William Shatner & Patricia Breslin play a young married couple named Don & Pat Carter whose car breaks down as they are traveling in Ridgeview Ohio. While waiting for it to be prepared, they visit a nearby diner to get something to eat and drink, when Don discovers a devil-headed fortune telling machine that consumes many of his coins as he becomes obsessed with learning his fate, since the machine seems to be making accurate predictions on bits of paper it ejects to the recipient. Can this couple escape the clutches of this machine before they are trapped there? Excellent low-key episode most effectively conveys the dangers in handing over your destiny to a machine, and avoiding superstition taking a stranglehold on your life.
Review of Nick of Time
