To Erich Streator, she is the most unwelcome addition to his household—but without her, he'd never enter - the Twilight Zone.Annabelle buys her daughter, Christie, a wind-up doll named "Talky Tina" to comfort her.

However, when the doll begins engaging him in a more elaborate conversation, he concludes that Annabelle is playing a trick to get back at him for his treatment of Christie.

It occurs to Erich that since his wife was upstairs putting Christie to bed, she could not possibly have made the phone ring.

Erich takes the doll away despite Christie's tearful protests and angrily scolds and corrects her when she addresses him as "Daddy".

Erich begins to question whether the doll talking to him is just his imagination, and he offers to return it to Christie if Annabelle will stay.

Especially a doll like Talky Tina, who did talk and did commit murder—in the misty region of - the Twilight Zone.Mary La Roche, Tracy Stratford as well as June Foray each worked in one other episode of the original series.

La Roche was one of two female leads in first season's last episode "A World of His Own" (July 1960), Stratford was uncredited as third season's "Little Girl Lost" (March 1962) and Foray was again uncredited as the voice of Mary Badham's character in the series' final episode "The Bewitchin' Pool" (June 1964).

The score composed by Bernard Herrmann consists of a solo bass clarinet, flourished by harps and celesta.

[3] "Living Doll" is parodied in "Clown Without Pity", a segment of The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror III".