You unlock this door with the k e y of ima Gina t/on.
Beyond it is another dimension...
A dimension of sound...
A dimension of sight...
A dimension of mind.
You're moving into a land of both shadowand substance,
of things and ideas.
You've just crossed over into the twilight zone.
Christie.
Honey, I want you to run upstairs with your present.
Can't daddy see it?
Not right away.
All right?
Yes, mommy.
Hi, daddy.
What did you buy?
Nothing much. Go on.
Wait. What have you got there?
It's just a doll, erich.
She doesn't need another doll.
It's one she's had her eye on for months.
I thought we agreed...
Alright, show daddy your doll.
She's alive, daddy.
And her name is talky Tina.
For heaven sakes, Annabelle,
a doll like that could cost...
I put it on the account.
Tina does everything.
She moves, and she can talk,
and I just love her already.
My name is talky Tina, and I love you very much.
All right, how much did it cost?
I told you, I...
I know, you charged it, but how much did it cost?
Erich, that's enough.
How much did it cost?
I don't think it's the price of the doll
that's upsetting you.
Now we'll get more of that freudian gibberish
you've been getting from her doctor, huh?
It isn't Dr. Lubin's fault she feels rejected.
My name is talky Tina, and I love you very much.
Will you shut that thing off?!
Oh, erich, how could you?
My name is talky Tina, and I don't think I like you.
Talky Tina, a doll tha t does everything,
a lifelike creation of plastic
and Springs and painted smile.
To erich streato r,
she is a most unwelcome addition to his household...
But without her he'd never enter
the twilight zone.
My name is talky Tina
and I thinki could even ha te you.
My name is talky Tina, and you'll be sorry.
Why, erich?
I don't like what it says.
You didn't have to throw it.
It has quite a vocabulary.
Here...
Listen.
My name is talky Tina, and I love you very much.
Yeah, well, that's not what it said a minute ago.
I don't know how much more of this I can take.
Exactly what is it you're taking?
Your anger toward christie.
I know you're having a difficult time adjusting to her,
but I can't let you treat her this way.
She's my daughter, erich. I love her.
"I love her."
But I don't love her.
I'm only her stepfather,
and I'm incapable of loving children
because we can't have any of our own.
Isn't that what you're sa ying, Annabelle?
Oh, no, erich, believe me, it's not.
You could love christ/e, I know you could
if you'd only give yourself half a chance.
Good. I'm glad I'm not the cold, cruel ogre
that mommy and daughter think I am.
I appreciate all the faithyou have in me.
Erich, please give us a chance...
Christie and me.
I know you got more than you bargained for
when you married me.
Two for the price of one, wasn't it?
But we'll do anything to make you happy... both of us.
Da dd y?
I'm sorry, daddy, if I made you mad.
Oh, it's all right, christ/e.
It's all daddy's fault, okay?
Sure, daddy.
Here, DEA r.
My name is talky Tina and I love you very much.
Be a good girl, Tina, and eat your supper.
Eat your own supper, christie.
Oh. I didn't know your doll could wink.
Tina can't wink, daddy.
Really? I thought...
Never mind.
Where'd you buy her?
Mason's.
She'll be a good playmate for christie.
Mm-hmm. Lacking a brother or sister, is that what you mean?
I didn't say that.
But that's why you bought the doll, isn't it?
Sort of a reminder?
It hadn't occurred to me,
but if that's what you want to think...
I t's I inda.
Are you through with your dinner?
Yes, mommy. May I take Tina?
Not outside.
You can show her to Linda later.
My name is talky Tina and I'm beginning to ha te you.
My name is erich streator,
and I'm going to get rid of you.
You wouldn't dare.
Oh?
Wouldn't I?
Annabelle would ha te you,
christie would ha te you,
Andi would ha te you.
Just seeing how it works.
Ow!
So you have feelings.
Doesn't everything?
Then I can hurt you.
Not really, but I could hurt you.
Threats from a doll.
Who are you talking to?
Oh, here. The game's over.
Game?
Come on, Annabelle, get off it.
How dense do you think I am?
I wish I knew what you were talking about.
I admit I don't know too much about modern times
like putting walkie-talkies in dolls...
Walkie-talkies?
Come on, get off it, will you?
I mean, all that stuff about hating me
and that last bit about, uh, feelings...
"Doesn't ever yth/ng?"
