The Brain Center at Whipple's

The Brain Center at Whipple's

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Brain Center at Whipple's
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption= Scene from The Brain Center at Whipple's
Season = 5
Episode = 153
Airdate = May 15, 1964
Production =2632
Writer = Rod Serling
Director = Richard Donner
Guests = Richard Deacon : Wallace V. Whipple
Paul Newlan : Hanley
Ted de Corsia : Dickerson
Thalmus Rasulala : Technician
Music = uncredited
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Next = Come Wander With Me

"The Brain Center at Whipple's" is an episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.

Opening Narration

ynopsis

Wallace V. Whipple, owner of a vast manufacturing corporation, decides to upgrade his plant to increase output by installing a machine named the "X109B14 modified transitorized totally automated machine," which leads to layoffs. Some former employees try to convince him that the value of a man outweighs the value of a machine, but their protests fall 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.

Closing Narration

Preview for Next Week's Story

Trivia

The robot that ultimately replaces Mr. Whipple 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".

The Melvins album "Hostile Ambient Takeover" contains a song named after this episode.

References

*DeVoe, Bill. (2008). "Trivia from The Twilight Zone". Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
*Grams, Martin. (2008). "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic". Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090
*Zicree, Marc Scott: "The Twilight Zone Companion". Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

External links

*imdb title|id=0734633|title=The Brain Center at Whipple's


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