The Brain Center at Whipple's

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The Twilight Zone original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“The Brain Center at Whipple’s” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 153
Season: 5
Production code: 2632
Original air date: May 15, 1964
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Richard Donner
Producer: William Froug
Director of photography: George T. Clemens
Music: uncredited

[edit] Cast

Wallace V. Whipple: Richard Deacon
Hanley: Paul Newlan
Dickerson: Ted de Corsia
Technician: Thalmus Rasulala

[edit] Synopsis

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Wallace V. Whipple, owner of a vast manufacturing corporation, decides to upgrade his plant to increase output by installing a machine, which leads to layoffs. Some former employees try to convince him the value of a man outweighs the value of a machine, but this falls on deaf ears. The board of directors find him neurotically obsessed with machines and retire him. Whipple joins his former plant manager at the bar and expresses deep sorrow at his misfortune. A robot now runs his office.

[edit] Trivia

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The robot that ultimately replaces Mr.Wipple is the same robot that appeared in two other episodes of The Twilight Zone; Episode #2 “One for the Angels” and episode #128 “Uncle Simon”, and who is best known as "Robby the Robot" in the 1956 Sci-Fi film “Forbidden Planet”.