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Title:
A Ring of Roses
Plot:
A trip to the country to visit a friend turns nightmarish as a couple comes across a small girl being whipped by a man. It's only the beginning of a journey back into an old family curse and a murder - all wrapped up in a ring.
Episode:
0013
Air Dates:
First Run - January 18, 1974
Repeat - December 3, 1974
Repeat - January 4, 1980
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3 Responses to Episode 0013


Holland Taylor was the boss on "Bosom Buddies." Interesting that the characters attempted to explain the supernatural occurrences as being a perfectly natural result of photosynthesis! (The characters were lying.) Supernatural thriller with ghosts and cursed objects.

This episode suffers from some idiosyncrasies, like too much exposition, markedly anachronistic gender roles, improbable reactions from the characters, and, ultimately, too much going on. Still, the underlying mystery is interesting enough to keep you engaged, the pseudo-scientific babble presented as an "explanation" to early events is priceless, and the male lead has a terrific radio voice for the calming, manly presence he's written as. Heavy on the supernatural. Not bad, but not great.

A guy and his fiancee go to visit her friend and her friend's mother. On their way they come to a surreal scene on the side of the road in which a historical-looking figure is whipping his daughter as she's jumping rope to the "Ring around the rosary" song. She eventually stabs her father to death. When they get to her friend's house, the friend's mother explains that it was just an illusion they had seen before. Remarkably, the guy and girl buy into it, and a pathos-filled plot involving a cursed ring that mom and daughter try to foist on the girl plays itself out. I was really stunned to find out that Glynnis O'Connor, who I thought was a pretty decent actress, was absolutely atrocious in her role as the guy's fiancee.

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