Nick of Time

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"Nick of Time" is a classic episode of the original The Twilight Zone series in which a superstitious man becomes obsessed with a fortune-telling machine in a small-town diner.

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Nick of Time canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf The Twilight Zone episode
television episode
basedOnWorkBy Richard Matheson
blackAndWhite true
castMember Guy Wilkerson
John Pickard
Patricia Breslin
Stafford Repp
Walter Reed
William Shatner
centralObject Mystic Seer machine
fortune-telling machine
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creatorOfSeries Rod Serling
director Richard L. Bare
episodeNumberInSeason 7
featuredInFranchise The Twilight Zone (TV series)
surface form: The Twilight Zone (original series)
featuresCharacter Don Carter
Pat Carter
followedByEpisode The Lateness of the Hour
genre fantasy television
psychological drama
science fiction television
hasOpeningMonologueBy Rod Serling
hasSetting Boone, Ohio
small-town Ohio diner
mainCast Patricia Breslin
William Shatner
narrator Rod Serling
originalAirDate 1960-11-18
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork CBS
partOfSeries The Twilight Zone (TV series)
surface form: The Twilight Zone
plotSummary A superstitious man becomes obsessed with a fortune-telling machine in a small-town diner and struggles to break free from its influence.
precededByEpisode Eye of the Beholder
producer Buck Houghton
protagonist Don Carter
runtimeMinutes 25
seasonNumber 2
seriesType American television anthology series
showrunner Rod Serling
teleplayBy Richard Matheson
theme fate
free will versus determinism
obsession
superstition
writer Richard Matheson

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Short Trip Home hasPart Nick of Time
this entity surface form: In the Nick of Time