Richard Deacon stars as Wallace V. Whipple, CEO of a manufacturing company who has just proudly unveiled his plans to fully automate his plant, which will of course mean that many thousands of employees will be fired, their jobs rendered obsolete by the wheels of "progress". The plant's chief engineer and especially its foreman vehemently oppose this move, but can do nothing about, as Whipple cares only for his efficiency and profit margin. He will come to feel differently when the stockholders decide that it is now his turn to go... Prescient episode about automation(and indeed globalization) is a bit too preachy and obvious at times, but its central moral point is well taken, and this is one episode in particular where reality has not only caught up with the Twilight Zone, but surpassed it...
