The Brain Center at Whipple's

"The Brain Center at Whipple's"
The Twilight Zone episode
Scene from The Brain Center at Whipple's
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 153
Directed by	Richard Donner
Written by	Rod Serling
Featured music	uncredited
Production code	2632
Original air date	May 15, 1964
Guest stars
Richard Deacon: Wallace V. Whipple Paul Newlan: Walter Hanley Ted de Corsia: Dickerson Thalmus Rasulala (as "Jack Crowder"):Technician Thalmus Rasulala: Mechanic (uncredited) Burt Conroy: Bartender
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"The Brain Center at Whipple's" is an episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.

Plot

In the year 1967, 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 transistorized 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. Eventually, the board of directors find him neurotically obsessed with machines and retire him. Whipple joins his former plant manager at the bar opposite his factory and expresses deep sorrow at his misfortune ("It isn't fair, Hanley! It isn't fair the way they...diminish us"). A robot now runs his office.

Production notes

The robot that ultimately replaces Mr. Whipple is "Robby the Robot" from the 1956 Sci-Fi film Forbidden Planet. "Robby" appeared in two other episodes of The Twilight Zone; Episode #2 "One for the Angels" and episode #128 "Uncle Simon."

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

• "The Brain Center at Whipple's" at the Internet Movie Database