Ring-a-Ding Girl

Description: Season 5, Episode 13

Air Date: December 27, 1963

Plot Summary: A diva-like movie star is drawn to her hometown after receiving a strange ring from her fans.

Review: This story would have been significantly better if, for one, it actually made sense and weren't so similar to the superior episode, "The Hitch-Hiker." You have the titular character, whose real (or stage) name is Bunny Blake, as she is heading toward the set of her next film. Her manager or agent or whatever the hell gives her a present from her fans: a new ring to add to her collection. Apparently she takes this whole ring-a-ding thing literally which just makes me think of Samara and Sadako. When Bunny looks into the ring she sees a vision of her family beckoning her to return to her hometown.

We cut to sometime later as Bunny comes to visit her sister and nephew. It would seem our dear little Bunny is taking a detour before shooting her next movie and wants to live it up for a day in town. The ring was bought by the townspeople each chipping in a dollar, but they never explain how it has any supernatural powers. Nevertheless, Bunny sees more visions and experiences a blackout. Bunny suspects that she was drawn to the town for a specific purpose as she ignores any advice to take it easy and rest. Bunny is convinced something will happen during a local holiday so she manages to sway the townspeople into going to her own little fan greeting; she does this by crashing the TV station.

Toward the end, when everyone is getting ready for Bunny's celebration, a freak accident occurs with a plane crashing in the location the town holiday was intended to be at. Bunny disappears as we realize that plane was the one she had been on all of this time...somehow. For whatever reason, no one is freaking out that Bunny was running around town and shit yet she supposedly died on a plane. Magically, the ring gave Bunny the power to coexist in two places at once...I don't know really. Regardless, Bunny saved the townspeople as her final act. Can't say I'll miss her though--Bunny was annoying as fuck! Overall, I would rank this as an average episode. It has its good points, but it feels like a retread of "The Hitch-Hiker's" twist minus the weight of that story or the suspense. Besides that, it doesn't make a lot of sense since Bunny is seeing the future, clearly alive and not a true ghost since she passes out, and yet we're shown visions of her aboard the plane too so it's not like Scotty beamed her up just to crash.