This is a very special episode.\u00a0 The usual criteria for judging the quality of these episodes cannot be used here.\u00a0 One fact overrules all other considerations.\u00a0 William Shatner.<\/p>\n
Don Carter and his newlywed wife Pat are travelling from Ohio to New York City on their honeymoon when their car broke down in a small town called Ridgeview, Ohio.\u00a0 Don is a salesman who is hoping to be selected as the manager back at his office.\u00a0 He is also extremely superstitious.\u00a0 While waiting for their car to be repaired they went into a small restaurant and ordered lunch.\u00a0 On the table was a napkin holder with a novelty devil\u2019s head fortune teller.\u00a0 For one penny the devil would answer any yes or no question.\u00a0 Don, of course, wanted to know if he had gotten the job.\u00a0 He asked the devil and he was told it had been decided in his favor.\u00a0 He called up his office and the devil\u2019s answer were confirmed.<\/p>\n
After this he asked a string of questions of the devil and all of them seemed to be true.\u00a0 Pat became concerned that Don was becoming obsessed with the machine.\u00a0 She asked him to leave.\u00a0 But the devil warned him not to.\u00a0 While trying to cross the road Don and Pat were almost struck by a car.<\/p>\n
Now Don was convinced that the devil could predict the future.\u00a0 The answers that the machine continued to give him were correct.\u00a0 But finally, Pat gave an impassioned speech telling Don that he must break free of this fear of the future and walk away from the devil.<\/p>\n
As Don and Pat leave the restaurant to continue their trip to New York another couple enters and begin questioning the devil.\u00a0 Finally, after hearing that they could not leave Ridgeview that day the man asks, \u201cis there any way out, any way at all?\u201d<\/p>\n
So, this is a pretty standard Twilight Zone story but what distinguishes it is the Shatner factor.\u00a0 The overacting, the hyper-emotionalism, the spastic facial expressions.\u00a0 All of the abundant skills of the famous thespian are there to see.\u00a0 This is ham acting beyond dispute.\u00a0 I must give it an A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a very special episode.\u00a0 The usual criteria for judging the quality of these episodes cannot be used here.\u00a0 One fact overrules all other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,4,244,240,1661],"tags":[2166,1197,38,1355,1194,44,309,265,1691,2168,154,1692,838,837,2167],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-tv-reviews","category-tv-reviews","category-twilight-zone","tag-a-demigod-of-bad-acting","tag-nick-of-time","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-rod-serling","tag-sci-fi","tag-sci-fi-tv-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-sff-tv-show-reviews","tag-shatneriana","tag-tv-review","tag-tv-reviews","tag-twilight-zone","tag-william-shatner","tag-william-shatner-a-demigod-of-bad-acting"],"yoast_head":"\n