My wife said this was one of the episodes that really freaked her out when she was a kid. The machine voice saying 'Franklin,' as it smiled and advanced on him made an impact on her. She said she saw it in reruns in the '70s but doesn't remember how old she was.
I played the dollar slots in Vegas ONLY ONCE. It just went 'clink-clink' a few times and I was broke! I did do okay on a machine called 'Wheel of Fortune', when I hit a payoff of almost 750 quarters for my bet of 75¢.
I glad I didn't hear Vanna White calling 'Benton-Benton' *shiver*. I think that would have made ME jump out of the window!
ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
Nice additions! I'll have to find that Twilight Zone episode of William Shatner at a road side diner feeding quarters into a table top 'fortune teller' machine..
Quote: I'll have to find that Twilight Zone episode of William Shatner at a road side diner feeding quarters into a table top 'fortune teller' machine..
I posted about "The $100,000 Nickel" from the original Hawaii-Five-0 TV series in this thread on 7/6/2023, providing a brief summary as well as a photo. This story, about the fictional theft of a 1913 Liberty Head nickel, first aired on December 11, 1973. I re-watched this episode recently and wanted to provide the full story as well as more photos.
We see an engraver altering a 1903 Liberty Head nickel to make it appear to be a 1913. (He later shows it to a gangster who takes the coin and promptly dispatches the man with a silencer.)
Small-time crook and sleight-of-hand artist Arnie Price, accompanied by his wife Millie, visit a local coin show where one of the real 1913 Liberty Head nickels is being shown. He tells the dealer that he wants to place a bid on it at the auction that evening. The dealer opens the case and lets him examine it. As he does, Arnie performs a sleight of hand, switching the real coin for the manufactured fake. He hands the fake back to the dealer who, unaware of the chicanery, places it back in his display.
Price confidently saunters out of the hotel when an alarm sounds; the dealer has discovered the switch. Needing to quickly ditch the evidence, he spies a newspaper vending machine and deposits the coin into it.
Meanwhile, the forlorn dealer explains to the cops how the coin now in his possession was a 1903 that had been expertly turned into a 1913: "It only shows up under +3 diopter magnification." Officer Steve McGarrett tells him, "We'll do what we can."
Back in the hotel foyer, Arnie and Millie watch as the newspaper vendor arrives and removes the change from the machine. Price tails and attacks him, but as he tries to steal the coin bag, the coins spill out onto the street! Price desperately tries to pick them all up. Back at their room, he and Millie discover they hadn't picked up the 1913 nickel.
The next day they go back to look again and notice a little boy walking with his grandfather. The boy reaches down to pick up a coin, shows it to grandfather, exclaiming, "Look! Money!" The wise old man peers down at the coin and says, "Ah! A 1913 nickel. That is the year I was born" as they walk off.
The Prices follow them into a store where the boy uses the coin to pay for a bag of candy. The store owner then appears to use the nickel to give change to a woman he was waiting on. Arnie follows her and sees her put money into a vending machine. Millie stays behind to try to get all the change out of the machine while Arnie follows the woman into another store.
As woman waits at counter, a thief steals her handbag. Price gets the bag back and frantically searches it, but the nickel is not there! Feeling defeated, Arnie and Millie think it's all over and go to a bar for drinks. He pays for drinks, gets change back, including the 1913 nickel! Arnie looks up and sees the owner of the first store at the bar, who had kept the coin and did not give it back in change after all.
Another thug, Eric Damien (Victor Buono) kidnaps Arnie and a series of car chases, explosions and fires ensues. Damien forces Arnie to give up the nickel. The cops track down Damien and demand the nickel back; Damien grudgingly does so. McGarrett looks at the coin and tells him, "This isn't worth a plugged nickel!" (yuk, yuk) Turns out there had been another switch and Buono had the fake nickel all along. Office McGarrett proceeds to do his own sleight of hand and produces the real 1913 nickel from behind Damien's left ear as the credits roll.
One of the numismatic highlights was near the beginning, when images of five rare coins at the auction are shown as a dispassionate voice intones their bidding values. We see an 1879 Flowing Hair Stella, a 1915 SF/Panama/Pacific Expo $50 octagonal, a 1915 SF/Panama/Pacific Expo round, a 1796 bust dollar and a 1795 Eagle. (N.B.: I checked my 1974 Red Book, and all of these values are quite high compared to what the RB lists.)
"Eighteen thousand dollars"
"Fifteen thousand dollars"
"Fifteen thousand dollars"
"Twenty thousand dollars"
"Twelve thousand dollars"
The numismatic lowlights include seeing a 1913 Liberty Head nickel directly handled by numerous oily fingers as well as being dropped on the street and stuck into a vending machine. Cringeworthy!
Not to worry, of course--they used a fake coin manufactured especially for this show; but they also did show shots of a real 1913. All this went by fairly quickly and I couldn't tell the difference.
The 1981 film "Chariots of Fire" shows some British large pennies of King Edward VII and King George V. Chariots of Fire pennies
In the early 1920's British runner Harold Abrahams asks his coach Sam Mussabini what he is doing wrong.
The coach shows him the five pennies and tells him: "Do you know why you lost? Because you're overstriding, just a couple of inches. These coins represent the strides in your 100 meters. Have you got another two coins, Mr. Abrahams? Well, maybe we can find them."
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Posted 07/03/2024 2:07 pm
thanks
