The Twilight Zone
Ring-a-Ding Girl
TV Flash files “Ring-a-Ding Girl” as hour 133 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 5, episode 13, aired 1963-12-27, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E13: listed hour 133 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 13 of 36 in season 5. It aired 1963-12-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Ninety Years Without Slumbering” (S05E12). Next is “You Drive” (S05E14).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When movie star Bunny Blake receives an opal ring from her hometown fan club, she sees it as an omen to go there for the town's annual picnic instead of flying to Rome to shoot a movie. Upon arriving in town, Bunny's older sister is both annoyed and curious as to why Bunny is so adamant about the picnic being called off. However, she soon learns the reason why is due to a plane crash that she has a connection to.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ring-a-Ding Girl sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S05E13 is listed hour 133 of 156 — hour 13 of 36 in season 5, season 5 episode 13.
When did The Twilight Zone S05E13 air?
Ring-a-Ding Girl aired 1963-12-27 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the empty-town opener, then the broken-glasses hour. Isolation first, stolen moral second; those two teach the anthology’s real instrument better than any twist ranking.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Serling used fantasy as a smuggled sermon when sponsors would not let a straight drama talk. Watch for isolation as craft, the twist as a bill coming due, and half-hours built to sit in the blood overnight — not to snack in a dump.
October 1959, CBS: a man walks into an empty town and the country learns a new address. The Twilight Zone did not invent the anthology. It invented the anthology as a national flinch — half-hour moral weather, a host in a dark suit, and a closing turn that was supposed to sting after the sponsor smile. Rod Serling had already fought live-drama censors and lost enough rounds to change weapons. Fantasy was the loophole. Aliens, bargains, small towns that eat themselves: the vocabulary of a writer who wanted to talk…
Filed against
- Rod Serling as Host / Narrator
Rod Serling created and hosted The Twilight Zone — moral fables in a black suit, twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection. Sponsor and censor battles are as legendary as the episodes. On TV Flash he is prestige…