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Telly Savalas plays Erich Streator the newly married husband of Annabelle and stepfather of eight-year-old Christie.\u00a0 Based on some dialog Annabelle tells us that Erich is bitter because for some reason he and Annabelle can\u2019t have children of their own and so he is resentful and unfriendly toward Christie.\u00a0 But actually, he didn\u2019t seem that bad initially.\u00a0 I just think he was peeved because Annabelle bought the extravagant present (the doll) for Christie.<\/p>\n

When Christie tries to sneak up the stairs with the Talky Tina doll that her mother bought her Erich becomes angry and slightly vindictive.\u00a0 He takes the doll away from Christie and makes her cry.\u00a0 And whereas whenever Christie winds up Tina she says, \u201cMy name is Talky Tina and I love you,\u201d when Erich is alone with the doll she says, \u201cMy name is Talky Tina, and I don\u2019t think I like you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erich becomes extremely agitated as the doll ramps up the comments moving on to, \u201cI hate you,\u201d and finally \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you.\u201d\u00a0 At first, he accuses Annabelle of hiding a walkie-talkie in the doll and making the comments herself.\u00a0 But eventually when the doll calls him on the telephone (somehow!) he realizes that the doll is basically alive.\u00a0 He then goes into his workshop and tries to destroy it by sticking its head in a vise, burning it with a blowtorch and decapitating it with a table saw.\u00a0 But no luck.<\/p>\n

Finally, he gives the doll back to Christie and hopes things will end but when they\u2019re alone together Talky Tina tells him, \u201cI don\u2019t forgive you.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the family goes to bed Erich can hear the mechanical sound of Tina\u2019s mechanism outside his bedroom.\u00a0 He goes into Christie\u2019s room but the doll is gone.\u00a0 While walking on the stairs he trips over Talky Tina and falls to his death.\u00a0 As he is expiring Tina rolls next to his face and is the last thing he sees in life.<\/p>\n

Annabelle comes running down the stairs to Erich and when she notices the doll, she picks it up and it says to her, \u201cMy name is Talky Tina and you had better be nice to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is an iconic episode.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably responsible for all the Chucky movies and a lot of even less good stuff.<\/p>\n

But put that aside.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re up against once again is photog\u2019s First Law of the Twilight Zone; no robots, mannequins, ventriloquist dummies, dolls or other inanimate objects that think they\u2019re alive.\u00a0 So that\u2019s one strike.<\/p>\n

Secondly, Talky Tina is a twerp.\u00a0 She richly deserved everything Erich attempted to do to her.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, let\u2019s look at the whole Erich as bad husband and stepdad thing.\u00a0 What woman in her right mind marries Telly Savalas thinking he\u2019s going to be Ward Cleaver?\u00a0 This is the biggest psycho in the Dirty Dozen crew.\u00a0 She must have been crazy herself.<\/p>\n

And finally, I feel cheated.\u00a0 Erich has the table saw sparking away against Tina\u2019s neck and nothing happens, not even a scratch.\u00a0 This is highly unfair.\u00a0 The only way this episode could have redeemed itself would have been for the soul of dead Erich to be transferred to a little bald Evil Erich doll and it had been allowed to harass Talky Tina for all eternity using his famous tag line from Kojak, “Who loves ya, baby?”<\/p>\n

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