Annabelle Streator gets out of a car with her daughter Christie (played by Tracy Stratford) who holds a big present. Let’s crack the Top 10 for you: In my “Twilight Zone” poll, asking Facebook TZ fan pages as well as horror/sci-fi writers, “What is your favorite episode of the original ‘Twilight Zone’ series?” 6,756 fans have responded.
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