The Twilight Zone: Nick of Time (1960)
Season 2, Episode 7
7/10
What does the machine say?
20 November 2018
Driving cross country newlyweds William Shatner and Patricia Breslin stop in the small town of Ridgeview, Ohio when the car breaks down and needs repair. Going to your typical American Graffiti like diner of the period, the two sit at a booth where there's a penny fortune machine with a character of satan on top of it.

For laughs they throw in a penny and the machine spits out these enigmatic answers which can be interpreted just about any old way. Pretty soon Shatner and Breslin are hooked.

Can they get themselves unhooked.

No interdimensional phenomena, no monsters of the ID. Just a fascinating tale about the power of superstition.

A really great coda about another couple ends this episode.
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