Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site kovacs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!kovacs!jim From: jim@kovacs.UUCP (jim) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Night Gallery Message-ID: <252@kovacs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 01:27:52 EDT Article-I.D.: kovacs.252 Posted: Mon Aug 12 01:27:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:55:52 EDT Organization: Robt Abel & Assoc, Hollywood Lines: 25 >> From: Will Duquette>> The one movie/TV induced fear that I can honestly say scared the >> hell out of me came from "Night Gallery." the storyline involved a >> grotesque little doll that belonged to a little girl.... > Actually, this was an episode of the Twilight Zone starring Telly Savalas > (bald even then) as the little girl's father. The doll (and also, I > think, the episode) was named "Talking Tina"... The Twilight Zone title is "Living Doll". The doll, "Talky Tina", only threatens Erich Streator (Savalas) when no one else is around. When he throws the doll in the garbage for the first time, it escapes and phones him with a death threat. He tries to burn the doll, then tries to saw off its head; both attempts fail. The wife, Annabelle, thinking poor Erich has lost his mind, plans to take her daughter Christie and leave him. Erich, who now thinks maybe he *is* going insane, decides to give the doll back to his step-daughter. But late that night, he trips on the doll and falls down the stairs to his death. The ending: Annabelle rushes to him and then picks up the doll. It says: "My name is Talky Tina, *and you'd better be nice to me!*" PS. - The voice of "Talky Tina" was that of June Foray, who also did "Rocky the Flying Squirrel". -Jim-