Joe 90

Joe 90 is a mid 1960s Sylvia and Gerry Anderson television show which used a form of puppetry called "Supermarionation", concerning the adventures of a young boy who could be programmed with any imaginable skill using a large computer called BIGRAT (an acronym for Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer). He was able to fly jet airplanes,perform surgery, and so on.

http://www.bigrat.co.uk