You belong in comedy.
I think I'll have more coffee.
Linda wants to see Tina.
All right, dear.
My name is talky Tina, and I love you very much.
Isn't she sweet, daddy?
You can think whatever you want to,
but it's not true.
I'm not playing a trick on you.
Go ahead, pretend.
But I know there's a microphone around here.
You and christie are trying to get even with me,
isn't that it?
That's ridiculous and you know it.
Is it?
Then how come the doll
doesn't talk to me when you're in the room?
You're really serious.
You really mean it.
Of course I mean it.
So tell me.
But there's nothing to tell!
All right, don't tell me.
Keep your secret.
But you'll be sorry.
Christie?
You are going to be sorry.
Where's Tina, daddy?
I wouldn't know.
You had her, daddy.
Go ask your mother.
She's already asked me.
Hmm. And what did you tell her?
That I don't know where she is.
Do you, erich?
Where is she, daddy?
Well, now, if your mother can't tell you,
then neither can I.
Tina must be somewhere about, christie.
Let's see if we can find her.
Yes, mommy.
Hello? Hello?
My name is talky Tina, and I'm going to kill you.
Who is this?
Annabelle?
Hello?
Annabelle?
Where is she?
She's still looking.
I don't mean christie.
We haven't found the doll, if that's what you mean.
That's exactly what I mean.
You knew I put her in the trash can.
You what?
But she's not there now.
Erich, how could you?
I've had enough of this nonsense.
A joke is a joke but you're carrying it too far.
Me?
You! And christie!
Will the two of you stop it?!
Erich, I haven't seen the doll.
I haven't even seen it since dinner.
I swear it.
You're telling the truth?
You didn't take it?
I didn't take it.
But I think it's dreadful, your putting it there.
But who?
The phone call.
What phone call?
You were on the extension, you said...
Wha tare you talking about?
Didn't you do it?
Do what?
No, it couldn't have been you.
How could you have made the phone ring?
I mean, there are ways, but...
Erich...
The telephone rang.
I answered it.
The doll's voice was loud and clear, it said...
"My name is talky Tina, and I'm going to kill you."
What?
Would I lie?
Erich, I don't know what to say.
Well, the doll's disappeared.
If it wasn't you, it had to be christie.
Erich...
I told you you'd be sorry.
Chris tie.
Wake up, christie.
Daddy?
Go back to sleep, christie.
I want my Tina.
I'm gonna borrow Tina for a little while.
Tina belongs to me.
Go back to sleep!
What's happening?
The doll was in her bed.
She's the one who's been doing it.
Daddy, daddy, please.
I'm not your daddy!
There, there.
Die.
You'll die.
I thought you said you had feelings.
I can stand it if you can.
Erich?
Erich, what are you doing?
What I have to do.
Erich, don't.
Leave me alone.
What are you doing?
What do you think I'm doing?
But why?
How could I live with you after what you've done?
I had to... the doll.
You had to, to show your hatred for me and christie.
Now, look, Annabelle. That doll talked to me.
That doll said things no doll should say.
I had to get rid of it.
You've become a stranger to me, erich,
a sick, neurotic stranger.
You're filled with blind, unreasonable hate.
You better see a good psychiatrist.
I couldn't have imagined it.
Tell him you tried to kill a doll.
I couldn't...
I couldn't.
What did you do with it?
I'll give it back.
I'll give it back to christie.
Will that solve things?
I don't know, erich.
My name is talky Tina,
and I don't forgive you.
Shut up.
Please, shut up.
Tina.
Tina!
Oh, Tina.
What is it?
I heard something.
Erich, I don't hear anything.
No, stay there.
Erich!
Erich.
My name is talky Tina...
And you'd better be nice to me.
Of course, we all know dolls can't reall y talk,
and they certainl y can't comm/t murder.
But to a child
caught in the middle of turmoil and conflict,
a doll can become many things:
Friend, defender, gua rdia n.
Especiall ya doll like talky Tina,
who did talk and did commit murder...
In the misty region of the twilight zone.
And now Mr. Serl/ng.
Next on twilightzone, a journey into a future moment,
a nightmarish, frightening moment in time,
when man sits in his own rubble
and surveys the legacy he's left to himself.
James coburn and John Anderson
star in "the old man in the cave."
Recommended viewing for the more imaginative amongst you
o n the twilight zone.