Bud Brewster
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From IMDB: Elderly Dr. Milton has been developing a computerized device that translates one's brain waves into written text. Following the senior scientist's death, Dr. Cathcart continues his work with the "mind writer," using it to decipher the final thoughts from the late doctor's brain.
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Truman Bradley kicks off this episode with an educational demonstration of the complex 1950s telephone system. It set up this episode's story about how the human brain is even more complicated.
Those great wonderful educational films where the kind of thing which kids like me were mesmerized by when we watched the Bell Telephone Hour science programs in the 1950s. 
Here's what this episode deals with.
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A brilliant, elderly scientist (played by Cyril Delevanti) perfects a system which can translate a person's thoughts into printed text.
Bill Williams plays the young scientist who agrees to works with the elderly man to develop his invention and make it available to mankind.
The sets and props of the hi-tech lad and its equipment during the initial tests of the professor's invention are impressive.
But during the tests, the elderly scientists suffers a massive stroke and becomes completely paralyzed. And yet despite his debilitating condition in the hospital, he manages to communicate with his colleagues using just one finger (the only movement he can make), to send messages in binary code (ones and zeros) to the other scientists.
In this manner, he convinces them that his "mind machine" can be used to record his own thoughts so that he can complete his work on the revolutionary device.
Folks, there are even more brilliant concepts in this amazing episode, but you'll have to watch it and find out just how far this amazing story takes the premise. If you consider yourself a true science fiction fan, this episode will challenge your intellect even more so than most of the other stories in this magnificent series.
Damn, no wonder the stories in Science Fiction Theatre went right over the heads of the audience in 1955!
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