Ring-a-Ding Girl

"Ring-a-Ding Girl" is episode 133 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on December 27, 1963 on CBS. In this episode, a movie star (played by Maggie McNamara) receives a mystical summon to return to her hometown on a matter of life and death. Opening narration Plot In her house in Hollywood, California, actress Barbara "Bunny" Blake receives a ring from her hometown fan club in Howardsville, Virginia, and she tells her manager that her loyalty is still to her town because they all paid to help her go to Hollywood to pursue her acting career. Looking into the stone, she sees her sister Hildy imploring Bunny to come home. Though she is due to film a movie in Rome, Bunny makes an impromptu trip to Howardsville to surprise Hildy and her family. Hildy and her son Bud hope that Bunny will attend the annual founder's day picnic, which coincidentally happens to be that very afternoon. Upon hearing this and after seeing a vision of local television newsreader Ben Braden also asking her to "come home", Bunny suffers a seizure, and Hildy calls over an old friend, the town doctor, who diagnoses Bunny with exhaustion from her hectic career and orders her to rest, over her protests. As he is also the chairman/organizer for the annual founder's day picnic, Bunny requests that he postpone the entire event so that she can see her friends in more personal settings, but he refuses and surmises that she has been spoiled by her Hollywood lifestyle.