This episode gets very high marks for its "cool factor", as this is one of the spookier and more memorable episodes. Plus, it features a talking homicidal doll--a definite plus!
Telly Savalas plays a brutal and cruel husband and father. When his wife returns home with the daughter, Savalas nags and berates them--running the house like he's a dictator. What really sets him off this time is that his wife bought the kid a new Talking Tina doll--something the skinflint Savalas can't stand.
Oddly, while the girl loves her new doll, every time the father pulls the string to make the doll talk, it says things that seem deliberately pointed towards him. Eventually, the doll even tells him it's going to kill him--something the audience is rooting for since he is a terrible person.
This is a very well-acted episode and what really helps is that Savalas managed to play such an unlikable person so very well. The malevolence he exudes really helps make this an enjoyable episode--one where you find yourself rooting for the doll to do him in once and for all!
Telly Savalas plays a brutal and cruel husband and father. When his wife returns home with the daughter, Savalas nags and berates them--running the house like he's a dictator. What really sets him off this time is that his wife bought the kid a new Talking Tina doll--something the skinflint Savalas can't stand.
Oddly, while the girl loves her new doll, every time the father pulls the string to make the doll talk, it says things that seem deliberately pointed towards him. Eventually, the doll even tells him it's going to kill him--something the audience is rooting for since he is a terrible person.
This is a very well-acted episode and what really helps is that Savalas managed to play such an unlikable person so very well. The malevolence he exudes really helps make this an enjoyable episode--one where you find yourself rooting for the doll to do him in once and for all!